"Announcement of the official allotment of Liberty loan bonds to each bank in the Walla Walla district comprising Garfield, Columbia and Walla Walla counties, was made for the first time last evening by P. M. Winans, chairman of the executive committee, following receipt of a telegram from the Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco, giving the total minimum and maximum allotments for this district. As soon as these figures were learned the allotments for each of the fourteen banks in the district were figured on a basis of deposits at the last federal call.
"The minimum allotment for the district was placed by the Federal Reserve Bank at $1,483,000 and the maximum allotment at $2,457,842. From the way the campaign has been going it will require every energy to raise the minimum, which is 50 per cent more than the allotment for the district for the first Liberty bond issue.
"This time Walla Walla County alone must subscribe $1,044,000 or as much as the entire district subscribed for the first loan. The City of Walla Walla must subscribe $874,000 to report the minimum desired. Columbia County must subscribe $240,000 and Garfield County $199,000."
BANK ALLOTMENTS
The official allotment which each of the fourteen banks of the district was expected to subscribe among its customers, follows:
| Walla Walla— | |
| First National Bank | $235,000 |
| Baker-Boyer National Bank | 243,000 |
| Third National Bank | 109,000 |
| Peoples State Bank | 135,000 |
| Farmers Savings Bank | 152,000 |
| Touchet State Bank, Touchet | 7,000 |
| First State Bank, Prescott | 12,000 |
| First National Bank, Waitsburg | 121,000 |
| Exchange Bank, Waitsburg | 30,000 |
| Columbia National Bank, Dayton | 146,000 |
| Broughton National Bank, Dayton | 85,000 |
| Bank of Starbuck, Starbuck | 9,000 |
| Pomeroy State Bank, Pomeroy | 132,000 |
| Knettle State Bank, Pomeroy | 67,000 |
| ———— | |
| $1,483,000 |
It may be added that the amount actually subscribed exceeded the maximum, being $2,647,000.
ANNUAL COUNTY FAIR
One feature of constant interest in any growing American community is the annual county fair. As a yearly jubilee, a display of products, and a general "get-together" agency, this characteristic feature of American rural life is entitled to a large place. It co-ordinates industries, creates enterprise, kindles ambition, and promotes the spirit of mutual helpfulness in pre-eminent degree. The Walla Walla fairs have had essentially the familiar features of all such institutions; i. e., the exposition of agricultural, horticultural, and other products. Since the fairs have been held at the present grounds south of the city, the exhibition of livestock and the horse racing features, and in the three prior years to the date of this work, the "Pioneer Days," have become leading events and have drawn thousands of visitors from all parts of the country.