Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-04-21
IOWA SECOND
u v. v. DRIVE
Hamilton County 100 Per
Cent in Both General
And Boy and Girl
Campaigns.
% COUNTIES OVER
State as a Whole, However,
Is Still Short of its
Quota.

iowa STANDS next TO the top among
the states of the central departments
in funds collected in the United War
Work campaign, with 90 per cent Of
her total subscription turned in. She
is second only to North Dakota who
stands 100 per cent, but whose sub
scription was only $780, 900 as compar
ed to Iowa's generous pledge of $6,5OO,-
600. l
Among the other states Of the cell-
trail department Kansas follows Iowa's
record closely with collection Of 90
per cent, the totals Of the other states
gradually ranging toward the cellar
position occupied by South Dakota
with barely 26 per cent collection on
her pledge Of $1,a30O,OOO.
Some Unpaid.
Y Iowa's outstanding pledge still totals
$462, GOA, and every effort is being urg
ed throughout the state to bring in the
delinquent pledges and push Iowa to
the top, her own position by right OF
the precedent established in previous
war work drives.
Hamilton 100 Per Cent.
Thirty-three Iowa counties are over
the top in their general campaign, 20
having small remaining collection to
be made on the Victory boy and girl
campaign. Those totalling 100 per cent
on both the general and the boy and
girl campaigns include Calhoun,
Clarke, Des Moines, Hamilton, Keokuk,
Shelby and Webster counties. Several
of these are war chest counties and did
not conduct a campaign. Fl i
Those counties over the top in the.
general campaign with small amount
outstanding on the Victory boy and
girl pledges include Adair, Adams,
Audubon, Bremen, Buena Vista, Butler.
Chickasaw, Dickinson, Emmett, Har-
din, Greene. Grundy, Guthrie, Han
cock, Harrison, Howard, Ida, Marion,
Mills, Montgomery, O'Brien, osceola,
Palo Alto, Tama and Worth.
Fifteen counties totalling over M>per
cent on both the general and Victory
how and girl campaigns include ALA
makee, Carroll, Cass, Clayton, Decatur,
Fremont, Jones, Monona, Pottawatta-
mic, Ringgold, Sac, Sioux, Story, War
rem and woodbury. counties. s.
". MI. AI.-
Writes From Minnesota.
r. B. Wyckoff, formerly Of this city,
writing from Lyle. Minnesota, where
he now lives, says to the Freeman
journal in the course Of business let
ter:
1--WE are having very backward
spring, with too much rain. Some oats
have been sowed, but the ground mas
not been in any shape for seeding.
have some garden made and it is com
ing up, but night before last It got
covered up with an inch OF snow.
..Well, $500 land has got here. Two
farms north of st. Ansgar sold for that
price last week. The markets are good.
The merchants are paying 81 cents for
eggs and SO cents for butter. Give my
regards to my friends in Webster
City"
". Ill. L.
The pupils Of Miss May Taylor,
teacher Of the fourth and fifth grades
Of the east ward school, took part In
the singing and opening exercises at
Lincoln high school this morning.
Their music instructor, Miss Rosalind
Cook, considers them among her prize
pupils.
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H. 8. Miller and sister-ia.law, Miss
Clara Stream, are business callers in
Boone today.