Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-30
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! PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES
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Next week is vacation week.

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The class in physics made a trip
to the Ladysmith Lighting Company
plant last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Ann Schaeffer gave very
interesting talk to the junior high
school Wednesday morning on the
subject of Music" She illustrated
her talk with playing several vic
trola records.
The highschool girls basketball
team closed it's season last Friday
night with defeat at the hands OF
the city girls team by the score
Of 6-3 The game was a hard-fought
one from start to finish
The Senior class by unanimous
vote decided against having a class
play this year. A committee was
appointed at a recent meeting to
arrange some other form Of enter
tainment to be held on May 18.
The highschool literary societies
held their last meetings Of the year
this afternoon. The fine spirit which
the student body showed in it's work
this year is gratifying to the faculty
as we'll as beneficial to the stu
dents.
The gymnasium was the scene of
several exciting basketball games
during the past few days. Monday
afternoon, Miss Merklein's room won
the championship of the Junior high
school by defeating Miss Musgrove's
room by the score Of 34-1. Harold
Schiotz and Oscar Olson were the
stars for the victors, and Tom Ba-
ker played the best game for the
losers. On Friday afternoon the
two sixth grades, the two fifth
grades and the two fourth grades
clashed in their final games of the
season.
On Thursday afternoon, the pre-
liminary declamatory contest was
held in the assembly room. Among
the list of contestants. the judges
selected six speakers to appear in
the final declamatory contest of the
year on April 20, at which time the
oratorical contest will also be held.
The judges were Rev. Fred Harri-
son, Mrs. Earl Cardinal and Mrs. o.
B. Walters. The six winners, ire
spective of the order Of their rank,
We're Dorothy Alden, Mabel Schroed-
er, Velma Pickett. Ardis Gideon,
Helen Robbins and Evelyn Williams.
The contest was unusually strong.
On Wednesday morning, Supt.
Rahr received a telegram from Prof.
D. 0. KinSman, of Lawrence Col
lege, stating that inasmuch as the
Eau Claire highschool had won the
state basketball tournament at Me-
nomonie, this team had voluntarily
withdrawn from the state meet at
Appleton. In place of Eau Claire,
Ladysmith and Medford were en-
titled to play an elimination game
at Marshfield, the winner to repre-
sent this section of the state with
Superior Coach Woodwork and the
boys thereupon left Wednesday night
for Marshfield and on Thursday
morning won their right to enter
the state meet by. defeating Med
ford by the score 1922. The Lady
smith players left Marshfield Thurs
day afternoon for Appleton, where
they played their first game last
night. At the time of this writing,
no report of the tournament has
been received.
Locals Lose to Appleton
Tired out from the game with
Medford in the morning and the
journey to Appleton, Ladysmith lost
to the Appleton team at the tour
nament last night by the score Of 80
to %, according to a telegram re-
ceived from Coach woodwork this
However. the team has
made very good showing this year
and Mr.. Woodworth and the boys
can we'll feel proud of their record.