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Show WEBEB IS READY FOR THE BIG LOAN DRIVE City and County Hope to Go Over the Top on the Opening Day. 8peci:il to The Tribune. OO.PKX, Sept. ?7. The first pun of the eampnin h Omlen city and Weber county coun-ty for the fourth Liberty loan was fired her tonight In a series of mass meetin.es held in almost every nook nnd corner of the city and county. The campaign hes.ui wltli the marshaling of the forces of the four-minute men for various meetings. meet-ings. Tomorrow at dawn the subscriptions for the loan will be received and my 9 oYlo.-k in the evening it is to be hoped that this district's answer to LrussianUm will be rt-fleeted in a sum that is staKorine. The greatest efforts and strongest hopes are entertained of putting the district as near over the top in one dav as possible. pos-sible. One feature-of the campaign this time wld be that "slackers" are to be rounded up and their reasons for failure to buy bonds wi'd be published. There are to be no threats this time. The "slackers" must buy or tell why they have failed to do so. The campai.cn acainst the slackers opened last nieht. when a committee of the Oden Clearing Mouse association met at the Weber club and conferred with the people who had been asked to attend the meeting recardin their subscriptions in the past and future. The following failed to appear or make any response: Reese Howell company, .?4 7o Washington avenue: Tribe Investment company. Washington avenue, and Krnest Shaw, 314 Twelfth street. Tins announcement was 1 made at the close of fhe meeting, Fesinninsr Monday a committee will be in session at the mayor's office in the , city hall. The first sessions will be between be-tween 3 and 5 o'clock and between 7 and 9 o'clock in the evening and will be for , the purpose of hearin unv explanation of those who have not done their full duty in assisting the government in its war procram. The "slackers" are known and their names are on the public record at the city hall. Notices will be mailed to each and they will be notified of the time thev are to appear. The committee which will , sit Monday is composed of Chairman M. j S. Browning of the Liberty loan commit- tee. Mayor T. Samuel Brownlnc and ! County Commissioner Moroni Skeen. The women's committee completed ar- j rancements today at a meeting of all the i workers he'd at the council chamber in the city hall. The final instructions were j given by Mrs. H. II. ?pen.-er. eeneml : chairman, and A. V. plireiow of the gen- eral committee. The supplies and posters to be used by the women were given out. The headquarters of the women durinc the drive will be in the spacious window of the Osrden Furniture & Carpet company, com-pany, which was donated by Manager K. R. Hundley and decorated by F. L. Claw-son. Claw-son. Already associations, companies, etc., are reporting that their employees are ready to report tomorrow mornine that they have gone over the top. Among the companies are the Utah National bank, Oeden I'nion Railway & Peoot company, Woodmen of the World and Otrden Iron works. Among the companies which announced an-nounced tO'lay they would go over the tno before noon were the Denver & Rio Grande employees. Southern Pacific company. com-pany. I'nion Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Blackman & Griffin. HuntsvHle reported re-ported tonicht that her people will go over the top before dusk tomorrow. Mrs. H. H. Spencer, erencral chalrm? n of the women's committer, issued an appeal ap-peal thl evening to the people of the city and county to display the American Has tomorrow, as had been previous. y requested. re-quested. , President Charles K. Barton of the Weber club and member of the Ogden clearintr house, announced today that all the banks of the city have made' arrangements arrange-ments to keep onen until 9 o'clk Saturday Satur-day night to allow the people of the city and countv to subscribe for bonds. The b?nk plan" for the subscription on a -O bond Includes the pavment of S.V75 wlh the appcation and 57.50 per month for six months. Bond booths will be placed in the store nf Last & Thomas, Wrierht and B irt tomorrow morning arid will receive subscriptions sub-scriptions uo to 9 o'clock in the evening. The ladies who will conduct the sales are Mrs H L. Bell. Mrs. Thompson Corn. Mrs F. Ezan, Mrs. F. W. Gentsch. Mrs. Chars H. Barton. Mrs. Thomas Pavis. Mrs K T. Spencer. Mrs. Richard Hor-rocks. Hor-rocks. Mrs'. A. P.' Blgelow and Mrs. -H. Harris. , , The women's meetlne at the Orpheum theater, which has been donated by Manager Man-ager Joseph Goss. will be held Monday Pt -3n p m The speakers will be Mrs. W. Afont Ferry Mrs. W. F. Adams and Mrs. j Nanette A. 7Ivde of Salt Lak: Mrs. J. G Falck. Mrs. H. H. Spencer. Mrs. E. C. Hals'oad and Mrs. W. Marriott. |