The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-22
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN Is
LARGELY OVERSIZE
SCRIBED HERE

were taking in the proceedings from
the wings, this county must have
all the money in the world, the way
those subscriptions in the big thous
ands are rolling in" And that is
near-truth in regard to the big drive
which might as we'll close now.
A big impetus was really given the
drive when, at meeting held at the
court house Friday night the sum of
s331,500 was raised in a short time.
The meeting was presided over. by
Mr.. A. B. Hancock. County Chair
man Buckner Woodford made short
address, in which he explained the
real worth of the Liberty Bonds as a
safe investment. Interesting ad-
dresses were delivered by Hon. e. NJ.
Dickson, John w. Jones and others,
tending to work the audience up to
great pitch of enthusiasm and pre-
pare them for the big meeting at the
Opera House on Sunday afternoon.
At two o'clock. the hour set for
the Sunday afternoon meeting the
| Opera House was crowded from the
stage to the last seat in the gallery,
the color line not being strictly
drawn in that section, either I'm
able to gain admission many went to
the stage, from where they viewed
the picture. and listened to the Navy
Band. There wasn't standing room,
even, when the meeting was called
to order by Mr.. A. B. Hancock
The principal speaker of the af-
] ternoon was Hon. George F. Speer,
of Frankfort, former State Senator,
and State Banking Commissioner.
dience by Mr. John j. Williams. In
well-worded and eloquently deliv-
cred address Mr.. Speer told of the
horrors of war and the necessity of
the country standing behind the
/ President and the promoters of the
present Liberty Loan. He told of
being in Washington on the day the
declaration of a state of war between
this country End Germany was issued
and of the intense enthusiasm pre-
vailing IL the Capital at the time.
He referred in feeling terms to the
returned soldiers for whom all must
now entertain wholesome respect.
He made an appeal to the people to
support the Liberty Loan with all
the money they could raise. Mr..
Speer's address was followed by the
great war film, 1.-THE Price of Peace"
and the band concert by the Great
Lakes Navy Band, under the direct
ton of Chief Musician Miraud Ten
nant.
Mr.. Hancock, after getting the at
tention of the big audience, read the
list of previous contributors tc the
Victory Loan, who had made their
pledges at the Friday night meeting
or privately to the members Of the
soliciting committee before the drive
really began. Members of the orga-
nization, the tellers and others oc-
cupied seats on the stage. After
making few announcements Mr..
Hancock stated that the work of TAX
ing subscriptions would begin and
hurried through with, in order to let
the audience hear the Navy Band
subscriptions began to be reported
from all parts of the house, until the
tellers had all they could do to keep
track of the list. They ranged any
where from $4,000 down to $50
and even lower. The enthusiasm
mounted higher and higher and the
subscriptions came thicker anc
thicker, until it became apparent
even to the most pbtuse man in the
audience that the loan would be
| largely oversubscribed and Ego over
the top" by several thousands.
Even after the stage had beer
turned over to the Navy Band be
lated subscriptions continued to bt
reported, and the tellers having NOV
ed their tables behind the screen
began their work of tabulating the
returns. A total of S671, 900 was re
ported as the result of the campaign
for the afternoon. This result wa:
at once wired to headquarters of the
Liberty Loan Committee at Cleve
land. Ohio, with the addenda, "AnC
|: there is more coming from where
this came-from" 1t was this seem
ing plenty of riches which drew fortf
the exclamation of astonishmen
from the Navy Band musician.
At the night meeting the same
program was observed. Mr.. T. B
Jarvis, of Cleveland, o., spoke to tn
crowd. A large number of subscrlp
tions were handed in, making tn
total of the three meeting S697,
200, about 100000 more than tn
| quota asked of the county. Cam
| paign officials expect to more thar
| double the quota, as subscription
| continue to be received. The cam
| paign will continue through tn
| week, in accordance with the pro
! gram. Subscriptions from two bank
not yet reported are expected t
bring the total to approXlmatel
100000.
II 1t has been the policy of TIL