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The county's war purse was counted at the time by the state itself: Walter Greenough, The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922), the official history of the five Liberty Loans and the thrift campaigns, written by the state loan organisation's own publicity director from its files. Read drive by drive for this county, the record it gives is as follows — figures in dollars, from Greenough's county tables, at the strength of the machine-read text and flagged where that text fails. First Loan (May–June 1917). Indiana subscribed 33,366,100 dollars against a 36,000,000 quota, 93 percent, from some 70,000 subscribers statewide. Greenough's narrative records that on June 9, 1917, St. Joseph was among the counties reporting their full quotas met; the county's own quota-and-subscription line in his First Loan table was not cleanly recoverable from the machine-read text and is printed as a named gap below, not estimated. Second Loan (October 1917). Indiana oversubscribed heavily: 69,799,450 dollars against a 57,120,000 quota, 122 percent, from 224,515 subscribers. The county table for this drive was likewise not cleanly recovered — a named gap, same settler. Third Loan (April 1918). The county's line stands whole: chairman Arthur D. Baker; quota 2,500,000; subscription 2,688,000; 107 percent. Greenough's narrative gives the drive its human shape — a week before the close the county had subscribed only 48 percent of its allotment and was causing the state officials “not a little worry,” before taking its place among the counties over the top. The women's organisation's share of this drive is separately tabled: the St. Joseph County women's committee, chairman Mrs. Victor F. Jones, carried a quota of 625,000 and sold 341,900. Fourth Loan (September–October 1918). The county's line: chairman Fred A. Bryan; quota 5,100,000; subscription printed in Greenough's table at 5,800,000 (a corrected figure; the machine-read text truncates the companion column) — over quota, in the drive floated while the influenza ban was closing the county's public life. The northern counties as a whole subscribed 117,133,750 against 108,750,000, 108 percent. Victory Loan (April–May 1919). The county's line stands whole: chairman W. L. Chandler; quota 3,900,000; subscription 4,416,550 — about 113 percent, in the final federal table as Greenough reprints it. Indiana's sixty-eight northern counties subscribed 377,692,350 dollars across the five drives; the state's total for all five was 444,063,800. Against the checklist's patterns: this county neither led the nation nor lost a million uncredited — it worried its officials once, in the Third Loan, and finished every drive it can be tabled for above quota. Penn Township's share of any drive is not broken out anywhere in Greenough, whose unit is the county, and no township figure is printed because none exists in the source; the settler for a Penn figure, if one was ever kept, is the county loan committee's township returns as carried in the Tribune and Enterprise files of 1917–19. The two unrecovered county lines (First and Second) are this article's named gap, settler: Greenough's county tables at pp. 37–38 and in the Second Loan chapter, read from the printed page or a clean scan (Internet Archive, The War Purse of Indiana).
Sources: Walter Greenough, The War Purse of Indiana (Indiana Historical Commission, 1922) — the Third Loan county and women's tables; the Fourth Loan county table; the Victory Loan final table; the state appendix tables for the First and Second Loans; the narrative passages quoted. Machine-read (AI-transcribed) text, LDS Genealogy/Internet Archive — figures flagged at that strength where the text truncates.