Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-21
LIBERTY LOAN
is OVERSUBCRIBED
[Continaed from First Page. ]


$257. 100 quota. Middletown. Royal
burg. also are honor. towns just re-
ported.
"All Thanks to Workers
When Andrew S. Patterson. city
chairman in charge of the very sue
cessful Liberty Loan drive, was con-
graduated to-day he gave all thanks
to the workers.
Don't congratulate me-" said Mr.
Patterson. The congratulations be-
long to the workers Nc loan COM
mittee ever worked under greater
difficulties, and none more faith
fully and Loyalty. From the chair
men to the teamworkers, from the
industrial committeeman to the Boy
Scouts, all worked zealously days
and evenings and l personally want
to ertend my heartfelt thanks TO
them one and all and my congratula-
ttons upon the success of their eff
forts"
The industrial workers were in the
field a week ahead of the house-to-
house teams and the industries and
business places of the city yielded
handsome returns under their can
vass. The house-to- house visitation
took place in the midst of the influ-
enza epidemic at its very worst. The
committeeman found hundreds of
prospective buyers sick, and not q
few subscribed from sicl<beds. The
workers themselves ran the risk of
contagion by going into houses
where the disease > existed. Then,
after the main canvass. came the
cleaners after the reapers," the
Boy Scouts under Executive Virgin,
who brought in nearly 100000 adj
ditional. Like the committeeman, the
Scouts worked zealously and got re-
suits.
Honor Towns
f. w. Smith, superintendent of
| the Philadelphia Division of the
pennsylvania Railroad, which in
cludes the lines between Harrisburg
and Philadelphia, not including Phil
adelphia itself, reported subscrip-
tions to the amount of $l,045,S 500.
There are 15,500 employees on the
division.
Other honor towns reported to-day
are Mifflintown. NIifflin, Monroe
! township, Fayette township, and
| Thompsontown, of Juniata county;
Millersburg, Halifax, Lykens, Vic
onisco. Williamstown. Dauphin and
Granville, from Dauphin county.
Industrial Committee High
The Industrial Committee. of
which George s. Reinoehl is chair
man, reported an additional S97,750
worth of subscriptions this morn
ing, further swelling the commit
tees total. OF the amount reported,
S36.5OO was subscribed by the Har-
risburg Boiler and Manufacturing
Company, and officials. The COM
pany's employees also took $500
/ additional. The committees total
sales amount to s2,725, 400.
The Liberty Loan workers this
morning were highly elated over the
results of the drive in Dauphin
county and Harrisburg, Andrew S.
Patterson. chairman of the Harris
burg committee, did not attempt to
conceal his elaton when he reported
that the city is ''one hundred thou
sand dollars over it's quota"
William Jennings also was highly
pleased with the way Dauphin county
oversubscribed its quota. Hardly
any counties the size of Dauphin did
so we'll in the Fourth Liberty Loan
as Dauphin. With Steelton, over it's
quota by hundreds of thousands,
| Hershey twice over it's quota, and
| several other towns in the county
with equally good records, Mr.. Jen-
nings has reason to be proud of the
quota raised by his committee. Her
sheys 2,001 subscribers subscribed a
total of $704,000.
| Donald Mccormick, district chair
man; Mr.. Patterson, city chairman;
| William jennings, county chairman;
j. Clyde Myton, organizing secre-
tary. and other leading Liberty Loan
workers united this morning in
praise of the workers who put the
! loan acrosS, Tbav decIara1 that
unusual credit is due to the workers,
who. in spite of the influenza epi-
demic, which put a ban on all pub
lic meetings. raised the quotas of the
loan and carried the whole district
over the ton