South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-10
TOTAL S
NEAR $4,000
OVER LOAN QUOTA
Nine Hundred Thousand DOL
lars Raised at Victory
Loan Luncheon.

An oversuDscriptiOn Of at least
$4,000 now is assured in the Vic
tory Liberty loan campaign in ST.
Joseph county. The total reported
Friday night, following the big
meeting at noon in the oliver hotel,
a 81. 06 600. an excess of $164,-
600 over the quota.
Nearly $9OC, QUO was subscribed
at the Friday noon meeting. which
was attended by at least 500 men
and a number Of women Lively
bidding for so captured German.
helmets added enthusiasm 10 the
patriotic fervor which had been
manifested following the speeches
by Or. G. A. Lippincott, W. G. Rein
bold of Chicago, and Capt. Joseph
GarSon. Helen Heller, II, also
made an effective appeal
County Chairman ". L. Chandler
is to have his cnCice of any model
Studebaker automobile for his part
i'm the success of the loan. This is
the gift Of st. Joseph county bank
ers. At the meeting Friday noon
there were cries of Chandler
where's Chandler-speech!" Men
lifted the chairman to the table
and he voiced his gratefulness for
the cooperation he has received in
the campaisn.
Days Big Moments
The biggest moments of the
luncheon came when the plus
subscriptions of the Studebaker cor
poration and j. ID. Oliver we're ar
nounced. ~Studebakers took $780,
600 and Oliver S250.O00 In addition
TO their respective former subscriD-
tons.
Smaller subscriptions from others
present totalied 1929. 900. making a
grand total of $4,000 subscribed
Friday noon. Nearly $50 separate
subscriptions make up this quota.
ranging from 500 up into the thou
sands.
Besides the he lmets, Auctioneer j..
DeHaven sold a ride in the whippet
tank, now IN the city boosting the
loan. Ira Ciralski won this ride
With a bid of $500, and will take it
today, starting from the oliver no.
tel at noon. Marvin Campbell left
the luncheon with an armful of he'll
NETS, having purchased a $50 bond
for each of his employees and get
ting tickets for each bond. The
crowd voted unanimously TO award
helmets to MIR. Oliver and MIR.
Erskinc.
The Elks lodge here bought $500
in bonds.
To Abandon Headquarters.
Immediately after the luncheon
Chairman Chandler began prepara-
tions TO abandon the headquarters
in the Elks temple. The card in
dexes of subscribers and prospects,
used in the fourth and fifth loan
campaigns, will be destroyed, he an
nOuDced.
Among the larger subscriptions
recorded at the luncheon we're the
following: Gabriel r. Summers.
$1,000: The News-Times. $4,000;
Norris Plan bank, $1,000; South
Lend Tribune. $4,000: South Bend
Humane society, $5.0OC: Rome c.
Stephenson. 50, coo: Jacob Woolver-
ton. $4,000; Robertson Eros. Co,
So, 900; Malleatle steel Range Co,
IS. 600; Campbell Paper Box Co,
$4,000. Dozens of subscriptions
came pouring in of 81 500, $1,000
and $1,000. \ number of men
purchased $1,000 worth Of bonds
when the bidding first started. and
doubled their subscriptions later on,
spurred on by the appeals Of Auct.
DeHaven and ChairmaE Crabill,
presiding over the luncheon.
Twenty-seven captured German
officers helmets we're awarded 10
the following persons and COM
panies: r. d. Bowsher, Otto Scher-
mann. +. y. Dalton, y. r. Fetles.
Malleable steel Range Co, Edward
C.. Witwer, Jacob Woolverton,
Campbell Paper Box company, Jack
Dalton, p. T.. BonDurant, Rabbi
Albert Minda. Dorothy DOlph, the
builders Supply Co, Swank Dry
Cleaning Co, Dick Miller, a. l. Gil
liam T. A. Freeman. Bruce Ham
merschmidt. Richard Lamport. G.
A. Dalton. Harry F.. Schadt, south
Bend Bait Co, W. O. Davies. Or. H.
l.. Mitchell and Lieut. Guy b. WiseI .