Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — LA PORTE HAS REAL PATRIOT [ARTICLE]

LA PORTE HAS REAL PATRIOT

Printer Invests Life’s Savings in Liberty Bonds. Laporte, Ind., June 15. —Here’s the 100 per cent patriot! John Eldred, printer, is the heaviest subscriber to the Liberty > loan in all the United States, a greater contributor than John D. Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie and the rest of the multimillionaires, for Eldred has sold all he has and given it to Uncle Sam. All his life Eldred has been a printer on the Laporte Herald, By industry, frugality and self-denial he saved and scraped, together SIO,OOO. He has put every, cent into the Liberty loan.