Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-01-14
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

nelQ laSG wednesday evening. The
program given in this paper last week
was fully carried out. After the de-
bate several new members were taken
in.
From all reports it appears that
many of our high school students are
planning to escort the basket ball
team to Amigo on Feb. 7.
There was no lyceum program last
week.
Now that the boys basket ball tourn-
ament has completed its run for tile
season, the girls are attracting all at
tention. They have organized teams
and Will begin practice this week.
The nights reserved especially for
their use are Friday and Monday,
that is after school.
Here is an opportunity for pupils in
the high school to compete in the
contest for the best essay by a stu
dent of high school or equivalent
school in each of the eleven congress
sional districts of the state. on topic
| connected with the war of 1872, the
Wisconsin Perry's Victory Centen-
NAL Commission will award gold
medal valued at twenty-five dollars.
For the best essay of the eleven win
ming essays, there will be awarded an
additional prize of fifty dollars in
cash; for the second best, thirty dol
| lars; and for the third best, twenty
dollars. q bronze medal will be
| awarded to that contestant in each
high school or equivalent school whose
essay wins out in the school and is
| forwarded to the commission. Essays
must be submitted prior to April l,
1913.
Each high school or equivalent
school in which student wins one of
the gold medals will be awarded a
| large facsimile of Perry's battle flag,
which has spread on it the motto,
4 "Don't give up the Ship!"
| There will be awarded to each
county in which at least so per cent
| of the rural and state graded schools
| give suitable Perry'S Victory Cen
tennial program before May Is, 1913,
| a Perry battle flag to be used, under
the direction of the county superin-
tendant, as trophy to be held by
| the schools winning out in such con-
tests as the superintendent may from
| year to year arrange. Similarly, a
| flag will be awarded to cities employ,
ing fifty or more teachers, in which
at least Is per cent. of the grammar
schools give such programs.
A complete explanation of these
contests will soon be mailed to sup
erintendants and principals from the
| official State Superintendent @. 2.
| Cary. The Wisconsin Memorial Day
| annual, which is due to be sent out
| in January, will also give full partic-
ulars, together with suggestive pro.
gram and some material for use in
paeparing for the occasion.
ANY student eligible to enter the
essay competition may submit poem
| on the Battle of Lake Erie or an in
cident thereof, and if any such pro.
ductioE is deemed to be of sufficient
merit, suitable award will be made
to the author by the Commission.
The Commission will be ready soon
to announce a second competition fol
the colleges and normal schools of the
state.
For further information address
Wisconsin Perry's Victory Centennial
| Commission, Federal Bid, Milwaukee
1t is the hope of our high schoo
teachers that many of our city viii
enter the essay contest.
| Two high school debating teams
one of which will consist of Albert
Mohr, Ustler Reinhcld and Pau
Tobey and the other not yet chosen
will have two debates during the
coming two months on ''The State
Income Tax" with Marshtield anC
Amigo. The dates for the debates
nave not as yet been determined upoI
but they will be given out soon.
| Coach Barsock is having hare
time to pick out his basket ball team
and is not certain who will win a
regular berth. He keeps the follow
ing boys pretty close on practice ano
so in all probability five of the eight
bows named here will don the suits
for our high: Carl Eggebrecht, Talbot
Montgomery, Herbert Christian, Car
Schmidt, Harry Swanson, Joseph
Pope, Harold Ingraham and Herman
Riebe.
Miss, Duff, teacher of Botany and
/ Zoology in our high school visited re-
Gently during the vacation, the Uni.
versity high school in Chicago. Miss
Duff tells us that the work being
done in schools, such as the one she
visited, compares very fayorably tr
the work being done in science in oul
high school. Miss Duff returned tc
/ this city last week Tuesday.
The essay contest Oil, "The Good.
ness of Old Master Coffee" came to a
close last THURSDAY evening after
| school. when the victors in the con-
test were announced. There was a
| good deal of excitement over this
/ event and quite number of the
teachers waited long after their school
hours had closed TO hear the results
| in which all, the English teachers
/ especially, were interested. Twenty
essays were entered aud out of these
1 the judges selected the thirteen prize
winners. The following three re-
| ceived cash prizes, Miss Josephine
| Sturtevant. first; Charles Thresher,
second and Paul Pedigo, third. Ten
other boys and girls we're each given
one pound of Old Master Coffee. The
essay of Miss Sturtevant was given
the mark of SO and a fraction per
cent. while that of Charles Thresher
received 50 per cent. and from this
one can imagine how close the con-
| test was.
The prizes we're given by Mr.. Robert
Kickbusch, or more properly, the A.
| Kickbusch Grocery Co. The three
| judges we're, the Misses Carter, Buck