Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-03
| RURAL NEW CASTLE
LINES UP FOR LOAN
Managers of Campaign in the
Hundreds Plan Active
Canvass.

Liberty Loan managers from tho l0
hundreds in New Castle county met with
John : RoSScll, chairman for the county,
and \. Rae du Bell secretary Of the cam
paign committee, in the Hotel du Pont
yesterday afternoon and discussed plans
tor the drive for the third loan that Is
to begin on Saturday.
The most encouraging reports were
presented by the rural managers ana Mr..
Resell and Mr. duBcll explained any
knotty point about the loan asked by
the managers. and that might be asked
hy prospective buyers.
One manager reported feeling running
50 high IN has section that more fhAn one
man had agreed Ia borrow money IN order
that he might subscribe 10 the loan
X was determined 10 make every school
teacher and every clergyman IN each
hundred working member OF the COM
mttcc IN that section, and for that pur-
pose letters will be sent out asking for
their help Special efforts are 70 be
,nadc through the churches. the Liberty
l.oan managers feeling that the campaign
soon 10 begin Is 2 great patriotic and
moral movement and that the people
- a whole in the rural hundreds can be
greatly influenced 10 buy literally by
the clergy.
Mr. du Bell reported that literature
- be sent To every resident in the rural
sections VIII be a feature oi the campaign
and stated that arrangements have been
made with the poStotfice authorities SO
that liberty Loan pamphlets lata, and
other literature viii bc delivered hv the
rural mail carriers 10 the farmers alongt
their routes, even when the same Is no
specifically addressed
The Liberty Loan managers IN charge
IN the hundreds arc: George : Wood
keeper, Blackbird hundred; j. Allen Colby.
Brandvwlne hundred; Robert = Robin
son. Chrlstiana; Hon John c. Higgins,
Delaware City and Red Lion hundred:
Edward Ladlcy, Middletown. Odessa
and st Georges hundred; Joseph Mitchell.
IT. Of Mill Greek hundred, Andrew Bry-
son Of New Castle and New Castle hun
dred; ]. Irwin Davett Of Pencader hun
dred. Daniel B. Maloney Of Townsend and
Appoquinimink hundred, DR. Samuel c.
Mitchell OF Newark and White Clay
Creek hundred, J Warren Marshall OF
Yorkiyn, II. V Berg Of Newport and
Frederick Brady of Afiddletown Three
vice-chairmen were announced for Brandy
wine hundred They are Newton L. Grubb.
I. r. Weldin and L. Bringhurst, Sd
CHAMBER or COMMERCE COMMITTEE.
At the Chamber OF Commerce luncheon
Yesterday afternoon at which former
Judge DINNER Beeber OF Philadelphia
spoke, the former jurist urged Whining
tonians 10 give as literally TO this loan
as TO the former ones, and warned them
of the menace that lay in the Germans
winning this conflict That if not de-
fcatcd on the other side Of the Atlantic.
that Americans would find themselves
lighting the Hun over here. sooner or later.
1t Was announced at the luncheon that
the Chamber Of Commerce would enter
into the campaign for subscriptions to
the loan vigorously, and a committee
was appointed 10 have charge Of the work
The committee as named is as follows:
John p. Nields manager; ; NJ Dillon.
Caleb +. Burchenal, Charles f. Palmer
" iliam s. Prickett, klwood oouder. Har-
old Schutt. Peter J. Wright Ii Ralph
EWart and William p White
The women committee will meet to-
morrow morning at I 0 clock in Eden
Hall instead Of the rose room of the Hotel
du Pont Mrs Henry Ridgely, State
chairman, Is desirous that every member
Of the committee shall attend the meeting