Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-20
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

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ington school, was i'll last Friday and
Miss Margaret Dunbar substituted.
The faculty chose the following
orators and declaimors for the coming
contests:
Seniors-Oscar Bromberg, Gladys
johnson.
Juniors-John Stuhlfauth, Helen T,
Winton.
Sophomores-Newton Martin, Edith
Wieks.
Freshmen-Herbert Smith, Dora
Poziski.
The following were appointed by the
president of the class of '06 for the
committee on notices:
Hugh Durkee, Orrie Peterson, Beulah
Mumm, Olga Tietz and Rowena
Arthur.
At meeting of the faculty last week,
the class honors for the class of 1906
were awarded. There were about ten
pupils who had very high averages and
the two best of these were chosen
validictorian and salutatorian. Rowena
Arthur stood the best in the class with
an average of 95.7 per cent. and was
therefore chosen valedictorian. Beulah
Mumm stood second with an average
OF 94.2 per cent. and she was therefore
named salutatorian of the class
A helpless, blind, old man was
heroically rescued last Tuesday morn
ing by two fair damsels, Helen and
Mae. He was in imminent danger of
death by fire through the ashes of his
cigar falling on his coat and igniting it,
when the aforesaid maidens arrived
and soon conquered the blaze with
snow.
Moral-Better smoke here than here
after.
The manner in which the clock, man.
ufactured by the members of the manu-
al training department of the school,
was purchased shows the spirit of the
citizens OF Wausau in regard to school
matters. Within two hours after the
list of subscriptions had been started,
40 dollars was raised. At one time
five men, each one of whom wanted to
put down his name first. Fifty dollars
was all that was asked for the clock,
but after this was raised, several men
were determined to contribute their
"V," saying that the Manual Training
department could use it in some way or
other.
During the twenty minute periods of
last Thursday and Friday, Prin Parlin
gave us very interesting talk on the
presidential election of 1926 At this
time the parties had no conventions
and the electors were elected by the
Legislatures. During this certain elec-
ton there were no parties, no issues
1t was the break down of the old sys-
tenn and the beginning of the new.
There were a multitude of candidates
who were as follows j. @. Adams,
Dan. d. Thompkins, VIM. Lowndes,
John G. Calhoun, VIM. H. Crawford,
Smith Thompson, H. Clay, and Dewitt
Clinton. But there had been no men
ton of new man from the West, who
was to spend more years at the capitol
than any of the afore named. This
was Andrew jackson. He represented
the people, and the general feeling of
discomfort among the people. He
entered into politics to find out what
was so secretly going on among the
other candidates.
The following is clipping from the
Charleston City Gazette in 1925:
eff we want a prompt, efficient,
economical President, Calhoun is the
man-if an able and an honest regular
bred Democrat, Smith Thompson
would answer the purpose, if talking
one Clay is certainly preferable;-if a
fighting one,. jackson to a thousand-if
statesman, Adams, if one not distin-
guished by any of these qualities, Craw-
ford will suit u.s." In the same paper
were the following objections: Mr..
Adams is opposed because che is the
son of his father.' Gen. jackson is
opposed because many people feel
ticklish about the neck at the very thot
of him, CLAY if short of money, plays
brag for offices instead of dollars, and
perhaps CANDLES away the Nation with
a foreign minister" Crawford, 1st,
"even took a mans life in fashionable
way" 2nd, 'has but slender talents"
3rd, guilty of Federalism which even
the blood of federalist cannot wash
away"
When election time drew near, the
candidates still in the field, were
Adams, Jackson, Crawford and Clay.
Calhoun, who was young man and
that he saw a more favorable opportu-
nifty to run in the future, withdrew and
ran for the vice-presidency which he
obtained without any opposition. In
the electoral vote jackson received the
most votes, but it was not a majority,
and so the vote was carried to the
house of representatives, where Adams
received thirteen votes; Jackson, seven,
and Crawford, four. Thus ended one
of the longest and most interesting
campaigns in the history of our country.