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Show Bltlf IS II I , TOP IH RED CROSS DRIVE The Town of Bingham Canyon Is Perhaps the First Town in the State to Go Over the Top With an Over-subscription to the Second Red Cross War Fund The Total Subscription on Thursday Noon Was $10,412 or $1,692 More Than Our Quota Bingham Always Leads in Patriotic Endeavor. Perhaps the first town of any size In the state of Utah to go over the top with their quota to the second Red Cross war fund oversubscribed Is Bingham. At Thursday noon the various vari-ous workers reported a total subscription subscrip-tion of 110,412 and the quota for the camp was $8720. Thus IBingham has gone over the top with a margin of $1693 over-subscription. This speaks well for the copper camp and her peo- pie. i ne womerg wno couuuuwu wo campaign are to be congratulated most heartily and the liberality of the people who subscribed is worthy of honorable nfentlon. Bingham always comes through such patriotic demands with colors flying and the campaign Is not completed. The following is the manner in which the subscriptions have come in Town of Bingham proper. .$ 1,500 Highland Boy BOO Copperfield 750 Ohio Copper 625 Highland Boy Mines 700 Utah Apex Mine ... 900 Utah Metals 637 Utah Copper 4,000 Boston Con 800 Total $10,412 At a meeting held In the Commercial ; Club Saturday evening a splendid and efficient working- organization was effected ef-fected for the big Red Cross drive in Bingham Mayor Q. B. Kelly was chairman of the meeting and Mrs. Clara B. stapleton was secretary. When the meeting was called to order definite steps were taken to arrange ar-range matters so that every section of the camp might be thoroughly work-td work-td and that every one might have an opportunity to contribute. It was also decided in naming and placing com- mittees that it was necessary to know just who the contributors might be and nlso the names of those who might refuse to assist. Therefore blanks were prepared for each solicitor in crdfT that the names of all persons approached ap-proached might be recorded. For the work the tamp was divided into districts and certain committees selected for each so that there would be no confusion in the work. The committee assignments for soliciting are as follows: , iFor (Bingham lower district Mrs. Ray Kenner.Mrs. George Christopher-son, Christopher-son, Mrs. B. C. Williamson; for the central district between the Bingham Coal & Lumber Company and Mark-ham Mark-ham ulch Mrs A. R. Berry, Mrs. L. L. White, Mrs. John Contratto. From Markham to Carr iFork Miss Maurine Bourgard, Mrs. C. D. Abel, Mrs. F. It. Metcalf. For Carr Fork Miss 'Esther Blom, Mrs. J. Carlson, Mrs. Edward Lin-delof. Lin-delof. For hotels and boarding houses W. K. Alexander, 8. 8. Jones, Ray Kenner. if. For the business houses C. E. Adderley, Ad-derley, J. IB. Myers. Earl Randall. .For Copperfield, (Highland oy. Lark ond the various mining districts, varl- ous officers of the companies were assigned to look after the work. When the drive is completed the central committee will . know who made contributions and it will also hare the names of those who refused and their reason for so doing. |
