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TWO COUNTED; THE RED CROSS AND THE REST AT TESTED-NEGATIVE / RESIDUE
The county fell short in thrift while it led in bonds — the record splits them, and so does this section. War Savings Stamps, 1918 (Greenough, ch. VIII, official results table): St. Joseph County — apportionment 2,057,480 dollars; total sales 1,686,518.75 dollars; 16.39 dollars per capita; deficit 370,961.25 dollars. (A second rendering of the table in the Commission's yearbook OCRs divergently and is not used for figures; the conflict is noted at OCR strength only.) The state frame: Indiana sold 44,372,632 dollars by 9 November 1918 and closed the year at 17.74 dollars per capita. The YMCA / National War Work Council's Second War Fund Campaign (11–18 November 1917) is the other counted purse (the Commission's yearbook table): St. Joseph County — quota 45,000 dollars; pledged 46,232.90 dollars; paid 43,752.90 dollars. The Red Cross tests negative at claimable strength: no North Liberty auxiliary, no chapter founding date, and no surgical-dressing or knitting quota for this township or county was found in the carriers searched; what stands at state strength is that county chapters existed across Indiana under the Lake Division, and that during the influenza epidemic some county Motor Corps were on night duty with ambulance calls (the Woman's Section report) — the Red Cross's flu work, not this township by name. The township's Red Cross record stands in the note as residue, settlers the county WWI scrapbook, the American Legion Auxiliary's Indiana Women in the World War (1936), and the town paper. Women's registration: Indiana's Woman's Section ran the registration of women for war service (its report is extant at the state library); no county card count was extracted, and no other county's card count is borrowed here. Food conservation and gardens, and the fuel winter of 1917–18: tested, no township or county count reached — Greenough's food-publicity study speaks to Indiana farmers as bond-buyers, not to this township's gardens; both stand as residue with their settlers. At county pointer: Catherine Oliver of South Bend commanded the northwestern section of the Motor Corps of Indiana — the county's women organised into named war service, the township's share uncounted.
Greenough (1922), ch. VIII and yearbook tables; Report of the Woman's Section (1917–1919); carriers searched as logged's findings.