Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-04-17
is YOUR HOME TOWN
IN THE UNITED STATES?
Read this Story of Jacksonville and
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the giving
In the meanwhile the $40 per 100
hogs and the 1926 a hushel wheat was
moving to market right along with
the high-priced beoves and the eggs
de luxe and all the other high-priced
foodstufrs that we're coming from the
country in which most of Jefferson
vile was vitality interested. There was
more money being spent than ever
before in the history of the town.
Nearly everybody had car ordered
and the income tax paid with some
weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth and much inward bleeding
was being forgotten. The dealers were
busy selling new pumps, new plowS,
tractor now and then and many,
many motor cars. The piano and or.
ean man, who also sold talking ma
chimes, was congratulating himself on
a record business. The milliners and
dry goods people were not complain
ing, thank you.
Loan Talk Avoided.
In the meanwhile the ships were
bringing thousands of young Ameri,
cans home. And Central Europe was
beginning to rumble and emit vol
canic Hghtnings. Jefferscnyille was
not looking much further than its
immediate horizon-than the coun-
tiers and the ledgers and the farms
and the fields, the getting and buying
and selling. Jacksonville, as has
been noted, was trying it's best to for
get all about the war.
The Loan started. All over the ma
ton devoted men and women bent to
the task of raising the money so ur-
gently needed for the financing of the
United States of America in its year
after the war The Liberty Loan post
ers and literature sent to Jefferson
vile were left in the express Office.
The town slept placidly on. 1t seemed
to have been forgotten by the county
organization. No one disturbed it.
Nevertheless Jacksonville could
not entirely forget the Victory Loan
The newspapers were talking about
it. Il was in full swing all over the
country with the usual agonizing ur-
certainties as to what district was
going to first clear the ropes with its
quota subscribed. Jeffersonville stirred
family in its sleep and few of the
dyed-in-wool Americans placed their
subscriptions and began to remon-
strate.
However it was tacitly understood
in Jefersonville that the loan was
not subject of general conversation.
The weather was never more talked
about anywhere than it was in that
little town for few days. Then ths
workers, those who had bestirred
themselves in the otter loans, began
to feel uneasy and conscienoe-strick-
en-. Men began to mention the loan,
sort Of tentatively.
Then Jacksonville went through
another curious phase. 1t began to;
try and persuade itself that tlse loan
ought to fail and that it would fail.
Teach these Smart Alexis down %
Washington sumthin'," muttered moro
than one Jacksonville citizen to HIM
self.
Beginning 90 sting EN-.
kilograms and long distance calls
began to sting few of the citizens
but they managed to forget about
them in a day or so. The Lean was
moving along day by day but Jeffer-
sonviile's quota was hanging fire. Ben
Ochs was chuckling to himself and
cautiously imparting his views to
few of his intimates. The hurnbling
Of Germany was bitter dose for him.
He would keep still when he had to,
but he was more than pleased to see
that Jeffersonville was not bothering
itself about the fool loan" It pleased
he Hunnish soul OF him to feel that
he Yankee pigs" were Indifferent to
their loan. He could not forget that
his brother and cousins had worn the
helmets of TIC Kaiser's guard with
"Gott Nit Uns" On their belt buckles
and he had gloated with them, in
Imagination, over the spoil and the
loot that was 20 have been theirs in
Paris and London. So he strength.
oned the determination Of his &C
ouainrances not to sign for a dOlIar's