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Show GOOD WORK Of . PUBLICITY BUREAU At a meeting of the govern fos; committee com-mittee of the Commercial club this afternoon af-ternoon two reports on publicity were received. One showed actual results noted from the advertising of the pub licity bureau for the last eiz months. Ia cheeking over the records of the United States land office since the enlarged en-larged homestead act went into operation opera-tion ap to Jaaasry 1 it was learned that two nonresidents filed on homesteads. home-steads. Since January 1 tq May 11, flftr two nonresidents filed, and the publicity bureau records snowed previous pre-vious correspondence with fourteen of them. Others were, influenced by the Omaha land show. Secretary Joe Ca ice's report of his trip to Portland wss also optimistic. Mr. Oaine said: "My observations of the work of the Portland publicity bureau left ma with the conviction that our own bureau is working on the right lines and is effective effec-tive oa an economical basis." |