The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-15
$50 900 Taken Sunday.


closed Saturday night at 10; 90 o'clock.
reports for the day indicated sales
through the banks at $375,000. This
gave the aggregate for the county for
the first week of the campaign, $751;
900.
During Sunday committees turned
into headquarters applications aggre-
eating $4,000 or more and during
Monday morning the subscriptions re-
ceived by committees and at various
banks in the county we're so heavy
that the county committee felt safe in
the annoucment that the quota had
been attained.
The government provides that sub
scriptions to the Liberty Loan may be
made up 10 and including May 4. and
there Is reason, therefore. why every
, man or woman In Wayne county VINO
has not yet made application for
bond should do SO. Help swell
Waynes total to such figures that 1t
will take front rank among those
counties in Indiana that have gone
beyond the minimum fixed by the gov
ernment.
The work Of the women in Wayne
county, which has been under the di-
rection of Mrs. Charles Druitt, has
been especially noteworthy. The quota
fixed for the women to sell was , 275,-
900. and reports up to noon Monday
indicated that this total would be ov-
ersubscribed In Richmond, Mrs. Ed
gar F.. Hiatt, chairman of the women's
city committees, has reached the city
quota of s125.000.
Few Large Subscriptions.
The fine spirit that has been dis
played in every part Of the county, by
members of both the mems and wom-
ems committees has been highly graf
flying to the county committee which
gives full credit for the success
achieved to the patriotic devotion Of
these men and women.
Practically all of the townships
have reached their quotas, and within
the next week the service flags
which the government will award to
each township and town that has met
the minimum amounts of sales, will
have been received by the county
committee and distribution to the
township committees entitled to the
flags will be made.
The number of bond buyers in
Wayne county in the Third Liberty
Loan will be greatly in excess Of num-
ber in either of the previous cam
paigns.
Few large subscriptions have been
made, none exceeding $4,000 by an
individual. so far as can be ascer-
tanned. while the great bulk ranged
from $500 down to $50. This fact ds
regarded as notable and one that
points to the interest shown by the
citizens OF moderate means. AS has
been stated before the wage-earners
of Richmond and in other towns OF
the county have responded enthusias-
tically to the government call.
EMPLOYEES of the National Automa-
tic Tool company today entered sub
scriptiOns totalling approximately
$40. 900 for Liberty Loan bonds.
Wayne is the third county in this
part of Indiana. included in the sew
enth federal reserve district, and hav-
ing a Quota of more than $1,000,000
10 60 "over the top" in the Liberty
Loan drive. Lake county was the
first to go over having a quota in eX-
cess Of $1.O00,000 and LaPorte Sec
ond. However, in the case OF LaPorte
II is said that the banks took over a
large part Of the loan with the inten-
tion of re-selling it to individuals,
while in Wayne and Lake counties
the banks were not asked to pur-
chase any of the bond.
Wayne is, in reality, one of the
first counties in the state to go over
where no banks took any Of the
bonds. In almost all OF the other
counties the banks took part or all
OF the issue and thus enabled such
counties to be among the first to re-
port favorably that they had reached
their quota.
Those counties which did not solicit
such aid from the banks, mad among
which Wayne is included. deserve the
greatest amount of credit for the is
sue was entirely sold to individuals
and corporations exclusive Of banking
houses.