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Show Ogden Plans Spectacular July 23 24 Parade Through the .traffic stilled heart of Ogden's business district on July 2 3 and 2 4 there will be presented what is expected to be the most spectacular parade m the history of Weber county. These are the two days of Ogden's sixith. annual Pioneer days celebration requiring the most effort and widest parl'.cipa-j tion of community organizations, for every major unit of the county will be represented. Hundreds of people afoot,' sponsored by L. D. S. Mutual Stakes, will portray Indians, hunters, hun-ters, trappers and other famous! characters identified with tfia old west. Creaking behind will be the clumsy freighting wagons 'that carried raw gold from Nevada Nev-ada and Califorrya, stage coaches and handcarts thsnt bore their human cargoes across an arid wilderness to fertile Utah valleys, mail coaches that more often! than not were the targets of Indian warfare. In contrasts, embellished floats, resplendent with pretty girls and lavishdesign of colored tinsel will itell the story of progress in the years that have intervened. The story will be elaborated withj other parade units displaying machines, implements and whatnots what-nots of modern America. I Then, too, the background of the celebration will be depicted by hundreds of cowboys who still make a livelihood in the manner of the old west. Another vital story will be told in the form of khaki clad troops and machinery-units machinery-units of the regular army and the Utah national guards. The pace will be set by 18 bands, which hail from virtually every point in the intermounta'n country. |