The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-04-24
DRIVE CLOSES ON MAY Third
CHAIRMAN MUST FILE NAMES
OF THOSE WHO FAIL TO
TAKE QUOTA.
Subscriptions up to Thursday
Morning at Ten O'Clock.

The report published in the st.
Cloud Times Tuesday evening that the
City of Sank Centre had oveTsubscrib-
ed her Victory Loan allotment I by
$4,000 was slightly premature. Totals
A. Schoenhoff show that the city did
go over the top slightly this Thursday
morning when a $1,000 subscription
came in. However, many of those
with the heaviest allotments have not
yet reported at the Commercial Club
rooms and it is confidently expected
that before the drive closes next week
Sank Centre will have purchased
100000 of the very best securities in
the world.
Subscriptions are coming in very
Sank Centre township has subscribed
about one-third OF. her allotment and
the other townships in the district
about one-fifth. Reports from other
parts of Stearns county indicate that
the subscriptions from this district
are not as heavy as the rest of the
county. St. Cloud was apportioned
100000 and up to last evening had
subscribed $4,000 and $4,000 more
was expected. Practically every town
and village in the county has already
raised and passed their allotment and
it remains for the country to put the
county over the top.
The Commercial Club rooms will
be open every day and evening until
the close of the drive, Saturday, May
third. -
Reports from Washington late We'd
nesday indicated that only one-half
billion of the four billion five hundred
million asked for had been reported.
Under these circumstances this dis
trict of Stearns county is perhaps do
ing as well as the rest of the nation.
That the loan will eventually be
oversubscribed there is no question.
Under the instructions from head
quarters Chairman Schoenhof will be
required to report to headquarters a
complete list of the allotnents in his
district. He must report those who
have taken their allotments as well
as those who have not.
The farmers are urged to come into
headquarters and arrange for their
allotment. The committee raising the
bonds are working without compensa-
ton at a personal sacrifice. 1t should
not be necessary for committee to
call at your home to induce you to do
your final bit in closing up the details
of the war and bringing the boys
home. >
When the Fourth Liberty Loan was
being foated the common sentiment of
the American people was: II would
give anything to stop this war;" In
few short weeks the German military
machine crumbled and they We're
suing for a cessation of hostilities.
The Federal government is now ask
ing these same people who made the
above statement either in their heart
or openly that they make good by
taking their quota of the Fifth or
Victory bond issue.
The apportionment for Sank Centre
City, Raymond, Ashley, Getty and
Sank Centre townships is $181, 900. OF
this amount Sank Centre has been
assessed $4,000. The city will raise
their quota and more, but unless the
ldIIH0IS C1Ilo CcsAS eAASAA 1N0s~~S
the district will fall down shamefully.
This in spite of the fact that approx
mately $50 Of the best young man
hood of this district took up the colors
of their country. Some of these boys
died in a camp. A few are buried on
the bloody-stained battlefelds of
Europe; several are home, but many
more are still overseas, and their re-
turn is indefinite.
Most of these boys went into the
service of their country gladly at a
big sacrifice. They have a right to
expect that those they left behind
will stand back of the government in
financing the war to its ose-whicl
means until all the debts contracted
ON account of the war are hqudated
and every boy from this section has
been returned 10 hin honae community
and civil life.
There isn't any doubt but what this