The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-06-15
FIRST APPEAL FOR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
SECURES THOUSANDS
NEARLY ONE-FouRTH OF coUN.
TVS ALLOTMENT SECURED
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
NOT .BLE COLLECTION IS TAKEN
Judge J. T. Mcknight Makes a Stir
ring Appeal to the Patriotism of the
People and the Responses are Ex-
ceptionally Generous.

Raising Maury county's, $40, 900 sub,
scription to the war fund of the Amer
lean Red Cross was commenced at
meeting that will long be notable in
the patriotic and philanthropic annals
of Columbia. More than $4,000 was
pledged at the meeting held on Mon
day afternoon at the Chautaqua tent.
This is nearly one-fourth of the
amount that has been allotted to this
county by the war council of the Amer
lean Red Cross.
subscriptions literally poured in fol
lowing a stirring appeal from Judge
]. T. Mcknight, who had been selected
by the charter members of the Maury
chapter Of the American Red Cross,
Ind Mayor Dedman to raise the col
lection. Judge Mcknight proved an
adapt at the job and at the conclusion
Of the meeting he was pronounced by
John B. Ashton, the veteran Methodist
steward, eligible to membership in the
Methodist church, the collection hav.
ing been of the old-fashioned Metho
dist type.
The Red Cross society had secured
the Chautauqua tent and entertain
ment for the afternoon and the admis-
sion was without cost. The meeting
was presided over by w. S. Fleming,
the temporary chairman of the Maury
Chapter Of the Red Cross and the fol
lowing members Of that organization,
who had also been appointed as the
soliciting committee by Mayor DIED.
man. were seated upon the platform:
Judge J. T. Mcknight, Judge w. C.
Salmon, DR.. James H. Barber Miss
Elizabeth Whitthorne, Mayor Joseph
VI. Dedman, J. l. Finney.
Mr.. Fleming briefly stated the pur-
poses of the meeting and then present
ed Judge Mcknight. who made very
earnest and we'll worded appeal for
support in Maury county for the Red
Cross. He told Of the magnificent
work that it had done in this war, OF
the tremendous work that it must do
when Americans commenced to bleed
and die on the Western front. At the
conclusion of his speech he asked for
contributions. He said he wanted to
make beginning that would insure
the raising of Maury county's allot-
ment Of $4,000 of this great organiza-
ton.
Hardin P. Figuers announced the
first subscription, giving $50 and the
crowd applauded Then the gift rolled
in SO that Miss Whitthorne, the secre
tary, had to write with redoubled
rapidity to get them all down. John
B. Ashton promptly covered Mr.. Fig
uers subscription with another $50
md J. |. Finney announced that he
was authorized to subscribe 800 by
Col. Jonas T. Amis and the applause
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| Then came subscriptions ranging
from IS to $1G0. The crowd became
enthusiastic. The $1,000 mark was
drawing near and Judge Mcknight
was urged to go on until that sum
was secured. This he did and the
mark was soon passed and more than
$4,000 was subscribed. This went on
until about $4,000 had been relied
Coupled with the collection Sunday
4 the Red Cross now has almost % per
cent of it's allotment in this county.
The campaign will be pressed with
vigor during the next week. Every
! pastor in the county will be asked to
take or have taken collection either
next Sunday or the following Sunday
| Committees will be named in all paTbs
of the county The members OF the