Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-27
SALE OF BONDS
is TO CONTINUE
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close until Saturday night of next
! Week." said Andrew S. Patterson,
chairman for Harrisburg today. 1.-THE
fact that the city went slightly over
the top is no reason why people
should stop buying and there is no
indication that they mean to do so.
Indeed they appear to be just getting
awake to their duty and the banks
are receiving many requests today
TO take subscriptions. The Loan Com
mittee VIII remain active for at least
i,another week and any member will
glad to take a subscription. The
same is true of the banks.
1T is the duty of everybody who
can buy bond to do so. The man
or woman who can serape the money
together or buy on the instalment
plan and who does not do so is not
a good citizen. Not to wear a Liberty
Loan button ii you have the means
to buy a bond is to be disgraced
The family without a Liberty Bond
flag to display, showing That it has
invested. ought to be visited by every
neighbor who has bought bond
in order to ascertain why the de-
| Ilnquency. OF course 1 realize that
there are those whose circumstances
are such that they cannot buy bonds,
but they are in the minority and no.
body would for a moment censure
them. The people we want and the
people all holders of bonds should
get after are the fellows who have
not bought but can"
More Is Coming In
When the report came in yester-
day showing that Perry, Cumberland
and Dauphin county had gone over
the top in easy style, the fact that the
fna Int
sized. If the Harrisburg district does
not heap more than $7,OOO,0O into
Uncle Sans war chest, lot of Lib
erty Loan chairmen in the district
are going to miss their guesses
Juniata county is going over the
top. Juniata's quota was 100000,
and it ran short s105, 900, according
to the report made yesterday. Dom
aid Mccormick, chairman of the
Harrisburg district, refuses to accept
such report, and so the drive for
Junlata county is only just begin
ming.
A company of the finest Liberty
Bond statesmen developed in the dis
trict during the three drives here
will be organized to invade Juniata
county at once and secure that other
hundred thousand. Every team
worker in Juniata county is getting
communication telling him to get
out and dig. The entire county will
be Hooded with a mass of literature
until the Juniata population is so i'm
bued with the spirit of the Liberty
Bond sale that it will fight for the
bonds.
Town Over the Top
Liverpool, in Perry county. was an
nounced this morning as being in
line for an honor flag. Its quota
was $4,000, and it subscribed $14.-
600 through its citizens and $4,000
through its banks.
Millersburg, Dauphin county, earn
ed an honor flag. It's quota was
S132,O0O, but the little town con-
sidered S137, 900 the least it could do
It's not finished yet. either. It
promises five or ten thousand dol
lars more.
Lykens. which has become a by
word for patriotism since the war
began. didn't pay any attention to
the figures set as its quota. Lykens
raised S10O.S0O; its quota was s70,-
600.
Hershey announced subscriptions
of $S9.450 this morning. Loyalton,
one of the smallest boroughs in the
district, lived up to it's name by SUBJ
scribing for $500 worth of the
bonds. Camp Hill secured an Honor
Flag, SURPRISING it's quota of $25, 900
with S26,1pO.
still Coming In
Returns from Dauphin county out
side of Harrisburg and Steelton to-
day showed $4,000 worth of bond
purchases reported since noon yes
terday.
Cumberland county sent word late
this morning that it will raise ST.
100000. which is half again as much
as its quota.
Juniata county, which fell short.
reported additional subscriptions of
$4,000 this morning. raising the to-
tai to $4,000, with 100000 still to
go. Juniata chairmens are promis-
ing that the county will go over the
top.
City figures for to-day are not
available. The rest OF the subscrlp-
tions will be announced through the
banks, and not for a week will the
complete returns from the city be
tabulated for the city. In the mean
time the sale of the bonds will con-
tinue.
Dauphin Doubles QuOth
The Dauphin district. including the
borough of Dauphin and surrounding
district, has doubled its quota in the
Liberty Loan drive. thus earning a
star for its Honor Flag, it was an
nounced to-day at Liberty Loan
headquarters. The towns quota is
$4,000 and a total of more than
$40. 900, was reported this morning.
Workers are still on the job and ex-
pect to get a number of subscrip-
tions in addition to the big total.
Penbrook is reported as going over
the top in the drive and is entitled
to fly the honor flag, it was reported
to-day. Workers there worked
wholehearte edly TO get a big total and
they earned the flag yesterday Ev-
cry director, officer and employe of
the Penbrook Band has purchased a
bond. and the institution will have a
100 per cent. flag flying The towns
quota was $4,000. About s4O,5OO
has already been subscribed.
Rumanians Do Good Work
The Rumanians of Harrisburg
have put s11,950 into Liberty Bonds
This was done largely through the
team of City Commissioner Charles
w. Burtnett, of which George B.
Rasadean. a native of Rumania, and
a good citizen of Harrisburg. was
an enthusiastic member. He himself
yesterday lined up more than S1,IOO
in bonds from his fellow country
men. ~
Last Wednesday" he told a Tele-
graph reporter to-day, Il heard at
the post Office one team captain in
giving his report say: L wish all the
Austrians had the same sympathy
with America as the Rumanians
have which leads me to give YOU a
few details concerning these Aus