Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-17
BOND SALES INCREASE.
ON RECEIPT OF NEWS

ON RECEIPT UF NEWS
CONTINUED from First Pagc.l
the United States of America to the
limit.
Il want to buy a bond" said
railroad engineman at headquarters
this morning.
What denomination?" he was
asked.
Make it s2O0-no. make it $780,"
he said. 81 don't have all that |
money, but l figure that 1 owe 1t |
to myself and the country to go in |
debt to help win this war. 1 think |
l can afford to save that $30O."
This spirit, says Chairman An |
drew S. Patterson, As being mani |
tested throughout the city. The $50 !
bonds are not in so great demand as
they were in the first two loans. The |
big uns" are being bought.
. Treasurer ]. NJ. Delaney this
morning reported that the cash so
far received at headquarters totals
2S,000-representin only a small
portion of the bonds bought. That
total, incidentally, is close to the ST.
250,000 mark this afternoon.
The Harrisburg district-Harris-
burg and Dauphin county, Perry,
Juniata and Cumberland counties
has the third largest Liberty Bond
quota in Pennsylvania. First comes
Philadelphia, then Pittsburgh and
then this district.
A large subscription reported to-
day was that of the American Radi-
ator Company, which bought $1,000
worth of bonds through the Harris
bur- district.
Meetings Scheduled
Meetings in the interest of the
Liberty Loan are attracting large
crowds. To-day Private Wider, of
the Canadian forces, is speaking at
Maclay street and Lucknow car
shops; Lieutenant Hersey, at Enola
carshop. and Lieutenant Reinville
at Enola enginehouse. The three
Canadians will speak late to-day at
SIX, Fl and CT humps, and the
Enola and east and westbound
humps.
A meeting at McAllisterville this
afternoon is being addressed by
dians, and Attorney ]. NJ. Pennell.
of Miffiintown. Tonight they will
speak at Port Royal.
Lieutenant Reinville and E. +.
Barker tonight speak at Halifax.
Major Dickson speaks tonight at
Enola.
Lieutenant Hersey and Senator
Scott Leiby tonight speak at Dun
cannon.
AT 1.SO to-day Lieutenant Hersey
spoke at the School of Commerce.
Prof. c. l.. Grimm will be chair
man of the big patriotic meeting to
be held Friday night at Pillow, in
the Lutheran Church. The speakers
will be James E. Lentz, Attorney
Phil S. Meyer and a Canadian SOL
dier.
Enthusiastic meetings were held
last night at Gratz, Loyalton and
Elizabethville.
Lieutenant Reinville last night ad-
dressed the audiences at the Colonial
and Majestic theaters. Attorney ].
e. B. Cunningham spoke to the en-
ployes of the Evangelical Publishing
Company yesterday afternoon.
An extraordinarily large meeting
is scheduled for Middletown to-
morrow evening.
More "Hundreders"
The Packard Motor Car Company,
Front and Market streets, is added
to the list of hundred percenters."
Furniture dealers in the same
class are Burns & Co., Miller &
Kades, Joseph Goldsmith, Brown &
Co., Peoples Furniture Co., B. Han
dler & Co., Charles F. Hoover Co.,
Facller & Co. and Gately & Fitz-
gerald.
Others are Harrisburg News
| Agency, Michlovitz & Co., Evans,
BURNETT Co., Miller Auto Co., Unit
ed Telephone Co, .,,Fleischmann & Co.,
! Russ Bros. ice cream, Harrisburg
Collar and Cuff Co., United States
Mattress Co., Overland Harrisburg
Co.
1t is understood that the furniture
dealers of the city are all in this
class, and a complete list will be
announced as soon as possible.
Between and 6 o'clock last even
ing an enthusiastic Liberty Loan
meeting was held at the plant of the
Harrisburg Boiler and Manufactur-
ing Company, where a large number
of skilled workmen heard an address
| by E. j. Stackpole, editor sin-chief of
| the Telegraph on the issues of the
| war, the readiness of the Pennsylva-
MIA troops and the duty of every
American citizen to do his utmost to
win the greatest struggle of the
ages. The employees of this plant are
! giving up the usual off hours to rush
important work and have already
more than doubled their second loan
over $4,000,
w. d. Cory, general agent of the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company, OF Springfield, Mass, re-
ceived word to-day that his company
will purchase $1,000 in Liberty Bonds
through this city. They are purchas-
ing $1,000,000 in bonds through their
different agencies and will put all of
their premiums received on new busi-
ness for the year 1918 in Liberty
/ Bonds.
Knights to Buy
John Czerniski, president. of the
Knights of st. George, announced
that at meeting of Branch No. 16S
of that order, a resolution was adopt
ed promising the support of the or
| ganiZation to the government in it's
Liberty Loan drive. The members
will purchase bonds through their
employers or through banks and
promise every sacrifice necessary.
The supreme board of the knights of