Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The state oratogical contest which
was held in the high school assembly
hall last Friday evening was won by
John Stuhlfauth of Wausau who repre-.
sented the Stevens Point district
! The contest was an exceedingly in
teresting one and the large audience
which packed the hall was well salts
fed. There were six orators and each
speaker represented their district in an
excellent manner. The program was
as follows:
| Milwaukee District-Walter Look
Sheboygan-"The Perils of the Nation .
Whitewater District-Earl Karstead,
Beloit-"R ussia's Awakening"
Stevens Point District-John Stuhl-
fauth, Wausau-"P Plea for Cuba"
River Falls District Whiteomb.
River Falls-"On the Eoston Massacre. /"
Superior District-I'a Burhans, Su-
| "Emmet's Last Speech"
Oshkosh District = Harold Wilkie,
Fond du Lac-"Child Labor and the
American Spirit"
During the program the audience
was favored with violin solo by
Arthur Lamotte and a duet by Miss
Laona Nickerson and Miss Alma
Huebner The high school orchestra
also played few pieces.
Before giving the decision, Mr.. Par
lin announced that according to the
agreement of the Milwaukee and Osh-
kosh districts their orators were re-
CURED to write their own orations; he
also announced who each orator was
and which district they represented.
The judges were, Judge James O'Neiii,
OF Neillsville; president a. +. Sims, of
the Stevens Point Normal school; Hon.
j. +. Baker, of Alma Center, member
OF the Wisconsin assembly, and at
torney +. NJ. Smart, of Merrill. They
gave Mr.. Stuhlfauth, of Stevens Point
district. first, Mr. Whitcomb, of River
Falls district, second, and Mr.. Wilkie,
OF Oshkosh district, third. The mark
ing was as follows
LIST, Sthublfauth. ...................S points
Snd, Whltcomb..............
oru, HllKle......................
The orator getting the smallest mum
Der OF points gets first place thus Mr.
Stuhlfanth having only s points was
gwen first place.
The following students went to
Appleton Saturday to attend I he seventh
northeast Wisconsin interseholastic ath-
letic meet given by Lawrence univer-
sity:
George Roach, Louis Taugher, Frank
lin Pardee, John Stuhlfauth, Harvey
Scholheld, Robert Sipes, Edward Hun |
ger, Harry Weik, Harry Christensen,
Arthur Lamotte, Arnold Wegner Wal |
ter Lemke, Philip Dean, Bailey Rams |
dell, August Kickbusch, Henry Conlin, |
Hugh Williams. Earl Lake, Merton |
Dunnegan, George Foster, Fred Schaer,
Miss Marie Brands and Florence Gil
bert. They We're chaperOned by the /
Principal &. G. Parlin, S.
K. Scholes and Miss Daisy Rogers.
The meet was won by Appleton who
piled up total of 0pOints. Second
place was won BY East Green Bay with
. points and Oshkosh third, with 10
points As the track was heavy and a
high southwest wind was blowing, no i
track records were broken But Cook,
IF East Green Bay, broke the northeast
Wisconsin discus record with a throw
IF liz feet inches and III later trial
also broke the state record with III
ieet. The latter is not official.
Adams of Appleton was the individual
star, scoring is points. There was only
.wo teams in the relay, Appleton win
hing from Wausau.
Dean E. A. Birge of the university of
Wisconsin, will deliver the Baccalan-
cate address to the class of '07 on June ,
lin the Methodist church.
Thursday afternoon Mr.. Parlin
avored the school with an illustrated (
ectnre.
The Senior class held a meeting Mon
lay morning and the work on the COM t
nencement program was started L