The courier-index., 1918-10-04
|RERTY LOAN
 Is EASILY RAISED

L,,u7y,s QUOTA OF s2ao,-
 e9oRe THAN SUBSCRIBED
 Unay AND SUNDAY VOL
 ER DAYS
 had crop conditions in
 oDs Inf Lee county and the
 ,sDs sustained by the busi-
 .Drests ves of Marianna in the big
 months ago, the people Of
 <, responded in a fine spirit
 n .;.m to the governments call
 .erintions to the Fourth Lib
 snd sale. the largest of any
 lu nut out by the government,
 Saturday and Sunday, the
 a,nnteer days, the citizens
 themselves to buy bonds in
 of the quota of $29O,Ooo as
 to Lee county.
 was little hurrah or excite
 c;dent to this bond campaign.
 acKee, chairman for this coun-
 practically the same organi-
 thst assisted in putting over
 ;rd Liberty Loan. The town rganizations did splendid pre-
 work. Amos Jarman of
 inc district chairman. kept
 touch with the situation in
 tbe four counties comprising Etrict, and by keeping the ma l of the organization running |lv Mir. Jarman, with his assist 1 each county, has achieved Emarkable feat of raising the ked quota for this district by ser subscriptions. Reports Phillips, St. Francis and Mon kunties are to the effect that |onle in those counties respond Nv on the volunteer days, just N did in Lee county.
 |rman Mckee has not received bte reports from all the town |but he has enough definite in lion to know the loan has been Inscribed by from ten to twenty Ind dollars. He so advised Hemingway. state chairman, |y and on Wednesday he re- the following telegram from |emingway:
 Ee received your report show bll quota subscribed. Extend Ind the good people of Lee heartiest congratulations in so generously responded .o |overnment's call in spite of adyersities. Keep up the good and roll up a nice oversub- on to help out the few counties zansas who will not be able to the mark"
 Francis the Banner Township St. Francis township belongs d lag of honor. George Kausler, food, Dick Ray and other live in St. Francis township pulled 9 stellar stunt of all the cam The quota for St. Francis nip was $1S,40O. Within less lhree days the people..of that lip, all negroes with the excep- f less than a score of whites, pledged themselves to take in bonds, and since Monday l additional subscriptions have received to bring the total to han $36.000-double the assess In the last Liberty Loan drive ancis township went far over p, and in all the calls of the lment the township has made record. It is stated lore than $S0,000 has been put the people of St. Francis town or the various war activities the past year
 SC Quota in Thirty Minutes 4aGrange Banks Mcdonald, NDr. husswurm and others raised quota within less than thirty s La Grange precinct was ga s6,2OO, and the committee
 Tn pledges for $6,500. The
 precinct did equally as well. ssessment was $7,500 and the ttee raised $11,900. J. B. III spring Creek township, re-
 ms committee had not the sl difficulty in raising more le quota. At Aubrey the same
 were obtained. The quota ing Creek was $9,200. Pledges llng to s1O,S50 were turned in. 2" Township Comes Strong township, as usual. did the me thing. Through the efforts l. , noeouck, J. J. Hughes, Jr.. "e, public spirited citizens of , TWO big celebrations were mat city. On each occasion ''ane from Ebbetts Field, near ,o.u made flights over Haynes. '0'a Tor Union township was s, me committee had pledges sio,oOO by Monday, and 1t ,as.ood this has been mate. aoleased ' since then.
 Insae I'Sence There With Bells On ,uependence no township and .s a the quota of $115.OOO was