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Show SECRETARY MI00 TO BE INVITED TO OGDEN Starting tomorrow, a opoakor and two members of a Liberty loan committee com-mittee for the county will tour the Weber county districts and hold patriotic pa-triotic meetings, urging tho farmers to subscribe for Liberty bonds and help the government raise tho needed money. This plan has been proposed as it has been found that tho farmers of the count' aro bo busy with their crops at present that they cannot loao time by coming to tho city. Reports from the banks of the city yesterday afternoon showed that $15,-S00 $15,-S00 had been glvon for Liberty bonds by people of; Ogden Monday. The reports re-ports are being made out each day now and aro filed with the local office of tho loan organization. An additional addi-tional $7,850 was reported from Box Elder county for Monday, which brings the reported subscriptions of that dis5-trict dis5-trict up to $24,200. Secretary William McAdoo of the treasury department of the United States government is scheduled to speak in Salt Lako October IS. He leaves at 2; 30 p. m for Denver, and if arrangements can be made for his appoarance hero a big mass meeting and reception will be planned. It Is expected that such an event will do much toward hastening the loan subscriptions. sub-scriptions. With Secretary McAdoo is Rear Admiral Carev T. Grayson. James Plngroe and J.' B. Lowe left this morning for Rich county. They will campaign in that county until Thursday and expect to shake some of the apathy out of tho ranchers vof the dlstrlot To date reports from that section credit only one man with the purchase of a $50 bond and Mr. Pin-gree Pin-gree considers this a record which will have to be changed if the northern district Is to furnish its share of the state's allotment. A lotter has been sent to Governor Bamberger by D. D. McKay of Ogden, president of the Utah Siato Farm bureau, asking that the last week of the Liberty loan campaign be designated desig-nated as farmers' week. |