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Show COPPERFIELD HAS OVERSUBSCRIBED W.S.S. OUfllA This Part of tha Great Copoer Camp Has Subscribed Over $41,0C0 to this Cause. (By W. E. Traughber) . ' The people of Copperfield believe that they have made the best record i of any town in the state In the war savings stamp drive. Before the drive began the quota of Copperfield was fixed at $40,C('O, which is a little more than $20 each for every man. woman r nd child in tha town, ana this sum is already oersubscribed by more than filOOO. ' At the same time the people of th town rot together, named nam-ed committees to take charge of the drive and went at the patriotic task ' in earnest IA. B. Aven is chairman of the executive ex-ecutive comm.itee, which has had the drive in chargeand he has been assisted as-sisted by C W, Buchholz. cashier of the Copperfield bank; Fred Turner,; John Byrne, pi d Charted Tic tjfi of whom are mjmbe,s of the c?nmittee. This committer iao b6a swu every ev-ery possible nfitine t?.ii -vpta of the town and the work of Jack Steele. J. H. Wilklns, J. ill. Coiyer, J, W. iFrear and E. AJ Joyce b' t ?en of particular value. Then too the women of the Copperield Bed Cross unit have done everything in their power to further the work of the committee and their assistance has been felt and appreciated. Mrs. Paul lAckerroan is president of the Copperfield unit and to her executive ability much of the credit for the work of the unit is due. Wednesday afternoon 'H. B. Aven announced an-nounced that Copperfield had taken more than $41,000 in war savings stamps to date. But," he added, "do not get the idea that we have reached our quota and ceased work. We have exceeded our quota, with nine days yet to go, and we intend to do everything every-thing in our power to still further fcwell our subscriptions Copperfield has also-made a high record in Liberty bond subscriptions and Red Cros donations. - in all these activities the greatest part of the foreign for-eign population have rendered valuable valu-able assistance, the Greeks having named their own committees and i worked heroically in aid of the various war funds. |