The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
Complete Purchase Of Liberty Bonds With
 Banks Say Chairn1en
We Are All Going Keep Up the Work Until We Sell $1O0OO,000 Worth of Bonds Says Coffin-Ens-
 leys Great Showing Feature of Drive

the success of our campaign to their close cooperation"
 BUYS 5000 WORTH Earl Lay, who has returned from a speaking tour in Walker county with Lieutenant Hughes. brings back a good story. They visited the steam plant of the Alabama Power company on the Warrior, and while in the company's hotel, talked bonds to the porter, an aged man. He said he thought he would
 buy some and pay cash. He disappeared but in due time came back and placed sl000 in currency in MT. Lays hands, much to that gentleman's astonishment Total subscriptions in Jefferson coun- ty outside of Greater Birmingham, up to last night were $l,3O0,OO0. This natural ly makes Bert Meadow, assistant county
 commander. who is working that field feel good.
 "Bessemer is doing splendidly," he said. 'J. B. Morton, assistant chairman for Bessemer, reports $254,7 and says his city will raise $30O,0 900. Palos mines, scribed $S950. And so it goes all over the county"
 Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, chairman , of the Woman's Alabama Liberty Loan committee, received the following tele- gram yesterday from Mrs. George Bass | secretary of the Woman's National com | mittee, Washington D. C.:
 Congratulations on the success you have already achieved, with the hope you will largely increase the amount be- fore campaign is ended"
 I We are going to work up to the last second of the campaign" said Mrs. Ja- cobs and will be busy for several days thereafter compiling the reports to be sent to the treasury department. There never has been more devoted intelligent and hard-working body got ten together in Alabama than the women who compose our third Liberty Loan organization" continued Mrs. Jacobs. II am proud of all of our county chairmen and their committees. Their zeal and devotion are fully appreciated by our executive committee. I would like es- pecially to call attention to the inde- fatigebe and efficient work of Mrs R. F Johnston. chairman of our speakers bureau, and Mrs. Tom Brown, her as- sistant; also to the excellent work done by Mrs. Hornady and Mrs. Ledbetter, of our publicity bureau. All members of my committee have not only responded to every call but initiated work for themselves"
 Mrs, H. '. Sims, chairman of the Woman's Greater Birmingham commit tee, reported total of sl,45S. 400 received
 
 noon. Our organization is intact, and we will go through to the finish" she said
 Our committees are going to work over our territory next week." said Mrs. Crawford Johnson, chairman of the Womans Greater Birmingham commit tee, with view of urging all who have pledged themselves to buy bonds to go to the banks and make their initial pay ments immediately. We regard this as vital,
 ENSLEY'S SPLENDID REPORT General A. r. Hilleke of the Ameri-
 can army operating in Pratt City.
 Ensley, Fairfield and Wylam, turned in report at headquarters, which | makes a fine showing for this terri i tory. The total of subscriptions to
 date is given at $640.000 with the
 larger amounts as follows:
 Pratt Consolidated Coal company, $l00,000; American Steel & Wire Co, $90.C0O Harbinson- Walker Refracto- ries Co., $50,000: Semet- -Solvay Co,
 $40,000; Semet- -Solvay Co. employees $l3.000 G. B. Mccormack, $25.00O. Err
 skine Ramsey, $26.oOo; the Barrett Co.,. l $15.000 the Barrett Co. employees $S900 Consolidated Mercantile Co. S50o0; J. H. Gayhart $1200; Dr. W. $
 Rountree. s1coo; Joe Steed, 5000; John