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Show BANKS TO BE KEPT OPEN UNTIL IDNIGHLTEIVE ILL A subscription of $100,000 from M. S. Browning of Ogden led the list of liberty loan subscriptions today. This, last day of the campaign, has been the busiest and most productive. Banks are doing a rushing business .and extra clerks have been at hand to handle tho increases In business. The banks are open this afternooh and will be until 12 o'clock tonight, if tho demand for liberty bonds continues. It is proposed to work, right up to the last second of the time allotted. A tentative check on the day's subscribing sub-scribing added to that previously ro-corded ro-corded gives the officials in charge of the work the idea that tho total for the northern district will reach approximately approxi-mately $2,700,000. Committees from the county districts have been reporting report-ing hourly on their work and the list is growing. In all parts of the city the final canvass is being made. A report re-port on tho outlying district is expected ex-pected this evening at 8 o'clock. Until Un-til this report Is given and the city's standing is known, the complete sub- scription will not be announced. Among tho list of organizations which came to tho front with subscriptions subscrip-tions Is tho Utah Packing corporation, which announced a purchase of $25,-000 $25,-000 worth of bonds. This is the Utah subsidiary of the immense California Packing corporation. The Ogden Firemen's Relief association associa-tion at a recent meeting voted unanimously unani-mously to purchase a $100 bond and the bond was bought today. Among the school subscriptions not announced an-nounced In the school report was that of the sophomore class of the high school. A $50 bond was bought today by this class. Ogdon Railway Employes The employes of the Ogden Union Railway & Depot company hnve purchased pur-chased $7,500 worth of liberty bonds through the Oregon Short Line company. com-pany. The Daughters of thp Pioneers arc to hold a meeting Monday afternoon In j the Ogden tabernacle on the liberty bonds. |