Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-02
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The dates have been set for the loca
oratOrcal and declamatory contests
| The oratorical contest will be held oil
the twenty-sixth of March, and tw,
weeks later on April ninth, the declam
atory contest will be given. All tn,
DISCLAIMERS and orators, with the excep
ton of one of the Senior repl eseptative
in each contest, have selected thei
| pieces. They are as follows:
Declamatory contest,
Ruth Cliff-"Mrs. MAYORS Story
] Mary Nichols-"How Tom Sawyer
| Whitewashed the Fence"
Leah Deutsch-' Jalnesy"
Selma Pagenkopf-"The Going of tn,
White Swan"
Katherine Molter-"The Prince O
Illusion"
| Estella Berger The Lady Across
| the Aisle''
Ada Clement ightide on the Coas
OF Lincolnshire"
The Oratorical contest,
Wylie Sampson-"Crim its Own De.
| tectorn
Sam Wells-"The Southern Negro.
August Schneider" Independence OF
Cuba"
Coney Piper Lincoln, Man called
of God"
Milton Sitter" The Black Horse and
His Rider
Harold Dietl-"A Americas Duty to
Resist"
The girls basket ball tournament
will be held two weeks after the Pen,
tathlon the nineteenth of March The
class teams will then fight it out for the
championship of the school. The teams
have been picked and have been practic-
ing hard for the games. With perhaps
few changes the teams will line up as
follows:
/ Senior-color, crimson.
Rachel Hudson, c.; Valera Ringle, TT
fl Genevieve Edmonds, If. f Edna
Thorn tcapt) rt. g Ella Schneider, If
e.
Junior-color, white.
Margaret Schmidt, e.; Ruth Kreutzer
rt. f Leah Deutch, IT, + Lottie Taplin,
TT. g /; Grace Panabaker lcapt) If g.
Sophomore-color, blue aud White
Gertrude Merklein, C Ethel Bellz, TT
f.; Margaret Barwig, If 4 Mae Holub,
TT g.; Frances Braasch, If g.
Freshman color, crimson and silver
gray.
Emma Buntrock (capt) c.; Hazel
Menier, TT. f Irene Newberry, If
Orpha LIVER .ore, TT. g Ora Manercka
If. g.
At meeting of the Senior class last
week the following committees were
appointed:
Motto-Norman Stone, Harold Sloan,
e. I'll. Davis, Ruth Cliff, Olive Larson,
Arnold Klosterman and Leigh Bugbee
Baccalaureate-Pho Jones, Helen
Susie, Herbert Schneider, Raymond
Reiser and Franklin Pardee.
Colors-Wylie Sampson, Conrad Al
then, Genevieve Edmonds and Mary
Nichols. Purple and white were chosen
as the class colors in meeting held
later in the week.
Mr.. Parlin repeated for the benefit OF
the school speech that was given by
E. B Bryan at the Grand Rapids teach
ers' convention.
Miss auckland was taken sick Sun.
day and will not be able to meet her
classes for few weeks. Mrs. Parlln
took charge of Miss Buckland's classes
Monday A substitute from the univer-
sity of Chicago, will have charge OF
them until Miss Buckland is able TO re-
turn.
Cork mating has been put in the
lower halls of the high school.
Miss Wallace was not able to meet
her classes Monday as she was ill.
Miss Myra Bucklin of the Columba
school w;s.s iii iii Monday. Her school was
taught by Substitute from the train
ing school
Professor Garfield, professor ol
history and economies at Carroll col
lege. spoke to the high school Monday
morning.
Walter Shy manski has accepted 6
position with the Arpin Lumber com
paDy and will leave this week for Bruce
where he will work.
Norton Kelly left Saturday night foi
Washington where he will visit Louis
Pradt during Taft's inaugural.
Mr. Parlin gave lecture at Colby
last Friday on his travels.
Mary Winkley dropped school this
| week. She will go West for a long
| visit
Thursday, Mr.. Legler, chairman o.
| the state library com mittee, will speal
in the high school Thursday afternoon
on Indian Myth and Legend"
Next Friday night is the annual in
| door meet or pentathlon. The pentath
| Ion is a class meet and the winning
| team get their class numerals engraved
on the cup in the library. Last yeal
| the meet was won by the Junior class
the present Senior class Ia 1907, '0'
| and % the meet was each time won by
| the Senior class The present Senior
| has a chance to win the meet twice
something that has not been done be
fore.
The competition this year is stronger
| than usual on account of the interes
| taken in track work by the boys and be
| cause the underclassmen want TO keel
| the Seniors from winning the meet
There will also be a contest IN decora
| ton.
The scoring for the peDtathlon vii
be as follows: Pole vault, TWO point
for every inch over five feet ten.
Shot put-Four points for every foo
| over eighteen feet
High jump-Four points for ever
| inch over three feet six.
Broad jump-A point for every incl
over eleven feet, eight inches.
Run-Five points for every secon'
under two minutes and five seconds.
The local w. C. I. U. offered to higl
school students five dollars for the bes
temperance essay and five dollars 70
| the best cartoon. A prize of two dol
| Jars and a half was also offered to stu
dents not in the high school for tn
best temperance essay.
It Saved His Leg.