The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
Mrs. Theirs Report On the
Fifth Loan Shows That
Committee Sold 500, 700
Worth Of Bonds.
VICTORY IN VICTORY LOAN
Total subscriptions Represent Triumph
In Spite Of Handicaps 80 Mrs. Theirs
Unselhshly Gives Others the
Praise.
Kenosha women saw it through.

A report of their activities in the
Fifth Liberty Loan, made by Mrs.
| L. M. Theirs, County Chairman, and
published elsewhere in this issue of the
/ Evening News, reveals the fact that
they sold $4,000 of Victory Liberty
Bonds This represents real achieve
ment especially in view Of the fact
they could appeal only to women and
| in most cases to women, whose men
folk had already made large subscrip-
tions to the Loan.
| Great credit for the success of the
women in the bond campaign is due
to Mrs. ThieBs. But like most women,
who serve and serve unselfishly, she
accepts responsibility and passes on the
praise. Accordingly she has addressed
the following letter to her loyal CO.
workers in Kenosha and Kenosha coun-
ty: @
Ny Dear Friends
/ have been asked to transmit to
you, and through you to those who
worked with you for the Victory Loan,
the thanks and appreciation of those
in charge of the campaign from the
Secretary Of the Treasury and Gov
ernor McDougle Of the District Federal
Reserve Bank and Miss Grace Dixon,
our representative to our own State
officers.
II believes Miss Ethel Schully, Pub
llclty Chairman, voices the thought of
us all in the words:
: think we are all both glad and
sorry that the Liberty Loans are prac-
tically over glad because it has been
a very detailed and rather heavy burr
den-glad because we have been able
to be of such an unusual service to our
country; but sorry that we shall miss
the contact and companionship with
other women. But it seems to me that
It has given US vision and source Of
inspiration that will help much in the
work of the new construction which
is to come.
Our State Chairman, Mrs. John
W. Mariner, sends you the following
message: I take a very great pride IN
the Woman 8 Liberty Loan Committee
of Wisconsin with It's membership of
ten thousand women who have worked
loyalty in the service Of their country
for the past two years, and 7 wish to
take this opportunity to express my
personal thanks to all Of you for the
wonderful support and cooperation you
have given me.
" 1t would be a matter of very
great regret if I thought our relations
were to be severed at once, and, there
fore, was very glad to receive a COM
munication from the Treasury De-
partment urging the Woman s Liberty
Loan Committee to keep it's organiza-
ton together, as the Secretary of the
Treasury is considering plans for a
further utilization of this splendid or
ganization in some way for the work
of the Treasury Department. Will you
therefore, be kind enough to convey
TO your workers my thanks and appre-
citation for their splendid service and
to ask them to still consider themselves
a part of the organization of the Wo-
man $ Liberty Loan Committee Of Wis
eonsin, SO that they may still be ready
to answer to the call Of service from
their country if it is nader
" In my own behalf thank you all
again, and trust that in peaceful pur-
suits we may continue the pleasant re-
lationships Of wartime activities. y
The triumph Of Mrs. Theirs and her
associates is no surprise to Kenoshans
who know the history of previous Lii
berty Loans. In all of the money drives
Of the war Mrs. Theirs and her commit
tee so organized and directed their
campaigns as to make defeat impossi-
bile. Following the same methods in
the last financial offensive they went
gloriously Tower the top and won
new honors for themselves and Kenosha
femininity.
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