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October 1918 · Mishawaka and Penn Township
The event: The First World War's largest Mishawaka gathering was a subscription. When the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign closed in the town, the South Bend News-Times of October 6, 1918, recorded it on its Mishawaka page: the quota laid on Mishawaka and Penn Township together was eight hundred thousand dollars; the town's manufacturers' committee, under its chairman George H. Williams, had secured the largest part of its share before the campaign formally opened — the paper says the committee held a single meeting and prepared the entire amount committed to it in advance. In the general canvass the town, in the paper's phrase, "went a million dollars and better," and its editorial voice made the boast plain: "It took Mishawaka exactly one minute after the campaign opened to raise better than its quota," and "Mishawaka is in the war." The figures are the paper's own, printed here as the contemporary press account they are. The same October page carries the town's Red Cross account — final payments on pledges to the second Red Cross war fund falling due October 1, and the Mishawaka chapter again a "100 percent chapter" — the town's own chapter, distinct from the county chapter at South Bend.
Sources:
- South Bend News-Times, October 6, 1918, Mishawaka page — the Fourth Liberty Loan's $800,000 quota for Mishawaka and Penn Township, the manufacturers' committee under George H. Williams, the "million dollars and better," the "one minute" boast, and the Red Cross chapter's account, as carried in the Wars section of this history.
- Wars section of this history — the home front of the First World War whole, the Fifth (Victory) Loan of spring 1919, and the chapter's record.