Ottumwa Semi Weekly Courier

ORGANIZE LEAGUE TO AID DRIVE FOR LOAN OTTUMWANS JOIN.

Mrs. J. G. Hutchison is county chairman of the newly formed Woman's Liberty Loan league that was inaugurated at Washington Wednesday at a meeting held on the steps of the treasury department building by women employes of that department. Mrs. W. W. Marsh of Waterloo is chairman for Iowa and the members of the league here who are working with Mrs. Hutchinson in the county drive for the Liberty Bonds are as follows:

Mrs. Homer Harris, Mrs. J. K. Dysart, Dr. Margaret Mills, Mrs. W. H. Mynard, Mrs E. G. Barton, Mrs. D. C. Brockman and Mrs. Murdock Bannister.

All May Be Members.

Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, chairman of the Liberty Loan committee, announced the formation of the league at the meeting held on the south steps of the treasury portico at noon, Wednesday.

"Every woman in the nation may do patriotic service," said Mrs. McAdoo, "by helping in the sale of Liberty Bonds. It is not possible for every woman to buy a bond, but it is possible for every woman to help in the sale of a bond by calling the attention of her acquaintances who are able to make the purchase to the necessity of aiding the government by the loan of this money. Such service entitles a woman to membership in the Woman's Liberty Loan league, which is woman's way of serving the country at this critical time."

Veteran on Rostrum.

Mrs. Antoinette Funk, vice-chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan committee, also spoke at the treasury meeting at which Miss Clara Greacen, chairman of the treasury section of the Woman's Liberty Loan committee, presided. Mrs. Amanda E. Brown, who has been in the treasury more than forty years and is one of the pioneers of important service of women in governmental departments, stood beside Mrs. McAdoo on the speaker's rostrum.

A second noon-day meeting for woman employes of the government at which Mrs. McAdoo and Mrs. Funk both spoke, was held in the auditorium of the department of the interior building and attended by several hundred women.

Branches of the women's Liberty Loan committee have been established in all departments of the government.