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Show FUND Blllf IS SUCCESSFUL The chamber of commerce rampalirn to raiae $.'0.(00 for advertising bait Ivtke and I'tah started today with eery prospect of raising the sper if led quota withtn th week set a wide .for I active ptibHcrtptlon work. I The t'u captain and workers at the first luncheon meeting held st noon at the chamber of commerce evinced great enthusiasm and reports showing over $6000 to have been subscribed this morning were received with applause. The sultaci-iptlona of the morning briiiK th totul amount already subscribed during the first day of the campaign and prior tn Its actual starting up to nearly $14,000. Team captains reported many of last year's subscriptions as being- Jnereaed and in many instances doubled, while the reports made showed the business men of the city to b practically unanimous unani-mous in expressing aympathy wltH the ' movement to advertise the cw and I state aa an Investment certain f brinf reaulta In the near future. Cieneral Chairman Frank B. Cook. 1 (who presided at tha opening sesHlon vt I captains and workers, predicted before the noonday meeting that the .'0. 00 1 souttht would be oversulmcrihed tn 1 ! that the camialgn would he success, j I fully closed ut he end of the week., j Charles Tyng In a short talk at toe, meeting told of his experiences this ' j morning In seeking subscriptions and declared that thoae who receive the first direct beneftts from an advertl-' ing campaign should be the first to subscribe. He named railroads, botes, and automobile concerns as In this' Claws. ' The largest amount reported fr m anv one team at today's meeting w.ts I1SI0. Other teams reported aui.nrr.p-tlons aui.nrr.p-tlons amounting to $1174.30. SMio, $.177 and II .'i!. |