The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-27
STATE WAR FUND
IS MORE THAN Two
MILLION PHILLIPS
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believe Oklahoma would contribute two
million.
Illustrative Of the final hour enthuS-
iasm marking the campaign is the case
OF Woodward Yesterday afternoon
Sergt Maj. A. +. Lowery, from the
Canadian army an experienced cam
paigner and speaker. addressed a crowd
of 5000 persons, although that part Of
the state is not a thickly settled part
The result 6f1he mass meeting and its
good effect on the crowd was that Sll o.
coo was subscribed This doubled
Woodwards quota, the city and the
county The quota was originally SO
500 and now the subscriptions total
2l AL
BOYS Show Nets s2is.
Early this morning two boy I'm
presarios, Fisher Ames and Morgan
Warrington. l2-ycar~old lads. called at
Mr. Phillips office and dumping down
a leather purse ON his desk announced
it represented the box office receipts
of a SHOW" the boys had given in the
ball room of Judge C. b. AmeS home
Saturday night They said gross re-
ceipts were $2lS
Phillips said he fell quite sure he
and his staff and some of the news
psperfolk had been represented at the
show in spirit, If not in person, and
he desired to pay the nickel admission
for himself and a number of his friends
He added nickel admissions enough to
the 2lS so that it finally totallcd 81
and the two boys were very much
pleased. II seems the drama lasted
an hour and a half and was written by
Fisher Ames The name of the play
was "The Spy" and besides Ames and
Warrington, who appeared in the cast,
other PLAYERS were Jooe Haskell as a
Red Cross nurse and Sterling Wat
lington Loncstreet Ames, Charles
Haskell l. c Thurman and James
Chcnowcth Fisher Ames SAYS the
plavers call themselves the amateur
stock company and they will put or-an-
other show in Iune
Shoe Shines Help
The shoe shine parlors OF the city
operated mostly by Greeks, added sub
stantally to this city's share in the war
fund campaign, by their efforts. The
workers in these shoe shine places, not
only turned over all the money received
from shines yesterday but supplemented
these sums with personal donations
The shops were tabulated as follows
Majestic. sol3; Terminal. Sl32s; Fm.
press, $3.50; Eagle. S4SlS; City Hall
Sl89s; ROYAL S3495; Boston, Sl3l0
total of $lo5S0
This forenoon the women campaiRner'
reported a donation Of 81 600 received
from the grocery wholesalers, William
son. Halsell & Frazier and donation
OF $3.50 from q. D HalSell a memhe,
Of this firm. The women announc,
that today is the last day their office
at Chamber Of Commerce will be opcr
ior receiving subscriptions and trans
action Of any other CAMPAIGN business
SubscrDtons for the war fund will h,
received the balance Of the week at IN,
executive offices Of the Red Cross II
Fmpipe building
Men Still at work
The men campaigncrs this forenoon
reported a pledge Of $1,000 receive,
today from R J Edwards, a hon,
broker -Four or five teams are a
work, from men campaigners today
Richard Harries, city chairman. an
rounced and subscriptions are still com
ing in. Questioned as 10 whether any
thing was to be done with certain per
sons in the hard boiled" category
Harriss answered that slow fires wer
burning under them and il was eN
pected they would register a donafio
before the blistering point was reached
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