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Show Utah's Loan Subscriptions Reach Total of $6,245,000 More Than Half of Quota Must Be Raised During 4 Remaining Days. With but four more days remaining pi' tho Victory loan campaign, Utah has a little less than half its quota subscribed, sub-scribed, the total last night-of officially offi-cially announced figures and other subscriptions sub-scriptions announced after the luncheon yesterday bringing tho grand total for tho state to $G,2"45,900. It vvas announced last night that workers would be required to hit a livelier live-lier pace during the next four days than had been maintained even during the strenuous days at the close o'f last week aud yesterday and Monday of the present pres-ent week, if the state is to come anywhere any-where near its glorious record achieved in other loan drives. Determination to bring an oversubscription oversub-scription marks all the efforts of workers work-ers and committeemen, and especially in stato districts tho showing is' gratifying, grat-ifying, in that efforts are not relaxed when the quota is reached, but another burst of speed is being put on to shove the various districts across with large margins to their credit. Luncheon Friday. The final luncheon and report of workers to Chairman Lester D. Freed will be held at tho Commercial Club at 12:15 Friday. The closo of the drivo is Saturday and it is expected that announcements at Friday s luncheon will be of thc sort that bring cheers and hurrahs. It was announced at tho luncheon yesterday yes-terday that the total for tho city bad reached $3,811,000 and for the state $2,321,100, making a grand total for Utah of $6,132,100. To this was added $113,800 iu new subscriptions reported later in the day. Among the larger subscriptions reported yesterday were the following: Continental Life Insurance company, $25,000; Ed D. .Smith & Sons, $10,000; Ezra Thompson, $12,000; Alma Fischer, $0000: American Bankers Life Insurance Insur-ance company, $1000; Columbian Optical company, $1000; Western Electric company com-pany and employees, $3300: Major George M. Miller, Eed Cross. $5000; Carl W. Fischer, $1500; Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company, $5000; J. X. Campbell, Camp-bell, $2000; Peerless Coal company, $5000; James IX Murdoch. $5000; E. TX Woodruff, $1000; Sharman Automobile company, $1000; B. F. Goodrich Kub-ber Kub-ber company, $25,000; Barratt company, $2000. The following were among those announced an-nounced at the luncheon: Women's committee, $11,830; booths, $24,500; L. I. 8. women's, committees. $3730; automobile committee, ' $4250; barbers, $1700; coal dealers, $6500; department de-partment stores, $1400; electric companies. com-panies. $3550; furniture dealers, $1100; insurance companies, $41,300: lumber companies, $1550; livestock committee, $2500; Masonic committee. $8350; miscellaneous mis-cellaneous subscriptions, $7500: printers, $1500; police department. $1750; professional pro-fessional men, $1950; real estate committee, com-mittee, $1000; William H. Mclntyre, $25,000; capitalists committee. $96,000; manufacturers committee, $900: public utilities companies, employees of Utah, $192,050; foreign corporations, $204,750; Boy Scouts, Saturday and Monday, $07,450. Go Over the Top. Official reports were received yesterday yester-day from both Carbon and Sanpete counties announcing that those couDties had gone over tho top in their subscriptions, subscrip-tions, Carbon's report being received in time to make it rank first in the race of districts outside Salt Lake. Scoutmasters will meet today at luncheon with Chairman Freed at 12:15 o'clock at the Commercial club to discuss dis-cuss plans for a whirlwind finish to the Scouts' drive. An interesting and varied program w-as given at the women's bungalow bank yesterday at noon. These meetings meet-ings are steadily becoming mare popular. popu-lar. Lowell Ewing, a 9-year-old Charlie Chaplin entertainer, gave an amusing exhibition. He finished his act with an offer to the crowd to match every dollar dol-lar in bonds that they bought. In this way $1000 worth of bonds were sold in a few minutes. Mrs. McCool 's orchestra furnished the music: Frank Gilvery sang several numbers;, num-bers;, Mrs. Norman G. Atkinson's quartet quar-tet sanz several times; Harvey Sawyer, a vouthful sleight-of-hand performer, kept the crowd interested; Wesley L. King and Carl Badger were the speakers. speak-ers. "Fraifk Poate. a Salt Lake laboring man, asked permission to say a few I words on the Victory loan, urging the 1 : pressing need of Salt Lake City in the loan campaign. The entire performance at the bank at noon today bus been turned over to the Newhouse Revue. The orchestra will furnish the music and the entertainers enter-tainers will sing and perform in the interests in-terests of the Victory loan. To Aid Boy Scouts. Business men of the city have pledged themselves to assist the Boy- Scouts make a success of their campaign for the Victory loan. At a luncheon of Liberty loan workers at the Commercial club'yesterday Oscar A. Kirkham, Scout I executive, explained that many of tho I boys were having a strenuous time of securing ton subscriptions for Victory loan bonds, the number of subscriptions necessary for a boy to secure a frpeeial medal awarded by the United States department of the treasury. Many of the boys have obtained as high as nine subscriptions, then seem unable un-able to secure more. He appealed to those present to aid these boys to obtain ob-tain their tenth subscription, with tho result that twenty-one men pledged themselves to give those boys that had nine subscriptions their tenth. Troops to Meet. The executive committee of the Salt Lake council of tbe Boy Scouts of America will hold its regular monthly meeting at the Commercial club at 12:15 p. m. today. Dr. Charles G. Plummcr will report on plans for a summer Scout camp. G. Clarence Neslcn will report on matters pertaining to the promotion of civic service : "Wesley King, on publicity; pub-licity; Dr. I. A. Smith, city superintendent superintend-ent of schools, on troop organization, and Melvin II. Sowlcs on finance. Leaders of -local troops will meet at the Commercial club at noon Thursday. Chairman Freed and General Richard W. Young -"ill address the Scout leaders. The B. F. Peixolto lodtjc. Independent Oroer B't al Frith No. 421, subscribed for $3000 worth of Victory bonds at a meeting meet-ing held last night. The town of Orescent, Utah subscribed $800 to the Victory' loan at a meeti'vg held l;ist nlc;ht, according to -Sam V. Ole.son, who way sent to the district in the interest of the drive bv the Commercial club. This amount brought the total subscription of the community to $2050, which is 10 more than its quota. |