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Show IHJlil QUOTA me in wm Available Reports -Tuesday Evening Showed That Already Bingham Bing-ham Has Subscribed for Liberty Bonds to Amount of $243,450 ' Now Considered Certain That She Will Take Considerably. Over $300 000 May Be Banner Town of America. - IBingham is now in the limelight as a purchaser of Liberty Bonds. Already she has more than, doubled her quota and it seems practically certain that she will buy at least three times as much as the government asked. While all reports were not available, those which were In Tuesday evening showed show-ed that her people had bought bonds to the amount of $243,450. The places of subscriptions and the amounts subscribed sub-scribed are as follows: " Utah Copper Company (employes), $140,000; Citizens State bank, $27,700; Highland Boy mine (employes), $20,-760; $20,-760; IBingham State bank. $20,000; U.S. mine (employes), $20,000; Copper State bank, $1S,000. And the work has not yet ended. In fact the campaign Is still in full blast and there is no let up by reason of the fact that the camp has far exceeded Its quota. (Boosting meetings are still being held and there is no lag in the enthusiasm to continue the sales. It is now the hope and belief of many In town that Bingham will become the banner town of America in the purchase pur-chase of Liberty Bonds. So far it has not been noted that any town has ex. - ceeded Bingham in this work, but the people here want to be sure of making . good on this point. (Weeks before the campaign opened a number of patriotic citizens commenced com-menced the work of getting ready for the big drive and they did their work well, and as soon as it opened the money commenced pouring in from many sources. 'Public men who have visited this l camp declare that Bingham is the most " . . patriotic town in America. The camp . bas shown, its nand and Its readiness ' " ' td ffeTp- hr ereiTTt' -Mm. juwi when men, money and material was wanted this town has nevec shirked the call. - During the next few days the work , should be intensified and every one in the camp should be given an opportunity opportun-ity to buy. |