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Show OCDEN MAKES A GOOD SHOWING 1 LIBERTY MM. .With an approximate total of $2,900,-000, $2,900,-000, Ogden and the northern district of five countios finished the grand drive of the second Liberty loan campaign. cam-paign. This figure is about $400,000 short of the maximum allotment for the northern district, but officals of the loan organization consider it a huge success. A letter to the local headquarters from the Twelfth Federal Fed-eral ReBerve bank at San Francisco today announced that the maximum and minimum allotments might be reduced re-duced as a result of the subscriptions of Hawaii and Alaska, which were not counted and have now been added. If this Is true the northern district will probably come well within its maximum- allotment. Ogden's grand total of $2,019,950 is virtually correct. Some reports from outlying: districts of the various counties coun-ties indicate that the northern district total mav be slightly increased, but it will not exceed the $2,900,000 mark, loan officials say. The total for city and counties and all districts of the northern division as reported Saturday night was $2,838,500. Reports from the tardly districts are expected to-nlght to-nlght Box Elder Honored. The record of Box Elder county stands first among the counties of the northern district. Box Elder county doubled its subscription on the last day of the campaign in a huge concerted con-certed drive. Saturday morning its total was $90,000. Reports Saturday night placed it at $175,000. A mass meeting Saturday in the peach town resulted in the changed report. As soon as the business incident to closing up the campaign is finished, an organization for the next Liberty loan, which is expected some time in March, will bo perfected for the northern district, dis-trict, according to J. B. Lowe, representing repre-senting the federal reserve bank of the twelfth district at San Francisco. The third loan organization will be technically perfect so that the work may be done in the most efficient manner. The new organization will be distinct from the clearing house association as-sociation or the banks. It is thought that the work will be more successful with less effort through this plan. When the government is ready to announce an-nounce another campaign the information informa-tion alone will be all that will be necessary nec-essary to start the organization working. work-ing. County's Good Work. There were approximately 3,500 individuals in-dividuals and firms within the limits of Weber county who responded to the loan, as follows: Ogden and Weber county: Ogden State bank, 932 subscribers, $263,150; First National bank, 615 subscribers, $247,150; Pingree National bank, 468 subscribers, $331,350; Ogden Savings bank. 441 subscribers, $75,000; Utah National bank, 403 subscribers, $835,-350; $835,-350; Conimerclal National bank, 311 5ubscribers, $140200; Security State bank, 207 subscribers, $127,250; total, 3.377 subscribers, $2,T)191950; J. B. Lowe, representative of the federal reserve bank at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, av 1 1 1 remain in Ogden through-aut through-aut the week to supervise the checking check-ing up of the district. oo |