Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-22
BIG BOOST FOR
NEW LIBERTY LOAN
Enthusiastic Work Being Done in
St. Georges and Other Rural
Hundreds.
Special Correspondence of Every Evening

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Middletown, April 22.-The progress
being made in the Liberty Loan drive is
very gratifying To Mrs. Howard A. Pool
the chairman for Rural New Castle
county, of the Womens Liberty Loan
committee, and while figures are not now
completed. there is no doubt that this
district will go over the top, st.
Georges hundred has raised more than half
its quota, and an aggressive campaign Is
still being carried ON by the WOmen's Com
mittee \ house-to-house canvass has
been made, each member being allotted
certain streets and country districts, and
the work has been carried on systematlcal-
lv, and with very gratifying results.
An enthusiastic meeting was held on
Thursday evening IN the Town Hall mt
Odessa hv the Women committee. Tho
meeting was addressed by Daniel q.
Hastings of Wilmington and Miss Lillian
Howard Of Philadelphia The pageant
of The Allied Nations. which was
presented here at the community meet
ing last week. under the direction of
Miss Helen Brady. was repeated at the
meeting and was very we'll received by the
audience. which crowded the hall. Mr.
Hastings. who Is a great faVorltC here,
spoke for IN hour, during which he, m
his usually enthusiastic manner, itaNCd
the Huns for their atrocities and made an
appcal 10 his hearers to subscribe heavily
for the loan. Miss Howard Is an cnthu
$iastic worker in the ranks of the PhIla
delphia Liberty Loan Brigade, and IN her
address she made 4 sympathetic appeal
ro her audience Previous to going 60 the
Odessa meeting she spoke for half an
hour on the street here
Another meeting was held on Saturday
evening IN the z @. ;. of \. Hall, IN
Port Penn The pageant was again
given and Juno McW hortcr Of Mlddlctown
sang Long Boy, which took the crowd,
which packed the hall - the doors, by
storm The hall was beautifully dccorat-
cd with flags and bunting.
William NJ Conucly representative
from tho Fifth District IF Wilmington.
smoke for more than aa hour lis talk
stirred his hearers He spoke ON patr-
otic lines and complimcntcd the people
nf tn, Port Penn district on their hbcr
aiitv. saving that the more than $4,000
they had subscribed meant more than the
millions that head been subscribed m
New York At the close Of his speech
~ started 4 boost hv taking bond
himself with the credit % 80 70 the Port
Penn district More than s. 900, was
subscribed Al the meeting Edward r.
Iadlcv. chairman &c the St Georges
hundred committee told II tho activities
on the west Side If the hundred. and Of
the work that had been accomplished by
his committee Pools orchestra fur
nishod music at both the Odessa and Port
Penn meetings. and community singing
was 4 feature 81 both.
Pho Il. Georges hundred committee
will meet IN the headquarters IN the
Delaware Trust GO building this evening
II make plans for the final appeal ot the
drive. Zach member Of the committee
will bc given list Of names Of people
to 90 and sec. Some Of tho residents Of the
agricultural districts have not subscribed
as heavily as it is thought they should
and a final appeal will be made 70 them.
Plans will also be gone over for some sort
Of patriotic demonstration TO be held here
on Friday evening 4 band will bc en-
gagged and an effort made TO have meet
ing that will eclipse ANYTHING ever held
here. Miss Howard Of Philadelphia will
he asked to address The meeting The
plan Of the Building and Lean Society 70
sell the bonds has met with a generous