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Show U. I. C. EMPLOYES PURCHASE $18,500 OF LIBERTY BONDS The Utah Idaho Central Railway employes have gotten Into the swim again and have purchased to date $18,160 worth of the third Liberty Loan Bonds. Of the second Issue the U. I. C. employes bought $7,000 worth. At the beginning of tho third Liberty Lib-erty Loan drive General Manager W. A. Whitney and his officials started a campaign among the local employes with the determination to sell not less than $15,000 worth of .bonds. What success resulted from their efforts ef-forts is contained In an announcement announce-ment made last night that .the subscriptions sub-scriptions of the third issue total $18,500. This amount Is credited to a total of t1 employes, $3,250 of this sum having been subscribed'' by twenty-eight twenty-eight employes oAhe general offices ln the Eccles building. Three hundred hun-dred and fifteen employes have been Interviewed and evidence secured that tho majority ot them have' purchased pur-chased bonds through local banks. Approximately two thirds of the employes em-ployes have beon approached by tho canvassers and the ready response of these men give the owwlclals confidence con-fidence to state that every Utah 1 Idaho Central employo will hold a 1 bond ot the third Liberty Loan before be-fore the close of the present cam- palgn. |