The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-05-24
H|cKMAAvCOUNTY
GOES OVER TOP
RED CROSS DRIVE
EsTABL lsHEs RECORD OF COM.
PLETiNG WAR FUND QUOTA BE-
FORE CAMPAIGN STARTS.
EXPECT DOUBLE APPORTIONMEN1
J. !. Finney Delivers Stirring Ad.
dresses to Responsive Patriots Of
Shady Grove, Little Lot and Cen.
treville.

Over the top in the second Rec
Cross war fund before the first day
of the scheduled drive is the RECORD
made Sunday by Hickman county
This county's quota was only $4,000
and that amount was fully subscribed
Sunday at three community meetings
that were addressed by j. |. Finney OF
The Herald, leaving II other com
munities and additional subscriptions
during the week at the three commun
tiles visited to swell the total to a
tremendous over-subscription.
Mr. Finney's itenerary included
Shady Grove, Little Lot and Centre.
vile. At the Shady Grove Sunday
morning at II o'clock, 1857 was asked
as the quota for that community. The
citizens assembled at the Methodist
church responded with more than 100
per cent oversubscription, the total
being $500.
At Little Lot that afternoon at 8
o'clock, $500 was asked as that com.
munity's quota, the response was sub
scriptions by citizens assembled at
the Methodist church totaling $500.
That night at the Methodist church
in Centreville the audience accembled
there completed the quota by sub
scribing $2,100, and making the splen.
did record of 100 per cent subscrip-
ton the day before the drive actually
began. 1t is probable that no other
county in the state will equal this re-
cord. The leaders of the drive in
Hickman county are confident that
the final reports will show 100 per
cent oyer-subscription of $4,000 at the
end of the week.
Besides the meetings addressed by
Mr.. Finney, speakers from Centreville
visited II other communities, but
subscriptions were taken at but few
of these places and no reports were
received last night from them.
Mr.. Finney accompanied by Mrs.
Finney, r. H. Clagett and Mrs. Clagett
in Thomas. ]. McGahey's car made the
trip over the beautiful new highway
in Hickman county and xie party was
met everywhere with the most en-
thusiastic and responsive receptions.
At Shady Grove they were joined by
E. ID. Thompson, chairman of the
Hickman county Red Cross chapter,
Thos. NJ. Huddleston, campaign man.
ager, s. c. BroOme, chairmen of Four
minute men, and other workers in
the campaign, who accompanied them
to the other places and aided mater
tally in the success of the day.
That the citizens of Hickman coun-
ty are in the war to win was demon
strated time and again during the day
as they generously subscribed to the
Red Cross war fund and proved that
they are supporting the more than 200
men who are in the military and naval
service of their country.
Mr.. Finney's three addresses var
led somewhat at each place, but the |
burden of his talk was that in this
age old struggle between the two
principles of liberty and autocracy
the people of America must not fail in
any demand of the nation, and that
only by sacrifices, such sacrifices as
have marked with blood every step
Of progress in the history of liberty,
can the war be won. He closed at
each place with a direct appeal for
to the Red Cross, the
greatest mother in the world"
At each place the response was
spontaneous and subscriptions poured
in. Shady Grove set the pace for the
day and gave the inspiration that