The Mena weekly star., 1918-04-04
3RD LIBERTY LOAN MEETING ASUCCESS
Representatives Present From Every Town and Township in County Campaign for Sale Starts April 6
 Polk County's Quota S12O,90O.

mittee which will be in charge of the sale of the Third Liberty bonds which was held in Mena on Friday was one of the most representative meetings ever held in Polk county. In addition to the members of the general com mittee there were many present from the publicity committee, the speakers division, the woman's division, the sales division, the bankers division, SO that in the aggregate the attend ance was considerably over 100, and every city, town and township in the county had one or more representa- tives. The meeting was first scheduled for the Elk's Home, but when it was found that the seating capacity was inadequate, adjournment was taken to the Baptist church.
 County Chairman Walter Nance presided and on the call of the roll the following responded:
 City of Mena-Clyde Cunningham, W. E. Holt, S. I. Wood, W. L. Nose ley, J. L. Hagan, Sam Badt, c. W. Petty, W. E. Watkins, Mark P. Olney, W. W. Townsend, NJ. M. Shields, J. B. Goss, Ira o. Smith, F. W. Tomlinson, R. R. St. John, L. S. Watson, Dick Johnson. Joseph Robert and Father A. P. Gallagher.
 Mountain Township-G. V. Vim berly, Levi Wimberly and J. H. Van Horn.
 Mill Creek Township--W. A. Eads and J. F. Standridge.
 Big Fork Township-G. B. Bates and T. J Edwards
 Fulton Township-J. M. Looney, D. E. Little, Charles Burnett and J. B. Hendrix.
 Center Township-J. w Everett, J. F. Brumbelow and John Dodd.
 Gap Springs Township--J. NJ. Hat field, J. L. Arnold and J. S. Lawrence.
 Ozark Township-S. H. McCurley, W. E. Hungate and w. E. McVay.
 Hatfeld-J. o. Gates, c. M Davis, " L. Nichols, J. D. Henderson and G. H. Johnson.
 Cove-Kelsey Skinner, w. J. Bar ton, W. M. Hansard and Clip Little.
 Vandervoort-M. R. Beauehamp, c. H Barnes, Francis Cecil and Dr. F. A. Lee.
 Eagle Township-H. F. Gam, Tut Harris, c. F. Hill and T. M Hunsaker.
 Freedom Township-M. D. Winton, J. s. Pollard, c. B. Connally and Elm nett Rowe.
 Potter Township-T. J. Hicks, T. ". Anderson, W. E. Jones and L. H. Keener.
 Acorn Township-J. c. Garland, c. R. Hale and Hardie Jones.
 Rich Mountain Township-N. W. Waterfeld and &. s. Little.
 0uachita Township--H. E. Cham bers, Ira Eddleman and I. L. Reed.
 Cedar Township-J. T. Winton, W. B. Stinnett, Jack Connally and W. V. Daniels
 After the roll call Chairman Nance outlined the plan of organization which had been perfected for this Fed eral reserve district with headquart- CTS in St. Louis. The plan for county purposes was as follows: Executive committee with Walter Nance as chairman, Publicity division with R. Golf as chairman; Speakers division with H. c. Rushing as chairman; Woman's division, Mrs F. E. DeLon- gy. chairman; Sales division, A H. Scoggin as director; Bankers division, W. A. Finks, director; Division of cities and towns organization, Minor Pipkin, chairman; Division of town ship organization, Judge J. |. Alley, chairman; Division of distribution of supplies, J. F. Hood, chairman:
 The chairman made a general state ment in reference to the work to be done by the members of each division, and later each division chairman went more fully into the work to be done by him and his associates. Minor Pip- kin in addition made a stirring ad- dress on the great need of ready and willing response of the folks at home in the purchase of the liberty bonds to the end that the Hun may be halted and that the world may be made safe and decent place in which to live.
 A. H. Scoggin, chairman of the sales division, in his address, pointed out that the efforts of all workers should be directed toward the goal of making the sales, and that ultimately the burden of all efforts in every di- vision must be to the end that Polk county will subscribe fully the quota of $10S,000 assigned to it. He outlined also the plan of the sales campaign which is going to be conducted along systematic lines, the first job being to make card index of every man in the county who it is thot should buy liberty bonds, and the estimated amount of bonds he should buy. Mem bers of the sales committee will be supplied with these cards on which to report the sale or the reason for the inability to make the sale. He an nounced also that arrangements had been made with the banks to carry 9o per cent of the purchase of bonds up to the maturity of the first coupon m consideration of receiving the first in- terest payment from the government: In conclusion he called meeting or all members of the sales committee for next Friday afternoon at l;oo