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Show iiililil - sup ie inin At Enthusiastic Meeting Held in Commercial Club It Was Decided De-cided That Bingham Would Secure Pledges for Her Quota in Less Than Ten Days Parson Simpkins, Chairman Collins and Others Make Splendid Speeches Interesting Program Given. . At a big patriotic meeting in the . Commercial Club iMonday night a ' Yll1,lwlnd campaign was launched for Ihe sale of war savings stamps, and before the meeting adjourned It was decided that, this camp would secure pledges for Its quota of $200,000 In less than ten Jays. In fact the date set on "which the camp would show a clean sheet was June 20, Mayor Q. IB. Kelly presided at the meeting, made the introductory remarks re-marks and presented the various speakers and entertainers, and announced an-nounced the committee appointments. The program was opeed by the singing sing-ing of "America." The first speaker of the evening was James vy. Collins, stute chairman of the war savings - stamps sales. iMr. Collins made a splendid talk on the war savings stamps and explained their various good points and why the ; people should buy them. He stated in the outset at the beginning of the war that he had never made a public speech and that he could not speak to , a crowd, but he la now an enthusiastic, enthusias-tic, entertaining, instructive and pleas-, pleas-, ing talker, a product of the war. He , ' said that It was intended that the stamps should have a wide distribution distribu-tion and for that reason no individual . could purchase more than $1000 worth. Another feature of the stamps is that the owner, should he need the money for them can turn them into cash at any time he desires on ten days' no-j no-j tice at the postofflce. He commend- ed thlg-camp for the splendid record .'-i' made iA the past drives tw aj the government and said that he felt , si - sure that in the purchase of stamps he waa sure that the past record , , would be kept up. He spoke in high-. high-. est terms of the people of Copper- field for the splendid work they have I done and are doing in this line. (). . The next speaker was Rev. P. A. i ' Simpkins who delivered a thrilling ad-'. ad-'. dress on the work at hand of buying A war savings stamps. When the parson I ' J first commenced talking he stated ' that he was just a little too low to ',. see in a satisfactory manner the en-. en-. i tiro crowd and that when he warmed i np he was liable to build a special ,. ' platform so that he could lock better , at his audience and he did that very ; thing. He had spoken but a short . while when he commenced telling a gripping anecdote, and as he walked - back and forth, still talking, it could i be seen that he was assembling some thing, but the people near the rear o' the building and perhaps those at the front had not noticed this feature a until he had mounted the elevation, so Interested were they in what he was saying. His address was on the stamp buying business and the war In r . general, and there was not a dull mo ment during the entire discourse. The audience was highly pleased with the speech and everyone who missed hearing hear-ing it missed something mighty good. The next sptaker was 'E. O. Sullivan Sulli-van of the Boston iCon. and he made a good, sensible talk on the situation of selling stamps end told the people that they could depend on the Boston Con. doing its. part While he said that there were a number of his men , . who were still paying installments on the second Liberty Loan, they would take their portion of the stamps. i" The next speaker was James (Morrow, (Mor-row, who gave, a few remarks concern- ing the war, and recited two appro priate war poems. The program was brought to a conclusion con-clusion by the song "Star Spangled Banner," by 'Misses Josephine Berry' .. andiMaxlne Kelly. While most of the seats In the club ' rooms were taken the crowd would have ben much larger but for the fact 1 that it was the evening following the pay day of the Utah Copper Company. " But thore who were there were pleased with the meeting and felt that f it would take but a few days to raise the nuota or secure pledges for the amount. |