The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-30

Indications are, Chairman II. P.
Goddard of the Burleigh county Lib,
crty loan committee reported today,
that when all the odds and ends OF
Saturdays one day drive for the fight,
ing loan are cleared Up Bismarck will
own $35O,0O0 worth of bonds of this
issue, while the county, outside OF
Bismarck, will have 100000 worth,
making Burleighs quota of 100000,
with the additional ten per cent re-
quired for safety. E
Burleigh county never embarked on
a money-raising campaign which prov.
ed such an all.around success as the
Fourth Liberty Loan drive. The al
lotment plan was 80 per cent success.
full. The plan of asking prospective
subscribers to call on their local COM
mittees at their polling places rather
than to consume several days of the
committees time looking up each in
dividual subscribed worked like a
charm. rl 4 q a.,s Z, ri
The First ward in Bismarck, Operat-
ing on this plan. sold bonds Saturday
to 80 individual subscribers In the
whole city the number who voluntar'
lily marched to the polling places Sat
urday, signed up and paid down the
initial instalment of. ten per cent will
not be less than 1900 and it may run
nearer 1000. In the entire county it
is expected the aggregate number OF
bond buyers will exceed 5000.
: In every ward there were dozens OF
buyers who had not been notified, but
who came in of their own volition.
This was true in many cases of school
boys and girls or of other people who
had been thought not financially able
to invest. The big sacrifice in this
campa 'gn, said Chairman Goddard to-
day, "has been made by the people
who have bought $50 bonds. There
was one instance of this kind in the
Fourth ward, where young woman
doing chamber work at small wages
insisted upon investing. even after
the committee. Knowing of her cir
cumsta 1ces. had advised her that she
was under no moral obligation to in
vest. And this young woman said,
y have two gentleman friends who
haven't bought yet. They're slack
ers, and I'm going to tell them so, and
if they don't buy they'll never keep
company with me again. y
His Dollars Fight Too.
Typical of the spirit of the day was
the case of Myron Henzler, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Henzler. Chris
had kicked because his allotment was
not large enough, and had insisted up.
on doubling it. Myron, who is just 70,
and who expects to be called soon in
to active service, had bought literally
of the third loan, and the allotment
committee, knowing that he would
soon go to war, had assigned him
none of the Fourth. The young man
refused to be left out, but showed up
bright and early with $500 in savings,
all of which he invested in Fourth
Liberty bond.
I'm going to get into the scrap over
there, and l want to know that my
savings are fighting with me- said
Myron. - a.
Still Time to, Buy. n
Chairman Goddard urges that any
one who has been overlooked report
at their bank and huy their bonds be-
fore the. close of business tomorrow.
All reports will be turned in tOmor-
row night, and tomorrow will be the
prospective bond buyers last oppor.
tunity. #n','
It is also urged that the small pro-
portion of bond-buyers who could not
make the initial ten per cent pay
ment Saturday to do so at the earliest
possible moment, mailing the check to
the bank through which they are TAX
ing their bonds or presenting it IN
person This will save the banks and
the loan committees much unneces-
sary work.
Country Districts Fine.
Loan workers coming in from coun-
try districts report that a splendid
spirit prevailed everywhere and that
every rural precinct has 0versubsciD-
ed before the polls were closed Sat
urday Everyone who had anything
to do with the campaig1 the commit
tees, the bond statesmen and the bond
buyers are most enthusiastic over the
success of the drive, and it is uniyers-
ally agreed that history was made for
the Slope country during this happily
busy day.
The following report from State
Chairman Wesley c. Mcdowell was
received too late for publication, Sat
urday afternoonA
Reports received at North Dakota
Headquarters of the Liberty Loan show
results at noon today as follows: Mel
son. county allotment oversubscribed
before Friday midnight; Buffalo,
Cass county, over at $50 this morn
ing; Alice and Embden, Cass county,
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