The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-10-11
TAKE A new START
ON LIBERTY BONDS.
j. H. Brown Succeeds B. D.
Newsom as County Chair
man-G ood Meeting at
Mayors Office-Money Must
Be Raised, Says Those at
Meeting-A Partial List of
Largest Subscribers.

The Fourth Liberty Loan organi-
Zation made a shift on Tuesday. Mr..
s. d. Newsom, county director. was
on the sick list and asked to be re-
.ieved for the reason that he wanted
nothing left undone to bring the
county up with its quota. Mr.. New
som has done all he could and had
the campaign pretty well under way,
however, he was confronted with an
neXcusable lethargy and delay upon
the part of so many that ought to buy
bonds literally, that he was dis
couraged and very properly. But
conditions that Mr.. Newsom had to
meet were largely those that are
having to be dealt with in many other
sections of the state.
Acting upon Mr.. Newsom's re-
quest, there was representative
gathering at the mayors office in
Grenada at O'Clock p. m. Tuesday,
at which time Mr. Mr. Newsom stat
ed conditions and said that in view
of the fact that he was on the sick
list and most probably was in for a
spell of influenza. he asked to be
renewed of the county chairmanShip.
Mr.. ). h. Brown, a sage IN financier-
ing and dOer of things when it comes
TO plotting any business arrange
ment, was unanimously chosen to
succeed Nh. Newsom as chairman.
Mr.. Brown readily accepted the task
imposed upon him as one who felt
that it was patriotic duty. He
brushed fOrmalities aside and at once
landed squarely in the middle of the
lob. He said the bonds must be sold,
that the county could not afford not
10 take its allotment. Inquiry was
made as to whether it was proposed
TO sell the bonds on the assessment
already made by the assessment COM
mittee and it developed that the
meeting was a unit in thinking that
many assessments should be raised.
Several cases were cited of parties
worth up in the tens of thousands.
parties not residents of Grenada, too,
who were assessed only a hundred
dollars or two. With one voice it
was agreed that these persons as
well as others must 'come across
or the public must know the reason
why.
Chairman Brown said that he had
twenty-three on his list that ought
10 buy as much as $4,000 in bonds
of the Fourth Loan and he said sew
eral of those were present. He be-
gan the call of the list and goodly
response was had.
The sales committee from the
various sections Of the county met
Wednesday morning and new plans
were set on foot which it is believed
will soon put the county where it
ought to be and where it must be
on the Fourth Liberty Loan-over
the top.
The sentiment is that the Stacker
must be made known. The excuse
that Il will buy as soon as l sell my
cotton or as soon as | collect certain
debts" is no good and will not go.
The man who has cotton to sell
should buy bonds because he has the
cotton. The man who is fortunate
enough to have other people owe
him, owes something to his Govern
ment and should buy bonds because
he has collectable debts.
The following are few of the
leading takers of the Fourth Liberty
Loan reported thus far and it should
perhaps De SLdCeu Ciidt IiCSc oii .ooN
some of the other three loans:
T. P Lamkin, $4,000. Each OF
the following took $4,000: Jas.
Cuff, J. T. Thomas, j. H. Brown,
Mrs. Cora Griffis, J. c. Perry, w. II.
Kirk. w. B. Hoffa. These took
$4,000 each: B. c. Duncan, A. ).
McCaslin, w. H. Whitaker, Col. ..
F. Bledsoe. These took $1,000 each:
A. D. Collins, Joe Jackson, Edgar
Underwood, E. A. Penn, j. T. Keeton,
J. G. Weeks, w. P. Wilkins, K. Press
grove, Mrs. M. c. Roberts, Mrs. l..
L. Scruggs, R. Doak, A. Gerard.
With reports thus far there IS but
about 100000 subscribed. There
will have to be some speeding up 10
finish raising the loan OF S2oo,Ooo
by October 19.