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Show NEW Down FUiSJlliG Handsome Building for Returned Re-turned Soldiers and Others at Gooding Assured. Special to Tie Tribune. GOODING, Idaho. Nov. 15. The campaign cam-paign for the new dormitory for returned soldiers and other worthy youg men at Gooding college is responding to the faithful faith-ful work that ls being done throughout the intermountain empire. The business men of Gooding, under the leadership of John Thomas and George Wedgewood. already al-ready have obtained more than $40,000 of the $00,000 they are planning to raise. The Rev. J. O. Rollins and J. Wesley Miller Mil-ler report that fSMO already is on hand at Idaho Falls and that the total will exceed $8000 in this thriving young city. At Wendell the Rev. Thomas Johns and Mr. Blomquist are leading the way for the actual work. Peter Pence, pioneer of Payette, sent in his note for $1000 for a memorial room that will bear the name of the donor. Several liberal subscriptions already have come in from Boise. Tomorrow President C. W. Tenney will speak at the First church in the morning and at rjn-manuel rjn-manuel in the evening, while Dr. Frank D. Empey will preach at Nampa in the morning and at First church in the evening. eve-ning. Today thirty students at Gooding col- ege pledged $1250 in less than ten minutes. min-utes. Most of these young men and women wom-en are earning their way through, school. One of them, a returned soldier lad turned in his note for $50, with the statement. state-ment. "I am working for all my expenses. 1 have no money, but you can count on . me to pay the money when it is due." Another young man. who recently returned re-turned from one of the large universities because of lactc of funds, to complete his pre-medic work at Gooding college, also made a generous subscription. All over t' state there is a determination determina-tion to push the campaign to the limit for the next ten days, or until the last man has been seen, as it is contended that men of this type are entitle'! to an education without being compelled to leave the old home localitv and father and mother in order to get It. |