The Kentuckian., 1919-04-23
IS YOUR HOME. TOWN
IN THE UNITED STATES! !
Read this Story Of Jeffersonvllle and
Be Sure About It

the giving
In the meanwhile the $40 per 100
hogs and the s2.2s bushel wheat was
moving to market right along with
tho high-priced beeves and the eggs
de luxe and all the other high-priced
fooAstufrs that were coming from the
country in which most of Jefferson
vflle was vitally 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,
a tractor now and then and many,
many motor cars. The piano and or
gan man, who also sold talking ma
chimes, was congratuIatipg himself on
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 lightnings. Jeffersonville was
not looking much further than its
immediate horizon than the coun-
ters and the ledgers and the farms
and the fields, the getting and buying
and selling. Jeffersonville, as has
been noted, was trying its best to for
get all about the war.
The Loan started. All over the ma
tion devoted men and women bent TO
the task Of raising the money so ur-
Eently needed for the financing Of the
United States Of AEsortoa In It's year
after the wur. The Liberty Loan post
Ors and literature sent to Jef1ersCG-
! vile were len m the express Office.
The town slept placidly on. 1t seemed
TO have been forgotten By the coasty
organisation. No one disturbed H.
Nevertheless Jenersonville could
not entirely forgst the victory Loan
The newspapers were talking about
II. II was in fulg swing all over the
country with the usual aeOniEing I'M
certainties an to what district was
going to arst clear the ropes with hs
quota subscribed. Jacksonville stirred
family in its sleep and few of the
dyed-in-voOl Americans placed thcir
subscriptions and began to remo@
Straks.
Howevoz, II was tneatiy uAdeSStoe'
In JeEcrsonvHlle that TIE loan va
/ nCt 4 subject u general conversation
whs vaakAsr was nsMsr usors taiha1
ahsut aIywAsDs tAaD II waS A tAa'
MOI town for few GaVs. Then a
workers, those who had bestiTrc'
themselves IN the OtEer loans. beGn'
to feel uneasy and onnsOtence-StEieA
en-. Men began to Hsutasa the IOaE
II A.-A-Aa,,~1~~
Then JeRersonyills went throug
another curious phase. It began :
try and persuade itself that the Eoa
: | ought to fail and that it would fad
-reach these Smart Alecks down
Washington sumthiuS," muttered MOI
than one JeffersonvIae citizen to hir
. self.
!. Beginning to Sting EN-.
: kilograms and long distance cal
= began to sting few of the citizeI
but they managed to forget sho
them in day or 30. The Loan vi
Il moving along day by day but Jefft
!, sonviIle's quota was hanging fire. B
! Ochs was chuckifng to himself al
cautiously imparting his views to
!. few of his intixnates. The humbli
= Of Germany was a bitter dose for hi
:. H. vOuAd kasp still whea he had
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