Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-15
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.


public and parochial schools, assiste,
in making the city beautiful on Satur
day last, the municipal housekeeping
day.
Miss Clara Roach will assist Mis-
Cddie Mumm in the Columbia schoo
for the remainder of the year.
Miss Pinkham, director of domesti,
science in the Stevens Point norma
school, and Miss Freeman, teacher il
the Stevens Point normal, visited tn,
Wausau schools Friday.
The following is a composition o
two Senior poets, o. j and X. M:
There is boy whom we call Frank
| He is terrific crank
He is so very lean and lank
He fell into a water tank. '06
The boys dancing club gave Ma,
party at MERGERS hall last Friday even
ing.
Next Thursday noon a number of the
students will depart for Appleton tC
take examinations for scholarship
Meinhart Koenig, Arnold Wegner, anC
Bertha Pierson will write in mathemat
les; Frieda Kuckuk and Irma Schmidt
in German; Rowena Arthur, in En-
giish; and Beulah Mumm in Latin
The examinations will be given on Fri.
day.
At meeting of the Lawrence univer-
sity athletic board held Saturday after.
noon the officials and arrangements
committees for the Northwestern Inter.
scholastic athletic meet to be held in
Appleton next Saturday, were appoint
ed. Arthur Hanson, formerly of this
city will be referee and Fred Sexmith,
of this city will be one of the judges OF
the broad jump.
AT the district declamatory contest
held in Stevens Point last Friday even
ing, Elsie Dupre was awarded first
place and Gladys johnson, second
place. Both young ladies are from
Wausau. The other schools, which
were represented are Sparta, Merrill,
Elroy, Almond, Humbird, and Monticello
The judges were Miss Michaels, Grand
Rapids; Mr.. Rounds, of Whitewater,
and Mr.. Hamilton, of New London
Elsie Dupre will represent the Stevens
Point district at the state contest to be
held at Madison, May 25th.
Arrangements for a general school
exhibit to which all the people of the
city are cordially invited on May 25th,
are being rapidly perfected. There
will be fine exhibits in manual training,
domestic science and drawing work OF
all grades and departments of the city
schools. The manual training exhibits
is probably the best yet made in the
Wausau schools. Mr.. Hamrick desires
that all parents of children, who are
taking this work, would make it a
point to visit the exhibit. We expect
visitors from several places in the state.
There will be over 300 different articles,
and prizes will be awarded for the best
work done. There will be a number of
different articles for sale, among them
being two mission clocks, chairs, stands
and various other articles.
Next Saturday afternoon the annual
northeast Wisconsin interscholastic
athletic meet will be held at Appleton,
under the auspices of Lawrence univer-
sity and Wausau, H. S. together with
about thirty-three others will send
teams to complete for honors The
schools that have filed their entry
blanks are as follows:
Appleton, Wayland academy, Berlin,
Depere, Fond du Lac, Grand Rapids,
Green Bay, Hortonville, Kaukauna,
New London, Oshkosh, Port Washing
ton, kipon, Seymour, Sheboygan,
Sturgeon Bay, Waupun, Wausau,
Weyauwega, West Depere, and
Marinette. There will be athletes in
the meet from thirty-four schools of
this section of the state. This is the
largest entry in the history of the
association and this fact will not in
crease Wausau's chances of taking
first place.
men, most of whom have had exper-
fence in big meets and this ought to
help them out. The boys are busily
preparing for the meet and raise their
records every time they get out The
last time out, Elmer Young threw the
hammer over $50 feet, Orrie Peterson
broad jumped over 10 feet, and Capt
Bugoee ran the 100 yard dash in 10 90
sec. and the 440 yard run in 55 sec.
The Lawrence University Athletic
association will give valuable prizes at
the meet. Athletes who break state
records will be rewarded with solid
gold watches. A silver trophy cup
will be presented to every athlete
breaking a northeastern Wisconsin
record; gold, silver and bronze medals
for the three persons making the larg-
est aggregate of points; silver cups for
the teams winning first and second
places; banner for the team winning
the relay race and badges and souvenirs
for every athlete entered in the con-
test.
Last Thursday afternoon, Rev. Fran
els H. Brigham of the M. E. church OF
this city, spoke few words of wisdom
to the students. He said that we were
in school because of purpose to make
the most of life with the advantage Of
an education. The world expects more
of the coming generation, its oppor