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J 1 TAR, AND FEATHER VICTIM INSISTS HE BOUGHT BONDSaIVicksburg, Miss., May 4.—Wearing a coat of tar and feathers, William A. Hunter, aged 68, a planter giving .across the Mississippi river from Vicksburg, arrived here and complained to federal authorities, that his' Vneighbors had accused him of disloyalty and had. treated him to tar and feathers. He told the authorities one of the charges brought against him was that would not buy Liberty bonds. Pier-explained that recently while at his old home at Williamsport, Ind., he had invested $5,000, all his savings, in second Liberty Loan bonds and consequently could not invest inthe third Liberty bonds.« r“LENINE IS KING AND HAIG IS A PALACE ’ ’—ANSWERS IN SCHOOL QUIZKU KLUX KLAN AGAIN APPEARS IN INTEREST OF LIBERTY LOAN BONDSOklahoma City,: Okla., May 4.—The Ku Klux Klan is being reorganized. The famed Southern organization that spread terror to Yankee carpet baggers and over-bold negroes during the days just following the civil war is menacing disloyal citizens. In several s^6tions of the§outh. the Klan is getting together and its members have already appeared in a few places. The most impressive work^jwas at Saiatook, a small Oklahoma town, where, during a Liberty loan parade, sixteen horsemen, disguised and wearing the winding sheet that served as a uniform for members of the (Klan, silently took their place in the parade.The horsemen carried three banners bearing a warning to three men who had declined to buy Liberty bonds. Before the parade disbanded the threenamed on the banners had changed• • - * *. * ^their minds and bought liberally.
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Connersville Daily Examiner
Connersville, Indiana, US
Sat, May 04, 1918
Page 6
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