The status of this drive early in December was as follows :

Bayard $ 7,125.50

Union 298.00

Bonner 270.00

Yockev 67.50

Court House Rock 330.50

Broadwater 673.00

Camp Clark 1,500.00

Eastwood 456.21

Wier-Lisco 262.50

Goodstreak 84.50

Hickerv 55.00

Storm Lake 370.00

Redington 316.00

King 50.00

Haynes 312.25

Total for county $12,170.96

Victory Loan

The Fifth or Victory Loan campaign was planned in May, 1919. The quotas of the precincts was fixed by townships as follows :

Bayard $92,000.00

Bonner 7.500.00

Broadwater 17,000.00

Camp Clark 38,000.00

Court House Rock 10.000.00

Eastwood 14.000.0C

Gilchrist 12,500.00

Haynes 13,000.00

Good Streak 5.500.00

King 6,500.00

Redington 19,000.00

Reilly Hill 7,000.00

Storm Lake 8,500.00

Union 8,000.00

Weir-Lisco 11,000.00

Yockey 11,500.00

Local Exemption Board Passed Into History

The local exemption board, that was the center of interest as well as the storm center for public opinion a few years ago, performed the final acts of shipping its reports to the war department at Washington, March 28, 1919, and disposed of the government property it had been using. The members were formally discharged in the spring of 1919. No more difficult or unpleasant task could be placed on any body of men than the one that was carried through so successfully by the members of the exemption board of the county. They were compelled to take men from their families and relatives, and place them on the firing line of death. Women deluged the board with protesting tears, and men with angry remonstrance and, in some cases, threats. The board stood firm through it all and cut through like a knife -- fairly and impartially, as nearly as they could with hastily assembled facts, sometimes presented in a partial manner. Mistakes may have been made for all men are human.