The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-10-24
FEDERAL AGENTS
HEAR DIRECTORS
LIBERTY LOAN DELINoUENTs
GIVEN LAST CHANCE
SEVERAL DISREGARD SUMMONS
United States Marshall Reed Effects
Settlement With Those Respond
ing to Notice. Others Must
Go to Ottumwa Later

United States Marshall Nick Reed
of Ottumwa was in Oskaloosa Tues
, day afternoon to meet some thirty
four parties who has refused to sub
scribe for bonds of the Fourth Lib.
erty loan or who had failed to meet
their apportionment made by the Lib
erty Loan committees.
OF the thirty-four citations to appear
thirteen failed utterly to respond to
the summons sent out by the Federal
authority and will be dealt with in
Federal Court.
...n' Few Directors
Apportionment of the county assign
ment of the Fourth Liberty Loan was
made by the county and township
committees and each individual prop
erty owner, individual or corporation
was assessed according to their hold
ings or ability to pay. The individuals
were asked to make voluntary con-
tribution, to come to a stated place
and make application. This was fol-
lowed out during the days of the cam
paign and proved a most satisfactory
system with very few exceptions in
stated.
Notice Ignored.
The Liberty Loan committee sent
special personal notices to these indi-
viduals to appear last Friday, October
is and not single one of the indi-
viduals responded to the invitation to
meet the committee or to make ex-
PLANTATION. The matter was then turned
to come before the United States
Marshall was issued and Tuesday at
one o'clock cited as the time. 4
Twenty-one of the thirty-fou" cases
appeared Tuesday afternoon and in
each case, following statements and
examinations subscriptions for the
amount of the apportiOnment followed
Some thing over $4,000 was added to
Mahaska county's subscription list in
the settlements effected at the meet
ing.
Are In Contempt.
Those who disregarded the sum-
mons of the federal authority TO APP
pear Tuesday will now be taken to
Ottumwa to make adjustment and
some of the cases may encounter ser
ious difficulty in eXtricating them
selves from a predicaemnt. Tney will
not be asked to appear. They will be
sent for and taken to Ottumwa.
Mr.. Reed in opening his court ex-
planned to those appearing at the meet
ing that the Liberty Loan committee
represented federal authority just as
he did. These men" he said, were
duly commissioned to collect the loan
and il should not have been necessary
to have the additional meeting" He
thought to accommodate the people by
coming to Oskaloosa to hear the cases
although not under obligation to do so
and those who failed to appear will
likely have cause to regret their con-
tempt of court, for their act amounts
to as much.
Officers will be sent after these in
diyiduals as their cases can be reach
ed and they will have company to
Ottumwa.
No Real Difficulty.
In the settlement made yesterday,
Misunderstanding were cleared away
and obstacles, real or imaginary, in
the way OF participation in the loan
were removed. Some of the cases had
hesitated on account of the character
of the funds against which assessment
has been made and desired protection
of court order, which was duly made
and acknowledged. All of the cases
handled yesterday were cleared away
in less than two hours. .-..-
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