In those days, attending high school was not exactly universal, and many students had to earn their right to attend. My father, David Calvin Stuart. was a contractor and builder, and he usually had surplus piles of scrap and used lumber. He told me that if1 wanted to attend high school. he would give to me a certain pile of used lumber, and | would have to make kindling-wood of it. using a handsaw and hatchet (electric saws were not yet invented). Then I silver dollars tuition and was enrolled in what was called a Business Course. David O. McKay of Huntsville was the head of the Board of Trustees, and he was there to welcome the new as well as the older students. Weber Academy was a competitor of Ogden High School. located a couple of blocks up 25th Street, at the comer of Monroe Avenue. The competition was especially true when athlet- ics was considered, especially basketball. The Business Course consisted of typing. shorthand, bookkeeping. penmanship. all of which were taught by Professor Eh Holton. An additional class was Commer- cial Law, which was taught by David J. Wilson. a young lawyer who was trying to es- tablish a law practice in Ogden, and while so doing was supplementing his income by teaching Commercial Law. He later was very prominent in Republican Party politics in Ogden and Utah, and later through him | used to meet Congressman Colton on his visits to Ogden. Most students of Weber Academy, especially walked bicycles school, those from our part of town, either or rode their bicycles to school, but were sometimes tampered with at so mostly we walked. The street- cars of Ogden Professor Nichols and the Ogden Ladies Band was to sell this kindling-wood in burlap (gunny) sacks for twenty-five cents per gunnysack full. From what I thus earned I was to purchase my school clothes and pay my tuition. Most kitchen stoves of those years were wood and coalburning stoves. Each morning the previous day’s ashes would be cleaned out of the firebox. paper placed in it, then kin- Rapid Transit Company passed in front of our home on Wall Avenue and also the corner of 25th Street and Jefferson Avenue. but the fare was five cents, and walking was cheaper. In the four years at Weber Academy, I never once rode the streetcars to or from school, winter included. Attending Weber Academy was a good experience. There were students who later made names There were many of them. but I mention only Bingham, later owner of Buehler-Bingham Store; Ernest L. Wilkinson. later to become for themselves. a few: Norman Men’s Clothing the President of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah: Val Browning, later to become the head of Browning Arms Company; Jess dling-wood, then coal; then a match lit the paper, and very soon there was a hot stove suitable for making breakfast. Most of that summer (and later summers) I spent most of the days and quite often late at night working under an electric light, making kindling-wood, and then selling it. When enrollment time came, I purchased some school Hansen, later an Ogden banker: and Alice Pardoe West, a feature writer for the Ogden Standard-Examiner. Henry Aldous Dixon became President of Weber Academy and head of the faculty. Many years later he was appointed to fill a vacancy in our Congressional delegation. clothes from Watson-Tanner Clothing Company, and this entire student body, and it was filled with interesting events. There were instructions to the students and announcements of coming events: there was musical entertainment by the school choir and musicians; there were extemporancous speaking contests with representatives of each class striving to be chosen the winner. On occasion, even President purchase included a cap that I thought was the nicest cap | had ever seen. That cap was to give me my first unpleasant experience at the Academy. On enrollment day, accompanied by my father, | walked from home to the Weber Academy, and I paid my twenty-five In addition to our classes we had a daily assembly for the Page 14 of 14