Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-08-29
Shipment of Groceries, Bed
ding and Supplies Goes
Out Last Night.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF
CASH EXCEED $4,000
W. W. Draper, Mack Cook and G. f.
Bair Obtain Ready Response to An.
peals in Behalf of Sufferers in
Newport Section.

Groceries enough to almost fill
big freight car were shipped out Of
Pine Bluff last night to the flood suf-
ferers at Newport, and will reach
that place perhaps tonight, and Ger
tainly not later than Monday morn
ing.
The groceries were donated by
local retail grocers, the Wholesale
grocers having made cash donations.
Several individuals, men who are in
no business, but who wanted to help
feed some Of the hungry men, women
and children flood SUITE, ers, handed
over amounts of cash to the grocery
solicitors, requesting that groceries
be bought with the money and sent
to Newport
W. w. Draper, travelling salesman,
and Mack Cook, commission man.
solicited the groceries yesterday, and
C. E. Philpot's big auto truck gather
ed up the donations and hauled them
to the Iron Mountain depot where
they were loaded into the car.
The Iron Mountain "deadhead d"
the shipment to Newport. and an
nounced that it will transport free of
charga all donations for the flood
sufferers The Cotton Belt made the
same announcement yesterday,
through S. d. Arnett, local freight
agent. Both roads are striving to aid
the flood sufferers in very possible
way.
GrOcers Liberal.
The following is list of the gro
GERS who aided in making up the
shipment, and Of the several indivi-
due Is who contributed money
which groceries were purchased:
w. A. Tarver.
Ealby Brothers.
G. F. Merritt.
S. Silbernagle & Co.
w. ]. Shepperd.
C. J. Sawyer.
Arkansas Short Leaf grocery.
U. w. Poss.
Smithers Grocery Co.
Mead-Hudson CO.
D. w. Richey.
Howell Grocer CO.
I.ampert's Grocery.
Hall Grocery Co.
Westall G. Cross.
Shell e. Shell.
Joe Westall.
Steel Grocery Co.
v. F. Mayhugh.
C. NJ Mayhugh.
]. w. Tarver.
Jones & Law.
Duckett Grocery Co.
s. ]. McCarra & Co.
Mack Cook.
!. A. Clement So. w. d. Ferguson.
Chas. Loudell, Phil Lawrence, 81
each.
The Cash Donations.
Cash donations of approximately
s295 we're turned over to Secretary p.
p Rloom of the chamber of COM
merce Yesterday by w. w. Draper
who started the work here FRIDAY or
soliciting aid for the flood sufferers
Mr. Draper. a travelling salesman
who lives in Pine Bluff, travels the
Newport territory and knows the con-
litions there better perhaps III
does anv other man in this city:
A.. soon as the news of the flooas
at Newnort were received here. Mf
Draner hogan his activities. headlas
tn list and circulating 1t among the
business people of pine Bluff. For
while FRIDAY, he. YVES accompanies
and aided hy C. F.. .Bair, manager VI
the gas ccmpany. Yesterday M. par
aoain worked a while with the list'
while MR.. Draper and Mr.. COOK ue-
voted most Of their s time to SOLICITING
In addition to the amount coli eer
+hrn,uh the activities of Mr.. Harper
and Mr.. Blair. quite neat sum 10
said to have been handed ian d. s, &c eo
E. B. Bloom Of the enam nS voluntary St r
n l.,, Mr.. Bloom early yes
terday telegrapned Newport TO draw draw
on him for 5000. More money pens
collected LATER, Newp port viii six d mat
for even more than $2oe' ok me, m".
tresses were donated by the turner
Bedding factory and a sack OF rice
nv the Arkansas Rice company
The list of contributors as ,s ans as
nounced yesterday afternoon IS as
Cash Contributions. ~
!! C, M. Philpot. ..........''.''''@ -'o0