The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-04-25
Second Day Brings Total Of S29 ,867,.
$50 Sold Toward $3.50 900, 900
Quota.
official Subscriptions Reported at
Close Of Business Tuesday, April %.
Total .$29.S G7,S25

st. Louis, April 24.-Nore than Is
per cent Of the Victory Liberty Loan
quota for the Eighth Federal Reserve
District had been officially subscribed
at the close Of busine S on the second
day Of the drive.
With a quota Of $195. 600, 900 the
sales officially reported totaled $29..
SCI $50. UnofficiaIly it is known that
the sales are very much larger, but
in the compilation only the actual of.
fetal sales are reported.
! While Liberty Loan officials regard
the opening of the present campaign
the most auspicioua of all the five of
the great series Of Liberty Loans, a
note Of warning is sounded for the
public and especially the workers to
guard against being overconfdent.
The only safe way to accomplish this
is TO roll up a large ov"ersubscriptlon.
Indiana, that has a habit of going
over the top first in Liberty Loan cam
paigns, has again jumped into the
lead, and now has a percentage Of .4l5.
and with sales aggregating 1891, 900.
Marcus s, Sonntag, State Chairman
for the HOosier state, reached head
quarters yesterday and found that his
state had only a percentage of IS. Be.
fore noon yesterday he had official
reports that advanced him to the head
OF the column. and he says they will
stay there until the finish.
Evansville, he says, will complete
her quota and shove Vanderburgh
county over the top b,tore the end Of
the present week. and he feels conf.
dent the state will complete its quota
next week.
Reversal in Tennessee.
Tennessee is showing a strange re.
Versal OF form. In. former campaigns
This state was much joked at because
OF her slow filing of her quota, a
thing she always achieved before The
close Of the campaign.
But today Tennessee is basking IN
second place with a percentage of 4
trihe more than 80, and is riding easy
State Chairman r. l.. Jordan said thar
Memphis is responsible for the splan.
did showing. Shelby county. Of which
Memphis Is the principal city, has al.
ready reported sales a~ggregating S..
S56'25O Of a quota of $500, 500. The
city will ill its quota early next week
according to adyices received by
Jordan.
Inc rural communities are slow
about reporting, reports being in from
only four Tennessee counties The
chairman has sent kilograms reouest
ing quick reports and he hopes that Ms
state will be all in by the close Of
next week.
Mississippi, which Jumped into first
place on the opening day, lapsed into
third place today. Chairman Kretcb.
MAJ said that but few additional
counties had reported but unofficial
reports showed that the Mi~ssissippjans
were all at work and that there wa
more confidence than in any previous
loan There is no fear of Mississipnl
being backward.
Arksansas is also backward abopi
reporting, though the unofficial ro.
ports that reach Chairman Hemingway
ana Vice Chairman Petite are most
encouraging. The entire state Of
Arkansas is in the Eighth District. and
'here are few large cities. II is es.
"entlally a rural state, and the returns
are slow in being recorded.
1t VIII be remembered, however. that
Arkansas was the leader in the Fourth
Loan, and the workers are determined
TO keep that position in the Victory 4,
Loan.
Others Coming ALONG. Il
ILLINOIS, Is one of the states that has \
always been reckoned as among ma 1
reliable ones. Never a good sfartsr 4
liilnols is the state that keeps tho \
leaders guessing, aud there is never
any telling what State Charm, m n
Oraotree has up his sleeve. and how A
soon his state win take a spurt md D
so over the hurdles TO the Command
ing position.
uFaolree has a bundle of kilograms
rom all over the state. Here IL
Specimen, from Henry c. Sifford NJ,
anna Union county going strong
one hundred and twenty five thousand
TWO hundred and fifty dollars sub'
scrioed' The quota OF Union county,
Is $174,25O. N
Missouri is another state that n.s,
give no alarm, despite the fact tba,