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Show ALL THE SCHOOLS SHOULD MAKE AN EXHIBIT. The Ogden City Board of Education has appropriated $150 for the purpose of making a 'school exhibit at the "Four-State Fair" to be held In Ogden In September. This action on the part of tho board of education is commendable commend-able and should result In the county board of education, also the officers of Weber Academy, setting aside a fund to defray the erpense of being properly proper-ly represented at the big fair. With these thrco branches of education educa-tion striving to make a creditable and attractive display of school work, the exhibit should hold the attention of not only the people of Ogden but the many visitors from otherB places who will be here. ' " The suggestion has been made that a special building be erected by the fair management to be devoted to education, edu-cation, and, If the city, county and Weber We-ber Academy unite in an effort to make a creditable showing, the prospects pros-pects are the building will be erected. Nothing would reflect more credit on this city or bring better results than a well managed exhibit of the schools. There are families In Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada that can be drawn to Ogden Og-den by a demonstration of the fitness of Ogden as a home city where the children of those families may obtain tho foundation of an education. Cattlemen, Cattle-men, sheepmen and mine owners, who have accumulated wealth in our neighboring neigh-boring states, are searching out de-sin'-ble places in which 4 to give their eli I! !:en all the benefits of scholastic iv.ilnis. and it is for Ogden, through Its schools, to unmistakably prove to thsse people that this is the city. |