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1917 – 1919 · War Purse of Indiana · a stated negative
No Lakeville honour roll, township loan quota, or township war-work record was found for this war — and the search is the finding. The township-level instruments were searched by name and form (an honor roll, a township quota table, a township chairman, a local Red Cross or loan committee for Lakeville or Union Township) and returned nothing at township strength; the only "Lakeville Honor Roll" the searches surface is Lakeville, Massachusetts's, refused as such. What exists is the county's record, at full strength, in the state's own accounting — Charles N. Greenough, The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922), read whole — and it prints whole, organisations kept apart: in the Third Liberty Loan the county subscribed $2,688,000 on a quota of $2,500,000 — 107 percent — under county chairman Arthur D. Baker; the county's women's organisation, a separate body under Mrs. Victor F. Jones, is separately tabulated at $341,900 on a $625,000 women's quota for its drive, two figures for two different campaigns that this section prints side by side and never merges into one rate. In the Victory Loan the county subscribed $4,416,550 on a $3,900,000 quota under W. L. Chandler; in the YMCA's Second War Fund the county pledged $46,232.90 on a $45,000 quota. No township line stands in any of the county's tables — the county's war purse was raised by county organisations, and Union Township's share of it, if it was ever separately kept, sits in the Historical Commission's county scrapbook ("St. Joseph County Indiana History European War," in the State Library's Indiana Division) and in the Tribune's township correspondence columns for 1917–1919, both named here as the township home front's settlers. The influenza that shared those years is the epidemics article's ground, below, and is not double-counted here.
The home front's later digs stand at lk-digi-war-loans, lk-digi-war-thrift-women, and lk-digi-war-armistice-clock (assembly pointer, DELTA-I-2).