The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-03
4 BOND IN every
HOME IN COUNTY
SHAWNEE BOAST
Workers Announce This Will
Be Attained Tomorrow.
More Than $4,000 Subscribers
Are Now Assured.
DISTRICT OVER $4,000, 900!
Nine Counties Show $50 Per
Cent Loyalty Spirit.
Topeka Yet S15O,OOO Shy of
New Maximum Goal.
Nine Counties Show $50 Per
Cent Loyalty Spirit.
Topeka Yet $15O,OOO Shy of
New Maximum Goal.

With reports for tomorrow and a
part of today yet to come, the first
Kansas liberty loan district, ii was an
nounced today by F. w. Freeman,
executive chairman, has nosed past
the $6.000.e00 mark. This is a sub
scription for the entire district of more
than $50 per cent. and an oversub-
scription of the districts quota of
$3,921, 900 by $2,oS0. 500.
Subscriptions made to banks or trust
companies up until midnight tomor-
row win be officially accepted, Free
man asserted. 1t is the understand
ing, however, that Shawnee county
banks will close at the usual hour to-
morrow noon, and not keep open until
6 o'clock in the afternoon as they did
at the finish of the last campaign.
1000 County Subscribers.
J. r. Burrow. chairman of the
Shawnee county executive committee.
today said that the total number of
subscribers in Shawnee county. count
ing railroad subscriptions. will be be-
tween 1000 and $4,000. So far the
subscriptions of railroad employees
have been counted in the official
totals announced at the closing hour
each day by the banks. but as yet
the total number of railroad employees
subscribing have not been incorpor-
ated with the total number of other
cify's financial Institutions. This,
however, will have been completed BY
tomorrow afterEdor..' -
"A total of between 1900. and
$4,000 subscribers in Shawnee coun-
ty.'' said Burrow. 'i., in accordance
with the governments request for one
subscriber out of every approximate
five in population. 1t is a victory for
our slogan, a liberty bond in every
home. The figures practically place
an average OF one liberty bond in
every Shawnee county home"
The third loan drive will officially
close tomorrow May 4. Bankers here
are expecting the final cleanup sub
scriptions early tomorrow morning,
and today renewed their plea for the
county to attain its new $2,000,000
goal If his is done subscriptions be-
tween the closing hour Thursday and
the closing hou- tomorrow must total
more than s150.000.
Scouts Turn in $4,000
Topeka boy scout troops today con-
tinued their house to house canvass
bringing in good results. Thursday
night Burrow was notified that the
scout subscriptions had passed the
$4,000 mark The scouts are an en-
thusiastic bunch of workers and are
allowing nothing to stop them. Thurs
day Harry Crane, S34 Washburn ave-
nue. was quarantined at his home for
scarlet fever. He got busy on the
telephone. however. and later notified
A. A. Graham, scout executive. that
he had obtained fourteen subscrip-
tons.
Ninety six Topekans saw Presi-
dent Wilson Thursday night in three
local theaters-each one to the
amount of $50 third liberty loan
bond. The total subscription Thurs
day night was $4,000. Fifty-three sub
scriptions were taken at the Orpheum
for a total of $2,650; twenty-three
were taken at the Majestic for a total
of $1,150; twenty-five at the Apex for
a total of s1,10O. At five other thea
ters the patrons were asked to buy
one more liberty bond on the SIS down.
s5 month plan. but no subscriptions
were taken in the theaters.