Milford chronicle., 1918-10-25
The STORY OF The
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
Every County in the State Went Over
the Top. WOman's Committees
Prominent in Its Success

, mOre-we have raised over nineteen
million in three weeks, in spite OF a
state wide plague. By steady devo-
ton to the cause in hand, through ev-
cry obstacle and handicap, we have
won out! Men, women and children,
all the citizens of Delaware working
shoulder to shoulder.
Wilmington women, debarred meet
ings, prohibited house to house can
vass, were undaunted, and they report
nearly six million dollars secured
through their teams from over 10 900
subscribers, or ten per cent of the
population of their city, and a per
capita of S56.
with the influenza raging, nothing
could have brought success but the
devoted zeal which Mrs. Otho New
lands and her organization displayed.
the courage which carried them on to
victory.
Dover, our state capital, with
population of four thousand, reports
over a half million, or $125 to the
credit of every man, woman and child
in the town. More than twenty per
cent of the population of Dover sub
scribed through the Woman's Com
mittee. Mrs. Alden b. Richardson.
city chairman, has four hundred
twelve thousand, one hundred and
fifty dollars in hand. Is there any
town in the Third Federal Reserve
District which can show a higher per
capita percentage or a larger number [
of subscribers through the Woman's
Committee.
Every county in the state is over
the top. thanks to the fine team work
done by the mems and woman's com
mittees, but it was Sussex County
which went over first, reporting its
quota reached and passed on the sew
enteenth. The Sussex committees
worked against great odds. for the
Spanish influenza is raging in rural
districts and many of the town. Sew
enty' out OF a population of five hun
dred persons in Selbyville were VIC
inns OF the scOurge, and Delmar has .
population of two thousand. eight
hundred of whom were attacked bv {
me influenza. No report of a single :
came in from Delmar
until October 18th, four days before I
he drive closed, and yet Delmar has
gone over the top and her WOman's
committee reports fifty-four per cent r
u the assigned quota on their books. i
1rs. William Tutherly, the county i
chairman, has been unable to secure
eturns from all her districts, because
% many of the workers are still seri-
usly i'll, but she reports to date eight
hundred eighty-four thousand. one L
undred fifty dollars. 9
New Castle county, with Whining =
on. Christiana and Brandywine hun :
reds taken out, and with many re- !,
lrns not yet in, reports through the h
hartman, Mrs. W. U. Reybold, that a.
he WOman's Committee alone had a -
er capita response of SIT 81. When n
'e remember that Blackbird hundred =
as been almost paralyzed by the in :,
uenza, that Mill Creek, White Clay .,
reek and New Castle Hundreds have y
cen especially afflicted, that in the NJ
ty OF New Castle, with a population N
fifty thousand, there have been one q
lousand, five hundred cases, we N
,el that the residents of New Castle NJ
ounty have shown the true Ameri- q
IN spirit. NJ
Kent County WOmAn's Committee NJ
ith Mrs. Walter Morris, chairman. r.,
ads the counties in per centages. NJ
iving secured the highest per capita
sponse next to the City of Whining
n, or more than $26 90 from each
an, woman and child in the county.
his will be increased, as returns are as
Vt all in. This county is also dis tic
lguished because the first district, co
the state to go over the top, was a We
ent County district, Magnolia, which ms
mpleted its quota on October 3rd. su
The Woman's Committee of the int
ate is appreciative of the spirit of hal
and cooperation with as,
lich Henry p. Scott, chairman of tht
w Castle County; James H. Hughes mo-
airman OF Kent, and Roland G. of
ynter, chairman of Sussex, and Coz
eir committees have met in the to
npaign. fer
)ne-half of the entire quota as
ned to Delaware will be credited to
Woman's Committees. Eight mil
n, six thousand, six hundred and Y
~ dollars and more than that sum ers
] be the amount the Woman's Com Wr
-tee of Delaware will report to mex
S. William McAdoo, and this does hin
include any part of the generous the
lscriptiOn of the dupont corpora bee
/. Lib
t is because Delaware women en- dril
ed upon the work of the loan, and wri
dyed to devote to it all they poses- If y
of efficiency, endurance and stead app
mess, and because they consecrat- Gro
themselves to this service for their
ernment, that even serious illness
the presence of death in their
st could not break down their If
rage, nor cause them to falter un- ings
heir goal was reached and passed. will
is with pardosab1e pride that 1 eigh
/ myself State Chairman of Della char
e, Woman's Liberty Loan Com chai
Zee. 2.
MABEL LLOYD RIDGELY, for
er, Delaware. fresl
)ber 19, 1918. Hall