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Show I was hopeing all the time that there wouldnt be no more of them Barker contests. I knew it would only bring unpleasant memmeries to Liza Ann and me about our quarrell and everything. But the very next day we had one. I was shore glad I didnt enter for I wouldnt have had a chanct at all with Vernal Stimpson. It seemed they wuz trying to rub my failure in after that, cus it just rained ortorikal contests afterwards. We had one most every day, for four days. It seemed like the women shore could hold there own too. The second day, Dorothy Vai! won, then Steve Durant brought the men to victory by winnin the neckst day. Then, in the finels, Grant Ellis esttablisr the place for the men Friday, being Armistice day me and Liza Ann drew up a peace term between us, and we deecidid we wouldnt never get mad and fight any more. Thanks to Arthur Wooley who talked in the asembly that morning and made us see how fullish war wus. I studied awfully hard that week end, cause Liza Ann went up home to Brigham city, and I didnt have anything else to do. I wus glad to go back to sckool the next monday so I could see her again. But I no sooner entered the sckool buildin than they told that it wus Educational week. Imagine my surprise. I thot I wus bein educated every week, especially this last week end. However I discovered that I was goin to be educated more than ever this next week. Evry day some man from the city come and give us some good speaches bout how important our education is. We all began to think seriously after that and we worked and studied most all the time. The only relief we got, came with the Weber V.S. Ricks game. All us foot-ball fellers went up to Rexburg, and I had to leave Liza Ann behind. It wus than that I began to relize how much I cared fer her. All the time I kept a wonderin what she was doin down here and who she wus dancin with at the student body dance they had here at home that night. I new she must be thinkin of me once in awhile since us fellers won the game 13 to o. I wus certunly glad when I got back home to Liza Ann again tho. It seemed a year since I had been away, and while I was gone Vernal Stimpson had walked away with the Grant Oratorical contest and Alice Tanner's heart. I certunly hip-hoorayed for Vernal. It took me a long time to get back to work after that game. Eliza Ann heard a lot of scandal about us. fellers while we were'gone and she believed it all. I wus absolutely true to her. but Bob Martin and Floyd Bailey acted awfully at the dance they gave for us up there. Of course it gave the rest of us fellers a black eye, but thanks to Pete I finally got Liza Ann to believe in me again. It wasnt long after that until all the pretty girls in the sckool, includin Liza Ann began to give us fellers the high brow. I couldnt imagin what had come over Liza Ann, until one day I read her name on the Bulletin Board and it said she was a prospeckt for the queen of the Acorn Ball. Of Course I couldnt blame her fer feelin so smart then, an I felt mighty smart of her too. An Pop, talk of spendin money-it took every scent I had to buy votes. I took Liza Ann to all the matina dances and every dance i had with her counted five votes, and also five cents. So you see, it didnt take long to bust me. I got the rest of the football fellers to vote for Liza Ann too. But they all seemed busted, and luck wus against us and Liza Ann lost. At first Liza Ann was kind of dispointed, but I told her thet anyway she was my queen and then she didnt care. Well, pop, Ive just simply got to take Liza Ann to the Acorn ball and find out who the queen is goin to be. I think that it is goin to be Stella Mouriteson, and so do the other kids. It comes on the 23rd. That is the last day of sckool, and then I can come home to you and Mom for Xmas. Please send me some money pop. right soon. Your gratefull son, Emo. P.S.-No. 1-I'm sending home some picktures whut I took. P.P.S.-No. 1-Please mownt them in our allbum. Dear pop and mom: You cant imagin how hard it wus to get started back to sckool again. It wus almost like starting all over again. I had forgotten almost evrythin I knew. Evrybudy was in the same fix tho. Right after I got back, we had Founders day, friday the 8. We celebrated the founding of the sckool in great style. Adam S. Bennion spoke in our asembly. Then at 2:30 we had a parade with floats an evry- thing else, and we went to all the varius places where Weber was once at. We basketball fellers had the best float there was, an they let me hold the ball. It wasnt easy when we went over the bumps either, cus i couldnt hold still. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we had a basketball game with Logan High, and some of the people what was down town, recugmzed me, from the parade, and said "There's the feller we saw tryin to hold so still in the parade. He aint very still now tho." In the evening I took Liza Ann to hear Arson I. Whitney speak. We went there so as we could get us a free ticket to the dance what they had in the gym. I wouldnt have cared about payin tho, cause I shore had lots of fun. Altho the 13th is supposed to be an unluky day, us basketball fellers played Moragan and won 56-6. Boy, wasnt that some score? It was an easyy game, but we fellers had to get some practicin. |