Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-16 | Page 4 | Liberty Loan Has Passed Half-Way Post in Big Drive

Liberty Loan Has Passed Half-way Post in Big Drive WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 With four more days to go the nation today passed the three billion dollar halfway half-way post in the fourth Liberty loan race towards six billions before Saturday Sat-urday night. "The first really encouraging reports re-ports began to arrive today," said the official announcement. "These reports carried ample evidence that the country coun-try realized the serious business it had ahead during (he remainder of this week to make the fourth Liberty loan a success. The optimistic reports were not supported sup-ported by definite figures showing a sudden swelling of the Liberty loan total. Early morning reports were barely sufficient to push aggregate subscriptions above the three billion dollar mark, but officials said the results re-sults of renewed interest in the loan following President Wilson's answer to Germany -would be reflected in official of-ficial figures later. The San Francisco district now has a total of $230,330,000 from 1,090,182 subscribers. Oregon has 97 per cent of its quota; Idaho 1?5 por cent; Washing Wash-ing 71; Arizona 61; Utah 60; Southern California 58; Northern California -18, and Nevada 47.