Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-14
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The Senior class held meeting last
Tuesday and committee was appoint
ed to see about the class picture. The
committee is Margaret Murray, Blanche
Lampert, Mark Scholfield, Harry Chris
tiansen and Lloyd Wells
The Lincoln Debating club held
meeting Friday morning at recess and
the following officers were inaugurated;
Henry Conlin, president; John y Brlen,
vice-president; Myron johnson, secre-
tary; Sam Wells. treasurer. Program
committee: William Koch and Frank
lin Pardee.
Superintendent Tobey was visiting
the University of Minnesota last week,
where he secured a teacher to take Miss
Merks place, as she does not expect 10
return next year.
The following lyceum program was
held last Friday afternoon
Priscilla and John Alden ......--.. Edna Blank
Mr. Brown has his Hair Cut .-...- Pearl hogney
The Kitten of the Regiment. Bessie Campbell
Music-Noeai Solo beI.na Ja rI,a,a.
How Betsy and Made Up.....-.- Lena Klamath
MuSic-Pia1o Solo. Alma hutbieF
The Little Quaker Sinner. Ida James
Essay-The Reason for the jamestown Expo
siIiOn ....-..-,-. Nlrglc Iolu
Critics Report .......... Harry Christensen
The district declamatory contest
which was held at Stevens Point Friday
evening was won by Benjamin Sias, of
Sparta, while Miss Elizabeth PlantZ, of
Wausau, took second place. MIR. Sias
and Miss Plantz tied for points, but as
Mr. Sas mad two first places and Miss
Pantz only one he vas given first
place About twenty-five students
accompanied the disclaimers. Every
body reports an excellent time.
For the past few weeks the high
school athletes have been hard at work
and all are planning on going 10 Apple
ton next Saturday to take part in the
Northeastern Wisconsin Interseholastic
meet, which is held annually by Law
renee university Although the boys
do not expect to carry away the cup,
they are all determined to do their best
work The entries which have been
made are as follows:
Dashes-Lamotte and Jones.
Quarter mile-Hunger and Taugher.
Distance runs-Roach and Taugher
Hurdles-Weik.
High jump-Weik and Stuhlfauth.
Broad iump-Hunger and Jones.
Pole vault-R. Sipes and G.. Sipes.
Weights = Scholfield, Wegner and
Christensen.
An honor which fell to Wausau last
week was in selecting this place IN
which to hold the Wisconsin state ora
torical contest. News of the selection
was received on Friday and the date
was set tor next Friday evening, May
nth The contest has usually been
held in Madison, but last year Wausau
secured the honor and all were so well
pleased that it came our way again.
There should be large attendance OF
our citizens to this contest Wausau's
representative will be John Stuhlfauth.
The following students will go to
Appleton next Friday to write in the
examination. contest, which is given
annually by Lawrence university
Writers Subject.
Karl kraatz :...................--. German
Caroline Merklein..... .....-.-..-...:. German
Meinhart hoenig $3.50. Mathematics
Arnold Wegner ........................ Science
Gwendolin Curran. .....,,..... ..,... Science
Margaret Murray ...s-,s. Laun
Bertha Pearson. Engllsn
Miss Carpenter will accompany the
students.
The annual manual training exhibit
ton will be held on the 30th and 3lst of
May. This will certainly prove an ex-
cellent exhibition as the boys have been
working hard and they expect to have
as fine an exhibition as has ever been
held in the high school, The exhibit
will include the work done at the Lin
coin and Washington buildings also.
The work done by each room being
kept separate as well as the work of
the different schools. Last year the
exhibit was an exceedingly fine one,
and those people who visited the school
were surprised at the amount of work
and the grade of work that the boys
had put out. This year they intend to
have better exhibition and erybody
is invited to come and see what the
boys can do