Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-04
ARKANSAS LEADS EIGHTH DISTRICT
 IN LIBERTY LOAN
With Fifty Two Per Cent of Its Quota Already Sub
 scribed Up to Thursday
Special to The Graphic.

Special to The Graphic.
 St. Louis, Oct. 3.-Arkansas in the Fourth Liberty Loan race is out in front with a percentage of 52 per cent and Chairman Hemingway says lis state will be the first in the dis trict to reach it's full quota.
 Illinois has plunged into the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign with charac. teristic energy, and at the end of three working days has trifle more than one third of it's quota subscrib- cd.
 Wirt Wright, Chairman of St. Clair county, with the largest quota of any county in the Illinois district, says his county has sold as many bonds al- ready as was sold in the three weeks campaign of the Third Loan.
 Bond, Edwards and Lawrence coun- ties have gone over the top in Hi nois. Chairman Crabtree says that when the returns are made official he will have pretty nearly enough to place his state over the top. Only actual, bona fide sales are in the estimate given, and the official reports may not be i1i for some time.
 State Chairman Marcus s. Sonntag, of Indiana reached headquarters We'd nesday from his home in Evansville. He said that while the official returns do not make an impressive showing there is no doubt about Indiana doing all the Government asks.
 Evansville in Is hours. according to Sonntag, subscribed over $4,000,- :%o 4%0 h. scriptions are bona fide and absolute ly good he explains. but they are not entered the states showing today merely because they have not been of- ficially reported by the banks. In reaching 52 per cent of its total of $12,6OO,000 the Arkansas chairman was heard from only sixty out of the eighty-six counties. Eleven counties have gone lover the top"
 Missouri State Chairman, J. c.. Hughes, was advised tha. Lincoln County has gone lover the top" for it's quota of $437,000. Sunday was volunteer day in Lincoln and the peo-. ple met in the various district school houses and bought bonds with q rush. w. E. Williams the county chairman says, that while returns have not been completely tahalaLed indications are that the goal has been reached. West Tennessee secls encouraging reports, Ohio County leading with seventy five per ceas of ints quota. Memphis which has the largest share to subscribe in the Tennessee District reports good progress.
 Although the retutas from M'ssis- sippi are slow in com'ng in, and only fifteen out of the thicty-n.ne counties have been heard from, the state al- ready has subscribed forty per cent cent o7 it's quota and the state char. man is encouraged to believe that If the slow counties would speed up the goal might be reached this week. Kentucky's big figures probably will not be tabulated before Satur- day, already Louisville has forty,,tlve per cent of the quota and on Wsdnes- day began a three days drive. ln the meantime Graves County which has . quota of SASS, ,000 has subscribed $4O4, ,O0O while Hickman County has bought $112,O0o wor,h of bonds to- wards it's goal of $137 ,00o. Chair'n an Owin stated that in Russell County one-third fthe subser,pticn neeied to put the county over tho top ca.'e from volunteers on ta'. first two days of the campaign.