4. OPERA TELLS BRIDAL PARTY SEIZURE YARN Pretty Girls Captured By Pirate Band of 'Nancy Lee' OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NEWS Emily Merrill, Editor; Blaine Larsen, Associate Editor The plot of our opera revolves about a young English nobleman, Sir Richard Camden, who has been ex-iled from his country for political reasons. Meanwhile, his traitorous cousin, Lord Egbert Mortimer, has not only taken possession of the Camden lands and wealth, but has walked with Richard's sweetheart, Lady Joanna Leyton. Sir Richard gathers about him a number of young men who have likewise been jilted, and they put out to sea in a pirate ship, "Nancy Lee." Just off the coast of England the "Nancy Lee" takes possession of an¬other ship. This proves to be Lady Joanna and her bridesmaids returning from Paris. Come to the South Washington auditorium and discover what hap¬pens when a band of pirates takes possession of a shipload of lovely bridesmaids; come and find what becomes of the traitor! Remember the date, March 15!— Alice Starr. ELECTION HELD Mr. Hancock's seventh period eco¬nomics class recently conducted an election of officers. Those elected are: President, Bill Taylor; vice president, Alice Starr; secretary, Al¬bert Bell, reporter, Le Ida Roberts. We wish to extend a note of thanks to the outgoing officers—Burton Burrowels, Elmer Munford, Lois En¬sign and Royal Wheeler—for the splendid work they did to put over an interesting class last term. On Monday reports were given by Bernice Brimhall, Erma Bingham and Alice Starr.—Le Ida Roberts. DO YOU? Do you like dancing? Do you like music? Do you like girls? Do you like boys? Do you like fun? Do you like to masquerade? If you like all these things (and, being human, of course you do), you will not want to miss the Classicalia. The dance offers all these things and even more to you. Anything might happen on a night when peo¬ple masquerade and change their identities. Romance and adventure are beckoning to you. Why refuse them? Why not accept your des¬tiny by buying a ticket and attend¬ing the Classicalia?—Barbara Clark. THE FIRST OGDEN We frequently hear there is no romance about Ogden, that all of Ogden's history has been since the settlement of Utah by the Mormon pioneers, July 24, 1847. This whole theory is groundless. About 20 years before that, in 1824-25-26, Ogden had a population of nearly 5000 men. Among these were the most famous group ever to gather in Og¬den—men such as Bridger, Ogden, Provost, Carson, Sublett, Jedediah Smith, and eleven other famous trail breakers of the west. At this time there were many trappers in the country, particularly in Canada, Montana and Washing-ton. However, men such as Provost were beginning to work down into the valleys of the Wasatch. Several years before this, a member of a trapping band had been killed on a river, and in his memory they called the river the Weber. About this time a young Virginian with capital came out to St. Louis, then the fur center of the west, and saw that the money in trapping lay in wholesal¬ing. He sent out 100 young men, and the next summer called a meet¬ing at the junction of the Ogden and Weber rivers, a short distance west of where the stockyards stand now. Here, in the early summer of 1824 gathered four or five hundred young trappers. The Virginian, Ashley, expected to buy up all the furs and sell the lot in St. Louis. In this way he could collect a good deal more money than by selling individually. Young Peter Skene Ogden had the same idea, except that iie would sell to the Hudson Bay company. However Ashley out¬bid him and obtained all the furs. In beaver skins alone he bought thousands of furs, with correspond¬ingly large amounts of muskrat, ot¬ter, mountain lion, fox and polecat furs, all taken in one winter; so, you see, in those days this was a great game country. As to the rest of the population: Four thousand Snake Indians came into camp in a body to trade what little they had. This made a total of nearly 5000 men alone, not count¬ing women and children, who would have raised the total to nearly 14,000 people gathered in Ogden, thus making it the largest town in the west at that time. The Snake In¬dians stayed on, after a series of events which will be told in a future article, throughout the duration of the camp. And in these 5000 white men were the 17 most famous of the early westerners. Interesting? We found it a fascinating story too little told.—W. B. TALKING PICTURES On Tuesday morning Ogden High school boys had a real treat—a talk¬ing picture portraying the history of baseball from its inception—the one- old-cat game played by three boys in the old, old days up to the pro¬fessional game of today with all its fine points, its thrills, its great pitchers, batters, catchers, fielders, etc. The picture was shown by a famous athlete of Colgate, Robert C. Rowe, '32, who at odd times now indulges in professional football. The program was contributed by Fisher Body Craftsman's guild. The guild also offered opportunity to all high school boys to participate in a min¬iature carriage building contest that is nation-wide, having for its pur¬pose the encouraging of craft work. To have a sound motion picture in our own barn auditorium was a real treat. 5. QUEEN TO BE SELECTED FOR CLASSICALIA Assembly Called Friday To Nominate Girls For Honor OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NEWS Emily Merrill, Editor; Blaine Larsen, Associate Editor There are about two hundred Senior girls in our high school. All bf them are very charming and cracious. Who, out of all these girls, will be chosen snow'queen and reign Supreme over that dance of dances— the Classicalia? On March 8th there will be an Assembly called for the purpose of nominating girls for the honor of being Snow Queen: on the 12th of March an assembly will be held for the first ballot. In this assembly the number of nominees will be cut down to eight, and they will be in¬troduced to the school at large in an assembly on the fifteenth of this month. On March 18, two girls will be chosen out of the eight, and they will be introduced March 22. On March 26 the final balloting will take place. The results of this ballot will be made known on the night of the Classicalia. This rigorous routine of choosing our queen is employed so that there will not be any danger of favoritism or mistakes. So, students of Ogden High, as the time is drawing near | for the balloting, you had better look around you and choose the girl whom, because of her charm and graciousness, you believe to be the best fitted to be our queen—Barbara Clark. PIRATES ON AIR What ho for television! Wouldnt you like to see those swash buckling pirates that charmed us on the air last night? Wouldn't you like to find out if they are as desperate and as blood thirsty as they would have us believe? Shiver my timbers! But, a perfect pirate has to be something more than a voice. Aye, and by thunder! He must appeal to the etye as welTas to the ear. Island ahoy! You can't see pirates digging treasures through the radio. \ An island setting is an absolute necessity. And by the powers, it shall be furnished when the opera is presented at Washington Junior on March 15. Huzza there my hearties! The Lady Joan! Her voice is charming but wait 'till you see her in th a proper setting. Pieces of Eight! Avast there! Wh Said anything about Pieces of Eight The price is one little piece of silve —25c. Student body tickets will t honored in the afternoon. Forty men on the Nancy Lee! Bring your friends; don't fail to come! Pirates brave and bold they be!' Yo-ho ho and a bottle of rum! —L. R. F.