Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-13
A GREAT WISCONSIN MEETING.

Both the Northeastern and the North
western Wisconsin meetings are grand
meetings, but this year they held joint
meeting at Wausau, and it was an oc-
casion to be remembered with satisfac
ton. Superintendent B. b. Jackson,
of Superior, president of the Northwest
ern, and Superintendent Karl Mathie, 81
Wausau, president of the Northeastern,
arranged the program. There was
nothing of the record breaking order
in the program, which was thoroughly
good; the only star parts were the adj
dress of Jenkin Lloyd Jones and the
musical evening program, which was
beyond anything of the kind have
heard from local talent in the thousand
and more educational meetings that l
have attended The matchless features
of the meeting were in connection with
the citizens and their reception of the
teachers.
What would be thought of a town in
the East with only about 12,O0c popula-
ton that should raise several hundred
dollars from among the citizens for the
entertainment of local teachers or
ganization? Where could it be done
for state associations The citizens of
Wausau issued an elegant souvenir OF
the meeting-120 pages without dol
lars advertising, with DO attempt to
boom the town with illustrations of res
licences, business blocks or mills. 1t
was rather purely educational affair,
with seventy-five pages devoted to
graded selections for school memoriz-
ing, the best compilation have seen.
Another evidence of public spirit was
the free entertainment of all the women
teachers in the best homes of the city
Think of it, We teachers of the East, and
many of the Western states ye who are
in the habit O. paying your board in
homes that are not the best! Wausau
gave free entertainment to many hun
dred teachers, and free drive through
the city and into the country round
about. On the evening of the enter
tainment which closed with delight
full reception by the Woman's Club OF
the city, the High school grounds were
adorned by hundreds of the most beau
tiful of Chinese lanterns, giving this
teachers association a Harvard class
day campus appearance.
OF course the credit of this belongs tc
| no one person, for the whole city had t.
lend hand, but chiefly to Kari Mathit
is the official credit due. Mathie is q
force. Wausau is his home; here he
was school boy, from here he went t.
college, both West and Ea,t-Harvard
and before he had fairly begun worE
elsewhere he was called home to run
things educationally, which he is doing
to the queens taste.
/ Wausau is an ur-to-date city, moi
alone educationally, but commercially
and churchly as well. Why, one church
in this little city supports eleven mis-
sions scattered over the outlying coun
try for thirty-fve miles, supports mis-
sionary who does nothing but supervise
\ these mission enterprises, provides ;
missionary for work wholly in Wausau
and pays the salaries Of a missionary IL
Africa and of smother in Asia. 1t Is re
freshing to spend few days in such
community, especially when you ar
made very much at ease in the beauti
full home Of thrifty manufacturer, wh'
has borne his part in the making of tn
city and has contributed his full shar
to the successful arrangements for tn
meetinp.-Journal of Education.