Burt County in World War I

The local board had to study and be guided by voluminous regulations and bulletins issued almost daily.

The local board of Burt county, Nebraska had the record of always being ready to comply with the numerous calls made for men.

The work of the local board was done fearlessly and without favor and without regard to the personal convenience of its members.

Detachment of Tekamah Guards escorting Burt county's sixty-six selected men to the station for their departure for Berlin. This was the largest single call from the county, owing to its fine enlistment record. Nearly as many more were called the latter part of July.

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LIBERTY LOANS

MR. J. R. SUTHERLAND,

Tekamah, Nebraska.

My Dear Sir:

I hand you herein compilation of figures on the Liberty Loans, showing as follows subscription of each bank to each issue, total subscriptions of all banks to each issue, total subscription of each bank to all issues, total subscriptions of all banks to all issues, total subscription of each town to all issues.

I have used this form for its brevity, and compactness in giving the desired figures, but you are at liberty to re-arrange them in any manner that will suit, and which will conform to the size of your book.

I have no remarks to make, other than that the citizens of the county responded most liberally to the calls for subscriptions to the different issues, and that each issue was over-subscribed on the allotment made for the county by the National Loan Committee for the Tenth Federal Reserve District, at Kansas City.

Very little trouble was experienced with German sympathizers, and an unwillingness to buy especially among older people of foreign birth, was often caused by not being acquainted with government securities, and the low rates of interest they bore, in comparison to the local lending rate for money.

Very truly,

A. L. NEUMANN.

Mr. A. L. Neumann, president of The Farmers and Merchants National Bank, is entitled to much credit for the most excellent manner in which he conducted the Liberty Loan drives in Burt county, making the wonderful record as shown by the compilation of total subscribed on next page, which is more than $220.00 per capita for every man, woman and child in this county on the basis of population, as given by the last census. The achievement can only be attributed to his superior organizing ability to do effective team work, by all the banks in the county and each school district was constituted a liberty loan unit, which proved a very efficient and effective method of obtaining the desired result, which is the pride of every patriotic citizen in Burt county.

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Statement of the amount of the United States Liberty Bonds, purchased by the.
Banks of Burt County Nebraska, for account of their
customers, and for themselves.

	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Total
First National Bank, Tekamah:
	$15,000.00	$75,000.00	$42,000.00	$103,450 00	$55,000.00	$290,450.00
Farmers State Bank, Tekamah:
	$15,000.00	$30,000.00	$47,500.00	$92,750.00	$51,700.00	$236,950.00
Burt County State Bank, Tekamah:
	$3,950.00	$17,600.00	$33,000.00	$54,750.00	$29,400.00	$138,700.00
Tekamah State Bank, Tekamah (not in business until January 1st, 1919):
					$20,450.00	$20,450.00
First National Bank, Craig:
	$20,500.00	$29,050.00	$50,500.00	$105,000.00	$64,000.00	$269,050.00
Farmers State Bank, Craig:
	$3,250.00	$12,850.00	$20,000.00	$63,750.00	$40,800.00	$140,650.00
First National Bank, Lyons:
	$7,400.00	$31,250.00	$44,500.00	$93,250.00	$57,700.00	$234,100.00
Farmers Bank, Lyons:
	$25,550.00	$32,550.00	$76,450.00	$121,550.00	$58,150.00	$314,250.00
Citizens State Bank, Lyons:
		$4,000.00	$6,500.00	$8,000.00	$5,800.00	$24,300.00
First National Bank, Decatur:
	$5,950.00	$23,750.00	$44,350.00	$98,000.00	$51,550.00	$223,600.00
State Bank of Decatur, Decatur:
	$2,000.00	$2,150.00	$4,550.00	$ 4,900.00	$2,500.00	$16,100.00
First National Bank, Oakland:
	$22,400.00	$43,300 00	$58,850.00	$104,050.00	$67,500.00	$296,100.00
Oakland State Bank, Oakland:
	$7,050.00	$20,100.00	$21,200.00	$38,750.00	$40,000.00	$127,100.00
Farmers & Merchants National Bank, Oakland:
	$26,700.00	$50,000.00	$110,250.00	$158,000.00	$142,800.00	$487,750.00
	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Grand
	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Total
	$154,750.00	$371,600.00	$559,650.00	$1,046,200.00	$687,350.00	$2,819,550.00

Total bonds bought at Tekamah	$686,550.00
Total bonds bought at Craig      409,700.00
Total bonds bought at Lyons      572,650.00
Total bonds bought at Decatur	 239,700.00
Total bonds bought at Oakland	 910,950.00
BURT COUNTY LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE,
June 20, 1919 A. L. NEUMANN, Chairman.

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