The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-02
Many Committees in Charge of Sorici-
tation Are Still to Report and Com
mittee Feels Certain That Kenosha
County win Be 225qs Efficient.

V6SSsSgAA=LsSSN9 ponds, h n a q
No. 49, was leaping toward
%Sa48 the two million
mark today and
the report of the chairman of the com
mittee showed that subscriptions total
$l,603,0 900 had been actually turned in
to the committee and there is stiIl a
determined campaign on. To reach the
point set by the committee-more than
double the quota-Kenosha must sell
not less than 100000 worth of the
bonds between now and Saturday night.
A lot of these bonds have already been
sold, but the reports have not been
brought to the committee as yet.
1.-THE sale is going wonderful,
said Charles c. Brown, chairman of
committee this morning. "With mo
than million six hundred thousal
dollars in signed applications we fe
certain that we are going to reach tn
quota unlese The people slow ~ terribly
IN Che last three DAYS of tbs eampaigl.
We have some big sources to draw from
yet. There is the woman s committee
which has been doing wonderful work
and which is going to more than double
its sales in the last bond issue; the Boy
Scouts have not made any report and
they are doing great work. They are
bringing in subscriptions of high
amounts and hundreds of small sub
seriptions; then we have yet to hear
from the subscriptions taken in the
factories. But one list of factory sub
scriptions is included in the report we
are making today. Then there is the
county. The county towns are doing
splendidly and I am convinced that
the total of the bonds sold in the county
outside Of Kenosha will be well over
the two hundred thousand mark. This
campaign has been great educator to
the committee as well as the people.
We have discovered that the people
have learned the value of the Liberty
Loan bonds and hundreds of people
who did not buy the bonds in the former
issues have come in to buy them over
the counter this time. We already
have more than six thousand applica-
tions for bonds and the factory lists
should pretty nearly double this num-
Der of applications. "
Tt is an open secret that the sub
scription of Simmons Company has not
as yet been reported and Simmons
Company is going to show an intense
patriotism in buying bonds. It is prob
able that the subscription of this COM
pany will be one of the great big sub
scriptions in the nation. It viii not
all be made part Of the Kenosha list
as the company has some twenty-six
branches in the country and a part Of
the subscriptions will go to every one
of these branches. Of course Kenosha
will have the first and largest share
of the subscription.
Kenosha is also to have its list swell
ed by generous subscriptions from the
great railway companies. The Chicago,
and Northwestern, the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul, the 500 Line and
the various electric railway companies
have all announced division Of the
subscriptions Of these companies and
part of this vast sum viii be added to
the Kenosha county subscription.
Speed is now being urged on all the
collectors in order that reports may be
in the hands of the committee early on
Saturday so that Kenosha will not de-
Law the making up of the report of the
seventh district. It is certain that this
district will be well over the quota
assigned to it. Wisconsin is already
well over her quota and Kenosha is
going to Iced Wisconsin when the
final lists are made UP.
The Kenosha committee feels GER
tain that the total here viii ex-
coed FPS of the quota named for the
city and county.
The final days work of solicitation
for the sale of the bonds viii be en-
tirely along the line of personal work
as the members of the committee be
lieve that it is too late for further
educational propaganda.