Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — $43,000 in War Chest. [ARTICLE]

$43,000 in War Chest.

El wood, June 7. —This city has raised a war-chest fund of ,343.000 without committees having solicited a single person and is believed to be the only place in the country where a war chest was filled by voluntary subscriptions, Tjie headquarters closed with more than 3.000 persons voluntarily having signed pledge cards to give 1 per cent or more of their earnings of a year, payable in ten payments. Those who failed to sign number less than TOO.