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Show THE SAUNA Si NORTH SEVIER HIGH y the extend their thanks and appreciawas tion to the Johnsons. was Misses Lydia Larson, Rosena Johnand son, Esther Johnson, and Clara Draper motored to Richfield Thursday to have their photos taken for the Contest This Week for Speech graduation number of the North Awards Star. Selections have been made from the different classes of the students having the best speech for the Ashman Medal Contest. The final judging of these speeches will be held WedThe students chosen are: nesday. seniors, Harry Wax, Raymond Dahls-ruHelen Anderson, and Evador Nielson; juniors, Angeline Funk, Marion Bird, Inez Peterson, Arietta Martin, Amelia Ilugentobler, and With the campaign to remove unJosephine Nielson; sophomores, Oral Christensen, Wendell Poulson, Earis sightly advertising signs from Amcr-- I Hanson; fieshnien, Merrill Nielson, ieas roads well under way, attention Vera Lorentzen, Thelma Anderson, may well be turned to the character Maty Mattsson and Ned Ilugentobler. of signs and sign posts marking to show their destination and roads Bolster Discusses Forest Fires served in the dining room by freshmen girls. This meeting the last one for this season and well attended by both parents teachers. SCHOOL NOTES Presentation of Pinafore ed in Previous Opera Unexcell- The comic opera Pinafore was very successfully presented Friday night at the Opera house and Saturday night at Redmond. Sixty five good singers took part in the chorus, d and the soloists, Gordon Monroe, Larson, James Ivie, Doyle Hanson, Angus McDonald, Eailin Jensen, Spencer Smith, Leland Curfew, Fay Burns, Rosena Johnson, and Ruth Scorup, played the leading roles. The thrilling story of the opera took place on the quarter deck of II. M S. Pinafore, of Portsmouth. The action lively rollicking portrayed the life of the sailors very realistically. Jhe chorus work was the best this high school has ever produced, the boys chorus being surpassingly fine Rosena Johnson, James Ivie, and Doyle Hanson did exceptionally well in their roles. The entire opera was prepared unusually well. Much credit of the success of the opera is due to G. M. Wright, the ai'tistic and capable director. Ken-nar- d, Folster, forest suntrvisor, talked to the students on forest fires, Friday, the fifth day of Fire Prevention Week. Mr. FoMer said that forest fires are taken as a joke in this part of the country. He explained to the students the damages done to the forests and tne water supply by the forest fires. The trees he said, hold the moisture and regulate the water supply. Without forArt Exhibit and Variety Program ests the country would be subject to Was Well Attended large and disastrous floods, Mr. Folster stated. He asked the students The Girls Club featured the Art to help preserve the forests by bemeetExhibit at the ing sure they extinguish their camp ing Thursday night. Some 300 pic- fire when they take a mountain trip. tures were on display. These picThe students unanimously voted to tures were painted by some of the a resolution to prevent for worlds greatest artists and were of support est fires, which Mr. Folster presented. wide- variety. The object of this exhibit was for the purpose of instillFlashes From the North ing a greater love for art. The funds received from the exhibit will be Ever since the girls have transused to purchase pictures for the formed the attic into a real rest school. room the boys have been Considerably In connection with the exhibit a jealous and were almost green with splendid program was given. The envy. They decided that by hook or seventh-grad- e boys, under the direc- by crook they would enter the rest tion of Mr. Oveson sang, The Bare room and pass their judgment on the Foot Boy. The little fellows were work of their more artistic school their overalls cvere patch- mates. Monday Edmond Jensen took ed and their hats were old and torn. it upon himself to make a way for Their song was so entertaining that himself and comrades, so he fainted the applause from the audience de- in chorus class. The last recourse manded an encore. Invocation was was the rest room. Here he was offered by Martin Jensen. Mrs. W. given first aid treatment by the lady R. Johnson gave a stimulating ad- members of the faculty and each time of Parents dress on the they entered the room a smile of The Scotch Lassie, and Teachers. triumph shown from the patients the eighth grade girls, danced in napale face. Edmond had won. even tive costume, a clever Scottish dance though it did cost him a few hours which had to be repeated because ol illness, and he was the hero of the the loud applause. The boys chorus day. which had just became famous, sang a selection taken from the operettr The seniors are completing their , Two Jack the Giant Killer. graduation themes, What My High That Old Sweetheart of School Education is Worth. By the Mine,, and Litl Brown Baby were value they are estimating their edugiven by Miss Johnstone. As the cation at, it is evidently a rich group concluding number, Miss Cardon gave of seniors that are leaving North Se a lecture on the Messages In Pic- vier this spring. She explained the different tures. types of pictures and told interesting Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Johnson of stories connected with some of them. Aurora are buying a picture to preAfter the program luncheon was sent to the high school. The students Parent-Teache- m ftttWS Mr. fs bare-foote- d, piano-logues- distances The historic sign post is of wood, with a board nailed to the side, ending in a rude representation of a pointing hand. The board bears upon its face, usually in weather-obliterate- d letters, the name of the next town. Such a marker was all right for a trail, or a wagon road, but is as much out of place on a fine, hard road as an ox cart among automobiles. Modern practice dictates that road signs and post should be permanent, sightly, plain as to information conveyed, sturdy, and artistic. For national highways, a beautiful bronze sign post has already been designed by a famous sculptor. Road association interested in some particular road have adopted distinctive markers, in many cases of a high degree of art and beauty, as well as utility. The Old Oregon Trail, for instance, which it is proposed to improve from the Missouri to the Columbia, is now in process of being marked with signs of real beauty and Professor Fairbanks, of significance. the University of Oregon, designed the marker, showing a typical covered wagon and pioneer family of early western days. Such a sign is particularly appropriate for this trail, which is the route followed by early-dapioneers in their emigration from the Eastern states to Oregon and Washington in the late forties y ox-tea- m and early fifties. It is not necessary to wait for some large association to design or place markers. Every town can help by seeing to it that the sign posts along its entering and leaving roads are plain as to intent, yet handsome and distinctive. Placing such markers embodies the spirit of welcome to the tourist, which is good business for any town, and is most excellent work for local civic organizations to take up and follow through. Ever notice that when somebody says to you, We must' cooperate, he expects to do the bossing and you to do the cooperating? Your Home Town Merchants Flesid Your Home Town Paper There you will find the Names of Your Most Progressive Merchants Support the Advertisers F. 0. B. DETROIT SEDAN Dont Forget Clean-u- p Week Everyone do Their Bit Convenience Sor Tear Round Use Evciary The owner of a Fordor Sedan enjoys complete driving comfort at all times of the year and in all kinds ol weather. In summer with cowl ventilator open wide and the six large o .vs lowered, the Fordor Sedan is as cool and airy as side-wind- an open car. And for travel in rainy weather or over dusty roads, it embodies ever essential provision for the comfort of passengers. 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