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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-04-19
MAURY COUNTY BUYERS
OF THIRD LIBERTY BONDS


The subscribers to Liberty bonds at
Friday nights mass meeting which
come through the various banks were;
Anderson Bros. & Foster -. 5000
w. M. Tolley ............... l,OO0
w. +. Anderson ,............. LOO
w s. Beasley .............. 1000
w p. Ridley ............... 1000
r.. e. McLemore ............ 1000
A. ID. Sloan ................. 5oo
r. L. Mckinney ............ 1000
Thos. Simpson ............. 1,0OO
Cook Quitting Co. ......... 1000
DIR. II. o. Anderson .......... 400
Miss Eleanor Black ......... so
Mike Lookofsky ............ 100
Spence McFall ............ 200
Douglas Greenlaw ......... 30
Margaret Gardner .......... 50
Friend ....... s.'.'...... ouu
h. u. bdTTOW .ss.'s's's SoV
Mrs. r. G. Church .......... $50
Chas. Sloan ...,............ 300
A. Hammonds ..-.......... o0O
Ernest Redmond ............ 300
e. M. Howard .............. 80
Il. W. Dixon ..,............' oV
Mrs. C. A. Forgey .......... 5O
Mrs. Chas. Sloan .......... 50
Russell Sloan .............. 50
J. r. Woody ............... 5O
w. N. Bingham ............. 5O
Theo Stephenson ........... 30
Miles COOK .........'...s.. w
Miss Eleanor Frierson ...... 81
C.. F. Speed ................ 81
Mrs. C.. F. Speed ........... 80
Mrs. C. A. Nicks ............ 81
DIR. H. A. Cant .............. 5O
w. H. Wilson .............. 5O
Miss Mary Cooper Boyd -. 80
Mrs. H. O. Fulton ........... 81
II. B. Huston ............... 5C
Eugonla OldTp "
Miss Elizabeth Whitthorne :. 81
r. H. Claggett ............. 5O
Wiley HOke ...........:... l0O
w. M. Tolley ............... 81
Fred Latta ................. 5C
Mrs. j. C. Conner ........... 81
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Ellington. 10t
Mary Barrow Moore ........ 81
H. Allison Webster ........ 81
Rush Gresham ............. 81
B. C. Dedman ............. 81
Rev. S. d. Logan ........... 81
Miss Mary Beasley ....... 81
Mrs. w. s. Beasley ......... 81
Il. M. Giddens .............. 81
j. F.. Nicholson ............. 81
E. II. Anderson ........... 81
Miss Erastus Crabtree ...... , 81
Miss Lillian Crabtree ....... 81
j. o. Gates ....... 81
Mrs. r. o. Derryberry ...... 81
Mrs. w. J. Dale, Jr. ......... 81
Edwin 8. Evans ...T.lI. !... at 81
Mrs. Roy Hardison ......... s.
Roy Hardison ..,........... 81
Mrs. w. B. Dobbins ......... 81
- G.. P. Hatcher .............. 81
Mrs. C. p. Hatcher ......... 5,
Mrs. c. w. Mitchell ........ 81
Miss Estelle Finley ......... To-
Miss Leah Sharp ............ 81
Augie Dodson .............. 81
Mike Lookofsky ............ 5,
Mrs. Fl. A. Cant ............ 5,
Miss Caroline Williams ..... 81
Tom Pigg .................. 81
Mrs. Maury Pigg ............ 81
J. |. Gates .................. 81
A. B. Cherry ............... 81
w. H. Pigg ................ 81
Total ..................... s2s,6O
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Final Loan Appeal
Made in Hope Total
viii Be 4 Billions

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The Lib
erty Loan campaign will close officially
at midnight tomorrow, local time, and
most of the countfy's 27.000 banks will
remain open through the evening TO
accommodate late bond buyers.
Without doubt the day will be the
biggest of the campaign. for, as in the
last two loans, big business interests
have waited until almost the final hour
to file their subscriptions, and thou
sands of small bond buyers have put
off entering their names on the honor
roll. The total also will be boosted
to-morro by the recording of sub
scrlptlons already made, but not sup
ported by initial payments, and conse-
quently not officially reported.
Treasury officials tonight apparently
were not over-hopeful that the loan
would run to four billions or more,
and therefore they were insistent that
campaign committees tomorrow get
every possible subscription or re-sub-
scription to help the government meet
the huge expenses looked for in the
next few months.
The Chicago and Boston Federal Re-
.serve Districts were the fourth and
fltth districts, respectively,s to go over
the top. Both reported over-subscrip-
tions day, the New England district
following a few hours after the Chi
cago district. The San Francisco and
Dallas districts also claimed to have
passed their goals, but on the face of
official returns each had 9S per cent.
ALI other district committees to-day
sent word they would pass the 100 per
cent line to-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Boy Scouts, School Children
and Shoppers Welcome
Vehicle to City

The Liberty Loan Ball yesterday
completed it's trip from Buffalo to New
York and was greeted at the City Hall
by $4,000 cheering persons. Celebra-
tion-h hardened folk forgot the time
clock as they overstayed lunch periods
properly to welcome the inspiration to
$25,0o0,Oo0 worth of bond purchases.
The ball spent yesterday afternoon
at the Hippodrome, was jolted over
upheaved pavements to Times Square
at supper time to feature. an outdoor
show, and braved the junior tempest
for nights lodging back at the Hippo
drome.
Two hundred Yonkers Scouts started
the ball on the beginning of the end
of its journey. At a. NJ. the ball
reached the northern extremity of New
York City
Between Geneva and Yonkers,
slightly less than four hundred miles,
the ball received many greetings.
School children, apartment house
dwellers, hotel dwellers, theatrical
workers, shoppers and loft building
employees sent up cries of welcome and
appreciation as the ball rolled on.
Bands Join Procession
At 10th Street the Department of
Street Cleanings band joined the pro-
cession and Pclham's band swung into
line at Columbus Circle.
Boy scouts lodged in and out of the
welcoming. thousands who lined the
streets, selling thrift stamps and Lib
erty bonds. One tiny bugler sold
$4,000 worth,
A pause at Union Square proved q
fertile field for the operation of bond
statesmen. A bluejacket suggested the
collecting Of $500 for bond for
President Wilson, to be used as the
President saw fit. In five minutes the
amount was subscribed.
The Gordon of mounted policemen
carved passageway through the crowd
at City Hall Park. j. A. Ritchie, in
charge of the ball, made a brief ad-
dress. He declared the ball had passed
through eighty-four cities and twenty
nine counties. 1t had been viewed by
SIX million persons.
Hylan Welcomes the Ball
Mayor Hylan welcomed the ball.
con behalf of the city" he said, "I
wish to congratulate the Boy Scouts on
their wonderful feat in rolling the Lib
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Pigeon Flies to Wilson
With $5,000,0 900 Loan Receipt

need if they stayed long enough, Pri-
vate Marlborough, one OF Pershlng
veterans make a mute appeal for sup
port of the loan.
We've got to equip the boys with
masks and every other instrument OF
defence we can think Of" said the Rev.
William Wilkinson, Bishop of Wall
Street" They're going into places
such as you've never dreamed of, and
il you're not willing to support them
to the extent of your last dollar you're
not worthy to stand here on this side
walk and consider yourselves Ameri-
cans"
Pro-Germans Threatened
Sergeant Marshall, of the American
forces. who at one time served with
the French army, discovered several
men in the crowd who he thought were
German synlpathizers. ~ just heard a
remark from one of you fellows that
didn't sound good to mel" he shouted
I'm going to ask you TO repeat it. If
you've got anything against this bond
issue, say it, and IN come down there
and punch you in the jaw"
Three men sidled out Of the crowd
and the meeting gathered fresh i'm
petus.
Jerome A. Meyers. chairman of the
committee, predicted that his workers
would collect s150o0,000 by the time
the drive ended tonight.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

A homing pigeon circled up between
the Broadway skyscrapers yesterday
and flew off through the rain, carry
ing to President Wilson receipt for
$5,000,000 worth of Liberty bond sub
scriptions sold at the Marathon loan
rally in Times Square. The meeting
began at noon, continued through the
evening and the small hours of the
morning, and will end tonight at IL
o'clock when the loan is given the
final shove over the top.
Rain began to fall at about the time
the theatre audiences were streaming
into Broadway, but failed to interrupt
the rally The crowd hoisted umbrellas
and waited around for the rest of the
continuous show, while subscriptions
flooded the booth in amounts ranging
from $50 to S500,000
"Blue Devils" at Rally
A long list of famous speakers and
entertainers was scheduled to appear
at the rally late last night and to-day.
Among them are Nine. SchumannH Heink,
big Bill" Edwards, Gus Edwards and
his chorus. Cleveland Moifett and the
French "Blue Devils"
Wearing one of the American gas
masks, which he said the crowd would
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Final Loan Rush
Expected at Booths
Barnard College Women Hope
to Sell $25O,OOO Worth
of Bonds To-dav

Every Liberty Loan booth under the
direction of the Women's Committee,
as we'll as those in the hotels and res
taurants. went cover the top" yester-
day.
The Barnard College women at the
Grand Central Station have taken in
$725, 900, and will have an all-day drive
to-day for the rest Of the $1,OOO,O 900
which they have planned to raise. For
the second loan this booth raised only
$140,000
The booth will open at 6 o'clock,
ready to greet the first arrivals on all
night trains. Among the speakers will
be Pershing veterans, Canadian officers
and wounded men, Matt Freeman, a
survivor of the Lusitahia, and jeff
Davis, king of the Hoboes."
big squirt for the last day Of the
loan is planned by the Girl Scouts in
front of the Hotel Plaza. They have
raised 100000, but expect to make it
$500,000 before night.
The Hotel Plaza, which was allotted
only $50O,000, has almost trebled that
amount. Yesterday the hotel corpora
tion subscribed to $250,00O worth of
bonds, bringing the total to $1,450, 900.
Raymond Hitchcock, Fred Stone and
many other stars will be in the grill
tonight to appeal to diners.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

erty Ball from Buffalo to New York.
Their work is an example Of patriotism
for every citizen of the state, and it
should be particularly an example to
the young folks. In behalf of the city
l receive this great Liberty Ball"
Uncle Sam Lowry made an appeal for
bond sales. Bonds fairly flew from the
counter. The Boy Scouts then took the
ball to the Hippodrome.
The Liberty Coach proceeded from
Gedney Farms Hotel yesterday to Ar
rowhead Inn. Haven Avenue and 177th
Street. From here it will start tow
ard City Hall at 10 o'clock, arriving at
noon. Mayor Hylan will be given
eighty-four proclamations from Mayors
of towns on the route, stipulating the
amount in subscriptions at the time
the coach visited them.
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who
loaned the four grays; Judge William
II. Moore, Guy Emerson and Frank D.
Lyon, official speaker of the coach, will
be atop the equipage, together with
Miss Marion Hollins and Mrs. Arthur
Iselin, who did most of the driving on
the trip. Miss Hollins will guide the
four-in-hand through the city and pre-
sent the proclamations to the Mayor.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
5000 at Liberty Land
Glue Loan Bic Boost

Anzacs and few of the Pershing
men still in town went to Liberty Land,
at the 6oth Regiment Armory, last
night, and from the gallery watched
the 5000 persons that broke all records
for attendance. Officers of the Italian
army and men we'll known in public af-
fairs helped to sell bonds
The total subscriptions were not
known last night. Among the larger
contributions was 100000 from Charles
that he contributed the amount through
the efforts of the 60th Regiment. Later
Mr.. Hayden bought gas mask from
the Somme for an additional $100 900.
A German helmet brought the same
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
| $1,000 Greet Here Liberty Ball
As 1t Ends $25,000,O0O Trip
The Loan Programme

10 a. m.-Liberty Coach leaves Ar
rowhead Inn, arriving at City
Hall at noon.
12 m.-Final Day rally at st. Paul's
Church.
~ m.-Urgent appeals to carry the
district over it's quota will be
made at rallies at the Liberty
Bell, the Liberty Bell Park, the
Liberty Theatre and the Liberty
Bank.
IL m.--Special loan ceremony. at a
meeting of the Mozart cociety
breakfast, Hotel Astor
IL m.-Meeting at the Metropolis
Club.
1880 p. me-. H. Sothern and Julia
Marlowe at the Waldorf Astoria.
p. m.--Wake-up meeting at Fort
Greene Park, Brooklyn.
p. m:-"Blue Devils" at rally of the
interior decorators meeting at
Fifty ninth Street and Seventh
Avenue.
1880 p. m.-Junior uniformed organi-
cations of greater New York. Pa
rade from Washington Square to
Union League Club.
IL m.-until midnight the thirty-six-
hour rally at Times Square will
continue.
~ midnig ght-Liberty Land, the war
exhibit. at the 69th Regiment
Armory, closes.
IL midnight-All subscription books
for the third Liberty Loan close.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Wall Street Gives
A Great Welcome
To "Blue Devils''
March in Financial District
Through Salvos of
Cheers

If Miss Liberty, high on her pedestal
at Bedlow's Island, appears a X.
naughty this morning do rot be tns w
harsh with her. for she has entar.
tanned most distinguished visitors.
Bright and early yesterday mornin.
ore hundred of the "Blue Devils.n ~
storm troops of the French Chassenrs
who are here to help the loan oysr
the top, before returning to the feht.
ing line on which they have spent ii.
last three years and more, took ths
ferry to Bedlow's Island and paid
formal call on Miss Liberty herself
They were led by six lieutenants oi
the French army, and were welconsd
to the island by Major Charles ?
Coates. in command of the post.
On their return from their visit tia
blue Devils" marched from the Raj.
terry to the Sub-Treasury Building. IN
Wall Street, where they participate
in the big MONDAY Liberty Loan drive.
The parade up lower Broadway was on
and when they reached the corner a
Broadway and wall street thew wess !.
all but smothered by the thousands
who tried to crowd about them.
While half Of the Blue Devilsv
were attending the soldier perform.
ance of Goodbye, Bill" last night, on
the Forty-fourth Street Theatre Roof.
the other half were busy making .he
rounds Of theatres TO give impetus 10
the Liberty Loan.
A Fifth Avenue 'bas carried them
first to the Victoria Theatre, or 125th
Street, then to the Riverside Theatre
on Broadway and Ninety-sixth Street
and to Locw's Eighty-sixth Street The
atre. They reached Aeolian Hall. on
Forty-second Street, just as the clope
of the joint concert by Alys M;chot
coloratura soprano, and Lester Dona-
hue, the Irish-American pianist, who
reports to an army camp MONDAY.
They Joined in singing the "Marseii.
laise" with Alys Michof.
Around the corner on Broadway the
two sections of Frenchmen were d.
they Joined with Percy Hemans and
his naval singers from Pelham Bay in
helping along the loan.
After midnight they marched no
Broadway to Churchill's restaurant
where they were the guests at dinner
of Colonel Churchill and Albert Stien,
Of the Liberty Loan Committee.
This morning at 10 o'clock they will
begin the last day OF bond sales ss
Broadway and Worth Street. They
will be at the Waldorf astoria at 5
o'clock and at the Plaza, at Fifth Ave
nue. and Fifty-ninth Street, at 4
o'clock At 5 they will take dinner at
the Park Avenue Hotel.
Governor Whitman will review them
at o'clock from the ST. Regis HOTEL
at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ffth Street
From there they will return to Liberty
Land, in the 65th Regiment Armory.
where they are quartered.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Anzacs i'm Parade
Sell Bonds and Get
As Volunteers Here
One Veteran, Wounded Is
Times, Is Anxious to
Return to Battle

Although they carry an average of
bullet apiece in their fighting ranks,
the Anzac veterans yesterday travelled
the streets of New York as they used
to travel the old, free trails of their
native bush, and were on their feet at
the finish.
With few exceptions, the Australians
have been in battle, and bear the
George Bell was shot fifteen times in
two different affairs, and is on his way
back to take his revenge from the
Germans. Bell wouldn't talk about his
exploits, but one of his comrades was
not so modest.
"We were before Galipoli," said the
friend, "and Bell decided to go after
machine-gun nest that already had
taken account of 1000 of our men. He
crawled forward on his stomach
through an enfilading fire of bullets
that spattered the ground like hail. He
reached the machine gun. shot four of
the gunners and killed two with bay
onet. His thumb was shot off and a
bullet in the temple put him out Of
business for several months.
"Those were the first two wounds.
The other thirteen came later on the
Son,me. after Bell had rejoined his reg
lHueHt. ne urea 10 capture announcer ma
chine gun, but failed. They saw him
first, but it took three bullets through
the head. five through the right lung
and five through the leg to stop him. u
Bell admitted he had seen bit of
fighting, but declared that he wasn't
quite satisfied. "My brother was killed
in France, and all my friends are over
there now" he said. Gas long as | can
walk I've got to stay in it."
Colonel w. K. Fethers. commander of
the Australians, took part in the land
ing Of the British forces at Gallipoli
He won his D. S. o. in the battle of
Pozieres Ridge two years ago. On this
occasion his regiment went into action
with % officers and 800 men, and came
out with S officers and 12O men. How
ever, they got the ridge.
In the morning the Australians pa
raded for the Liberty Loan and
gathered what recruits they could find
to take to France with them. One
party of 200, commanded by Lieutenant
Charles E. Edmonds, sold $4,000 worth
of bonds and picked up twenty-five vol
unteers. A second contingent, under
Lieutenant Harold Sharp, enlisted
twenty recruits and added $4,000 to
the loan subscription
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Liberty Blondes
Sell Bonds With
Kiss Thrown In

Liberty loans and liberty bonds"
was the appeal yesterday from three
golden haired young women who
strolled down Fifth Avenue yesterday
with subscription blanks 81 would
almost kiss the first person who in
vests $780," declared one Of the sales
women. A single bond was sold under
the original terms, and the daring trio
escaped. "No more liberties, even for
liberty" was the parting remark.
"Fifty dollars will buy your free
DOM" cried Miss Elsie Van Dyke, ad-
dressing q crowd yesterday in front
of the Liberty Building. "1t is 50
British soldiers from II. NJ S. West
cheshire stepped forward and touched
the side of his blouse. "a piece of
shell caught me here in a running
battle early in the war; he said. Ive
already given my pound of flesh.'
Mileage books to carry the Kaiser
and his crowd to the Internal regions,
was the name used by L. w. Adler,
a -four minute speaker" for the bond
blanks he sold. ~ figure it's in the
neighborhood of 100000 miles from
, here to the hot place." said Mr.. Adler.
Kaiser fifty miles on his way"
The oldest woman to buy bonds on
Fifth Avenue yesterday-and she didn't
care If people did know her age-was
Mrs. Elizabeth Tiernay, eighty years
old. She was old enough to remember
the Austrian revolt, and she horc no
love for Prussia, she declared, as she
laid down $500 on the Liberty sales
table. She was Hungarian, she
added, but had married an Irishman,
which accounted for the "Tiernay.
The Singing Cops" under Patrolman
Patrick Fitzgibbons,. got such good
start in their Liberty Loan drive that
Police Commissioner Enright assigned
them to keep up the good work yester-
day at the Liberty Theatre and at the
Public Library. The total of their sale
of Liberty bonds amounted last night
( to $S50,000. Headed by the Police
Band, the glee club paraded up and
down Broadway and Fifth Avenue, and
played between parades at the Public
Library.
A tall, slender man stood engrossed
in iiberty bond meeting conducted by
Boy Scouts at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-
| fourth Street on Thursday. He was
listening to two scouts enthusiastically
Ignoring the proper tones of some pa
triotic songs, when Scout Edward Pin
ney accosted him.
Bought any bonds from the Boy
Scouts?"' he asked meaningly.
1--WE helped sell few" replied the
I man.
81 think you should buy one from
the scouts" the boy insisted.
The tall, slender man thought so too.
He signed an, order on the Treasury for
$50 and took the bond The signature
the boy observed with pleased sur
prise--was William G. McAdoo, Secre.
tary Of the Treasury.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
This Is Button Day
For Liberty Loan

To-day is Liberty Loan Button
Day. Every person who has sub
.scribed to third Liberty bond
should wear loan button. Those
without the insignia will be con-
spicuous targets for solicitors. All
who have purchased bonds and lost
their buttons can get another button
at any booth or bank by buying an
other $50 bond.
another bond" On this the final day
to bring the New York district far
beyond it's minimum.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Anzac Gets Sight Back
After Simple Operation

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Blinded by
a she'll explosion at Gallipoli early in
the war, Thomas Skeyhill, an Anzac
private, had his sight restored here to-
day by a simple operation on the
vertebra of his neck.
Examination of Skeyhill, who has
been lecturing for the third Liberty
Loan, showed a vertebra at the head
of the spinal column slightly out of
position. A correction easily was made
and the blindness dispelled. Ply
sicians said that the displaced verte-
bra had impaired functions of nerves
indispensable to sight.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

amount from Lionello Parera, of 60
Wall Street.
1t was Italian night, and many of the
speakers used that language in address,
ing the crowd. Judge John ]. Freschi
spoke, and was followed by Oreste
Ferrara, former president of the Cuban
Parliament. William Fellowes Morgan
represented the Italy-America Society.
Among the other speakers were Bourke
Cochran and Romolo Pritonj, the Ital-
ian Consul General
Among the hostesses were Mrs.
Gatti- Casazza, Mrs. Romolo Phitonj,
Mrs. Ricardo R. Bertelli and Mrs. S.
Caccianino. The Metropolitan Opera
Chorus sang
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
9 Big Cities i'm N. Y.
District Pass Quota

Half of the cities with populations
in excess of $4,000 in the Second Fed
eral Reserve District exceeded their
Liberty Loan quotas after twenty-three
days Of campaigning. There are eigh-
teen cities Of this class in the district.
Nine have filled more than 100 per
cent of their official allotments, three
more than 90 per cent and six less than
90 per cent.
The entire Reserve District has sub
scribed to 81 per cent of its quota, and
New York City TO 81 per cent of it's
minimum. The rest of the district has
filed subscriptions for 10l per cent of
its quota.
In relative achievements in the loan
the large cities of the district rank as
follows on the basis of the official re-
turns to the Federal Reserve Bank for
twenty-three days: