The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-25
TENNESSEE TAXES
! Du|TH 50% OF
LOAN QUOTA SOLD
EIGHTH DISTRICT NOW HAS 20
PER CENT SUBSCRIPTIONS
IN THREE DAYS MoRk.
INDIANA TRUE 10 FORM
Kentucky Has Eight Counties Over
Top With No Returns In From
Louisville.
Official Subscriptions Reported at
$4O,918,10O

st. Louis, Mo-. April 25.-Tennessee
ran wild today in the Victory Liberty
Loan handicap, and now leads the
field. crowding Indiana, out of first
place, and for the first time in the
great Liberty Bond series being at the
head of the column. Tennessee has
already sold fifty per cent of her
quota.
Sales reported up to the close of
business Wednesday night in the
seven states and parts of states COM
prisins the Eighth District totaled
$40,91s,1 100, giving the district a pei
centase fraction over twenty Other
figures from the other eleven districts
in the United States are not available,
but it is apparent that the Eighth Dis
trict is making a most creCitable
showing, and it is believed if the other
figures were available it would show
the ST. Louis District in the lead of
all the country
However, there rs no danger of the
workers ceasing taeir efforts, and the
warning against ove4cenfdence is be
ing sent forth f-e:s. Headquarters
When Shelby County. which in
cludes the city Of Memphis. came in
with subscription of $6,600,0O to-
wards it's goal OF $9,690.5O0, and raised
the state sales to one-haIf of the quota,
Tennessee had heard from only seven
Of its twenty-one counties in the
Eighth District. The only county that
had gone over the top is Haywood,
whose quota is s23O.250. Dyer Coun-
ty has raised nearly two-thirds of it's
quota of S327 800 and Upton County
is approaching the halfway mark.
State Chairman Jordan of Tennessee
received the following telegram from
N. B. Keithly, chairman of Haywood
County, at Brownsville, saying: 1--WE
have sold Haywood County's quota:
we are over the top and ready for an
other one"
Indiana is running true to form, and
is within striking distance of her old
position, first place, that she has SO
consistently occupied in all of the loar
campaigns. Marcus S. Sonntag, the
Indiana State chairman. is an old cam
paigner. and yesterday he could
scarcely believe the figures that
showed that Tennessee, in other cam
paigns always we'll in the rear, had
jumped into first place, and he joking
ly twitted State Chairman R. L. Jor.
dan of Tennessee with jockeying for
first place.
With reports in from just twelve of
his twenty-four counties, Chairman
Sonntag has his mount a safe second
with a percentage of more than forty
eight. He says he will have the state
over the top in a few days.
Mississippi Coming Up.
Mississippi is another state that IS
showing surprising strength, and has
raised practically one-third of her
quota. Chairman Kretchmar is we'll
satisfied with the showing his state is
making. He has no large cities in E,.,
territory, and only two counties with
quotas that exceed million dollars.
One of these, Coahoma, went over the
top on the first day, and LeFlore
county, with quota Of 81 .0O3 $50, has
raised $550,UO0 of that quota And re-
ports are in from only II of the 40
Mississippi counties in the district.
Arkansas is keeping up the stride,
and is making better progress in. this
race than in any of the former cam
paigns. She has sold more than q
per cent of her quota, and has reports
in from only 25 counties. And Of these
rs counties II have gone over the top