The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-01-02
DAKOTA
TO NAME WARSHIP
Corson and Stanley Counties Also
WIN Name Warships. Five 9th
er Counties to Name Tanks

Minneapolis, Dec. Boa detailed
report on the Fourth Liberty Loan,
made public today by Ninth district
Liberty Loan officials, shows that each
of the six states in the district has
won the honor Of naming a United
States warship through oversubscrib-
ing its quota. One county in Montana
Wheatland, and two in South Dakota
Corson and Stanley, also won the hon
or of having ships named after them.
Wheatland county had a distribution
percentage of 55 per cent, that pro-
portion Of its population taking Lib
erty Bonds. Distribution in Corson
county was 53.7 per cent and in Stan
ley county SO per cent.
In addition to the counties and
states privileged to name warships
because of their excellent loan show
ing on distribution, 10 counties have
been granted the privilege of having
tanks named for them. They are the
following: Deed Lodge and Lincoln
counties in Montana; Cook, Marshal
and Mobiles counties in Minnesota;
Deuel., Dewey, Hamlin, Marshal and
Trip counties in South Dakota.
BY state, Minnesota leads in distri-
button, bonds being placed with q As
per ZEN of all it's residents, Montana
distribution was 81 Is; South Dakota
1858 per cent; North Dakota, % per
cent; the Wisconsin counties 1913 per
cent, and the upper peninsula of Mich
igan Is As per cent.
Minneapolis Is credited with 110,15S
subscriptions, a distribution of 30 per
cent and a subscription OF lob per
cen of its allotment. Hennepin
ty outside the city had 1886 subscrib-
ers for the Fourth Liberty loan, a dis
tribution of 25A per cent, and a sub
scription OF 112 per cent of its allot-
ment st. Paul and Ramsey county
show 74,45S buyers of bonds, a distri-
button of 26.6 per cent and a total
subscription of 104 per cen of its
allotment.
By states, subscriptions DO the -four
successive loans have been as follows:
Montana, SIS, $3.50, 49, 26, $50, $17,-
635, 500, 22,4S9,05O; North Dakota,
81, S67, 200, Ss,6 1850, $12,1 O2, 400, $21,-
$50, 450; South Dakota, $685. zoe, $12-
631, $50, s31,44S,5 500. $36,S15,S $50; Min
nesota, $49,933,750, $74,157,5e 0 $685.
79s. $50. $133,315, $50: Wisconsin, 49,
1888, $50, sS,457, 600, $11,300,Soo, $15.-
20s $50; Michigan, s. ,172, 500, ss,90s,-
900, $9,639,S5 $12,564,s00.
1.-THE ninth federal reserve district
is always equal to the demand" said
A. r. Rogers, chairman of the district
Liberty Loan committee. "The larger
the demand made by the government,
the better the people of this district
respond. The final figures OF the
Fourth Liberty Loan in the ninth ex-
ceeded all expectations.
Now that I have had time to reflect
on what has been accomplished, 1t Is
with the realization that these results
have only been attained by the o
thoi ough cooperation and by n
most intensely patriotic service OF
every one connected with the Liberty
organization.
81 take this opportunity of express
ing to each man and woman who
worked for the common, patriotic
aus the sincere appreciation of the
entire central committee. Personally
I thank each individual and congratu-
late the district on possessing these
thousands OF practical patriots. |
know that in the future, as in the
past, they will do whatever is asked
of them"