Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — JASPER STILL SHORT $125,000 [ARTICLE]

JASPER STILL SHORT $125,000

Because Some Men Have Not Done Their Full Duty.

Up to yesterday morning Jasper county lacked about $125,000 of reaching its quota of $450,000, according to the returns in at that time. Carpenter was the first township to subscribe its quota, $96,000, and Hanging Grove second with $15,000. Marion’s quota of $154,000 was still $34,000 short. J. J. Lawler of Chicago has again done the right thing in the. purchase of Liberty bonds in Jasper county, where he has such extensive real estate interests. He has purchased $12,000 in bonds here and divided it equally be- j tween Marion, Hanging Grove and Union townships, where his land is located. , There have been but few large—or even medium sized—subscriptions to this loan here, Mr. Lawand $5,000 each from. John Eger, James H. Chapman, Granville Moody and George W. Hobson of near Lafayette, who has real estate holdings in Hanging Grove township. Some town people and many farmers, who ought to have taken up in the thousands each, lhave not done nearly as well as ex’pected, and it is probable many of /these will be asked to increase their subscriptions in order that our quota may be reached. iSome *men who are quite wealthy and have no sons in the war—though some of them should be there—have done but little. They are the very ones who ought to i come across the most liberally.