UNION BUILDING CEMENT NEAR cOMPLETION Pledges Indicate Increased Increase e ed Interest The Union Building is coming Ashton and Evans v verify this statement statement statement state state- ment as to the actual construction and Mr Woodruff of the Board of Regents is taking in the money The foundation and cement work in the basement is completed and that on the first story is started Cement w work rk is contracted to be finished by January 1 1929 Winter Winter Winter Win Win- ter will slow down activities but butin butin butin in the spring work will go forward once more It is planned to do the brick and facing work at this time The facing will vill be of tooled terra cotta and will match the Park Building An accurate miniature together with the floor plans of this beautiful beautiful beau beau- to building-to-be is on exhibition exhibition tion on the State Fair grounds The money is coming in at a good clip Starting with receipts and pledges amounting to on July 31 of this year about 65 per cent of the freshmen class signed the 36 pledges without a campaign or attached expense Receipts Receipts Receipts Re Re- from other sources are coming coming coming com com- ing in daily On Saturday October 6 came through the office window from twenty-eight twenty persons and through the the mail from ten different persons To top the day Mrs firs H. H McIntyre sent in a check for 1000 a purely voluntary con- con l t on o 1 r from r mss bus loyal ti r ilie-r of the cl class ss of 1875 This check brought the days day's re receipts to one thousand eight hundred and two dollars Aside from Mrs Mr McIntyre's McIntyre's tyres tyre's check this is the way money has been and is coming in Although 65 per cent of freshmen freshmen freshmen fresh fresh- men pledging is a good sign still 80 per cent of the rest of the thee student body has subscribed There i iare are still enough pledge pledge blanks left left for the freshmen to sign and bring their class up to this fine figure