"Last spring we wondered if America should arrive in time. It was then we subscribed our Third Liberty Loan. Now, as we are in the midst of our Fourth Loan, the Prussian army, turned back when America said: "They Shall Not Pass' at Chateau Thierry, is still fleeing towards the Rhine, and we are on the way to victory.

"I don't want you to consider me an irresponsible optimist when I say this war is nearly over. It will end sometime between now and next year, and it may collapse over night.

"The jig is about up. Now is the time to buy these bonds and deliver the knock-out blow to the kaiser."

Governor Cox, during his visit, was entertained at the home of A D. Metz, North Market street.

Paint township was the first one in the county to reach its quota, going over the top the second day of the campaign.

In Plain township, after their fathers and brothers had "completely" canvassed the territory, four girls, Ruth Spangler, Bessie McAfee, Rebecca Green and Mildred Bixler called on the farmers in one school district, and added $2500 to the township total.

In a number of townships the quotas were not raised when the first canvas was made. The "double up" slogan was brought into play and families were asked to increase their subscriptions. This was done with such great success that when the campaign had ended, every bank and every townhip had sold its full quota of bonds.

Reports to the county committee on Wednesday, October 16, showed sales amounting to $1,300,000, or $10,000 over the county's quota. At this time but $3,500,000,000 of the national quota of six billion dollars had been sold, so that Wayne county was far ahead of the average. The goal, nationally, was not reached until the final day of the campaign, when a flood of gold boosted the total to approximately $6,600,000,000.

In some districts in the county, where there was some fear that quotas would not be made, the sustained effort to sell bonds was continued until the very last hour. It was with a sense of pride that the county organization reported every township in the county exceeding its quota.

One of the most remarkable achievements of this campaign was the work at Orrville, where A. N. Brenneman was chairman. This was the second largest district in the county, and in some of the campaigns of the past Orrville had not been able to go over Mr. Brenneman had a most thorough organization for the Fourth Loan, and the climax came at a night meeting where the kaiser's coffin was completed. "A spike” was a $1,000 bond, “a nail" a $500 bond, while a $50 bond was “a tack,” as explained by W. Howard Ross, the auctioneer speaker of the meeting. No casket was ever more thoroughly made, and no community ever went

"over the top" in truer fashion than did Orrville in this drive for funds. The committees in charge in the various townships were:

Chester Township-Capt. Clinton G. Myers; Lieutenants, Albert Hohenshil, Ross Thorley, Charles Kinney, Fred Marti, Henry McFadden, Ralph Swinehart, Wayne Swinehart, Roy Zimmerman, Samuel Keslar, Mart Bowman, Ed Landis, Irvin Starr, Chas. Rutt, Glenn Harmon, Brady Smith, I. W. Henderson, Ezra Shoup, B. F. Fair, Walter Allison, Ray Swinehart, Geo. W. Jackson, Clarence Weikle.

Plain Township-Capt. Leonard F. Mason; Lieutenants George Silver, Charles Warner, Frank Mellinger, James Mowery, Reno Brinkerhoff, James Shelly, Joe Beeler, M. E. Ebright, O. G. Kean, William Barden, Orrville Shaffer, Ray Oberholtzer, I. O. Smyser, George Plasterer, Morris Heyl, Ira Myers, Henry Myers, Harvey Mellinger.

Franklin Township-Capt. D. M. Franks; Lieutenants Lewis Green, Simon Sprowls, William Gregor, Elton Franks, Amos Franks, Wall Metcalf, Rev. Crafts, Ross Karr, Corwin Swan, E. C. Wallace, Ira Hindman, Ervin Geitgey.

East Union Township-Capt. F. R. Beazell; Lieutenants, A. L. Thompson, Irvin Richwine, A. M Swinehart, Frank Allen, Howard Cook, Cliff Smith, P. C. Lehman, W. W. Martin, Henry Denbrook, Roy Geitgey, Leo Walters, Frank Jentes, Charles Krick, A. J. Welty, H. W. Hackett, J. P. Koehler, J. J. Moore, Ira Amiet, L. E. Messner, C. E· Studer, F. R. Beazell, F. A. Maurer, M. E. Parker, L. S. Reichenbach.

Sugar Creek Township-Capt T. C. Hunsicker; Lieutenants, J. W. Erwin, George W. Zeigler, W. B. Haverstock, J. Rudy Roebuck, W. P. Slusser, C. R. McDowell, D. F. Schultz, C. F. Buckwalter, T. C. Hunsick

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Clinton Township-Capt. Otto Troutman; Lieutenants, E D. Merkel, James B. Keys, Earl C. Aylesworth, D. J. Hoffman, Bert D. Robison, Henry Shelly, Felix Van Niman, C. M. Trunkey, W. J. Bertollette, E. G. Keys, Wm. H. Carl.

Baughman Township Capt. A N. Brenneman; Lieutenants, E. C. Bowman, D. J. Leickheim, B. G. Cope, E. P. Willaman, H. P. Leickheim, F. L. Strauss, W. H. S. Herbert, Willard Schmucker, S. P. Eshelman, E. W. Brenneman, D. Ed Seas, D. F. Griffith. R. L. Russell, L. R. Doggett, C. M. Keifer.

Salt Creek Township-Capt. E. Z. Aylesworth, Lieutenants, P. F. Marthey, Geo. O. Crosby, C. R. Kilgore, F. E. Bolling, Wm. C. Brown, Geo Brown, Julius Bupp.

Paint Township-Capt. J. H. Villard; Lieutenants, Jacob Minser, Charles Ketterer, John Lemmon, Jules Des Voignes, Carl Gerber, A. P. Dodez, C. S. Ruegsegger, C. E. Blosser, E. C. Numbers, Charles Schaffter, H. A. Senff, Ed Ruch.

Green Township-Capt. Walter S. Fagley; Lieutenants, H. A. Starn, George Curie, S. A. Conrad, Ross Eby, D. W. Sauder, C. S. Sheller, E. E. Zimmerman, Rev. L. Bohnert, Rev. W. C. V. Harris, Henry Kiefer, John I Heiks, Jr., Jules Feusier, Howard Hunter, Amos Conrad, Vernon Woods, John B. Hostetler, R. W. Leichty, John Kurts, F. J. Drushel, Emmet Steiner, Christ King.

Milton Township-Capt. Karl E. Hoover; Lieutenants, J. J. Gannon, Walter Laib, R. E. Faber, R. V. Fredrick, C. R. Shondel, J. H. Fisher, James B. Gish, James Galehouse, J. C. Young, G. J. Clippinger, Ezra Steiner, Ernest McConnell, F. A. Bauman, S. A. Slemmons.

Chippewa Township-George Landis, Chairman; I. A. Barnett, Secretary; Dr. A. E. Stepfield, J. V. Hartel, Wm. J. Deibel; Capts. E. V. Sharp, Oscar Smith, F. O. Lower, Scott Galehouse, Charles O. Deibel, Henry Petit, Albert Flath, A. J. Collier, Ira Meese, Nicholas L. Lieberth, John Bierie, W. A. Wilson, Geo. Argobright, Nathan Steiner, Willis Snyder, Rev. Kozier, Walter Adams, Frank Weinsheimer, Charles Kaufman, William Hershey, John Biddinger, Oscar Fritzinger, Forest Frase, John Etling, Ira Zimmerman, Noah Musser, Daniel Lutz, John Paul, John Busson.

Canaan Township-Capt. H. A. Stebbins; Lieutenants, D. K. Gensemer, D. W. McIlvaine, Charles Snell, J. C. Whonsettler, Dr. R. J. Baird, Charles Schlagel, G. O Secrest.

Wayne Township-Capt. A. W. Bucher; Lieutenants, J. M. Brown, Robert Hatfield, W. E. Raudebaugh, John Flickinger, C. L. Flickinger, E. J. Reece, Fred Miller, Vernon Snoddy, Bernard Dickason, W. S. Johnson, W. E. Showalter, David Gresser, S I. Lehman, J. G. Elliott, J. C. McClellan, T. P. McCullough, D. A. Himes.

Congress Township-Capt. J. V. Keeler; Lieutenants, Charles Stroup, Wm. Worst, C. C. Good, G. D. Barnard, G. V. Kline, James Gindlesperger, Mell Howman, F. L. Berry, Fred Fishburn.

Wooster Township-Capt. W. J. Giffen; Lieutenants, J. S. Wallace, E. D. McIntire, Percy Maize, J. W. Hammond, W. E. Winkler.

Wooster City-H. L. Freedlander and Alvin Rich. Captains assisting in the work, C. W. Kisling, W. C. Foster, H. L. Boigegrain, Dr. Reiman, C. V .Steinmetz, E. C. Kauffman

THE FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN

The signing of the armistice did not end the war from the viewpoint of those departments of the government that were responsible for debts contracted by themselves and other departments. The cost of "carrying on the war" was just as great for some time after the signing of the armis

tice as it was previously. It took weeks before any appreciable number of war contracts were cancelled, and it was several months before a sufficient number of men were discharged from service to cut down materially the cost of the upkeep of the army. Money, money and more money was the government's need. For this reason a Fifth Liberty Loan campaign was inaugurated. It took place during the three weeks ending May 10, 1919, just six months after the armistice was signed.

The campaign was different from any of the previous ones. The crest was reached in the war spirit about the time of the Fourt Loan, and it undoubtedly subsided shortly after the armistice was signed The patriotic people of Wayne county realized, however, that the bills must be paid, and that if the money was not paid through a bond issue, it would have to be raised through additional taxation. Taxes were already heavy. The luxury taxes, the income taxes and the war profits taxes exacted a heavy toll everywhere. The luxury tax was the most far-reaching, extending even to ice cream sodas and soft drinks, as well as movie shows and entertainment of all kinds. It hit patent medicines, toilet preparations, and even articles of clothing which were above the average in quality. The bonds of the Fifth Liberty Loan were short-time bonds, with an attractive interst feature that made them an enticing investment. Persons who purchased bonds of previous issues bought them knowing that a triumph for German military power meant an absolute loss of the funds they invested in government bonds. But there was no speculation in buying bonds of the Fifth Loan. The war had been won. Germany had surrendered. The patriotic impulse to buy bonds was gone, but the responsibility for bills sentiment, and the investment feature both remained.

The same organization that handled previous Liberty Loan campaigns was in charge of the fifth and last campaign to secure funds to meet war obligations. The campaign was carried out in the same thorough manner, and once more Wayne county was successful in overreaching the goal. The pull was a hard one, and it was not until May 7th, three days before the end of the campaign, that reports indicated beyond a doubt that the quota would be reached. Final figures showed that the quota of $1,029,950 was oversubscribed by $135,100, the total sales being $1,165,050. The Wayne County National bank led in the number of subscriptions with 565. The largest sum sold through any one bank was through The Citizens National, of Wooster, the amount being $163,150The number of subscriptions taken by each bank, each bank's quota, and the amount of bonds sold by each bank was as follows:

The sale of War Savings Stamps was one of the Government's great War Activities. Under the leadership of Mr. Geo. J. Schwartz, Wooster, Ohio, Chairman, and Mr. Wayne Hart, Attorney at Law, Wooster, Ohio, Secretary, War Savings Stamps went into more homes in Wayne County during the war than did Liberty Bonds, and the quota assigned to Wayne County was more than raised.

On the first of January, 1918, the Treasury Department launched a campaign to sell $2,000,000,000. worth of War Savings Stamps during the year, and the quota of Wayne County was fixed at $763,900. The War Savings Stamp was commonly referred to as the "Baby Liberty Bond", being worth $5.00 at the time of maturity on January 1, 1923.

The quota as assigned to Wayne County called for a $20.00 sale to every man, woman and child in the county, and the law governing their sale permitted no one person to purchase more than $1,000.00 worth of Stamps. When this fact is taken into consideration it can be seen that