Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — JASPER WELL TOWARD THE TOP [ARTICLE]

JASPER WELL TOWARD THE TOP

In Subscription Per Cent of Fourth Liberty Loan. In the final analysis of the Fourth Liberty loan in Indiana, Brown county, one of the smallest counties in the state, received the honor of the highest oversubscription, 162 per cent of its quota. The total subscriptions in the state amounted to $171,966,050. Jasper county's subscription to this loan was $533,950, or 119 per cent of its quota. Only four counties failed to subscribe their full quota assigned. These were Blackford, 99 per cent; Clay, 97 per cent; Hunt-* ington, 92 per cent, and Wiells, 89 per cent. The average oversubscription was 8 per cent, or $9,216,050. Our county measured up well with I neighboring counties, Bienton subscribing but 109 per cent; Carroll, 104; Lake, 131; Laporte, * 104; Newton, 109; Porter, 114; Pulaski, (114; Starke, 131; Tippecanoe, 100; Warren, 107; White, 103.