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Show laughing confusion the guests landed on the iloor of the hall below. II wa3 the start to Spookdom, and from there they were guided by the imps through the blackest alleys and forced to crawl thiough haunted tun-I tun-I nels, where they were poked in the ribs' by spirit fingers. From the tunnel tun-nel they emerged from a rolling and revolving platform, where all lost their balance to fall into weeds and burrs. After leiiig chased by unspeakably un-speakably pretty ghosts, they were finally brought before a real skeleton, who insisted upon greeting each guest with his gaunt, bony hand. And each guest who shook the proffered hand rc-ceived a shock electrical iu effect. After the initiation, everybody was ushered back to the hall and five witches, with long flowing hair and Jet black gowns, entertained them with an uncanny dance around a huge cauldron, from which shot mysterious llames of green 'ud red. more weird than the witch scene of Macbeth. The rest of the night was spent in dancing, with the high school orchestra orches-tra at the strings, and a generous supply sup-ply of fresh cider, doughnuts and apples ap-ples were passed from a huge pumpkin pump-kin deil in one corner of the hall. SAW GHOSTS SCHOOL Perhaps the most unique social ever I given in Ogden was the Hallowe'en i partv at the high school Saturday night. It was stricllv an educational affair of the Ogden Teachers' associa- tiou, giving all who attended a liberal education lu ghost lore and acquaint- ing them with the grotesque denizens i of the shadow world At S o'clock all the pretty school nmrms for the grade and hich schools and all the "Brownies" they ccuild find, together with a few members of the board of education, were met at the entrance of the high school by a i reception committee of little red ' : devils and several stately ghosts, who j conducted them through dark alleys, to, a fantastically lighted hall. Here the guests were mated quite to the delight of the satanic ones, but wlth-out wlth-out regard to the affinities of the guests At 8:30 the chief ghost announced with due solemnity that the members j and friends of the association would i be initiated into th r. mysteries of a real Hallowe'en. It was a trip to I Spookdom, and started by a headlong slide down a dark chute, where dignity dig-nity was lost and life and limb left to the eare of ghosts and devils. In |