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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

REPORT
of

National Woman's Liberty
Loan Committee
/or the
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN
SEPTEMBER 28TH

TO

OCTOBER

19TH

1918

WASHINGTON
1918

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TAKEN FROM THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
FOR THE YEAR 1918

The National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
One of the most notable factors in the success of the Liberty loans has been the work of the
women of the United States. It was with the belief that the women of the Nation would constitute a powerful moral force in war finance that the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury in May, 1917. That they, working
through the organization effected by this agency, have not only accomplished this purpose but
have also become an essential element in the actual labors of promoting the loans constitutes
one of the most interesting chapters in the financing of the war. There is probably no war service
in which so many women have taken more active part than in the raising of money to pay our
war burden. To their energy, their enthusiasm, their zeal, and their vision is due a great part
of the success of the Liberty loans.
When the United States went into war with Germany the business of bond selling was a
field so new to women that all work within it has been genuine pioneering. The organization
of women for the task has been the work of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee,
which has served in co-operation with the Treasury's war-loan organization. The members of
this committee, serving as volunteers, have performed the work of enlisting more than a half
million women as sellers of Liberty bonds.
The first labors of the members of the committee, after the closing of the first Liberty loan
where their work had been general publicity of war finance among women, were concerned with
the adjustment of established organizations of women throughout the country to the established
machinery for the raising of the loans. Where organization existed, the women of the Nation
were organized by States, while the Treasury's loan organization was based upon the twelve
fiscal divisions of the United States. It was the problem of the committee to correlate the two
schemes of organization. Ther. solved it by the appointment of both State and Federal Reserve
chairmen, the former responsible for actual organization of women in their respective States,
the latter serving as the representatives of the women in dealing with the Liberty loan committees
of the respective Federal reserve districts. Liberty loan committees elected the women Federal
reserve chairmen members of their executive committees.
In this organization during the second Liberty loan 60,000 women became sellers of bonds.
Reports of the women State chairmen, and of the executive committees of the Federal reserve
districts, indicate that the woman's organization obtained subscriptions for $1,000,000,000 of
the second loan. In the third loan 500,000 women were enrolled as members of the organization,
which had a woman chairman in almost every county of the United States and township officers
in almost every township. In the third loan the women were again credited with having been
the selling agents of more than a billion dollars in bonds. In the fourth loan between seven and
ei_ght hundred thousand women served, but it is not possible at this time to make an estimate
of the amount of bond sales attributable to the woman's organzation.
No mere recital of results achieved can show the extent of the service which women have
given to the Nation through their participation in war finance. That hundreds of thousands
of women assumed the burden of a new kind of labor, not for themseves but for their country,
is one of the most striking and characteristic facts in relation to the women of America that the
war has developed. The Liberty loans have afforded a new proving ground where the women
of the Nation have accepted the opportunity to demostrate again their patriotism, their ability
their consciousness of the obligations of citizenship, and their steadfastness of soul in the great
and terrible crisis which our country has met.

What American Women Have Done /or
the Liberty Loans
By WILLIAM G. McAnoo, Secretary of the Treasury
The women of America have demonstrated extraordinary power and capacity in connection
with the financial -~perations of the Government. Their work has been of the highest value.
The National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee has brought into existence an organization
of women throughout the country which is one of the most important factors in the success of
Liberty Loans.
I am deeply gratc!ful for the splendid support American women have given to the Treasury
and to all war activities. The increasing demands of the war will make their work more and
more important. Their continued enthusiastic and spirited co-operation strengthens my
confidence in the success of the Treasury's future financial undertakings.
(Signed) W. G. McADOO
The above letter appeared in the Pictorial Review for November, 1918.

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Members of the National Woman's Liberty
Loan Committee
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Mu. WILLIAM G. McADOO, Chairman
'.\I Mu. ANTOINETTE FuNK, Pie, Chairman
::; Mu. GEORGE Bus, Secretary
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Miss MA11.v SvNoN, Trea,vrer
Mu. A. S. BALDWIN
Mu. GUILFORD DUDLEY

LIBERTY LOAN
Ma.s. KELLOGG FAIR.BANK
M11.s. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY
M11.s. F. L. H1GGINSON
Mils. J. 0. MILLER
Mu. F'RANK A. VANDERLIP
*M11.s. ELLA FLAGG Y ouNG

*Died October 26th, 1918

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HE National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee has sustained a great and
lasting loss in the death of a valued member,Mrs. Ella Flagg Young.
Mrs. Youn~ was a woman of distinguished reputation for a lifetime of important public servtce, of an age when she might, with honor, have allowed war
work to proceed without her_.1._yet, when the Secretary of the Treasury appointed her
a member of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee she responded with
enthusiasm.
Her contribution to this work was mainly through the channels of Loan publicity.
She made the United States Treasury her office, and the service she rendered, although
necessarily anonymous, is written into practically every important piece of literature
sent out during the war, and into the various public documents of the secretaries.
When the necessity arose for members of the National Woman's Liberty Loan
Committee to go about the country on speaking tours, and to attend Liberty
Loan State Conferences, Mrs. Young made no plea of disability or age. In the
Fourth Campaign she undertook the severe strain of a far Western circuit, where,
owing to the epidemic, mass meetings were largely held out of doors. In October,
in Idaho, she filled the last engagement of this kind, although at the time she herself was suffering from the influenza. Pneumonia followed, and in Washinron,
on October 26th, Ella Flagg Young died, as truly an offering on the altar o her
country as any/outh who gave his life in France.
She was bune in Chicago, and at the request of Secretary McAdoo, the Treasury
Department was officially represented at her funeral.
To the country at large Mrs. Young stood for all that was fine and progressive
in modern life; to the me1J1bers of the Committee with whom she worked during
the last eighteen months of her life she came to mean this, and something much more
intimate. None of them will ever forget her caustic wit, her clear-sighted grasp
of the essential, and her kindly understanding of human nature; in their work in
preparation for the coming Campaign they will miSjl the stimulus of her companionship, and the advantage of her wise council.

· The National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee regrets that owing to the cost of paper
and printing, it is impossible to list every woman enrolled on County, City or Township Committees in the United States. The National Committee appreciates that the marvelous success
ii-, attending the work of the Woman's Committee is largely due to the loyalty and perseverance of
!:.> these unmentioned women, and that it is imP.Ossible to over-praise their devoted efforts.
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It has been told of Gladstone, that while he was Chancellor of Exchequer, he became so
~ affected on readin~to Parliament a report consisting entirely of figures, that tears were seen to be
~ streaming down his face. The figures were no longer mere figures to him, because he knew they
represented the self-sacrifice of a nation, and thus became symbols of patriotism and devotion.
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The figures representing the work of the women of the United States for the Fourth Liberty
Loan contain a similar appeal. This work was done at a time when many households were facing
illness and death from the epidemic of influenza. Many of our workers were actively engaged
in nursing. More women than ever before were doing their own house work. The casualty lists
from Europe struck home to the hearts of many of our chairmen. Financial returns are astonishingly gratifying, but the real contribution of our women goes too deep to be expressed in the
number or the value of the Bonds sold, for the burden was borne by saddened hearts as well as
weary shoulders. Thus, through sacrifice have the women working for the success of the Liberty
Loans won the right to share in welcoming the peace which is to bless a War Weary World.

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Federal Reserve District Chairmen /or the Fourth
Liberty Loan Campaign
First District
Mrs. F. L. Higginson Boston
Second District
Mrs. John Pratt, New York City
Third District
Mrs. Henry D. Jump, Philadelphia
Fourth District
Mrs. Frank Mulhauser, Cleveland
Fifth District
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Mrs. George J. Seay, Richmond
Sixth District
Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin, Atlanta

Sntntli District
Misa Grace Dixon, Chicago
Eithth District
Misa Florence J. Wade, St. Louis
Ninth District
Mrs. C. A. Severance, St. Paul
T tnth District
Mrs. Geo. W. Fuller, Kansas City
Elntnth District
Mrs. E. B. Reppert, Dallas
Twtlfth District
Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, San Francisco

Fourth Liberty Loan Financial Report

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The recording of the amount of subscriptions taken by the Women's committees in the
various states becomes in each camp11ign an increasingly complicated matter as the idiosyncrasies of different localities emphasize themselves.
In the following report of the Fourth Campaign those states are indicated where no corporation subscriptions were taken by the Woman's Committee, as this division of the field
necessarily limits the amount of money possible for the women to raise. States where the
Voluntary Subscription or Allotment Plans are adopted are also indicated. Throughout the
Middle West these plans have been followed sometimes by an entire state and sometimes by
sporadic counties.
Yoluntary Subscription Plan:
In counties organized under this plan all bonds sold are disposed of in the early days of
the drive, generally on the first or second day. Intensive organization and propaganda are
employed for a fortnight beforehand, both men and women taking part in this work. When
the sale begins booths are opened at stated places where the people of the county may come to
make their Voluntary Subscription, and no bonds are sold by solicitation.
lndioidual Allotmtnt Plan:
In counties organized under this plan a Committee is formed which determines the amount
of money to be subscribed to Liberty Bonds by each resident of the county. Cards are distributed asking for individual information on size of income, amount subscribed to other loans
indebtedness, financial obligations, etc. When this information is compiled, notices are sent
out informing each resident of the county the amount he is expected to subscribe in the coming
issue. He is given an opportunity to protest this amount if it seems to him unfair. There is a
large amount of clerical work in connection with this method of selling the Liberty Loan, which
women and men share: in those states following this plan no Bonds are sold by solicitation.
As no Bonds are sold by solicitation under either of the above methods, it is, of course,
impossible for the Woman's committee to make a financial report on Bonds sold through it.
• In the Seventh and Eighth Districts the Liberty Loan Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank
requested that in counties where either of these plans were in operation the women report as
their share fifty per cent of the amount raised. In the Ninth District the Liberty Loan Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank asked the women to report twenty-five !.'er cent as their
share. In the Twelfth District fiftyJ'er cent was allowed and in the Tenth District fifty per cent.
In the entire Ninth District an the state of Iowa the women's committees have reported as
above. Where a state is not organized uniformly, and sporadic counties follow either of these
plans, a separate record has been kept for them, the other counties reporting as before on the
amount of subscriptions secured through the women's committees.
In some cases especial mention has been made of the influenza epidemic, and the havoc
it wrought in campaign plans. It should be remembered, in reading the following report,
that this scourge was general, no state was free from its ravages during the Fourth Liberty Loan
Campaign.
Another statement which is included in the report of practically every State Chairman is
that the relations between the men's and women's committees, in the beginning of the war so
often bewildering, and sometimes irritating, were, in the Fourth Campaign, of a most satisfactory
nature. These two committees in the same field have proved that complete c0-0peration between
men and women may be both harmonious and helpful, and either one would be loath to dispense
with the services of the other. The National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, rejoicing in
this happy state of affairs, realizes that it is in a large measure due to the tact and efficiency of

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its Federal Reserve Chairmen, who represent the State Chairmen at the Federal Reserve Bank
Liberty Loan Committee meetings.
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An important development of the woman's campaign was an emphasis placed on Thrift and
Economy. In every state this appeal was made through the Woman's Committee, and in
several a carefully planned savings campaign was conducted. In the five New England states
Tithing Boxes were distributed in the shape of cardboard banks, in which to collect coins for
the first payment on a bond; this proved a successful activity, as large numbers of boxes were
turned in.
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In many states the Woman's Committee determined upon a musical campaign, through
community singing, etc. Although the epidemic interfered, this form of emotional appeal was
J. A. F.
found most successful.

France
Miss CLARA Gau.cEN, Chairman. Amount Sold $20,100
The Wo1I1an's Liberty lA>an Committee in France practically limited its efforts to selling
Bonds to American women in France. No effort was made to perfect an organization: the Bonds
were sold through personal solicitation of the chairman.

Alabama
Mas. SoLON JACOBS, Altamont Road, Birmingham, S,at, Chairman
Mas. JoHN D. McNBEL, Stat, Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $30,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ......................... . ..... 10,377,985
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
34½%
CITY QUOTA-Birmingham-(Includi~ Jefferson Co.) .... . ..... . ..... $9,289,750
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 3,509,600
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee............................
38%
M11.1. ANGUS M. TAYLOR, City Chairman
Gl,aninis from tlu Campaiin:
Mrs Jacobs tells one of the most inspiring stories of the soldier quality of the women who
are working for the United States in the Liberty Loans. ''Two women from one of the back
woods counties of Alabama came to the state conference. They could not read or write, but
within their souls burned the fire of patriotism. 'There's a girl in our county who can read and
write for us,' they told Mrs. Jacobs, 'but she don't know people the way we do. Give usthecounty
between us,' and we'll carry it over the top. And although Alabama was in the throes of the
epidemic and their county suffered as much as any other, the two of them carried out their
promise."
At the close of the first week of the Campaign all meetings were discontinued on account of
the epidemic, and the Woman's Committee compiled and had painted several ''Voiceless Speeches"
which were turned in windows and kept Liberty Bonds before the public.
One feature especially noted was the response of the Negro women of the state. Reports
reached headquarters from almost every county telling the same story of fatriotic response.
Attention is particularly called to the results of the house-to-house canvass o the negro women
(among their own race) who obtained in Bonds of small denominations $24,600 from working
women whose daily wage was at the lowest scale.
The Press Chairman of Alabama reports 1854 inches of Woman's Liberty Loan publicity
in -newspap~ers during the Fourth Campaign, estimated value at $1600.
The Woman's Committee made use of a house-to-house canvass Committee in Birmingham,
known as the Rainbow Division, which turned in $1,162,700. $7,250 was raised through women's
organizations, $93,000 from business women,-$1,065,000 from corporations.
Jefferson County reports $88,550 subscribed through Negro Woman's Committee.

·Alaska
Mas. T. J. DONOHUE, Valdez, Stat, Chairman
Mrs. Josephine G. Valentine, Juneau, 1st Division Chairman
Mrs. R. W. J. Reed, Nome, 2nd Division Chairman
Mrs. H. G. Locke, Anchorage, 3rd Division Chairman
Mrs. L. K. Pratt, Fairbanks, 4th Division Chairman
QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ...................................... S 1,500,000
53,450
Amount raised by Woman's Committee...............................
.03%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
Number of Subscriptions through Woman'• Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
377
The full q_uota for,Alaska was subscribed by one corporation. Additional subscriptions
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Arizona
Miss ALICE M. BIRDSALL, 421 Fleming Bid&., Phoenix, State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $11,096,58i
Amount raised by Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S,422,2S0
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
49%
Glta11ings from tht Campaign:
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All subscriptions were taken by solicitation, and it is worthy of note that the women raised
49% of the state quota.
In Gila County, Mrs. Thomas H. Donahue, Chairman, with a quota 0£$922,000, the Woman's
Committee reported $1,386,6S0, or 1SO% of the County's quota.

Arkansas
MRs. C. H. BROUGH, 2107 Arch Street, Little Rock, Statt Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $24,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 7,8S2,2S0
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
33%
(Out of 7S counties in the state, nine counties worked on a percentage basis, being allowed
33½% in some counties and SO% in others. In these counties the women worked on the same
committees with the men and did mos't of the educational work.)
24,624
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9,S07
Number of $SO Bonds .... , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Number of$100 Bonds ............ , ..... , ........... . ... , , . . . . . . . . . .
5,263
Number of$500 Bonds..............................................
750
1,211
Number of $1000 Bonds.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Number of Bonds not itemized.......................................
7,993
Gltanings from tht Campaig11:
The women of Arkansas placed great stress on house-to-house canvass in cities, towns and
in rural districts, thus reaching many small subscribers. In the cities booths were also kept open.
A majority of counties placed majority of subscriptions on stated Volunteer days. In
Arkansas the Woman's Committee took no credit for money so subscribed.

California
MRs. E. R. BRAINERD, Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, Statt Chairman
Miss MARY E. FoY, 400 San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, State Yiu-Chairma11
MRs. MuRRAY WARNER, State Yiu-Chairma11
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan.............................. $272,093,350
Amount credited to Woman's Committee............................. 72,933,453
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
26%
(No corporation subscriptions taken by Woman's Committee)
In 10 out of 58 counties the women worked on a percentage basis, being credited with an
average of 46% of Bonds sold. In these counties soliciting was done by teams consisting equally
Sus. SECUllED
PERCENT
of men and women.
CITY
QUOTA
BY WOMEN
01' QUOTA
CHAIRMAN
Oakland ....... .$ 13,320,350
$6,730,575
43% Mrs. Ormsby
San Francisco... 107,876,500
6,000,000
5. 5% Mrs. Latham McMullen
The City of Los Angeles, Mrs. J. T. Anderson, Chairman, leads the large cities of the country
in the percentage of the city quota raised by the Woman's Committee.
CITY QUOTA-Los Angeles ................................ $42,938,900
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ....................... 26,100,500
60%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Woman's Liberty Loan Committee had a complete precinct organization in this city.
A preparatory survey. of the precincts had been made and lists of the residents made out with
other information so that, as the sales were made, the Woman chairman could check up and
know that all had been reached. There was a Precinct Headquarters in each Precinct where a
list was kept and where each day the reports were handed in and from which at stated times
reports were sent to County Headquarters of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee. There
was an Industrial Committee to canvass all business houses, manufacturing establishments and
an area in the city where there are few or no residences. The Woman's Committee insisted that
all Bonds sold either by this committee or any other committee, or the Banks, should be reported
back to precincts. The Precinct chairman spent a part of each day at the Headquarters, her
Vice-Chairman or secretary representing her when she wae not there. The official collectors
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applications. Many of these Precinct Headquarters were very attractive; all had the same signa white card with red border and blue lettenng giving number and name of precinct. There was
always a display of banners, and all very official looking. This splendid organization proved
very fortunate when the influenza epidemic struck. ''The Liberty Loan organization was in a
panic but the Woman's Liberty Army went over the last trench and drove every thing before them."
Gleanings from the Campaign:
At Palm _S_prings, a small health resort on the edge of the desert in Riverside County, the
quota was $800. The Chairman of the Woman's Committee sold $8000-ten times the quota.
In Del Norte County, the quota, $74,000, $117,250 was subscribed. Every Bond sold
in this county was sold by women.
In Sacramento the women accepted $100,000 as their quota. They actually raised $2,859,730.

Colorado
Mas. HELEN RING RoBINSON, 206 International Trust Bldg., Denver, State Chairman
Mas. HoucE BENNETT, State rice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $37,478,550
Amount raised by Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,039,350
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
21%
CITY QUOTA-Denver ............................................ $17,911,750
Amount raised by Woman's Committee........................ . ...... 3,543,700
19%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
Mas. GEo. B. BEllGEll, City Chairman
The Bonds sold by the Woman's Committee in Denver were sold entirely in a house-to-house
canvass in residential districts, which was the only campaigning possible on account of the
influenza epidemic.
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee in state ...... 53,353
Gleanings from the Campaign:
One worker in Routt County, discovered on the last day of the drive that her town was far
from the top, because of the inability of ranchmen to leave the fields. She harnessed a team and
scoured the country, stopping wherever she saw a man at work. She secured enough Bonds to
put her community well "over the top."
A Recognition Banner was awarded by the Woman's State Committee to the women of
Baca County for securing the highest percentage of gain over the subscriptions turned in during
the Third Campaign. These women raised twelve times the amount they did before.
In Rio Grande County, potatoes are an important factor in Bond buying. To release men
for work in the fields, the women conducted the entire campaign. Besides selling Bonds, many
women helped out also in the fields. One woman captain did her work in the time left from
cooking for 13 men and milking 16 cows. Their quota was met early in the drive.

Connecticut
Mas. MoaGAN G. BULKELEY, Care of Aetna Life Ins. Co. Hartford, State Chairman
MRS. RICHARD BISSELL, Hartford, State Yice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $66,662,600
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ............................... 25,493,650
38%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
(No corporation subscriptions taken by Woman's Committee.)
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee .................... . 67,519
Number $50 Bonds .................................................... . 38,215
Number $100 Bonds ........................ . .......... . ..... . ..... . ... . 20,187
Number $500 Bonds ............................... . ..... . ............. . 2,122
Number $1000 Bonds .................. . ............................... . 5,622
71
Number $5000 Bonds ............ . ..................................... .
Number $10,000 Bonds ................................................ . 1,302
Gleanings from the Campaign:
The Woman's Committee of Meriden, reported that women from eighty church and fraternal
societies did the major part of the Bond selling for their committee. Street gatherings were held
nightly, with moving pictures, music and speeches. The amount secured by them was almost
half the city's allotment.
The New Haven Committee gave a "Two Block Party" with marked success. Two city
blocks were roped off. The asphalt was washed_spotlesa, streamers of electric lights made a
canopy overhead, and a band played for dancing. While the participants were resting on benches
-at ten cents a seat,-speeches were made urging the purchase of Bonds.

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The Committee of Lebanon, reported that two of their number visited one farmer who had
not subscribed to the three previous loans. While talking with him about the necessity of every
one helping the Government, they helped him husk his corn, and were rewarded with a pledge.
Bristol, invented the "Cheer Up" post card. Each person buying a Bond was given a card
to send to a Bristol soldier "over there."
Colchester made the visit of the War Relic Train a special occasion; the entire population
of the town, with flags, band and State Guard, formed on the green and marched to the train.
The town of Brooklyn reported having a Liberty tent in the shadow of the spire of the old church
on the village green, where Israel Putnam used to worship.
On Columbus Day, the West Hartford Committee staged a French Market on the grounds
of the chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee of that town. Announcement was made that
everything would be sold from a pin to a pi~, which proved literally_true, the proceeds of the sale
to be invested in Bonds to helE_the city meet its quota in the coming United War Service Campaign.
At the Liberty Loan Booth, Bonds to the amount of $52,650 were sold.
The personnel of working committees was largely recruited from organizations of women;
in 12 towns these women raised the entire quota.

Delaware
Mu. HEN.11.Y RIDGELY, State St. and The Green, Dover, Stat, Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ................ : ............. $16,013,280
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 9,775,550
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee ......... ·....................
61%
(This does not include the DuPont subscription, 50% of which was placed through the
Woman's Committee.)
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee ...................... 30,192
to 11.7% of the population.
Gleanings from tlu Campaign:
The Woman's Committee at Dover unfurled on the State House the Honor Flag of the
previous loan. As it went up hundreds of little cards bearing the words "Buy Bonds" rained
from its folds.
The Woman's Committee had perfected plans for an elaborate campaign of song and spectacular features. They went over the top on excellent newspaper pubhcity and posters. Delaware was hard hit by the epidemic, yet towns with one-fourth of their population smitten
went over the top
In Wilmington no meetings, even of team captains, were allowed-and no canvass. Many
Liberty Loan women were ill, there was a shortage of nurses and doctors, and the dead lay
unburied, yet the Woman's Committee of Wilmington reports $6,000,000.
Down near Port Penn, where the Government was engaged in erecting a big munition
plant, two New Castle County canvassers stopped a farmer, working in a field, and asked him
to buy a Bond. No, he wouldn't buy a Bond, he had no money for a wasteful government;
he saw enough of the way things were going at Port Penn, and none of his money was going
that way, and anyhow he couldn't buy a Bond because his wife had been sick all summer, and
the colored woman in the kitchen had wasted everything. "There!" exclaimed the canvasser,
"You and all your family were in the house with that woman, all of you watching her, and you
couldn't prevent waste. Now how do you expect Uncle Sam at a time like this to be everywhere and see everything at once? There's bound to be something go a little wrong." The
farmer bought a Bond.
One Kent County farmer bought bonds as his enthusiasm mounted. He was not at all
pleased with the Loan, but as a kind of duty and rather grudgingly, he took a three hundred
dollar Bond. He went to a Liberty Loan meeting and got so stirred that he bought another
four hundred dollars worth, and told a member of the committee that he had put every cent
he had in Bonds, but that if the district didn't go over the top to let him know. "But how can
you do more if you have no more money?" the woman asked, "Well, if it comes to that, Ma'am,
I can sell a hoss."

District of Columbia
M.11.s. HAR.11.IET BLAINE BEALE, The Connecticut, Washington, Chairman
QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ........................ , ............. $27,608,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 3,118,000
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
11%
Women's organizations secured subscriptions for $112,150 worth of Bonds.
Gleanings from tlu Campaign:
The Woman's Committee planned a parade for October 5th, Women in War Work Day,
which had to be called off on account of the influenza epidemic; also all meetings had to be suspended, and as the days went on and the influenza grew worse every plan of the committee

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had to be abandoned. The women, however, m,anned the booths at the hotels, department
stores, and the Union Station, securing $604,400 worth of subscriptions through this source.
One of the plans of the Woman's Committee, which, too, had to be abandoned, was to have
each child in the/ublic schools take home a pledge card to its own home and try and secure a
pledge for a Bon from a member of the child's own family. This would have reached approxunately S0,000 homes in the city, and at the same time would have kept the children from
soliciting on the streets.

Florida

Mu. W. S. JENKINGa, 184S Main Street, Jacksonville, State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $23,000,000
Amount raised b:r Woman's Committee............................... S,441,972
Percentage raise by Woman's Committee.............................
22%
The Third Campaign was the first one in which the women of this state were fully organized
and it is worthy of comment that in the fourth campaign, the second in which their organization
was used, that the women more than doubled their total sales in the Third Campaign.
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee ....................... f!,996
Number ofSS0 Bonda ...................................... . ............. S,346
Number ofSlOO Bonda ................................................... 3,257
Number ofSSOO Bonda..................................... . ............. 490
Number ofSl,000 Bonda.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896
Number of $5,000 Bonda......................... . ..... . ..................
4
Number of $10,000 Bonds.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
Gleanings from tlu Campaign:
In one county two men approached the chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
and asked to be enrolled aa members as they liked the business-like manner in which the work
was conducted by the women. One of the men was a banker.
. In Gadsden County, which was particularly stricken by the epidemic, the woman chairman
took soup to a home, the entire household being ill with the exception of the mother, who came
to the door with a bowl to receive the soup, and her husband's check for $5,000 for a Bond.
At meetings arranged by the Woman's Committee, Haines City subscribed over its quota,
and St. Petersburg subscribed at its meeting $225,000, the most ever raised in any one public
meeting for Bonds in Florida.
The Woman's Liberty Loan Committee County Chairman is also Woman's War Savings
Chairman in each county.

Georgia

Mu. Z. I. FrrLPATRICK., Madison, State Chairman
MRS. W. L. W1LS0N, Savannah, State Yiu-Chairman
MRS. HowARD McCALL, Atlanta, State Yiu-Chairman
Mu. HEllBERT FRANKLIN, Tennville, State Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $5S,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ............................... 18,543,000
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
33½%
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee ..................... 103,700
Number of $50 Bonda .................................................. 57,000
Number ofSlOO Bonda ................................................. 36,300
Number of $500 Bonda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,900
Number of $1,000 Bonds.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,500
Many Bonda of larger denomination were sold.
Gleanings from tlu Campaign:
One woman in Fulton County walked five miles through the pine forests to sell a $50 Bond.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick wired to one of her county chairmen regarding Four Minute Speakers.
It was taken as "Spankers" l,y the telegraph operator. The county at once adopted "Four
Minute Spankers" instead of Four Minute Speakers. The ~hairman advises this turned out a
most successful joke.
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Mu. TERE&A M. GRABAII, Villa Glendalough, Coeur d'Alene, State Chairman
Mu. R. E. McFARLAND, State Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. .$14,670,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.............................. 3,240,635
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee ......................... : .
22%
(In half the counties of the state the Voluntary Subscription Plan was adopted, the women'•
committees being credited with 50% of the amount raised.)
Gleanings from the Campaign:
In almost all counties in the state the services of the women were used to the extent of
saving 50% of the man power of the state. In some counties women wrote every application

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blank. They worked voluntarily in the banks, and in the offices, checking the card system, etc.
Little solicitmg was done in any county and almost the entire quota was raised by volunteer
subscriptions.
Every county in Idaho was organized by women down to the precinct unit, in spite of
enormous distances and poor transportation facilities.

Illinois

Mas. HOWARD T. W1LLSON, State House, Springfield, Statt Chairman
MRS. JACOB BAUR, 110 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, State Pict-Chairman (Northern District)
Mas. JOHN PRINCE, Springfield, Statt /Tice-Chairman (Central District)
Mas. Lours L. EMMERSON, Mt. Vernon, State /Tice-Chairman (Southern District)
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $406,027,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,910,050
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38%
CITY QUOTA-Chicago (Including Cook County) .................... $252,000,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,454,200
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee..........................
35%
Mas. JACOB BAUR, City Chairman
The great majority of counties in Illinois, esl?ecially in the 7th district reported on the 50%
credit basis, with the exception of Cook County, mcludmg Chicago, where women were credited
with 25% of all trades, except those three handled exclusively by women, and 33½'% of subscriptions taken through wards and districts.
District Conference was held, instead of State Conference.
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee outside Cook County. 184,274
No record kept of number of subscriptions taken in Chicago by Woman's
Committee. Total approximate number through both committees.. . . . . 1,500,000
80,000 Women were enrolled on L. L. Committees
Gltanings from the Campaign:
In Chicago an Honor Fla~ was given to clubs rated 100% efficient by the Liberty Loan
Committee. To secure this raung a club must buy Bonds from its corporate funds. The president must buy Bonds and each member must either buy or sell a Bond or both. Fifty one clubs
in Chicago secured this Flag.
The Chairman of the Trades organization of the Men's Committee in Chicago turned over
to the women for canvassing three trades, covering Miscellaneous Women's Wear, Department
Stores, and Furs, Suits, Cloaks and Ladies' Dresses. These trades went "over the top" with a
total of $9,200,700.
The Booths in Hotels, Restaurants, Cafes and Cafeterias, of which there were 77 in Chicago
took in $6,007,350 in subscriptions. Bonds sold by Liberty Loan Committees of Women's Clubs
and Fraternal Societies, exclusive of work done by club women in Hotels, Department Stores,
etc., amounted to $7,543,350.
Sales through school children's propaganda credited to the Woman's Committee in Chicago
amounted to $1,894,100. The actual sales made by school children was $1,560,700.
The Bond selling in the Theatres in Chicago was done by the Stage Women's War Relief
and credited to the Trade Division. During the entire second week of the campaign this solicitation in Theatres was stopped. It was, however, permitted the last week. In the first week
subscriptions to the amount of $1,000,000 were taken and in the third, or last, week the amount
was $700,000.
An important feature of the Chicago Organization was the Special Service Squad-a group
of young women organized to take subscriptions at meetings, rallies, etc: $180,450 was subscribed through this channel.
Booths in banks maintained by the Woman's Committee reported subscriptions for $170,050.
Over 5000 women are listed as Bond sellers in the Chicago office. They are Catalouged as
to name, address, telephone and what department they worked through.

Indiana
MRS. FREDERICK H. McCuLLocH, 722 Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, State Chairman
MRS. FRED W. LAUENSTEIN, Evansville, State Pict-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $127,570,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee............................. 56,743,617
47%
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CITY QUOTA-Indianapolis .......................... . ..... . ...... $ 23,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee..............................
8,000,000
29%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee............................
In 53 counties the Voluntary Subscription Plan was in force. In the remaining 37 counties
separate subscriptions were taken by the men's and women's committees, the women being credited
with1 the actual amount of Bonds sold by them. In Indianapolis Bonds were sold by solicitation.

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Glea11i11gs frOffl the Campaign:
22,020 women worked on the Woman's Liberty Loan Committees during the Fourth Loan.
Perhaps the moat spectacular thing planned by the women of Indiana was a flag parade by
the children, when each_child in the parade carried the flag which ha_d been waving from his
home. It was called the Home Flag Parade. There were flags of every description, many of
them being large and handsome, while others were faded and tom, but each flag represented a
home in that particular community.
In some counties women painted Liberty Loan propaganda on sidewalks, especially this
sentence, ''Women, Buy Liberty Bonds."
The Women's Clubs devoted the first meeting of the year to the Liberty Loan havin~ a
special Liberty Loan speaker, and in many localities kitchen conferences were held, combinmg
food conservation with talks on buying Bonda.
A spectacular feature of the Indiana Campaign was Paint Up Day. At four o'clock Friday
afternoon preceding the opening of the drive was the time set in nearly every city and town in
Indiana for a bucket brigade of women dressed in white coverall aprons, to proceed to the business district and paint the slogan "Buy Liberty Bonds." In some of the towns the women were
escorted to the public square by a band.

Iowa
Mas. WILBUll W. MAllBR, 408 South Street, Waterloo, State Chairman
MllB. GAllDl1'EB. CowLES, Des Moines, State Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUCYfA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $147,389,600
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,821,500
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
:>0%

The Allotment Plan was used and the State Quota was raised in the first three days of the
campaign, the women's committee being credited with one-half the amount raised.
Gleanings from the Campaign:
Woodbury County raised the entire quota in one day. The woman chairman writes, "Fifteen
men and fifteen women were at each of the fifteen voting precincts to help make out the application blanks. People stood in line at seven o'clock in the morning ready to make out their voluntary subscriptions."
Every woman in Davis County received a letter from the county chairman, Mrs. Henry C.
Taylor, urging them to subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan.
In Dea Moines the Woman's Committee made a house-to-house canvass on the first Sunday
in the Campaign, and secured 1210 subscribers to $109,450 worth of Bonds.
Iowa laid special stress on a Speaking Campaign. In every county women speakers addressed
meetings; ai:r women speakers accompanied the War Relic train on its trip through the state.

Kansas
Mas. HENRY WARE ALLEN, Y. W. C. A. Bldg., Wichita, State Chairman
STATE QUCYfA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $67,089,850
Amount credited to Woman's Committee ...................... . ....... 14,427,300
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21½%
In 88 counties subscription• were taken by solicitation and in the remaining 8 cqpntiea the
two committees worked on a percentage basis, the women being credited with 50% of the sales.
In some of these counties the women made actual sales of 50%.
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee ..................... 17,229
Gleanings from the Campaign:
In Wyandotte County, where one-third of the total sales was credited to the women, not a
single Bond was solicited by either men or women and the County's Quota was oversubscribed
one million dollars during the first three days of the campaign, all of it being purely voluntary.
The women carried on an aggressive campaign of education before the opening of the Loan.
In Wichita, which has a population of little less than 63,000 the women made actual sales
to the amount of $1,175,500, selling 1,699 Bonda, many of them for large amounts.

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Kentucky
Mu. DONALD McDONALD, 1~ St. James Court, Louisville, State Cliairmaft
MRS. CECIL CA1tnILL, Lexington, Slilte Yue-Chairmaft
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $56,629,050
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,345,122
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
34%
(There were twelve counties that worked on the percentage basis and 96 counties where
bonds were sold by solicitation.)
Approximate number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee ........... 50,000
CITY QUOTA-Louisville .......................................... $16,714,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee........................ . ...... 6,001,650
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee..................... . .......
35%
Mas. MAasBALL BuLLITT, City Cliairmaft
Gleat1ings from tht Campaigt1:

In Jefferson County, which includes Louisville, the house-to-house canvass was the method
used to raise the quota. Every district in the county, and ward in the city, was assigned to
various teams, some composed of men, some women, all prearranged between the two committees.
Each team pledged to canvass only its own territory. In the county outside of Louisville the
result of the canvass by 18 local chairmen and their workers was 1,663 subscriptions amounting
to $351,400. In the city 1,100 workers did very wonderful work, operatingunder 10 "Generals."
Every man and woman in the district cov~red by the woman's organization was· canvassed,
sometimes visited several times, in order to secure a subscription. 19,769 subscriptions were
turned in amounting to $5,647,250.
The work in Louisville was all accomplished in three or four days-an "intensive drive."
Kentucky is one of the states which includes remote mountain counties; to the two state
conferences the chairmen from these historic -places brought enthusiasm and devotion and added
a new chapter, with the romantic tales of their section of the state, to the record of patriotism
of its citizens. It is interesting to note that the Breathitt County Woman Chairman reports
Sl,300 subscribed.

Louisiana
MllS. LAWRENCE WILLIAMS, 2 Everett Place, New Orleans, State Chairman
Mu. J. H. FULLILOVE, J a., State rice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $47,980,516
Amount raised by Woman's Committee.......................... . .... 7,067,588
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14%
Number of subscribers through Woman's Committee ........ . ..... . ......... 18,794
CITY QUOTA-New Orie.ans ............................ . .......... $28,800,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee........................ . ...... 3,217,750
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee ..................... : . _. . . . . .
10%
MllS. F. P. BRECKENRIDGE, City Chairman
Gleanings from the Campaigt1:

The speaking campaign in Louisiana was organized with two centers, one in the southern
and one in the northern part of the state, with instructions to cover all meetings, and picture
shows. This was done until the influenza put a stop to everything of this sort.
In New Orleans the campaign was carried out by the War Finance Brigade, a military
organization in which one of the Battalions i1 composed of women. The Major is the City
Chairman, who, in accordance with the rules of the organization made no aeparate industrial
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Maine
Mu. Joe11 F. HILL, l84 Beacon Street, Auburn, Stott Choi,,no11
Mas. GaACE A. WING, 11 Turner Street, Auburn, E~tcutir.,t Choi,mo11

STATE QUCYfA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. .$18,472,140
Amount raised by Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,626,100
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee:............................
30%
(No corporation subscriptions taken by the Woman's Committee.)
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee ............. . ........ 17,156
Number of $50 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,470
Number of $100 Bonds . ... ... . ..... . ........................... . ........ 6,671
Number of $500 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
Number of $1 ,000 Bonds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Number of $5,000 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
23
Number of $10,000 Bonds.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Number of $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000 Bonda, 1 each.
It is worthy of note that in 25 towns in the state the Woman's Committee raised more
than the town's quota.
Gleanings from tht Campaign:

Owing to the influenza all Maine plans for publicity in the nature of meetings, parades, etc.,
were abandoned, and throughout the state committees promptly made their plans over, and
put through a house-to-house canvass.
In Portiand, the city was handled just as an election would be, with check lists, ward booths
and application blanka instead of ballots. People were taken by auto from every house and
C!lrried to the polls to subscribe. The women were given three wards of the city as their part
of the work.
In Lewiston and Auburn, with three daya' notice, the women were called upon to make a
house-to-house canvass of the residential districts, for a whirlwind drive on the first day of the
campaign. They had planned previously for booths managed by the various women's organizations, but they changed their plan on request of the men's committee, did the work in a pouring
rain; Auburn went over the top that day and Lewiston a few days later. The women raised
almost one-fourth of the quota of the two cities in the residential districts.
In Bangor, after the drive opened, the Men'• Committee called on the women to canvass
11 wards of the city.
Through the Woman's Committee Publicity Chairman every county offered in the form of
Thrift Stamps four prizes in the schools for essays on the Liberty Loan, and two prizes were
offered in the state for a Liberty Loan poster. All schools were appplied with posters and
auitable literature.

Maryland
Mils. SYDNEY M. CoNE, 2328 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Stott Choi,mo11
Mas. ALEXANDER C. NELSON, Baltimore, Stott Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ........... . .................. $82,180,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee·........................ . ...... 7,428,050
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee............................. .
9%
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee ......... . ............ 17,6lS4
CITY QUCYfA-Baltimore ............................... . .......... $60,950,000
Amount raiaed by Woman's Committee.................... . .......... 3,995,900
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6%
Number subscriptions through Woman's Committee .......................... 8,019
S3,451,150 was raised through organizations of women in this state.

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Massachusetts
Mu. BA.RllETT WEm>BLL, 95 Milk Street, Boston, State Chairman
M.1.s. BAU.ETT Wam>ELL, Ja., Boston, State Yii:e-CAairm•n
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan.............................. $328,637,700
Amount raised by Woman's Committee.............................. 39,047,650
12%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(No corporation subscriptions were t;iken by the Woman'• Committee}
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee .................... . 24,561
Number of $50"Bonds ................................................. . 12,974
Number of $100 Bonds ............ . ............................... . ... . 7,334
987
Number of $500 Bonds ..... . ...................... . ................... .
Number ·of $1000 Bonds ............................................... . 3,266
Massachusetts was one of the most seriously handicapped states as the influenza epidemic
was unusually severe there, and reached its climax at the time of the campaign. No meetings were
allowed until the last week.
SuB.SECURED PE.I.CENT
Can
QuoTA
BY WOMEN
OF C,OUTA
CHAIRMAN
Boston .... $127,580,700
$8,612,500
Mrs. Malcolm Lang
6%
Somerville
2,800,000
1,538,000
Mrs. Geo. C. Brewer
50%
Worcester. 15,043,600
4,625,000
Mrs. Homer Gage
30%

Gleanings from the Campaign:
A poster competition in the schools was among the most successful means of publicity
especially in rural districts. This was illustrated by the town of Tolland, Hampden County,
with a population of 200, and quota of $5200. The seemingly impossible problem was turned
over to the school teacher and her sixteen ~upils who started a poster contest. A rally with a
patriotic program was held, posters were exh1bited,and $6000 in one evening was the result of the
children's call for patriotism.
The poster selected for New England, a rising sun, with the caption "Buy a Liberty Bond
Today" was developed from a cartoon submitted by a fifteen year old girl in a Gloucester high
school.
Sufficiently spectacular to attract enormous crowds, and swell the total subscriptions of the
committee several hundred thousand dollars, was the All America Liberty Fair which was held
on Boston Common by the Committee of Foreign Birth or Descent, the last day of the drive.
Not only did this Fair appeal to the patriotism of the fifteen nationalities represented through
the stirring speeches in different languages, through the music of bands, singing of grand opera
stars, and general singing of National songs, but it appealed to every lover of the picturesque
through the beautifully decorated booths, and the native costumes of the Liberty Loan workers.
The patriotism which the new Americans expressed was inspiring to all who witnessed it, and
was a fitting close to the campaign.
A Barnstable County woman dug 50 bushels of clams at $1.00 a bushel, and purchased
therewith a $50 Liberty Bond.
A street publicity committee for distributing literature was one of the features of the work
in Lawrence.
A novel feature in connection with the opening of outside booths in Boston was the group
of eight tables on Washington Street, between Frankijn and Summer, where traffic was shut off
between twelve and two every day during the last week of the campaign. The decorations,
the march of the workers on Washington Street headed by a band and chorus of well trained
voices; speakers of prominence including the Alpini, drew large crowds.
A bulletin board with striking slogans was a special advertising feature of the committee
in Taunton.
A picturesque rally took place at the large cranberry bog in Plymouth. They had about
thirty colored Portuguese to be paid off; when they came for their money they had the United
States and Portuguese flags flying and a graphophone played the two national airs. More than
a third of them took Bonds.
A great stimulus was the Unconditional Surrender Club, or U. S. Club. The idea spread
like wildfire, and the little pieces of red, white, and blue ribbon of the badge were soon proudly
worn all over the state.
Women of Brookline put "Anti-Flu" booths on the street at trolley transfer stations.
An Honor Flag was awarded to all Women's Organizations and Clubs, 75% of whose membership had bought a Liberty Bond.

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Michigan
MRs. DELPHINE D. ASHBAUGH, 110 West Fort St., Detroit, State Chairman
MRS. CAROLINE C. BRINK, Grand Rapids, State Yiu-Chairman (Lower Peninsula)
MRS. C. C. ANDREWS, Escanaba, State l'ice-Chairman (Upper Peninsula)
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $147,000,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee............................. 61,564,960
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
42%
The Voluntary Subscription and Allotment Plans were used in Michigan, the women being
allowed 50% as their share in the lower Peninsula and 25% in the Upper Peninsula. In thirteen
counties only did women solicit subscriptions.
CITY QUOTA-•Detroit. ...................... . ................. . $62,000,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee ............................ . 20,000,000
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee ........ . ................ .
33%
*Bonds sold under general subscription plan only.
Gleanings from the Campaign:
In counties where the Volunteer system was employed, the women were most active in the
educational work preceding the volunteer days, they assumed the leading active part in all
school eropaganda, directed the activities of the speakers and four-minute men, played hostess
to the Jackie Band and county conferences, and made it their business to see that no public
meeting was held at which the Loan was not represented. They formed their own committees
to do clerical work, and prepared themselves to do duty in the booths on volunteer days. It
was customary to have an eq_ual number of men and women in the booths. If the volunteer days
were followed by a subscription period the women worked with the men in ward canvassing. In
these counties the men divided fifty fifty voluntarily, and were loud in their praise.
In the counties where the Allotment plan was employed, the women were more active in
the clerical work: the cards were divided among the ward captains, who distributed them where
they considered ther. could be best handled, there were no complaints from the women as to
injustice in the distnbution. Up to the present time no man has said that any woman allowed a
man to get away with less than his allotment, and some women persuaded people to oversubscribe their allotment. The educational work in the schools, theatres, public meetings, and the
superintendency of county luncheons for members of the conferences,as well as the Jackie Band
was left almost entirely to them. In these counties the men claimed the women earned their
one-half of everything.
Detroit was divided into 10 sections, under team captains. The woman's team sold $2,000,000 more than any other.
The Woman's Committee did its share of house-to-house canvassing:
(a) Following Volunteer days
(b) Distributing allotment cards
(c) General individual subscriptions

Minnesota
MRS. ARCHIBALD MACLAREN, 914 Lowry Bldg., St. Paul, State Chairman
Mll8. J. L. McCULLOCH, State Yice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. $123,000,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,844,900
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25%
(The allotment system was used entirely throughout the state. The Woman's Committee
being credited with 25% of the amount raised.)
SUB. CREDITED
PERCENT
TO WOMEN,
OF QUOTA
CITY
QUOTA
$4,563,212
St. Paul. ........ . ......... $18,000,000
25%
7,086,700
Minneapolis .......... . .... 27,000,000
25%
2,550,100
Duluth.................... 7,000,000
25%
Gleanings from the Campaign:
Each county in the state had its own Woman'• speaking campaign, with very satisfactory
results.
Forest fires in five counties proved a serious handicap. There was a great loss of life and
property. Many of the subscriptions were cancelled in these counties. Some of the other
counties made extra subscriptions to cover deficit.
The Woman's Committee attended largely to the publicity, educational and clerical work
of the campaign.

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Mississippi
Mils. R. L. McLAulllN, 1905 Clay Street, Vicksburg, Statt Chairman
Mu. G. C. SwEAlllNGEN, 205 Merchants Bank Bldg., Jackson, Statt Pict-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $26,000,000
Amount raised b:r Woman's Committee............................... 7,436,775
Percentage raise by Woman's Committee.............................
28%
Number of subscriptions through Woman-'• Committee ....................... 6,841
Number of S50 Bonds .................................................... 3,669
Number o{SlOO Bonds ................................................... 2,331
Number of S500 Bonda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Number o{Sl,000 Bonda .................................................. 517
County chairmen held meetings at rural school houses.

Missouri
Mu. TBEODOllE BENOIST, 1695 Railway Exchange Bank Bldg., St, Louis, Statt Chairman
Mils. W. T. DONOVAN, Statt Yict-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. $163,977,950
Amount raised by Woman's Committee.............................. 50,256,000
30.6%
Per'centage raised by Woman's Committee............................
CI'IY QUOTA-St. Louis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S78,000,000
Amount raised b:r Woman's Committee.................... . ..... . ... 25,786,750
33¾%
Percentage raise by Woman's Committee............................
Number of Subscriptions through Woman'• Committee................
212,424
Number o{S50 Bonds... .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
29,073
Number of SlOO Bonda..................... . ......................
17,695
Number of S500 Bonda ................ . ...... . ..... . ...... . .. : . . . . .
1,843
Number ofSl,000 Bonds.. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . .
2,320
Number of Bonds not itemized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
161,483
Woman's Committee--29 District Chairmen, 114 County chairmen, 1,700 town or township chairmen, and 30,000 women working in campaign irrespective of St. Louis, Kansas City
and St. Joseph organization.
State conferences in Missouri were called jointly by men and women, and attended by
both organizations.
Gltanings from tht Campaign:
The St. Louis campaign was opened by a Woman's Committee mass meeting of. men and
women ward and precinct chairmen.
Cape Girardeau has an organization called the Minute Women. Thia consists of a group of
two hundred and eleven wpmen who hold themselves in readiness to respond to call on a minute's
notice. They are divided into units; automobile, speakers, clerical, typists, decorating, telephone and poster-making. The success of the campaign in Cape Girardeau is largely attributed to this splendid organization.
Livingston County boasts a unique organization called the "Nickel Club." It is comP.osed
of school children who bring five cents a day, and in the poorer communities where the children
have no money, they sell eggs and collect Junk to sell. The money is then brought to school
and Liberty Bonds bought, which are to be given as an endowment fund for a home for orphans
of American soldiers and sailors.
Columbus opened the campaign with a large parade, Saturday, September 27th, Volunteer
Dar, Over .three thousand people took part in the procession, including students from the
University, Stephens and Christian Colleges. The feature most distinct1ve was achieved by
the young women of Christian College. These girls were dressed exactly alike in white with
reel, white, and blue Liberty caps and banners. They marched sixteen abreast, and as they
marched they lifted their voices in a grand chorus ofLiberty Loan songs, "Buy a Bond," and
"For Your Boy and My Boy" striking the first note of Liberty Loan music in Boone County.
Subscription, were offered faster than the Bond salesman could write them.
Meetings were held in practically every school house in the state. The children had debatina contests between rival teams of four minute speakers (children), and all learned and sang
the Liberty songs. Many schools organized bands of carol singers, who went through the
villages at night singing before the different private homes and wherever groups of people were
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The fi.nt week of the campaign in Kansas City and in fact the entire Tenth Federal Reserve
District was given over to advertising. Not a Bond waa sold during that time. The second
week 9f the campaign started with mass meetings and parades. During the week of the canvass,
daily luncheons were held at which flags were awarded each day to the ward chairman having
the largest number of subscription• for. that day, and also to the one having the largest total.
At the end of the campaign the flags remained m the possession of the ward having the largest
cumulative totals. To theae luncheons the badge of admission was the arm band adopted by
the National Liberty Loan Committee. The women of Kanaas City also had the wards in the
residential district and were aided by the flying squadron and the submarine squadron composed
of men who solicited in certain districts, munition factories, and other industrial plants where
it was deemed unadvisable for the }Vomen to take subscriptions. However, any subscriptions
that they obtained were credited to the women.
The campaign in St. Louis, after having made a splendid start came practically to a standstill after the influenza put a ban on· activities. On Monday morning, October 14th, when
people arrived in the business district they found literally a crimson town. Every window,
every lamp-post bore enormous signs on a bright red background with white letters two feet
long bearing the words, "HELP-ST. LOUIS OVER THE TOP." Every crossing had painted
on the asphalt of the street, "HELP-ST. LOUIS OVER THE TOP." Every mail, express,
delivery wagon, and automobile bore the same legend, every traffic p_oliceman waved his signals
with cardboard signs beseeching people to "HELP-ST. LOUIS OVER THE TOP." Twelve
bands patrolled the streets playing the Liberty Loan music, accompanied by salesmen who
stopped people passing and got subscriptions. On Fridar,, Oct. 18th, St. Louis being still behind,
new red signs appeared with the words "BUY AGAIN.' Saturday, October 19th, the exploding of bombs announced the glad tidings that St. Louis had subscribed her quota. The women
had the wards in the entire residential district and did splendid work.
Liberty Loan Sunday was very generally observed. Livingston County had its ministers
preach patriotic sermons. The people were notified to bring their lunch in baskets. After the
church services, the whole county sat down to a mammoth basket picnic. Liberty Loan songs
were sung by women choral singers, a striking address was made, and subscriptions taken on
the spot for Liberty Bonds.
.
The Woman's Committee in. St. Joseph disposed of one-half the Bonds subscribed.

Montana
Mas. W.W. McDowELL, 1 So. Excelsior Ave., Butte, Stau Chariman
Mas. F. S. Luu, 1011 Gerald Avenue, Missoula, State /lice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth tiberty Loan ............................... $16,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 4,989,590
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.......................... . ..
31%

Nebraska

Mu. A.G. PETEii.SON, 1217 Ninth Street, Aurora, State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... S69,356,250
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............... . ............... 8,759,750
12½%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee............... . .... . ........

New Jersey

Mas. H. 0. W1TTPEN, Wiss Bldg., 671 Broad St., Newark, State Chairman
Miss ANNE Mc!LLVAINE, 154 W. State Street, Trenton, Associate State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $182,694,970
Amounted raised through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,340,325
21%
Percentage raised through Woman's Committee............ ... .... . ...
134,115
Number of Subecriptions through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CITY QUOTA-Jersey City ........................................ $21,000,000
Amount raised through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4,490,350
21½%
Percentage raised through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miss BESSIE PorE, City Chairman
CITY QUOTA-Newark ................................... . ....... $38,700,000
Amount raised through Woman's Committee .......................... 2,035,100
Percentage raised through Woman's Committee........................
5%
Mas. GEo. BAaKl!II., City Chairman-Conference held in Newark
Amount subscribed through Organizations of Women ...................... $212,950
The Woman's Committees for counties in 3rd District report an increase of 60% over the
3rd campaign. No meetings could be held, and all work was clone through house-to-house doorstep visiting, and telephone calls.

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Nevada
Mu. S. H. BzuoJt.D, 719 Humboldt Street, Reno, Sutt Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan. ....... . .. . .... .. . ........ ... . $S,033,8S0
Amount credited to Woman'• Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,463,6S0
48. 9%
Percentage credited to Woman'• Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Distances in the state, and the cost of railroad fare, precluded calling a State Conference.
Gl,anings from tht Campaign:
In Washoe County, of which Reno is the county seat, the-women worked under the direction
of the Men's Committee, and the men were so pleased with the results of the work done that
they volunteered to credit them with half the subscriptions obtained.
In Tonopah, the Men's Committee asked the Woman's Committee to take over the entire
soliciting of Bonds, as their experience with the Woman's Committee in the Third Loan had
convinced them that the women were amply able to handle it themselves and they gave the
women the credit for the entire sum raised 1n Nye County, which was $453,3S0.
The entire expense for putting over the women's share of the Loan, as given above, did not
exceed $17S.OO.

New Hampshire
Mu. WM. H. ScHOFIELD, 51 Main Street, Peterborough, Stall Chairman
Mu. JAMES FAllNBWORTH, Nashua, Stat, Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .. . .. .. ........ ..... .. ... ... . . . $20,372,800
Amount raised by Woman's Committee .. . .. .. . .. ... . . .. .. . ... . . .. ... . 4,098,400
20.1%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee. . .... .. . . ... . .. . .. .. . .......
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,692
Number of $SO Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,413
Number of $100 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,963
783
Number of $SOO Bonds... ..... . .... . .. .. . . . . . .. . . ... . . . ... .. .. . . ... . ...
Sl2
Number of $1000 Bonds.. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S
Number of $5000 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14
Number of $10,000 Bonds. ... . . . .... ... .. ........... . . . . .... . . .... .. . . . .
3
...
Number of $20,000 Bonds.. . . .. .. .... . . . . ........ . .... . . ... ... . . .....
1
Number of $2S,OOO Bonds ...... . . :. .. ... . . . .............. . ..... .... .. . . .
1
Number of $40,000 Bonds. . ...... . ..... ... . ............. ... . . ... . . . . . .. .
1
.
.
.
.
Number of $SO,OOO Bonda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$1,S86,950-denominations not specified
(No corporation Subscriptions taken by Woman's Committee)
Women'• Organizations-$1,750
Gltanings from tht Campaiin:
Organization for the Fourth Loan began in New Hampshire on August 16th, the day after
the final payment in the Third Loan.
Ten $1000 Bonds, autographed by President Wilson, were sold by Mrs. Henry W. Keys,
wife of the Governor, herself a member of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee.
One of the big publicity assets of the campaign was the Liberty loan Poster Exhibit arranged
by the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee. There were French, English, Canadian, Italian
and Algerian posters, besides a practicallr complete set of American posters. These were displayed at the large autumn meeting of the Colonial Dames Society and the Federaiion of Women's
Clubs, as well as at the Liberty Loan Mass Meeting of the Men's and Women's Committees.
Later this exhibit was displayed, by request, at a department store in Manchester, the largest
in the state, attracting many visitors and most favorable newspaper comment.
Mrs. Schofield sent out a special appeal to all women whose "next of kin" were in their
country's service. This appeal was printed on the cover of the "First Service Star" which was
r,rinted for national use by the National Committee. This effective appeal was as follows:
'Will you, whose 'next of kin' arc in our country's service, take a $SO Bond today for the sake
of each of your boys who has gone to fight for us? If you have bought other Bonds, buy one
more for his sake,-and pay for it outright, or on the installment plan of $1 a week. Today I
have bought two such Bonda for my boys' aake."

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New Mexico
MllS. HowAllD HUEY, Box 43, Santa Fe, State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. .$5,302,545
Amount raised through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,678,080
Percentage raised through Woman's Committee.........................
31½%
Gleanings from the Campaign:

In Quay County the Woman's Committee obtained practically three-fourths of the entire
amount subscribed and the county quota was almost doubled. The men's committee in that
cou'n:ty furnished bands and automobiles and escorted the women about the county and women
made the appeals and took the subscription,.
In Dona Ana County the chairman of the Woman's Committee took over the work of the
Chairman of the men's committee, who was ill with influenza, and under her direction the county
raised three times its quota.
Ten thousand dodgers, urging the buying of Bonds, were printed in Spanish, for the use of
the Spanish-American population.
Several chairmen reported that the spirit which prevailed during the Fourth Loan was
very much better than during the Third Loan. In counties where drought had killed the cattle
and cut down the incomes of ranchmen and stockmen, many men took Bonds, knowing they
would have to leave their homes and find work in towns to pay for them.
The women were particularly successful in placing Bonds of small denominations. They
devoted much of tli.eir attention to reaching women in isolated places.
The campaign in New Mexico was made largely by use of automobiles, which were donated;
the money allotted the Woman's Committee for expenses is practically untouched.

New York
MllS. JOHN PuTT, 120 Broadway, New York City, State Chairman
Mils. W1LLAllD STllAIGHT, State /lice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................ $1,637,929,900
Amount raised through Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,938,600
Percentage raised through Woman's Committee......................
10%
(No corporation subscriptions taken by Woman's Committee.)
SUB, SECURED
PERCENT
CITY
QUOTA
BY WOMEN
OF QUOTA
CHAlllMAN
Buffalo ......... $ 61,648,400
$ 7,038,600
· ll'.!9
Mrs. Theodore M. Pomeroy
94,303,600
1"/o
Mrs. Courtland Barnes
New York City . 1,322,473,200
Rochester......
31,100,200
950,450
3%
Mrs. Frank P. Van Hoesen
The Woman's Committee report taking 452,105 subscriptions and that the name and address
of every subscriber is listed at headquarters. Of this number not more than 1,200 were subscribers in excess of $1,000 and not more than 20,000 were subscribed in amounts of $500
and over. This is proof conclusive of reaching the small investor to an extraordinary extent.
Outside of New York City the Woman's Committee secured 23% of the New York state
quota. There were two counties worked on percentage basis, one allowed the Woman's Committee 50% and the other 33½%,
Gleanings from the Campaign:

Women's organizations in New York City subscribed $38,231,490.
A camouflaged Fifth Avenue bus in charge of the Motor Corps of America paraded the
streets of New York City for the duration of the Loan and secured subscriptions to the amount
·
of $239,000.
The Foreign Language Division of the Woman's Committee of New York City reported
$2,857,800 subscribed. The Booth Committee reports, $44,836,200 subscribed. The Theatre
Committee of the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx report $26,892,900 subscribed.
The Liberty Theatre maintained by the Stage Woman's War Relief Association on the
steps of the Public Library, in New York City, on Fifth Avenue at Forty-first Street, kept a
continuous performance of speeches and music going daily from eleven o'clock until six o'clock,
for the duration of the Liberty Loan campaign and secured subscriptions for $2,351,800 worth
of Bonds. It would be impossible to estimate the publicity value of this brilliant enterprise,
which reached thousands of people daily and was the crowning point of the carnival that was
Fifth Avenue during the Fourth Liberty Loan.
It is estimated that there were 7,000 women working on Woman's Liberty Loan Committees
in New York state, exclusive of the thousands of volunteen_ helping in the campaign.

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North Carolina
Mas. R.H. LATHAM, 735 Summit Street, Winston-Salem, State Ch•irmon
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $39,900,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,130,(i()()
Percentage raised by Woman's Committees............................
35%
(Two counties worked on a percentage baais with the Men's Committee being credited
with 50% of the amount raised.)
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee .............. . . ...... 28,198
Meo and women held conferences together.
Gleanings f,om tht Campaign:
In Granville County trucks equippea with pianos and singers went from village to village
through the county holding commumty "sings" and selling Bonda. Heralds went before with
bugles calling the people "to the colors." Thia proved very effective,and the county's quota
was subscribed in one day.
·
' In Franklin County the influeiu:a epidemic was so severe that the Liberty Loan Committee
abandoned the plan for a house-to-house canvass. The Woman's Committee, feeling that
thia work was necessary, took it in hand, and raised the county's quota.
Stories are numerous where women in the mountain countiea went in Fords and on horse
back to reach meetings of people and to make the personal appeal. Many hardships were
encountered,and often it was necessary to apeeal for help to pull the car out of the mud, but they
were not daunted and it is true that the spirit of loyal determination shown by these women
has quickened the patriotism of the people of the mountains.
King's Daughters, the only organization of women reporting Bond sales, reported
$415,750 secured in subscriptions.

North Dakota
Mias MINKIE N1ELSOK, Court House, Valley City, State Chairman
Mas. W. A. MclNTYaE, Grand Forks, Stat, Yict-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan............................. , .$20,000,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000,000
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25%
(The Allotment Plan was used and the Woman's Committee was credited
with one-fourth of the amount raised.)
Gleanings /,om th, Campaign:
·
In McLean County, the northern 1>_art of which is in the Bartholdi Indian Reservation,
Miss Lee Satterlund of Washburn sold Bonda to fifty Indian women. Among the purchasers
were Mary Dog Fast and Edna Wounded Face.

Ohio
Mas. FuN1t Muwusaa, 1560 Mistletoe Drive, Cleveland, Stat, Chairman
MIBB Hn.»EGABJ>B ANGELL, State rice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .......................... • ... $327,407,750
Amount raised by Woman's Committee.............................. 35,501,975
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee............................
11%
Two counties worked on percentage basis, being credited with 33¼%
in one county, and 12½% in the other.
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee .................... . 44,861
Number of $50 Bonds ........................................ . . ....... . 18,322
Number of $100 Bonds ............... .. ..... . ........... . ............. . 14,186
Number of $500 Bonds ............................. . ........... . ...... . 2,050
Number of $1000 Bonda ............................................... . 2,788
SUB.SECURED PERCENT
CHAIRMAN
C1n
QuoTA
BY WoMEN OF QUOTA
Mrs. A. C. Shinkle
1,9,977,300
26%
Cincinnati S 38,372,750
Mrs. Frank C. Martin
2,148,300
Columbus. 12,351,100
17%
7,200,300
Mrs. E. C. T. Miller
Cleveland. 112,100,950
6½%

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Gl1a,ai111s from tlu Campaii11:
A special feature of the campaign was a replica of Mount Vernon on the Public Square in
Cleveland for Bond Sales Head_quarters. An old time euge coach with postillion and four horses
carrying George and Martha Washington and Betsy Ro88 to Mount Vernon, attracted much
attention.
In Dayton, the use of a gold tag by the Womal},'B Committee for a last day "Buy Another
·
Bond" campaign wa1 1ucce1aful.
An automobile tour of the "Liberty Loan Limited" was effective in the rural sections of
Cuyahoga County.
When the influenza put a stop to all meetings, county-wide telephone campaigns were
instituted and proved a great success.

Oklahoma
Da. LEILA E. A11Duws, 405 Colcord Bldg., Oklahoma City, Statt Chairman
Mas. W. C. CAUDILL, Durant, Stat, Yie1-Chau-ma11
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan............................... $43,468,295
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,009,600
22%
Percentage credited to.Woman's Committee...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Oregon
Mas. SnAB EvA11s, 408 Platt Bldg., P9rtland, Stat, Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $33,708,128
Amount credited to Woman'• Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,127,450
38%
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee...........................
In some counties of the state the Allotment Plan was used.
CITY QUOTA-Portland ........................................... $18,323,421
Amount.credited to Woman's Committee.............................. 5,848..z150
Percentage credited to Woman'• Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
J2%
Amount subscribed through Organizations of Women ................... $1,176,850

Gl,a11inis from tht Ca"'paign:
In Multnomah County, which includes Portland, the Woman Chairman of the Foreign
Language group did such excellent work, and was so succeasful in selling Bonds to these people
that the Men'• Committee asked her to take entire charge of that branch of the campaign for
them.
On September 21st, the entire state participated in a "Mothers Parade", which was the
special feature of the campaign. Only mothers, wives, sisters and children of those in service
were eligible. It was estimated that in Portland 5000 were in line, 1200 being mothers, headed
by 18 Gold Star Mothers. It was a great,silent appeal which passed through the crowded streets.
Two weeks before the parade women were requested through the newspapers, pulpits, schools,
clubs, etc., to participate in the parade and to register at headquarters. In this way over 1200
names of women were procured who can be called on to assist in another campaign.
Women working on men's teams were allowed to credit subscriptions so secured to Woman's
Committee. Over a thousand were so employed in Portland.

Pennsylvania
Ma.s. J. 0. MILLER, 7109 Jenkins Arcade, Pittsburgh, Stall Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. $703,567,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ............... : .............. 226,141,061
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
32%
1,001,039
Number of subscriptions through Woman'• Committee... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CITY QUO'fA-Pittsburgb (Including Allegheny County) ............. $163,452,750
Amount raised by Woman's Committee.............................. 66,680,300
40%
Percentage raised by Woman'• Committee............................

Mu.

Cua.BlfCB RB1'8BAW,

Chairman

CITY QUO'fA-Philadelpbia (Including Philadelphia County) ......... $259,198,000
Amount raised bd Woman's Committee.............................. 71,215,170
27%
Percentage.raise by Woman's Committee............................
Gleanings from Pittsburgh Campaign:

In Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, 12,000 women volunteered their services
for the Fourth Campaign. They wrote 150,000 application, in spite of the prevalence of the
influenza and the quarantine, which stopped all meetings. They took subscriptions for over
sixty-six million dollars at a cost of one-hundredth of one percent.
The Woman's Committee had charge of all the booths, which numbered fifty, and through
which $32,926,350 worth of subscriptions were taken.
The schools were entirely under the Woman's Committee securing 18,528 subscriptions
amounting to $3,686,700. An instance of the splendid work done by the schools is the record
of the Peabody High School. With a total enrollment of 1,555, 98% of the enrollment, or
1,522 pupils sold at least one Bond.
The Boy Scouts working under the direction of their own organization and reporting to
the Woman's Committee secured subscriptions for $4,318,400 worth of Bonds.
On the first day of the campaign the Woman's Committee in Pittsburg_h served what was
called a Trench Breakfast, on a short street back of their offices, called William Penn Way,
the Y. W. C. A. taking char~e of the service. Twelve hundred women were seated at this
out-door breakfast. At one side was an orchestra and a quartette, at each place was a song
sheet with the words of all the popular war songs. After the meal was served there were alternate periods of singing and speaking. As it would have been impossible for one speaker to have
been heard by so vast a throng, for many additional onlookers had gathered, there were 20
speakers, all working at once, each one covering two divisions. Each speech was confined to
five minutes and at the end of such a period the speakers changed places, so that for half an hour
they kept up a steady run of short, snappy talks. At the end of this time Mr. Daniels was due
to arrive, but his tram was delayed and there was a wait of considerable length, but the women
were patient, though they had been served at one o'clock and Mr. Daniels did not arrive until
four o'clock. Upon his arrival he was introduced by the <;hairman of the Woman's Committee,
and gave a stirring speech to the women. This eager and enthusiastic gathering was an auspicious beginning for the campaign.
Several days later the Woman's Committee celebrated their first special day; this was
called Hero Day, celebrating the American heroes who had gone over to the other side. A
booth was named after every celebrated general. All were successful, but the one that did the
record business was the Memorial Booth; there on a large tablet were listed all the names of
the boys from Allegheny County who had fallen in France. Every woman who asked for a
subscription at that booth was one who had given her boy on the field of battle to her ·country.
The result of this appeal was $5,137,250 worth of subscriptions.
The next special feature was Allied Day, which waa extremely unique and attractive.
Eighteen trucks were decorated as booths and travelled over the city streets; each of these
booths represented an Allied country and ran the whole gamut from the United States to China.
All these booths specialized in the districts where the people of their own nationality lived and
all reaped a good harvest. This not only aroused the enthusiasm of the various allied citizens,
but attracted great attention and gave the Woman's Committee great publicity, securing
$3,481,100 worth of subscriptions.
Urged on by the necessity of making P.eople subscribe again for Bonds the Woman's Committee decided to try what was called a 'Life Saver." They published widely in the papers
that after a certain date Liberty Loan buttons would be no protection a~ainst being solicited
for Bonds, that the only people who would not be solicited were those weanng a Life Tag. They
then filled the streets with their solicitors. This was so successful that a rather humorous
incident occurred. The men's committee came, saying that they could sell no more Bonds
unless the Woman's Committee allowed them also to use the Life Line. The women at first
demurred as it had been their idea, but the men were so insistent, even offering to pay all the
bills for the women's as well as their own, that they finally gave in, and in a twinkling every
good citizen of Pittsburgh wore a Life Line in his coat. In connection with this Life Line, it is
interesting to know that the Woman's Committee received permission from the street car companies for their solicitors to board the cars and sell Bonds. This was the first time such permission had been given in Pittsburgh.

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Rhode Island
MRs. WALTER PECK, 113 Waterman Street, Providence, State Chairma11
MRs. WILLIAM L. HODGMAN, State Yice-Chairma11
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $50,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 4,726,850
9.45%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
(No corporation Subscriptions taken by Woman's Committee)
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11,526
CITY QUOTA-Providence ....................................... .. $30,000,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee........................ . ...... 2,265,650
7.5%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
Women's organizations had charge of the booths and se';Ured. .
$384,200
Gleanings from the Campaign:

In Narragansett the Woman's Committee raised 153% of the quota.

South Dakota
MRs. ELLWOOD PERISHO, State College, Brookings, State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $36,815,850
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.............................. 9,202,962
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25%
31,053
Number of women subscribing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchasing $3,903,450 worth of Bonds
(The Allotment Plan was used the women being credited with 25% of
the subscriptions taken)
Gleanings from the Campaign:

Publicity was done almost entirely through the newspapers. The State Chairman had a
list of all the papers in the state, and the dailies which were taken in the state, and to each of
these papers articles with local coloring were sent.
County Chairman made use of the talent of the school children and had them make posters.
One County Chairman sent a card to every man in the county suggesting that bis wife
would rather have a Liberty Bond for a Christmas gift than any other present.
22% of the women in the state are Bond holders.
In one township every inhabitant, but seven, man, woman, and child, bought a Bond.
The campaign in South Dakota was practically over in one day.

South Carolina
MRS. F. S. MUNSELL, 1824 Green Street, Columbia, State Chairman
Mas. GEORGE L. BAKER, State rice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $32,450,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ............................... 10,286,450
31%
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
(In three counties the women worked on a percentage basis being
credited with 50% of the subscriptions)
Number of Subscriptions in state ........................................ . 77,619
Number of Subscriptions through Woman's Committee .................... . 41,664
Number $50 Bonds .................................................... . 15,661
Number $100 Bonds .................................................... . 9,876
Number $500 Bonds ........ . ................................... . ...... . 2,237
Number $1000 Bonds ....... . ....................... . ......... . ........ . 1,242
Gleanings from the Campaign:

The City of Columbia was so well organized and thoroughly canvassed that 2000 °more
subscriptions were sold than there were names in the 1918 city directory.
Decorated automobiles carrying speakers to rural districts, proved a successful campaign
activity.
In Berkely County the Men's Committee turned the campaign entirely over to the women.

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Tennessee
Mas. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Comrr>~rcial Bank Bldg., Memphis, Statt Chairman
Mrs. John Aust, Nashville, Chairman Zone 1
Mrs. Milton Ochs, Chattanooga, Chairman Zone 2
Mn. S. J. Ellis, Memphis, Chairman Zone 3
Mrs. J. D. Varnell, Knoxville, Chairman Zone 4
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... 52,408,000
Amount raised by Woman's Committee ............................... 25,273,525
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
47%
Zone conferences, instead of a state conference, were held, called jointly
by men and women
In the 4th Campaign in many counties in Tennessee the Women's Committee·arranged
with the men for a 50% credit. •
Gleanings from tht Campaign:
Agricultural Campaign was conducted by organized house-to-house canvass. The women
travelling in buggies and on horseback where machines could not go. The State Chairman gave
special attention to the agricultural districts, talking to county courts on first Mondays during
the entire summer. Negroes organized and did splendid work without outside help.
Nashville women conducted a wonderful campaign, and the feature of it was street booths,
over twenty in number. From morning until eleven at night those booths were open and operated by leading women. All of the leading young girls in town gave their entire time to these
and special amusement programs were given during the day and evening at these booths. The
programs were invariably printed in the papers the day before. The street looked like a big
carniv.al; everything else in Nashville was closed on account of influenza, but the women saw
their campaign through. The result was the Nashville women sold actually 64% of the city's
quota.
The publicity chairman in Nashville, for both men and women, was a member of the Woman's
organization.
In Knoxville and Nashville brilliant night parades were an activity of the Woman's Committee.

Texas
MRS. MINNIE F1s&Ell CUNNINGHAM, 629 Littlefield Bldg., Austin, Statt Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. $107,784,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee........... . . .... . ........... 30,178,800
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27%
Gleanings from th,.Campaign:
In Harrison county a band of Liberty Loan entertainers, composed of.aingers and speakers,
visited the various towns.
In Maverick county, after four days work, the Woman's Committee alone took the county
"over the top."
There are 253 counties in the state. Some of these counties have no railroads, one or two
have not a post office, and at least one has not a single bank. In all the counties the women
worked for the Loan, although many workers suffered grievous losses from the epidemic.

Two Letters from a County Chairman
LETTER FROM UPTON COUNTY, TEXAS, COUNTY CHAIRMAN, TO
TEXAS STATE CHAIRMAN
Letter Nd. 1.
Rankin, Texas, September 8, 1918.
Mils. MINNIE CUNNINGHAM,
Galveston, Texas.
Dear Mrs. Cunningham:
Mrs. Mary Bell at your service. Am doing all I can in my small sphere to win the war
No, I don't feel it is "Hot and dusty" for I am a ranch woman, running sheep and cattle
with the assistance of my bor and girl. So you see I am tempered to the heat, dust, and cold.
I herd sheep, run cattle, and incidentally now have undertaken to help run the Hun. Expect to
make as good success at that as I have in running other beasts.
Live ten miles from town, but am also teaching a little music class in our only school in the
county. Despite the severe drought, we have had to endure, our little handful of people
have come nobly up, and we will always be ready to do all that can be done. Just command me
Respectfully,

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Letter No. 2.

Rankin, Texas, October 14, 1918.
Dear Mrs. Cunningham:
Don't think the women are not doiiig all they can in this part of the world. We haven't
any but true and tried workers. Some arc out helping with sheep, driving the chuck wagon,
· and cooking for husbands. Some make cow hands, riding and working hard all day, throwtheir
little roll of beddin~ off the chuck wagon, on the ground at night, and "Fall in" as the boys say.
I see so much 1n every paper about how much the women are doing, but think the women
out here work under more trying circumstances than they do most anywhere else. I wonder
what some would do if they had to stay out, just two women, with two Mexican herders and a
flock of sheep, and a herd of cattle to hold and care for four days and nights at a time, and 50
miles from any communication.
You sec we are not afraid of any kind of work, and if we women could get two Huns each, a
good horse and saddle, and a good gun, the men could go on about their business, and we would
at least make him work till he wouldn't be able to kill babies. Yours for service,

Utah
Mas. W. MoNT FEaaY, 164 E. South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, State Chairman
Mas, EMALIIIE B. WELLS, State l'ice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $19,821,850
Amount credited to Woman's Committee........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,307,000
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee.................
..
31%
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee. . . . . . .
. .... .. ..... 31,846
State conference of men and women held in Salt Lake City.
Gleanings from tlll Campaign:
A Woman's Bank was a special feature of the campaign in Salt Lake City. It was of the
portable variety, and was erected during the night, upon a prominent business corner, being
placed directly upon the pavement. The building was painted white, with a broad porch in
front, and a large sign on top to designate its purpose. The building was donated for the campaign, no expense being incurred by the Committee. Eac\i day a special entertainment was
featured upon the porch, and after a crowd had been attracted, a strong appeal was made by
one of the four minute men. This "Bungalow Bank" helped materially to swell the totals of
the women's committee, and was one of the most popular features of the campaign.
The National League for Woman's Service conducted a vigorous and intelligent campaign.
At the State Fair, which was held in Salt Lake City during the drive, this league did especially
gt>od work. Not only were many Bonds sold at that time, but an educational campaign was
conducted among the rural visitors which resulted in much good later.
The ·Women's Clubs committee also conducted a state campaign. Women's Clubs contributed three times the amount subscribed for the Third Loan-the women of the labor organizations making a special effort and conducting a booth at the Labor Temple. Many women's
organizations reported one hundred per cent returns.
The churches in the state did splendid work; a rivalry between denominations developed
which brought in amazing returns.

Vermont
Mas. E. C. SM1m, 121 Congress Street, St. Albans, Stat, Chairman
Mas. GEORGE H. SMILIE, Montpelier, Stat, Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .............................. $13,202,300
Amount raised by Woman's Committee............................... 3,534,100
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee.............................
26%
(No corporation subscriptions taken by Woman's Committee.)
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee ....................... 6,332
State Conference held in St. Albans.
Gltaning.r from tht Campaign:
Each county worked out special feature, for ad~ertising the Loan. In Rutland an original
idea was the Liberty Cars. Touring cars were named for the famous generals of the Allied
Armies. These cars ran competition sales and caused a great deal of enthusiasm besides selling
a large number of Bonds. Special attention was paid to the schools and the work done there
was not only patriotic but educational in teaching thrift and investment.
Although there was a thoroughly organized speakers' campaign, with good speakers appointed for the different localities most of the rallies had to be cancelled because of the influen:&a.

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Virginia

MRS. Joex L. HAGAN, 2Sf Jefferson Street, Danville, Statt Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ................. ......... . . . . $63,980,000
Amount raised through Woman's Committee. . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,22f,900
331%
Percentage raised through Woman's Committee............... . ... . .. ..
Number of subscriptions through Woman's Committee ........ . ... . . .. .. .. . . 55,442
State conference held in Lynchburg.
Gltanings from the Campaign:
Almost all special features had to be dispensed with on account of the influenza epidemic.
In almost every county and town, meetings were forbidden as well as house-to-house canvass.
Business was suspended and nursing the sick, or burying the dead became the chief occupation.
The situation as far as our campaign was concerned could hardly have appeared more desperate.
Chairman begged and pleaded for an enension of time to carry out their quotas on time. It
was often necessary to do this entirely by phone in spite of a demoralized service, but they went
to it and made a great fight.
A great number of'people in outlying counties invested for the first time, and this clasa
particularly were reached by the women.

Washington
M1ts. 0vERTOM G. ELLIS, 811 North G. St., Tacoma, State Chairman
MRS. W. J. PATTEllSOM, Aberdeen, Stat, Yice-Chai,man
MRS. N. S. McCu.wv, Snohomish, Second Statt Yiu-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan .................... ... ... .. ... $58,216,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,257,907
19¼%
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CITY QUOTA-Seattle ........ ... . .. .... .. ..... . .. .... ... ... .. . . ... $16,000,000
300,000
Amount credited to Woman's Co=ittee.. .... .. .. .... . . . .. .. ... .... ..
.01%%
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee . ...... . .... ... . .. .... .... .
Ma.s. EDGAR AMES, City Chairman
Gltanings f ,om tht Campaign:
In several counties Bonds were sold by correspondence only. The Central Committee
wrote a letter to each person in the county and assigned him an amount and asked him to call
at the bank and buy that amount on a certain day. No solicitation was done in these counties
and they more than raised their quotas. The women assisted in all these counties in the publicity and every means of promoting the interest in Liberty Bonds.
One device used by a successful war worker in a bttle Pacific Beach community was that
of sending a card each week to everyone in her precinct who had not bought a Bond. She reported
that it finally did the work.
Owing to the varying geo~aphical conditions in many parts of the state making travel
extremely difficult-the vast distances, the sparsely settled counties-the varying industries,
running the gamut of logging, mining, farming, fishing, and canning as well as those pertaining
to more cosmopolitan life, such as manufacturing, shipbuilding, milling, etc., no set plans for
publicity could be made. But to these different communities were sent out speakers and literature adapted to their various conditions.
Mrs. Josephine Preston, State Superintendent of Schools, reports that in the eighth grade
schools every fifth child was a Bond purchaser.
The State Federation of Colored Women reports $35,500 subscribed through this organization.
"The Children's Parade" familiarly known as the "Kid's Parade" was the unique feature
of city campaigns. This parade originated entirely in their play and developed into a big publicity event. The broad streets of the big sprawling western towns high above Puget Sound held
a stream of moving children for hours. Street cars were stopped, motors stood in long lines,
and mothers and fathers leaned from shop and office windows while the bands of minature Red
Cross Nurses, companies of khaki clad Indian lads from the Cushman Indian School, black
boys and girls from the African Methodist Church, Boy Scouts, little Miss Liberty, Uncle Sam,
the Armr,, "Little Mother and her Child" carrying the inevitable suggestion of overseas "Little
Mothers ', two children of a Lieutenant at the front carrying a "Bond House" with "Our Daddy's
in France and we Buy Liberty Bonds", marched and marched through the long afternoon for the
Stars and Stripes.
Aproximately eight thousand "Minute Women" served in the Fourth Campaign. These
women are organized for all war work and during the Liberty Loan Campaigns are at the service
of the State Chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee.
In Tacoma this organization made two house-to-house canvasses through the residence
district, one distributing circulars and propaganda, and the second time following up, when they
1014 $135,175 worth of Bonds.

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At the beginning of the campaign in Tacoma a Liberty Loan dinner dance was given by
the Woman's Publicity Committee. During the dinner while the dancers were on the floor, a
fusillade of shots was heard, then a squad of soldiers with fixed bayonets surrounded the dance
floor ordering the dancers to cease A speaker arose at one of the tables and referred to this
invasion as something that might easily have occured on any occasion by our enemies if this
country had not taken such immediate steps to protect itself and ur8ed the buying of Bonds to
prevent the possibility of such happenings and to support the splendid men who had already
gone to defend us. After another address by a woman speaker, girls passed subscription blanks
taking in $32,352 in subscriptions.
Pre-campaign work was done by the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee through exhibits
at the State Fair. A booth was maintained, posters were displayed, and members of the Committee presided each day, answering questions and giving out literature.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs invested all available funds in Liberty Bonds and
many clubs throughout the state followed their example. Women's organizations were all
appealed to, and in many cases, bought Bonds.
In Tacoma a committee of women worked every day in "Victory Hall" securing subscriptions for $187,200 worth of Bonds, the majority of which were of $50 denomination.

West Virginia
MRs. GEo. PoFFENBARGER, State Capitol, Charleston, Stat, Chairman
MRS. H. MAYNARD K1uBERLAND, State Yict-Chai,man-(Fourth Federal Reserve District)
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................... $45,748,350
Amount credited to Woman's Committee ........... .. .... . ............ 18,279,950
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
40%
Gleanings from tht Campaign:
The Sacrifice Club, instituted in the last days of the campaign resulted in many thousands
of dollars being raised, Wheeling leading with $100,000.
After the first week. of the Loan no public meetings were held, which necessitated large
subscriptions by corporations and banks for which women's committees received no credit. The
Women's Committees in most instances took charge of the emergency hospitals of the counties,
nursed the sick and looked after the stricken homes generally.
In Ohio County the men and women divided the house-to-house canvass equallr and split
evenly big corporation subscriptions. This was an ideal arrangement and deserves special mention
as a model County Organization composed of two entirely separate organizations working
together. It is interesting to note that in this equal division, the women exceeded the men's
portion in the District by $377,400. After covering their territory so thoroughly, they procured,
in addition, approximately $100,000 in the Sacrifice Club on from six to eight hours notice.

Wisconsin
MRS. JOHN W. MARINER, 428 Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, State Chairman
MRs.·E. M. WING, Stat, rice-Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan ............................. $112,050,000
Amount credited to Woman's Committee............................. 44,645,258
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee..........................
39%
Throughout the state the committees worked on a percentage basis. In the Seventh
District the Woman's Committee being credited with 50% of subscriptions and in the Ninth
District with 25%,
State conference in Chicago for Seventh District. State conference held in La Crosse for
counties in Ninth District.
CITY QUOTA-Milwaukee ............................. . ........... $32,646,300
Amount credited to Woman's Committee .............................. 18,107,275
Percentage credited to Woman's Committee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
50%
The following impressive resolution was adopted by the Milwaukee County Wisconsin
Liberty Loan Executive Committee, October, 1918: "In recognition of the patriotism of the
women of Milwaukee County and of their co-operation in the county plan of organization for
the sale of Bonds and by promoting educational work for the Fourth Liberty Loan, the Milwaukee County Executive Committee, representing 32 industrial groups, hereby assigns to the
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, credit for one-half of the total amount subscribed, to the
end that the men and women of Milwaukee County may be justly represented as united in the
support of the Government in the war."
State conference for counties in the Seventh District was called jointli by men and women
and were attended by both organizations. Conference held in Milwaukee.

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Gle11nings frOffl tlu Campaig11:
It ia estimated that there are 10,000 women enlisted for Liberty Loan work in the 1tate.
A special responsibility of the publicity committee in each county was the reaching of
farmer's wives with information about the campaign,and their responsibilities to their Government. In Milwaukee County, a special decorated street car, one side of which was devoted
to a huge sign for the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, was used on the street■ of the city
during the campaign and excited much interest.
A letter from Mr. C. P. Cary, State Superintendent of Schools, to all superintendents,
principals and teachers in Wisconsin, was sent with one from the State Chairman of the Woman's
Liberty Loan Committee, urging co-operation of the schools in the campaign and presenting
the plans for a contest in the schools in four-minute speeches and posters, for which a diploma
was issued by the Seventh Federal Reserve District Woman's Liberty Loan Committee to be
awarded to the high school, graded school, private or parochial school, winning first place.
As there were many requests for diplomas for claaa and individual school contests, the Wisconsin Woman's Liberty Loan Committee issued another, smaller diploma for this purpose and a
very large number was awarded.
A Woman's Speaking Bureau was established in each 1:9unty- especial attention being
paid to talka in moving picture houses. In Richland County the Woman'• Committee conducted the speaking campaign for both the men and the women. Community and chorus
singing were arranged form every county.
The Wisconsin editors gave the Woman's Committee work three times the.apace devoted
to it in the previous campai~.
In Brown County a circular letter was sent to all teachers in the Coun'l sug~ating that
the week before Liberty Day be devoted to the study of the Allied Nations, an that 1t be known
aa Allies Week, the countries to be ·studied in the order of their entrance into the war: Monday,
Belgium and Serbia; Tuesday, France; Wednesday, Great Britain; Thursday, Italy; Friday,
United States. Topics to be studied in connection with each country were as follows:
I . Date of entrance into war and reasons. 4. Famoua leaders.
2. Military record.
5. Uniform, Flag, etc.
3. What part played and how affected.
6. Method of subscribing W.ar Loans.
The National League for Woman's Service secured subscriptions for $633,450 worth of
Liberty Bonda.
1,300 cities and townships in the state are organized by the Woman's Committee.

Wyoming
MRS. T. S. TALIAPEllllO, 106 Cedar Street, Rock Springs, State Chairman
STATE QUOTA-Fourth Liberty Loan . . ..... . ................. . ... .. . f,7,977,500
Amount raised by Woman's Committee . ... . . .............. . . ... . .... . . 3,204,000
Percentage raised by Woman's Committee. . ... . ........... .. . .. . . . .
40%
Gleanings from the Campaign:
Ue.on the man chairman of the city of Green River going to war, the Woman's Liberty
Loan Committee chairman, Mrs. Chris Weachter, was left with entire charge of the Liberty
Loan work. With a quota of $50,000 and a population of 1500, the women raised lH29,000
Natrona County, Mrs. C. E. Winter, chairman, leads the other counties of the state. With
a quota of $753,250 the women raised $667,450 with 2304 subscriptions, of which 1500 were $SO
Bonds and 800 were $100 Bonds.
The method of reaching agricultural population was by chairmen taking their own automobiles and spending days going from one place to another, often fifty and sixty miles apart.
In many rural districts, women not owning cars went on horseback. One woman·told of long,
lonely ndes through the mountains to sell Bonds. Another rode 66 miles on horseback to get
subscriptions from seven families. Another woman wrote that she had been deserted by her
German husband who left her with a Jarm and five children to care for. She took care of the
family and farm alone, and as soon as she harvested her crops, she took her horse and visited
all families within reach_getting subscriptions for the Loan.
The University of Wyomiµg subscribed $50,000 through the Woman's Committee, through
the President of the Board of Trustees, Mrs. E.T. David.
Recommendations from Wyoming Chairman:
"That fewer speakers be 1ent to large cities and more speakers be sent to isolated towns of
two and three hundred population. The little town of Pinedale, which I have in mind, in Fremont
County, is 105 miles from the railroad and people there are eager to hear speakers, and would
come from miles around to attend a meeting. The truth is that the speakers themselves want
large audiences, whereas, the time spent in country districts would give better results."
Another suggestion; ."To make all women who have helped in the Fourth Loan feel it their
duty to continue this ,ar work as long as the Government needs their work, even though the
armistice has been signed."

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National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
FouaTB L1B1:an LoAN CAMPAIGN

In accordance with the action of the Executive Committee, all printing for the National

Woman'• Liberty Loan Committee in the fourth campaign was done m Chicago, because of its
facilities for prompt and adequate service and because of its excellent location as a distributing
center. Mn. Bass and Mrs. Fairbank were authorized by the Treasury Department to open
headquarters in Chicago to carry on thi■ work. An office was opened on August 5th, with necessary clerical help, and continued until the close of the campaign on October 19th.
As the printing for a division of the Treasury Department carried on away from Washington
was a new departure, it was necessary to comply with certain definite instructions from the
Treasury Department as to the actual conduct of the work. Circulars asking for bids on each
item to be printed were sent to the best printing firms in the city. These bids were then acted
upon by the Committee, and the contract awarded on the basis of price, quality of stock, known
capacity of the plant, and ability to make deliveries promptly. The three companies among
which the contracts were distributed rendered excellent service.
Questionnaires asking for estimates of the quantities of the various pieces of material it
was proposed to issue were sent to each State and Federal Reserve Chairman, together with a
letter explaining the plan of distribution. In those instances where there was delay in sending
in the questionnaires or where for some reason they were not returned at all, it was necessary
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for the committee to make up the estimate.
A new method of distribution was adopted for the Fourth Loan; an original shipment of
each item was made directly to State Chairmen, and a reserve supply placed with the Federal
Reserve Chairmen to cover additional requirements of the State Chairmen during the campaign.
In this way the rush orders of the State Chairmen were handled more promptly and efficiently
than by the old method of maintaining a general distribution headquarters for the whole country.
An arrangement was made with the printing firms, whereby they performed all the work of
wrappin~, packing and shipping the material printed by them, thus obviating the necessity of
distribution headquarters. A list of the quantities of each item to be shipped the State Chairmen
was sent the contracting firms, and from this they made out the government bills of lading which
were duly OK'd by the representative of the Office of Collector of Customs and certificates of
delivery issued by him.
The use of a "Record of Shipment" blank, furnished a check on the shipments made each
day by the various printing firms, and also on the receipt of each shipment by the State Chairmen. A table has been compiled from the returned blanks showing the length of time required
for the various shipments to the forty-eight states and to Alaska.
All the general Liberty Loan advertisin_g and publicity material issued by the National
Publicity Bureau was sent direct to the twelve Federal Reserve District Liberty Loan Committees.
The Executive Committees in the various districts were notified by Mr. Wilson, Director of the
Publicity Bureau in the Treasury Department, Washington, to "instruct their subordinate
committees to make a liberal supply of all literature and other material requested by women·
Liberty Loan Committees." Mr. Wilson also suggested that he believed it would be "advantageous to assign certain items of publicity material upon which the women might specialize in their
distribution, wherever practicable." Where full co-operation existed between the man and
woman State Chairmen, it was possible for the latter to turn over her list of county and district
chairmen to the men's committee, who would simply send out all advertising and publicity
material to the women at the same time that it was sent to the men's organization. This appears
to be the most satisfactory arrangement which has been adopted and will be recommended for
general adoption in the Fifth Loan.
In accordance with the policy of the National Committee to co-operate with the War
Industries Board and save paper and labor, one form of letterhead only was iHued, which did
not carry any special office designation, and therefore was suitable for general use, and franked
post cards were sent out to Chairmen with instructions to use them for short communications.
A "Certificate of Appointment" signed by the Secretary of-the Treasury, and by Mrs. Bass,
as Secretary of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, was issued to State Chairmen
to send their county and district chairmen. In addition little "credential cards" were printed
for the use of all local chairmen to serve as a means of identification in their work. · A "Record
of Subscription" blank was issued, which was desisned to serve both as a receipt from the local
men's committee for the subscriptions turned in daily by the woman's committee, and also as
a record for the women's work.
Three sets of cards, a different form for State, City and County Chairmen, were sent out
for use in reporting subscriptions taken by Women's Committees. These report blanks were
printed on franked post cards, and arranged so that each week of the drive might be reported
separately, with a minimum of work to reporting chairmen.

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Only three pieces of literature were issued for the Fourth campaign-the Information Folder,
the "First Service Star" folder, and the Report of the Third Loan. The Central Liberty Loan
Committee (men's) of the Eighth Federal Reserve District asked for ten thousand copies of the
Information Folder, compiled by Mrs. Fairbank and Mrs. Basa, for distribution through their
organization. The little folder called the "First Service Star" was originally printed in the
Seventh Federal Reserve District in the Third Campaign, where it was used moat effectively.
As in previous campaigns, the Report of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee was
compiled by Mrs. Fairbank.
The thanks of the National Committee are due to the Liberty Loan Committee of the
Seventh Federal Reserve district, under the personal direction of Mr. Merritt, for their assistance
in securing offices for this work, the loaning of all necessary items of equipment, and the use of
their office facilities. Miss Dixon, Federal Reserve Chairman for Women, was also of great
service to this work of the National Committee.

Material Issued and Number of Shipments by National
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
Total quantity of material shipped.......................................

9,216,470

lndiflidual Shipments:

Envelopes-three sizea-83 shipments of each. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Letterheads................................. . ............ . ........ 87
Labels............................................................ 87
Poat-cards .......... ·. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Weekly Report Carda-County...................................... 67
Weekly Report Carda-City.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Weekly Report Carda-State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Certificates of Appointment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
First Service Star folder-2 deliveries to list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Identification Carda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Record of Subscription Blanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Report of Third Loan ................... . . ......................... 1,987
Information Folders...................... . ..... . ........... . . . . . . . . 70
Arm Bands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Total number of individual shipments.........................................

3,178

National Conference of the National Woman's
Liberty Loan Committee
On July 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1918, the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee called
a conference of all Federal Reserve and State Chairmen, to discuss the problems of the Fourth
Loan.
E/erun Federal Reserve Chairmen and 44 State Chairmen, or their representatives, attended
this conference.
It was in session for three days; the fullest discussion prevailed, and the varied problems
of Chairmen from widely separated states were brought before it. The attendance was large, as
many Vice Chairmen and Publicity Chairmen came on their own initiative.

We Beg Your Pardon/
The amount of money credited to the Woman's Committee in the Report of the
Third Loan was incorrectly given as $1,182,000. The amount raised by this committee
in the Third Loan was $2,474,300.
First Federal &serfle District: The Third Report omitted to state the fact that in New England
the Woman's Committee took no corporation subscriptions.
Maine: The Third Report made a mistake on quota. Woman's percentage should be 10%
instead of 16% as credited.
Wyoming: Woman's Committee for Third Loan in Wyoming reached $2,314,500. (Was credited with $2,230,650.)
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Ohio: In Third Campaign Cincinnati's subscriptions were 20% not 11 % of quota.
In Cincinnati and Cleveland house-to-house canvassing was carried on by men and women
but not so stated in report.
Georgia: Third Report gave Georgia $11,679,530. It should have been $8,452,650. Full
report reached headquarters after report went to press.
Wa.rhington:

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Federal Reserve Chairmen /or Yictory
Liberty Loan
First District:
Mrs. F. L. Higginson, 95 Milk St.,
Boston, Mass.
Stcond District:
Mrs. John Pratt, 120 Broadway, New
York City.
Third District:
Mrs. Henry D. Jump, 217 Liberty Bldg.,
Broad & Chester Sts., Philadelphia,Pa.
Fourth District:
Mrs. Frank Muhlhauser, 508 Park Bldg.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Fifth District:
Mn:]. S. Scott Parish.
Sixth District:
Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin, Chamber of
Commerce Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.

Seoemh District:
Mias Grace Dixon, 105 West Monroe St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Eighth District:
Mn. Theodore Benoist, 210 N. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.
Ninth District:
Mrs. C. A. Severance, 1512 Merchants
Bank Bldg., St. Paul, Minn.
Ttnth District:
Mrs.George W. Fuller, 520Gates Bldg.
Kansas City, Mo.
Eleotnth District:
Mrs. E. B. Reppert, 405 Slaughter Bldg.,
Dallas, Texas.
Twelfth District:
Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, 430 California St.,
San Francisco, Cal.

A change has been made in the organization of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee for the Fifth Campaign as regards those states which lie in two Federal Reserve Districts.
In response to a general request from the Governors of Federal Reserve Banke to make the
woman's organization conform more closely to that of the men, it was decided to appoint two
chairmen in the divided states.

State Chairmen /or the Yictory Liberty
Loan Campaign
Alaska-Mrs. T. J. Donohoe, Valdez.
Alabama-Mrs. John D. McNeel, 1490 Milner, Crescent, Birmingham. (Office) 420
Jefferson County Bank Bldg.
Ariiona
Twelfth District-Miss Alice M. Birdsall
Hotel Adams, Phoenix. (Office) Box
419, 421 Fleming Bldg.
ElefJtnth District-Mrs. Wm. H. Sawtelle
345 E. Third St., Tucson.
Arkansas-Mrs. C.H. Brough, 2107 Arch St.
Little Rock. (Office) Governor's Office.
California-Mrs. E. R. Brainerd, Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles. (Office) Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
VICE CHAIRMEN

Miss Mary E. Foy, 400 San Rafael Heights
Pasadena.
Mrs. Murray Warner, 2335 Pacific Ave.,
San Francisco.
Colorado-Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, 1222
Gaylord St., Denver. (Office) 206 International Trust Bldg.
Connecticut-Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkeley, 100
Washington St., Hartford. (Office) 36
Pearl.St.

Delawart-Mrs. Henry Ridgely, The Green,
Dover. (Office) State St. and The Green.
District of ColumbiaFlorida-Mrs. W. S. Jennings, 1845 Main St.
Jacksonville.
Georgia-Mrs. Z. I. Fitzpatrick, Madison.
Idaho-Mrs. Teresa M. Graham, Villa Glendalough, Coeur d'Alene.
Illinois
SlfJlnth District-Mrs. Howard T. Willson,
Virden. (Office) Room 1003, 105 W.
Monroe St., Chicago. Room 400, 130
S. Sixth St., Springfield.
Eighth District-Mrs. William M. Hart,
Benton.
Indiana
SefJtnth District-Mrs. Frederick H. Mc
Culloch, 2423 Fairfield Ave., Ft. Wayne.
(Office) 722 Clinton St.
Eighth District-Mrs. Fred W. Lauenstein,
716 Adams St., Evansville.
Iowa-Mrs. Wilbur W. Marsh, 408 South St.,
Waterloo. (Office) 407 Leavitt & Johnson Bank Bldg.
Kansas-Mrs. Henry Ware Allen, 3420
Country Club Place, Wichita. (Office) Y.
W.C.A.Bldg.

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STATE CHAIRMEN 1'011. TBS V1cro11.T Liaaan Lou CAMPAIGN-CONCLUDED

Ktntw:lry
Fowth District-Mrs. Lpnan Chalkley,
Brittling Apts., Le:ongton. (Office)
Herald Bldg.
Eighth District-Mrs. Donald McDonald,
1440 St. James Court, Louisville.
Louisiana
Si:Jeth District-Mrs. Lawrence Williama,
4 Everett Place, New Orleans.
Eleotnth District-Mr■ • E. H. Randolph,
Shreveport.
Maint-Mra. John F. Hill, 284 Beacon St.,
Boston, Mass. (Office) c. o. Mrs. Grace
A. Wing, 202 Summer St., Auburn.
Maryland-Mrs. Sydney M. Cone, 2326
Eutaw Place, Baltimore. (Office) Lil>erty Loan Headquarters, Guilford Ave. and
Fayette St.
Massachuutts-Mrs. Barrett Wendell, 3S8
Marlboro St., Boston. (Office) Liberty
Loan Headquarters, 9S Milk Street.
Michigan
Stotnth District-Mrs. G. Edgar Allen,
1207 Kresge Bldg., Detroit.
Ninth District-Mrs. Charlotte Hamilton,
328 E. Portage St., Sault Ste. Marie.
Minnuota-Mrs. Archibald MacLaren, 412
Holly Ave., St. Paul. (Office) 914 Lowry
Bldg.
Mississippi
Sixth District-Mrs. R. L. McLaurin, 1905
Clay St., Vicksburg.
Eighth District-Mrs. Edmund Taylor,
Greenville.
Missouri
Eighth District-Mrs. William T. Donovan, St. Louis. (Office) 210 N. Broadway.
Ttnth District-Mrs. Albert B. Bates, St.
Regis Hotel, Kansas City. (Office) 330
Gates Bldg.
Montana-Mrs. W.W. McDowell, 1 S. Excelsior Ave., Butte. (Office) 45 East
Broadway.
VICE CHAIRMAN

Mrs. F. S. Lusk, 1011 Gerald Ave.,
Missoula.
N1braska-Mrs. A.G. Peter11on, 1217 Ninth
St., Aurora.
Ntoada-Mrs. S. W. Belford, 719 Humboldt
St., Reno.·
N,w Hampshirt
N,w Jersey
Stcond District-Mrs. H. 0. Wittpenn, 12S
Kensington, Ave., Jersey City. (Office)
Wiss Bldg., 671 Broad St., Newark.
Third District-Miss Anne Mc-Ilvaioe,
Trenton. (Office) 154 West State St.

NlfD M,xico
T,:,uh District-Mrs. Francis Wilson, Sa
Fe.
EltrJtffth District-Mrs. Earl Geo
Tucumcari.
NlfD York-Mrs. John Pratt, 120 Broadw
New York City.
North Carolina-Mrs. John A. Long, Kinst
North Dakota-Mias Minnie Nielson, St
Capitol, Bismarck.
Ohio-Mrs. M. N. Stanley, 10 Radcliffe
Dayton. (Office) 816 Reibold Bldg.
Ortgon-Mra. Sarah Evans, No. 1S Ke
Apts., Portland.·
Oklahoma
Tmth District-Mrs. Hugh Johnson, H
-Skervin, Oklahoma City.
EltrJtnth District-Mrs. C. B. Hall, Dur
Pennsyloania-Mrs. J. 0. Miller, Pi
burgh. (Office) 7109 Jenkins Arcad
Rhode Island-Mrs. Walter Peck, 113 Wa
man St., Providence.
South Carolina-Mrs. F. S. Munsell, 1
Green St., Columbia. (Office) 17 Arc
Bldg.
South Dakota-Mrs. Ellwood Perisho, St
College, Brookings.
TtnntSSII
Si/Jeth District-Mrs. John
ville.
Eighth District-Mrs. Sam Philli__ps, M
phis. (Office) 711 Exchange Bldg.
t,xas-Mrs. E. B. Reppert, 40S Slaug
Bldg., Dallas.
Utah-Mrs. W. Mont Ferry, 164 E. So
Temple St., Salt Lake City.
Ymnont-Mrs. E. C. Smith, 121 Cong
St., St. Albans.
Yirginia-Mrs. John L. Hagan, 2S4 Je
son St., Danville.
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Washington-Mrs.- Overton G. Ellis,
North G St., Tacoma. (Office) 602
tional Bank of Tacoma Bldg.
West Yirginia,
Fou,thDistrict-Mrs.S.M.Noyes, Wheel'
Fifth District-Mrs. George Poffenbar
1607 Lee St., Charleston. (0
State Capitol.
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Wisconsin
Stotnth District-Mrs. John A. Mari
70 Prospect Ave., Milwaukee. ( .
428 Milwaukee St.
Ninth District-Mrs. Edward Porter,
nell.
Wyoming-Mrs. T. S. Taliaferro, 106 Ce
Street, Rock Springs.
Franct-Miss Clara Greacen, 2 Rue
Italiens, Paris. c. o. Asst. Comptro
U.S. Treasury Dept.

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