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Show BELLS RING AND WHISTLES BLOW AS OGDEN STARTS TO v 00 OVER THE TOP ON BONDS All the signs and tokons and portents, por-tents, and whatever else tho ancient magicians needed to provo to them-rolves them-rolves that things were right, were present in Ogden this morning as tho city bcgant the day of the fourth Liberty Lib-erty loan. Thc weather was fine, and the presence of a large number of peo pic on the streets at 7 o'clock presaged pres-aged the fact that Ogden was determined deter-mined to be on time for the com-iencenient com-iencenient of the drive. At 9 o'clock Ogden might have been at high festival, so joyous was the ringing of the church bells, the sounds of the whistles from all- the factories and plants of the city, and it became evident in half an hour that many citizens citi-zens were not waiting to be asked to subscribe, for clown at the union depot, de-pot, all along lower Twenty-fifth street, Washington avenue, and lower Twenty-fourth were to be seen men and women, and boys and girls wearing wear-ing the bright badge of tho willing subscriber sub-scriber to the Liberty loan. Women Are Active. The ladies organizations of the city were on hand at their respective posts not one minute behind time, ready to do business and determined to do a big one. The Catholic ladies ran their automobiles au-tomobiles hither and thither and made many surprisingly new attacks on the pnsserby. The Standard reporter thought at first his night's sleep had disturbed him for the sound of ukaleles and mandolins man-dolins broke on his ear but instead of dreams torturing the mind it was a group of enterprising girls singing loud and clear to Johnny bidding him get his gun, and, ceasing from their singing, to remind the delighted listener lis-tener that Johnny couldn't get a gun if we didn't buy him one, and the only way for Johnny to get his gun with any degree of certainty was to buy a bond. Railroad Men Patriotic. Down at the union depot all the railroad rail-road offices were in shape to tell stories that would eat up the space of four editions of this paper. In Superintendent Super-intendent Johnson's office of the Southern Pacific the whole staff had come across and registered a 100 per cent achievemenL In the train dispatcher's dis-patcher's office similar report was made, with this addition that tho result re-sult had been achieved, not this morning, morn-ing, but yesterday. The staff, there had determined to take Old Time by the forelock, and, not only that, but nine of the men came to the office this morning with determination to increase in-crease their subscription. So the story may proceed like some pleasant fairy tale. The people of Ogden Og-den refuse to bo pleaded with. They wish to buy the loan to the limit of their capacity. In small offices and great, in places whore men arc found by the hundred, and in places where they are in ones and twos, the loan is being bought willingly, loyally, splendidly. splen-didly. The members of the Historical society so-ciety commenced their day with buying buy-ing $1000 worth of bonds. The Women of American Patriots wore obtaining many subscriptions. In tho offices of the Lion Coal company com-pany and the Wyoming Coal company, whero fiftcon employes are engaged, tho response was one hundred per cent American with a total buying of $16,-500 $16,-500 of the issue. Wober Camp No. 7-i, W. O. W., purchased pur-chased a $1000 bond, mnkiug the total of the local lodge investment in Liberty Lib-erty bonds up $4000. The R. H. L. U. local, No. 16219, of the American Federation of Labor, held an impromptu meeting at the Southern Pacific shops Friday and instructed in-structed Secretary Ed Barton to buy bonds in the name of the local society. The members of the paint shop and tho truck gang of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific had subscribed to the limit by 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Reports from the Ogden city schools are not complete as yet, but the investments in-vestments of the grade teachers is one hundred per cent with a total of $9700 subscribed. Wober normal college went over the tpp with fifty subscriptions amounting to $2700. All the educational institutions of the city are expected to report to Mrs. Marriott at the headquarters in the Ogden Furniture & Carpet Co.'s store. The MaxDavidson cigar factory, the Columbia Club cigar factory, the Rio Grande Shops, the Southern Pacific Shops, the Dalebout bakery and the Ogden. Iron Works are other firms which have announced 100 per cent subscriptions. It is expected before the days is over the list will be swelled swell-ed very materially. One hundred per cent subscriptions are reported from Read Bros., the Murphy Wholesale Grocery Co.; and from F, E. Lewis the head of the hotel ho-tel and dining car department of the U. P O. S. L. and S. L. & L. A. R. R., where with a total of eighty-nine people, peo-ple, the subscription amounts to $10,-700. $10,-700. Early afternoon reports state that the difficulty has been to cope with; the number of subscribers who have presented themselves. There has I been a shortage of material for the work, blanks, etc., but this was absolutely abso-lutely unforseen as when the material arrived it was expected that it would more than cover the local demand. At the headquarters of the women's organization operating at the Ogden! Furniture Co., subscriptions have been I heavy, individual subscriptions being, all the way up from $50 to $2100. I |