Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-04-11
.FURTHERSTEP
IN WAR BONDS
DRIVE TAKEN
LOCAL COMMITTEES ARE FORMED
AND CITY Is DIVIDED INTO SEC
TI0MS AND BLOCK TEAMS NAMED
TO PROSECUTE WORK.
ENTHUSIASM EVERYWHERE.

Try Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. April 11.-Eight
of the twelve reserve districts for the first
three days of the campaign reported sub
scriptions of S2l2.0 $50 To The Third
Liberty Loan Dallas was among the non
reporting districts. Many reports, Off
cial, say, include only n small portion of
the subscriptions actually made in the dis
tricts. In many cases, however, the initial
payments have been made on the sub
scriptions. or the banks have not been
showing them in reporting 10 the Federal
Reserve Bank
In Brownsville. in San Benito and in
every town and community throughout the
county the Liberty Loan drive Is in full
swing today. Last night the Brownsville
committee called by the local chairman.
W. G. Whitman. held meeting The town
was Subdivided and teams were assigned
To each ward.
From San Bel,to. +. H. Downs this morn
ing reported the holding of an enthusiastic
meeting last night and the formation of
0 "button hole brigade. This brigade j.
to button hole every man, women and
child in the communities tributary 10 San
Benito and obtain a Liberty Bond sub
scription. Mr.. Downs prophe>icd that by
tenieht San Benito would be able to report
$500 bond sales.
Last night, mcetin. in Brownsville cvi-
dcnced Il fervor and confidence that made
Brownsvies quota of s4O0, 900 seem not %
difficult after all. Although speech max
ing had no part on the program there were
many exchanges of ideas that gave each
worker something To add To his own .'thun-
der
Tonight members of the -Four Minute
Men will speak on the Liberty Loan at
the theaters. a committee composed of
the Rev. Benjamin Dennis, w :. West, r.
+. Green and Judge H. l.. Yates, will add
dress an audience at Los Fresnos
County Chairman +. W. kibbe an
nounced this morning that the pastors of
all churches throughout the county would
be asked to preach Liberty Bond sermons
at one of their Sunday services The
committee Is this morning mailing out cam
paign literature and application blanks to
all community chairmen. This work j.
being aided by Miss l.. T.. McCau>land,
who has donated her services for the cam
paign.
The ward committees selected last night
are:
Committee No. /. First Ward-I. W.
Williams. W. $. eWst. W. B. Clint. ). c.
Tucker. +. l.. Hicks, J. 7. CanaIes
Committee No 2. First Ward-W III.
Mason. Jr., w. III. Puteenat, c. H. Moore,
c. l.. Jes>up, +. b. Camiade, Julian Vera.
Antonio Alonso. \. b. Walker and Geo
McGonigle.
Second Ward-Ellis CLANCY. Toam>
Tijerina. f.. de la CARA, X. B. Creager
A. b. Cole. j. A. Browne. j. H. Monroe.
j. J. Young.
Third Ward-W. f. McDavitt. G.. +.
Dodd. Antonio Barreda. II. NJ. Skelton. h.
l.. Kowalski. Emmett Howard Joe Mar
tinez.
Fourth Ward-Committee No. Nv. +.
+. Jourdan. II. J. Kirk. NJ Edelstein
Antonio Tamayo. Andres Cueto. Jr. |. G.
Keeler. l.. Cobolini.
Fourth Ward-Committee No. 2-JeS~e
bennett. J. :. Rowe. +. +. Starck. Y.
Celudonia CARA, Y. Garza and Manuel
Be>teito.
Federal Building-R. l.. CHM.
Immigration Station-John r. Harold
Court Hou>e-County Judge II. l..
Yates. W. T. Vann and W. b. Walton.
These committees will be supplied with
all available information regarding the
residents Of ther districts and their finan-
cial condition. Persons the committees
fin dable 10 subscribe but who fail or de-
cline to do 30 will report them to the
central committee. This committee will.
n turn. forward the names 10 the Feder-
nj Re>crv,. Bank nj Dallas,