Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-26
COUNTY PRECINCTS CLIMB NEAR
ALloTMENT-clTY is NOW
$4,000 OVER TOP.
MORE THAN 1000 HAVE
Volunteered FOR $50 EACH
Committee and Banks Urging Small
Subscribers to Take Savings Stamps
as Substitutes, So as to Assure
County Of Selling It's Quota Of Issue
This Year-county Precincts Report.

The Boy Scouts will find the thinnest
ever could have been imagined before
the present system of selling war
bonds was devised for the close Of the
last day Of the liberty loan commit
tees work Thursday showed every per-
son accounted for but eight and in adj
dition to the committees list, factory
employees and volunteers not listed as
bond buyers at all came forward with
over a thousand individual subscrip-
ton of $50 each. These men had been
considered as war savings stamp
buyers.
This unexpected addition to the bond
drive, together with the fact that al
most everybody met the committees
request fully, will result in large
oversubscription for Marshalltown. On
an allotment Of $25O,000 the actual
sales will exceed 100000. but the exact
amount can not be determined until all
Of the claims from township commit
tees for credit because of property in
the townships owned by people living
in town have been presented. Mar
shalltown has gone way over the top
on the third liberty loan drive. That
much is certain now.
Worried As to War Stamps.
The fact that a thousand men in a
town of $500 homes bought bonds Of
! $50 each introduces new worries Fer
the war savings stamp committee.
,Marshalltowns allotment on stamps of
| s330.00O on its per capita basis is
| larger than it's allotment Of $250,O00 in
the one bond drive was upon the basis
of its property values. The govern
:nent will allow no credit on stamp al
lotments for oversubscriptions on bond
| sales and nearly a thousand who
were supposed to be left free to buy
stamps have bought bonds Of the
smallest size. The committee is up
against it, as the boys say. Many arc
going to be asked to buy war stamps
and bonds both. and to buy the stamps
in large amounts.
County Allotment Assured.
That the people of the whole county
| have done their patriotic duty, and
that they will oversubscribe the coun-
tvs allotment of $994,700 Of bonds, is
now assured. Reports from the coun-
try precincts this forenoon increase
the total subscriptions in the county
outside of the city. to s73O,15O on an
allotment of S754,20O.
Additional reports came from Miner
va, Eden. Jefferson and Marion town
ships, each Of which has neared its
goal in the drive. Minerva reported its
subscriptions increased to $4,000 on
an allotment of $4,000. Eden, which
last reported $4,000 subscribed, has
increased it to $4,000 on it's quota OF
$3.50 Jefferson, when last heard
from had s26,69O subscribed, has in
creased to $4,000 on it's quota OF
$4,000. Marion has increased its total
from $4,000 to $4,000. It's allotment
is s44,10O.
Swth to Savings Stamps.
The movement which was begun
Thursday at city bond headquarters to
have subscribers for small bonds sign
up for the same amount Of savings
stamps, instead of the bond, met with
success. Forty eight persons who
came to headquarters to volunteer FOL
small bonds, when the situation was
explained. readily consented to sign
up for the stamps. IN this way these
stamp subscri ptions at headquarters ir
the one day Amounted to $3.50.