The loans, drive by drive — as far as the official record splits them

1917–1919 · five drives, the county's figures where Greenough prints them

The source and its discipline: Indiana is one of the few states that published its war finances whole: Walter S. Greenough's The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922) prints the Liberty Loan record county by county, quota against subscription. Joseph County drive by drive. What follows is every drive at exactly the strength Greenough and the News-Times carry it — including the drives where the county table could not be reached, printed as such rather than bridged.

The Third Loan (April 1918) — the county whole: St. Joseph County's Third Loan stands complete in the official table: county chairman Arthur D. Baker; quota $2,500,000; subscription $2,688,000 — 107 percent of quota. Greenough's narrative carries the drive's shape: a week before the close the county had subscribed only 48 percent of its $2,500,000, and it crossed the line after the South Bend Rotary Club's Liberty Loan meeting of May 1, 1918, the loan closing April 27 with the county's record drawn on May 16, 1918. The women's Third Loan work stands beside it in the same volume, also whole: St. Joseph County's women's chairman was Mrs. Victor F. Jones, with a women's quota of $625,000 and a women's subscription of $341,900 — and the News-Times of April 12, 1918 shows her organization mid-drive, reporting some $75,000 to $85,000 toward Fort Wayne's district tally by that Thursday night (the figure as the digitized page carries it; its OCR is degraded and it is printed at that caution), with "fourteen minute" speakers out across the county.

The Fourth Loan (fall 1918) — the volunteer plan: For the Fourth Loan, Greenough carries the county's method whole even where the Mishawaka-pass figure is the one the banked file holds: St. Joseph County ran a "Volunteer Plan" under county chairman F. A. Bryan, organized from late July 1918 — a systematic card tabulation of every citizen's ability to buy, with a special volunteer button awarded only when a buyer purchased the amount the committee had agreed he should (the plan survives in Leonard L. Campbell's manuscript report, which Greenough cites). The banked wars file's Fourth Loan figure — Mishawaka and Penn Township together carrying an $800,000 quota, from the News-Times of October 6, 1918 — stands consistent with this machinery and is not contradicted; what the township-by-township split inside it would show for Harris and Clay remains, in the sources reached, unprinted.

The drives that stay gapped: The First Loan (1917), the Second Loan (fall 1917) and the Victory Loan (1919) could not be closed for St. Joseph County from the parts of Greenough's record reached by this section, and no township quota or result for any of the five drives — the figures the banked paragraph most wanted — was found in the News-Times canvass coverage as searched. The item closes as a named gap with a dug core: two of five drives at county strength, the county's machinery described whole, and the settler named for the rest — Greenough's First, Second and Victory Loan county tables read in full, and the News-Times / Tribune canvass columns of October 1918 on Hoosier State Chronicles, which are where a township split, if one was ever printed, will stand.

Sources:

1. Walter S. Greenough, The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922) — Third Loan county table (St. Joseph: chairman Arthur D. Baker; quota $2,500,000; subscription $2,688,000; 107%); the Rotary meeting narrative; the women's Third Loan table (Mrs. Victor F. Jones; quota $625,000; subscription $341,900); the Fourth Loan "Volunteer Plan" under F. A. Bryan (Campbell manuscript report cited).
2. South Bend News-Times, April 12, 1918, on Hoosier State Chronicles — Mrs. Jones's women's organization mid-drive; the reported figure printed with its OCR caution in the entry.
3. Wars & Military Service (banked) — the Fourth Loan Mishawaka + Penn Township quota of $800,000 (News-Times, October 6, 1918); cross-referenced, consistent, not retold.
4. Settler named: Greenough's First, Second and Victory Loan county tables; the News-Times / Tribune Liberty Loan canvass columns, 1917–1919, on Hoosier State Chronicles.