Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1917 — LIBERTY LOAN BOOSTED $6000 [ARTICLE]

LIBERTY LOAN BOOSTED $6000

ABRAHAM LEOPOLD PURCHASES ADDITIONALBONDS—NOW TOTAL SB,IOO. Abraham Leopold, one of Rensselaer’s oldest citizens, and for a great many years Rensselaer’s foremost businessmen, handed the Kaiser a jolt Wednesday when he subscribed for $6,000 worth of Liberty, bonds. He expects to raise his total of bond purchases to SIO,OOO before the close of the second sale. Jasper county Jias been called upon to buy in the neighborhood of $428,000 worth of these bonds during the second drive of the government to raise money to whip the kaiser. $428,000 is a lot of money and our citizens will have to get busy if this mark is to be reached. There are a great many men in this community who are amply provided with worldly goods to make very large purchases,

and the move on the part of Mr. Leopold should be followed by others. It is going to take a long, hard pull to subscribe the amount allotted to us. Every man, woman and child in this county should have one of these liberty giving bonds and the excellent terms upon which they may be bought leaves no excuse for anyone not having one of them. An employe of the government was in this city today investigating the bond sale and to see what was being done by our citizens toward the raising of the portion assigned to us, and urging the banks to push the sale still harder. It is up to the American people to provide the necessary money to carry on the war and they might as well do it now as anytime, was his opinion. Despite the fact that Mr. Leopold was born in Germany, he has no more ove for the Kaiser than the rest of us. Mr. Leopold will be 85 years of age in December and feels that he is a little too old to shoulder a gun, hut- wilL try and-do-hia part by subscribing money to help carry on tlie war.