This letter is from the Illinois State Council of Defense. Not only was the letter purpose to ask for personal support, but also it was a state awareness letter. It suggested that if Metcalf could not personally come to the food show, that he should…

On labor prices for farm work.

Pro forma CoD business, but last section contains interesting aside about "German women" potentially stirring up trouble amongst Davenport community.

CoD and agricultural business

A citizen working for the gardening campaign informs Mr. Metcalf that many citizens are refusing to have their lots broken up for gardening use, and he feels this is very unpatriotic. He asks Metcalf to help encourage the plowing of additional lots…

This is a letter to Herbert J. Metcalf asking for him to send Bhis one hundred copies of the Governor

R.C. Cutting failed to attach the article he wanted to ask H.J. Metcalf about but wrote to him asking to clear up the discrepancies concerning the seed companies that Mr. Wells had published in order to respond

Wade notes the growth of a "non-partisan league" and wants to organize resistance against the organization.

This return letter from Wasson details his contributions to the war effort, as requested by HJM, in order to testify against his being a slacker. He describes, in a charcoal pencil scrawl on a small slip of paper, all of the grain he has stockpiled…

Rohlff aghast at being called a slacker and disloyal by Lafayette Young.