The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-12
Nearly $4,000
Subscribed IL
Liberty Loan at
FOCUSING Meeting
This Morning

Nearly $4,000 was raised in a Lib.
erty Bond meeting today, as a result
oi splendid addresses by Congress-.
man H. j. Drane and Private Scar.
borough, wounded soldier whose
nome is at Arcadia, and under tho
persuasive powers of Col. Edwin
spencer who furnished the "'rouse.
ments."
The meeting was ushered in BY an
exhibition drill of the Home Guards
on the streets, following which the
crowds gatherd about the band stand
in the Park, where the Patriotic Girls
had assembled, and the latter rem.
dered some patriotic songs in a most
stirring and effective way. Col.
Spencer opened the meeting in a
brief and earnest talk, and then read
an address by Chairman c. w. Deem
of the Liberty Loan Committee, who,
as Mr.. Spencer said, is worker
rather than talker Mr.. Deems
message was an earnest plea to the
people to back up the soldier bows
and to redeem the fair name of this
city by subscribing its full quota Of
Liberty Bonds.
Mr.. Spencer then introduced Con.
gresham Drane, who was given an
ovation by the audience when he
rose to speak. He made a beautiful
and impressive talk, reviewing the
various wars in which this country
has been engaged, the causes that
produced them etc. He told of see
ing the officers of Company D recent
ly at port of embarkation, prepar-
ing to go across to fight for world.
democracy, and that the message
they had asked him to bring back to
the people of Lakeland was that their
sole request is that the folks at home
back them up with their money and
a liberal support of the policies of
the government He said that if this
Liberty Loan was successfully float.
ed, it would doubtless be the last loan
of the kind that would be asked: but
that, if it failed, the war might drag
along for years.
Private Scarborough, a soldier of
the old Second Florida regiment, a
member of the Arcadia Company who
saw service on the Border. and later
was severely wounded at the battle
of ChauteauThierry, was the next
speaker. Private Scarborough adj
dress was the simple story of his pc -
sonal experiences while in the service
and this was intensely interesting. He
detailed the incidents of his trip
landing in England July 3; was sent
across the Channel to France in. a day
or two, and went Immediately 10 the
front, being a seasoned man He
told of the attack, the fighting, and
his finally being struck by ball in
the thigh and later in the chest
while as he lay helpless, he was still,
further wounded by piece OF
shrapnel from an exploding shell.
The tortures of thirst, as he lay or
the battlefield, the trip to the fie!o
hospital, then to the base hospital
and finally his return to the United
States, was all told wildly yet mod
estly. He was at Fl. Mcpherson
waiting for an operation when the
Liberty Loan drive came on, and he
gave up a furlough to visit his moth
err before his operation, in order to
help with the Liberty Loan work.
At the conclusion Of Private Scar
borough's address, Mr. Spencer
called for subscriptions, in his own
eloquent and inimitable way. and the
resnonses we're very liberal, as ind
Gated by the list published in this pa
per. The Boy Scouts did valiant SER
vice in soliciting subscriptions and a
number we're reported through them
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN