The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1918-06-29
BEHIND QUOTA IN W,s.s. DRIVE.
July Set AS New Closing Date and
Whirl.yind Finish Planned.

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Incomplete returns up to noon to
day show Ascension's total in the ".
S. S. drive to be $196.385, with the
| first and eighth wards to be heard
from The figures by wards are as
follows: Second ward, Arthur LIE
mann commander, S19,1s0; third
/ ward, Donaldsonville, Jasmin Tobias
commander, $4,000; fourth ward
Sidney Harp commander, S65oO;
fifth ward, Dr.. J. T. Bringier COM
Emander, .s21, 7O5; sixth ward. W. 3.
Stuart commander, 100000; seventh
ward, J. G. NaEgassans commander,
1855, 900.
The campaign will be extended to
include the Fourth of July, and no
effort will be spared to round up
everyone who may not have done his
or her full part thus far.
In the seventh ward no reports
have been received from the Sorrento!
and McElroy precincts, and these are
expected to swell ihe total by con-
siderable amount and put the ward
within reaching distance Of its quota.
For this fine showing Commander
Nargassans gives a great deal OF
credit to his Jealous aids, John W.
Opdenweyer and Rev. 3. Fl. Andrews
Donaldsonville lacks only $500 of
securing it's full allotment OF Ssh
800, and an intensive campaign viii
be waged during the remaining days
of the drive to secure the needed
amount.
While the amounts reported from
the second, fifth and sixth wards aIe
short of the respective quotas TO-
these wards, they are said TO repre-
sent almost the per capita apport:on-
ment of $40 for whites and 20 Tor
negroes as based upon the nresent
population of the wards, each OF
which has sustained decrease IN
number of inhabitants since the lalo
census was compiled. Furthermore
all of the pledges appearing on these
lists are regarded as having been
made in absolute good faith, and con-
fdence is felt that practically every
one of them will be met as they be-
come due.
Members Of the Limit Club" in
Ascension, as compiled from partial
reports now at hand, are as follows:
Second Ward-Arthur Lemann, +,
Diez, Augustin Corbo, Mrs. r. II
Barton, Adam Diez.
Third Ward--W Walter Lemann, B.
Lemann & Bro, Inc, Myer Lemann,
3. Mistretta, E. G. Hanson, Lafourche
Mercantile Co, E. n. Pugh, Mrs. ia
cob, Blum, Bank of Ascension, Com
mercial and Savings Bank, Arnaud
Bloch. Adolphe Meter, George Lam
dry, Mrs. James P. Fortier, Jasmin
Tobias.
Fourth Ward-C. H. Landry, sr.
Br psitf afa p Miles,, s sebers
naydre, EFssnry schexnaHelffe, j. FL
Saxon, Oscar Folse.
Sixth Ward-Louis Geismar.
Seventh Ward-John Opdenweyer,
Ascension Red Cypress Co, Opden-
weyer-Alcus Cvnress Co, Picard &
Geismar, Ltd, P. S. Berteau, j. 3.
Gonzales, Achille I Picard, Allison R.
Gonzales, @. @. Womble, J. G. Mar
gassans.
Eighth Ward and Mrs. F. NJ.
=OpdenWeyer.
Oscar Folse, who appears in the
list of thousand dollar subscribers in
the fifth ward, is d negro, and 50 far|
as present reports show is the first
colored citizen Of the parish to pledge
the maximum amount of war savings
stamps. Folse is tenant on one Of
the Miles Company's plantations at
Burnside.
That the people Of onaldsonville
are patriotic to the core, and are
willing to give substantial proof of
their patriotism by digging down in,
to their pockets for funds wheneverI
the government calls upon them, was
individually demonstrated by the
generous manner in which they came |
forward voluntarily Sunday and
again Friday and pledged, themselves
to buy wssavings stap@#*s June 70
had been saicially set SasSSart for the
opening of the drive to raise Donald
sonville's allotment Of the baby
bonds, and call had been issued for
every citizen to report at the local
high school between the hours of Z
a. m. and 8 p. m. for the purpose of
signing the pledge. Without any
other solicitation than that contain
ed in the mayors proclamation and a
circular letter addressed to taxpay
ers, supplemented by newspaper pub
licity, citizens to the number of sew
eral hundred came forward and cheer
fully obligated themselves to pur-
chase stamps, the pledges for the
most part being exceedingly liberal
and in many instances representing
the very limit of the resources of the
individual subscribers.
This method of selling the stamps
proved so satisfactory that it was de-
cided to repeat the plan Friday, Ma
tional War Savings Day, and again
a gratifying success was scored AS
before, committees were on duty at
the Donaldsonville High School
throughout the day, and numbers Of
persons who had not yet signed up