Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

He is man of great power on the plat
form. The commencement exercises
this year will be exceptionally good
There will be essays, orations, declam-
alton, class will, prophecy, and a
play The class prophets are Irma
Schmidt, Katherine Manson, Orpha +.
Jones and Katharine K. Bissell They
have spent good deal of work on their
prophecy, and although we have not
seen (Which is not our fault we know it
is going to be very interesting. It is
very clever, no doubt, the best proph-
ecy that has ever been given. 1t is in
the nature of play and Miss Rogers is
training the girls. This fact alone
assures us that the prophecy viii be a
great success. The play is the Cricket
on the Hearth" 1t is drama in three
acts, dramatized by Albert Smith from
I Charles Dickens story of the same
name. 1t is fairy tale of the home
life of John Perry bingle and his wife,
Dot. Their happiness is interrupted
by the introduction of a stranger, whom
john believes is in love with his wife
There is also another story of Bertha, a
bind girl, and her old father, Caleb
Hummer, whose greatest care is to
make his daughter happy. The two
stories are tied together by their inter-
est in May Fielding, who is about to
marry Tackleton, the exacting master
of Caleb. The cast includes those who
have taken part in the defamation and
oratorical work this year. Miss Rogers
is coaching them and everyone is trying
his best to make this the best play that
has ever been given in the commence
ment exercises.
Last Friday morning the last meeting
of the lyceum for the school year was
he'd. The following officers were in
augurated: John Stuhlfauth as presi-
dent, Helen t. Winton as secretary and
X. Brands as vice-president. The fol-
lowing was the program:
Debate-Resolved that Monday would be more
preferable for holiday than Saturday.
Affirmative. Negative.
John kaufman Margaret Murray
Deelamation-''The Obstructive Hat in the
The Fashionable School Girl JeanR Tslen Wilson SDa
Debate-Resolved that Cuba should be annexed
to the U. S.
Affirmative. Negative
Meinhart Koenig Arnold Wagner
Essay-"Parsival" ............. Jessie Flaherty
The first debate was decided in favor
of the affirmative by the judges, Sol
Heinemann, Walter Lemke and Earl
Lake. The declarations by Jeanette
Wilson and Helen Single were especial
ly well rendered and both show great
deal of talent in speaking.
The judges Harold Morisette, Zeno
Speer, and Hugh Campbell decided the
second debate in favor of the negative.
Roy johnson gave farewell speech to
the underclassmen. He said that the
senior class of '06 was the best class in
school and the best class that was ever
graduated from the w. H. S. But he
hoped that the class of '07 would be Just
little bit better. Karl Kraatz answered
for the conceited juniors by saying that
the class of '07 was as good now as the
class of '06 and that next year they
would be great deal better Now it
is up to the Junior class to prove this.
Then short talks were given by the class
presidents, Freshmen, Norman Stone,
Sophomore Merritt Jones, Junior Iona
Nickerson and Senior, Edgar Wilson.
Three cheers were given for the teach
ers who would not be with us next year,
namely, Mr.. Briggs. Mr.. Lewis, Miss
Lathrop and Miss Dunbar. Each re-
sponded with short talks. Mr.. Parlin
was wished much enjoyment and good
luck on his trip abroad. Then a motion
was made to give three cheers for the
class of FOG, and the envious juniors
voted it down. But Durkee, '06, called
for standing vote, and once more '06
was victorious. Three good rousing
cheers, led by Mark Scholfield, were
given for the illustrious class of 1906.