The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-18
COUNTY'S QUOTA FOR MONTEVALLO
 IS HALF RAISED
Subscriptions Near $15O,' OOOEErskine Ramsay
 Gives $1OO,OOO

Already nearly $150,000 of Jefferson county's quota of $300, 900 for Alabama Women's college, MontevallO. in the state wide drive for $1.000,O00 had been subscribed Thursday night after the first day of the campaign, 1t was reported by Mrs. D. F. Bucks, chair man of the women's division of the drive and president of the alumnae as- sociation of the college, who said that the success with which the various teams of workers are meeting has been very gratifying.
 The largest contribution during the first days activities, and one which served to send out the workers with renewed determination to bring in their shares of the subscriptions was the generous gift of $100,00O from Frs kline Ramsey, finaneier, engineer, and philanthropist Mr. Ramsay made his contribution upon the solicitation of w: E. Mitchell, vice chairman of the drive, wllo eaid that it WAS Mr. Ramsay 8 wish that his don tion be credited to fise K $ 6i ifiB. hf f Mitchell said the t.okIS fse would aed to build tia Janet Ramsay dpfnttory, in memory of the dpnar's mother,
 SkOO SilH scriptiOn ss I An unsolicited check of $500 was re sceived Thursday morning from the Lindsay Pork Products company. The check was accompanied by an explana- ton that officials of the company had read a statement of the needs of the Montevallo college printed in Wednes- days Age,Herald and they were so im- pressed that they wanted to cooperate. The check was delivered to the cam paign managers by The Age-H Herald.
 At the luncheon Thursday of % team captains of various women's clubs and church societies, the few prelim- mary reports showed that more than -$5. GOO has been collected by the women. Many of the women's club however have not yet made detailed reports. Reports from the Rotary, Exchange, Community, and other mems clubs have been gratifying. The Kiwanis club am nounced that beside Mir. Ramsay's gift, $530 had been secured.
 Saturday will be big day for the campaign, it was said Thursday at drive headquarters in LOveman, Joseph & LOebs department store.
 We will impress the people of this county what our slogan, Million for MontevallO' means" said Mrs. Bucks. We are going to use several edvertis- ing methods which we are sure will bring worth while results"
 To Use Aeroplanes
 All of the methods" which the cam paigners will use to bring the results have not been announced, although it has been assured that three aeroplanes from the 106th Observation squardron, Alabama National Guard, will fly over the city and drop leaflets describing the objects of the drive.
 Major w. V. Nj. Robertson, com mander of the squardron, will lead the Aiers, he said, and see that the leaflets are we'll distributed. In the other planes will be Captain Sumpter Smith and Lieut.. J. E. Kirkham.
 Several prizes to team captains have been offered by Birmingham stores, of which two have already been awarded, Mrs. Bucks said. Mrs. Douglas Stock ham, of the Maybelle Taylor class, First Methodist church, who collected S2. 12O, received a dress from LOVeman, Joseph and Loeb which was offered to the first woman captain bringing Tn over $2,O00. Mrs. Dora c. Fell of the Axis Club was awarded a dress by Kaufman department store for being the first woman captain to bring in S1 800. Prizes not yet won are a floor lamp from Pizitz, a diamond ring and a negligee from Augusta Friedman, and a hef from HirSeh