The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-09
KENOSHA LEADS
FIRST DISTRICT
Final Reports on Sale of Lib
erty Loan Bonds Shows
Total of S2,34O,O5O for
This County.
RACINE is FIGHTING HARD
Kenosha's Double Honor Flag Is Hung
In the City Hall This Morning and
Honor Flags Will Be Sent to the
Several Towns Of the County.
Kenosha today

ss- with TWO gold stars
was sent to h e
Committee in charge of the Liberty
Loan bond sale on Tuesday evening
By the Federal Government and with it
came letter from J. B. McDougal Gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve district
announcing that Kenosha County had
more than doubled it's quota. The ban
ner now flies in prominent place in
the City hall. Tt was hung without
ceremony this morning and it will re-
main as one of the war archives show
ing that Kenosha did its part and more
to make the world safe for Democ .acy
Kenosha is given credit officially
for the sale of $2.340,050 worth of
bonds Of the third Liberty Loan. 1t is
certain that Kenosha is to be ranked
as the first county in the First Wis
constr District and she is g5lng fo
crowd close for first honors
The Racine Committee has not as
yet received the double honor flag but
the final reports indicate that Racine
will probably read the 2009o subscrips
tion necessary to secure the honor. The
subscriptions from Kenosha county now
in the hands Of the Federal Reserve
committee for the district show sale
of 217ao of the quota of $1.0S7,000 and
this will probably be brought up to
220N by the ten thousand dollars
worth of the bonds which remain to be
reported. Kenosha is the first city in
Wisconsin to be, awarded the double
honor flag.
The final report on the sale of the
bonds show that four Of the towns in
the county, Bristol, Paris, Pleasant
Prairie and Somers have won honor
flags for selling more than the quota
assigned to them. The town of Paris
has the proud distinction of having at
least one Liberty loan bond in every
home in the town. It is expected that
the final reports from some Of the other
towns will give them honor flags.
These flags have been ordered and
they will be hung in the various town
halls later in the month.
The total number of subscriptions to
the bonds in Kenosha county is very
close to the nine thousand mark-pro-
badly slightly above it-and this gives
the assurance that Kenosha county has
averaged at least one bond for every
house in the county
More than four thousand bonds of
small denomination have already
been delivered to the purchasers and
thousands of others are being paid for
on the installment plan. The sale of
cash bonds this time was far in excess
of sales made in any former liberty
loan campaign.
L can not say how gratifed / am at
the showing that has been made bv
Kenosha County. We have done bet
ter than any county in this section of
Wisconsin and the people have put
their heart and soul into the campaign
to give the nation the support of their
money said Charles G. Brown, Chair
man Of the local committee this morn
| ing. "Splendid work has been done
by the county and in many of these
towns every person has been given a
chance to subscribe. The Boy Scouts.
the Woman's Committee, the banks
and all of the organizations units have
done wonderful work, and our record
which will be very close to the 220go
mark is one that every person in the
county may well be proud Of The
people have been educated more and
mere to the value of the Liberty Loan
bonds and this is going to make it
a lot easier to sell the succeeding is
sues of the bonds. We want to ioin
with the Federal Reserve District of
fieers in thanking the people for the
wonderful cooperation they have
shown in this work It is impossible
even now to divide all the subscrip-
tions and show the detailed success of
the loan here but this will be done in
due time and every town, and every
organization will get full credit for the
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