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Show SALVATION ARMY TO COflflCilPIl Complete Report Showing Gross Receipts Will Be Made Tomorrow. I The Salvation army home service campaign to raise $73,000 in Salt Lake city and county will continue throughout through-out tho coming week, according to a decision readied last night by mom-burs mom-burs of tho executive board. 'A complete com-plete tabulation of the receipts up to dato has not .been made, inasmuch as Karl A. Scheid, county treasurer, is out of the city on a fishing trip. Exports from a number of counties in the state indicate that the drive hns been successful, and in a number of cases the campaign has gone over the top with oversubscriptions. A complete com-plete report will be given out tojuprrow showing the gross receipts of every county in the state. A letter setting forth the purposes of the drive has been forwarded to the president of the Hotary, Commercial ! and Kiwanis clubs requesting their as- j sistance in the campaign. Harry S. Joseph said last night he believed that Salt Lake would go over the top this ! week, when all organisations cooperated with the Salvation army in their efforts to raise a building fund, together with a sustaining and free employment bureau bu-reau fund. Chairman Joseph said tho street work for the drive ended last night, and that headquarters would be maintained in the McCornick Bank building merely for the purpose of receiving voluntary contributions. Captain Edward C. Bacon said last night that Garfield had gone over the top with a large subscription, and that reports from several counties indicated j the state had completed their drives successfully. suc-cessfully. Although the drive has not .been com- Cierman guns at the front line trenches. Although a complete report of the gross' receipts of the Salvation army home service drive had not been made last night, officials were optimistic over the results of the campaign, and believed that the work would be completed the coming week. pleted, a free employment bureau has been established by the Salvation army. Captain Bacon said last night that positions posi-tions were open to more than 300 returned re-turned service men August 10 at $i and $4.50 a day. j-'ifty more men eai be handled by August' 15. Captain Bacon said Inst nigh Trovo aud Ogdon had gone over the top with a large oversubscription, and that most of the counties with small quotas had completed their drives. Brigadier Atkins, who served with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., for twenty-one months in the front line trendies, and who has been assisting in the present campaign. wilBleave for Denver Monday to continue his work. Brigadier Atkins has received hundreds of letters from officers aud enlisted men of tlie Twenty-sixth infantry. praising his service under the fire of |