The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-04-17
LOAN QUOTA Is
$4,000 UNDER
THE FOURTH ONE
Kennewick Will be Expected to
Raise $66,375 to Finish
War Job
COMMITTEE is ENTHUSIASTIC
Many Returned Heroes will be Here
Next Friday with the Special
Trophy Train

kenneWlck,S quota Oh the Victory
Liberty loan is $66,375, or more than
$4,000 less than the Fourth Liberty
Loan quota of $S7, ,4SO. The amount
of the quota was just received today
from County, Chairman Guy Pearl and
the local committee will meet this eve
ming to complete plans for launching
the drive Monday morning.
All gloom as to inability to raise
the quota has long since been dispell-
ed insofar as members of the COM
mittee are concerned. Every MEM
ber of the committee is enthusiastic
and we are going over the top with
whoop," said Chairman E. w. Tren-
bath this afternoon. NKennewick has
done everything that has been asked
Of it in connection with the war and
we are going to finish the job. The
fairest and easiest way to raise the
quota seems to be by means Of the al
lotment cards which we intend to mail
out SO they will be in the hands of
the people Monday. In this we do not
intend to be arbitrary or unreasonable.
The cards will mererly suggest the
amount, which in the opinion of the
committee, each individual will have
to subscribe TO meet our quota and
equitably distribute the burden. If the
people in this community six months
ago could subscribe more than $87, 900
with the prospects of several more
loans staring them in the face, and an
uncertain winter season ahead Of them :
they certainly can subscribe $4,000
now when definite assurance is given !
that this is to be the last Liberty Loan
and they have the promise Of most
prosperous season ahead Of them" N-
One of thcsb features Of the pres
ent-campaign will be the Victory spec
.ial train which will arrive here at 6:55
Friday evening Of next week. Altho
the train is scheduled to remain here
only a. twenty minutes the hundreds
of captured war trophies which It car
ries will be well worth seeing.
The personnel of the trophy train is
composed exclusively Of ex-service
men in Uncle Sans forces. There
will be overseas artillerymen to ex-
plain those dread engines of war, and
aviators to carry the crowds thru the
stories of German motors and planes.
One of the most interesting men
and one of whom the whole state is
proud is Captain E. X. Brown, Of Ell
lensburg. CaptainsB Brown is q veter-
an Of two wars. He was a private in
Company /, 5Oth Iowa Volunteers dur
ing the Spanish-American war. He
served in the World War for eighteen
months, being commissioned first lieu
tenant of Field Artillery at Preside
in November 1917. For time he was
with the French army on the Verdun
front. He was later transferred to
the Seventh Field Artillery, First Div
vision, (regulars) with which he serv-
ed on six battle fronts, as battarY
He was in the. battles
of Cantigny, Soissons, St. Mihiel' and
the Argonne.
After the scissors battle he was
promoted to captaincy. He was cit-
ed for distinguished service in the Ar
gonne, where he was in continuous
action for forty-three days. He saw
some of the hardest fighting on the
western front narrowly escaping
death several times.
Captain Brown is resident Of Ell
lensburg, having lived in Kittitas
county for thirteen years. He is
lawyer by profession; was prosecut-
ing attorney of the county for four
years, and was member of the 1913
legislature.
The train will be parked on the N.
p. house track in front of the H. H.
Davis and Pacific Fruit & Produce
companies warehouses and all visi-
tors are asked to go to the train by
way of Tacoma street lin front Of the
laundry and to return by way of Pa
cifc street. This viii prevent con-
gestion of the crowd and permit all
visitors to pass thru the train and
view the trophies.