The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-08
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sl4l lSs7 $50 B 4S7.51O St Louis. Oct 8.-Ofticial figures show the Eighth Federal Reserve Dis trict has passed the halfway mark with quota of 53 per cent in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
 Indiana still leads, its percentage being S9, with Arkansas second with 67 and Kentucky coming along as a close third with 60 of it's subscrip- tions.
 Kentucky's percentage in twenty four hours on the official tabulatiOn jumped from 45 10 50 per cent on ac- count of the returns from Jefferson County, which includes Louisville Shelby has two-thirds of this districts quota in Tennessee and now regis ters S12,9S6,250 towards it's goal of Sl6.114000. Graves County. which has a quota of $4SS, 900, now lacks only ' per cent of being over the top.
 Although Missouri is slow in report ing, State Manager Hughes says he has definite assurance that every
 
 top in due time No official figures have been received from 2T counties. However. informal adylces state that the workers in these counties are busy and when they send in figures the states percentage. which Is now 3S of the quota, will get big boost. Al though Mercer County Is the only one officially credited with being over the top, returns show that Jefferson, Lin coln. Howard, Livingston. Morgan, St. Charles. Ste. Geneyieve. Scott and Washington are within easy halling distance of the goal, while Cape Girar- deau has three-fourths of its million dollar quota. No reports have been received from Cape Girardeau for three days. and 1t is expected that this county will soon hit the bull's-eye.
 Pine Bluff Gaining.
 From Arkansas. which has 67 per cent of its quota, advices show that Jefferson County, which includes Pine Bluff, has sold more than a million dol lars worth of bonds toward its quota of S1,714.00O Fifteen out of the S6 counties have gone over the top and no reports have been received from nine counties.
 Mississippi has passed the halfway mark, registering 5l per cent of it's quota, and there are seven counties from which no figures have been re ceived at all State Chairman krers sch mar Is confident the rural communi- ties making up the Mississippi terri tory will make good, although they are slow
 Tennessee figures have been ad- vanced but little in three days, be- cause no official returns have come in from Shelby County, which includes Memphis and has two-thirds of the state quota in this district Memphis has raised s6,l0O 900 of it's s11,940 ,000 quota, and the state has now reached the 40 per cent mark.
 illinois Running Steady
 Illinois now ranks fifth in the race, but is running steady and her back CTS are by no means discouraged, At the beginning of the second week of the three weeks campaign the sales aggregated $lS,S75,Ss0 of quota of s40.927 .000 with a percentage of AS
 Already 7O,333 bond purchasers have been reported and half a dozen Egyt tian counties have gone over tue top
 Edwards County is one of the coun ties that has filled its quota and is still giving In letter 10 State Chair man Crabtree, Allen F.. Walker, county chairman said he was s13.000 over his quota of $202 ,000 and was still selling He writes that in the Third Loan 70S citizens bought bonds in a three weeks campaign. On the first day oi the campaign there were 1,749 pur chasers.
 Indiana Is rapidly approaching the completion of her Fourth Liberty Loar quota of $lS,765, ,000 and is the state leader in the Eighth District
 Indiana's sales aggregate si6S0S, $50, with 3,003 bond purchasers. This