The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
9TH DISTRICT OFF
To / FINE START
IN VICTORY LOAN
THREE MISSOURI COUNTIES GO
OVER THE TOP ON FIRST DAY !.
OF CAMPAIGN.
ARKANSAS GOING r
Encouraging Reports Received From
Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Mississippi.

St. Louis, April 22.-With a number
Of counties in the Eighth Federal Re-
serve District reported over the top
on the first day Of the Victory Liberty
Loan campaign. the workers in this
district are confident of maintaining
their record Of leadership in the ma.
tion's drive to finish the job.
Missouri got away to q record-break.
ing start with subscriptions, three
counties reporting their full quota on
the first day. The. are: Rails county,
whose quota was 5000, 900; Cape
Girardeau county 1854. ESQ. and Madi-
o county, $4,000. J. G. Hughes,
state chairman, say the prospects in
Missouri for a quick n successful
campaign are bright. The following
telegram was received from Spring
field, No.: Victory Loan quite popu-
lar with large and small investors in
Springfield and Greene county. Sold
$644.5O0 Saturday night at a dinner
given by County Chairman H. B. Nc
Daniel at Colonial Hotel. The Frisco
general Offices here, under direction
Of Sam Hughes, have all day session
and start Frisco employees drive for
$4,000. 900, with bright outlook Tor
quick success.
State Chairman E. E. Crabtrce. of
the Illinois district, has received a
number Of messages indicating the
loan campaigners made an early start,
and are getting results rapidly. A
characteristic message is the following
from Thos. P. Vass, Macoupin county
chairman: Amount right. Rates
right. Causes right. We will eat
EN- alive. We will take Off our coats
In this county and go to it as never
before"
H. O. Csburn, county chairman at
Murphysboro, advised that at a meet
ing of township sales directors, the en-
tire quota of Jackson county was
pledged. At a meeting at Vienna, ILL.,,
johnson county's quota of Victory
Loan Notes, $134. 900, was practically
subscribed, and County Chairman T.
P, Chapman advised that by Monday
night Johnson county could be put in
the lover the top column.
Arkansas in Race.
Arkansas, the only state in it's en-
! tirety in the Eighth Federal Reserve
District, and the state that gained
first honors in the Fourth Liberty
Loan Campaign for selling a larger
proportion of bonds than any other
state in the district. is ready for the
campaign and reports indicates that
it will do even better in the Victory
! campaign.
State Chairman Hemingway IS on
the job at st. Louis. n in addition
he is being assisted by Vice-Chairman
Virgil c. Petite of ~Jonesboro.
Jonesboro is in Craishead County,
and the county h"S a quota of s5o3,-
900. A telegram from the county
chairman Of Craighead informs Pet
tie that the city of Jonesboro raisea
it's quota by voluntary subscription t.
8 O'Clock Monday morning.
Lake City, also IN Creaghead Couc-
IL, wires that IT'S quota of $4,000 M /
been ab :orgcd several days ago, and
that il was tic toast - Like Cit.
it was the first city N the United
States to go yer The ton on the Vic
tory LON. ] Ike City is also rejaio-
! ing in the fac that it was av ,ried a
$3.50 piano fnr Ling ttn school dis
trict that SO the Ia ;e5 amount of
Thrift STAN 9"ovc Is quota.
In c. e. States.
The first equity in the Eighth Dis.
trict to gain the honor of being first
to report officially its entire quota
being taken without a single note be-
ing subscribed by a bank is Coahoma
County, Mississippi.
| "Coahoma County won the honor of
naming a transport in the Fourth
Loan" said State Chairman Kretch-
mar. land is to be congratulated on
gaining new honors."
Humphreys County was the first
county to report its quota old i'll the
Fourth Loan, and was also the first i'll
! this loan. The telegram failed to
state. however. that the subscriptions
were all made by individuals, ind
were not underwritten by the banks.
West Tallahatchie, with a quota of
$195 $50, also reported it quota reach
ed by 3 o'clock Monday morning. Al
together the prospects are very fiat
. tering. n Mississippi will be well
over the top long before the end of
ne campaign"
Reports today from Indiana are
meager. State Chairman Marcus S.
, Louis headquarters fc- the opening
day. Greene County. with a quot, OF
$604.85O wired in that it's quota had
beer taken. but .lat a large oversub.
scrir.icn would fell. W.
In all the recent loan campaigns
indiana has gone over the top first,
and IN b recent visit. Chairman 8 mn
tag said his state would give the came
good account Of itself In the present
loan.
r. ]. Jordan, Tennessee state CHAIR
man. arrived Tuesday and advance
sissippi, sell to the highest bid
der for cash, the following described
property, to-wit: