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1917–1919 · St. Joseph County in Greenough's tables and narrative
The banked fragment prints the Third and Victory Loans; the county subscribed to all five. First Loan (1917). County chairman: Rome C. Stephenson. Greenough's narrative follows the county week by week: by 7 June 1917 St. Joseph had reported its full quota met; on 14 June it topped the state percentage column at 204 percent with $4,000,000; on 15 June it claimed $4,250,000 — "$2,391,000 more than its quota," which puts the quota at $1,859,000 — and claimed to lead all districts in the United States in proportion to population (Indianapolis Star, 15 June 1917, South Bend dispatch, quoted in Greenough). The printed First Loan table's figures survive in the text layer as unalignable column blocks, and the build does not pretend otherwise: the First Loan prints at narrative strength, its table figures an expressly stated residue.
Second Loan (1917). County chairman: Charles L. Zigler — Greenough's own footnote spells him Charles S. Zigler, an internal variance printed here as new conflict NEW-I-2. The table row, at probable alignment, gives a quota of $2,600,000 and a credited subscription of $2,320,050. Zigler's own letter of 20 April 1922, filed with Greenough, states the split the table hides: more than $1,000,000 subscribed by county citizens was never credited to the county, because it was bought through the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago banks; the county's true subscription, on its chairman's accounting, was $3,653,400. This is the audit's "million never credited," printed as the record splits it — credited $2,320,050 in the table, $3,653,400 in the chairman's letter, never merged. Fourth Loan (1918). County chairman: F. A. Bryan, whose "Volunteer Plan" — a systematic card tabulation of every citizen's ability to subscribe, kept in an alphabetical file, a volunteer button for subscribers, and "insufficient" cards carrying the names for personal follow-up — ran in St. Joseph County, in Greenough's words, with signal success. Bryan contended, in a memorandum of Guy W. Cooke to the Seventh District statistician dated 25 January 1919, that the county subscribed $5,873,600; Greenough prints the contention and its limit in one breath: "No other data relating to this controversy has been found." The official Fourth Loan table pages are rotated and illegible in the text layer — the county's official Fourth figure is therefore a stated residue, and Bryan's $5,873,600 prints as a contention, not a total. The Fourth drive's two handicaps are Greenough's own frame and belong to this county as to all: the influenza epidemic, which banned the public meetings the drives ran on, and the false peace reports of the drive's last days. The Third ($2,688,000 on a $2,500,000 quota, 107 percent, chairman Arthur D. Baker) and Victory ($4,416,550 on $3,900,000, W. L. Chandler) Loans stand as banked.
Principal sources: C. Gilbert Greenough, The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922), Liberty Loan chapters and county tables (Archive.org full text, first-hand; table-layer limits stated in the text).