The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-02-07
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Compiled each week
Earl Geisert

Friday Jan. IS, 1918, the Washburn
| High School Basket Ball team went to
Bayfield, and battled with their High
School team. We were defeated by
| a score of IA to SO. The Bayfield,
School has a bunch of heavy
fellows and most of them had large
experience in playing basket ball so
there is no reason why they should
not have won when playing agains;
light team like ours. We have a
light team but they are speedy and
Chis is one great necessity in basket
| ball team
Although we lost the boys game,
we are proud of the fact that the girls
did their duty and won with a score
Of 2 and II. AS a rule the people
consider the girls game a joke but
it was a real interesting game and both
teams worked hard for victory. Bay
field was the loser.
On account of the hall being so
dusty and cold, the team had to break
up after a few of the boys caught
colds and got sick. We are very sorry
chat the High School has dropped the
sport for it was good one. How
ever there is to be some sort of a
club started, which promises to give
the boys and girls some real sport,
for instance ski club.
Jan. 80, tags bearing the words,
''Tag your shovel were given out in
the public schools. These tags were
put on the handles of all shovels. If
this was done, and everyone followed
the instruction on these tags, it surely
saved an enormous amount of coal and
this in turn will help win the war.
A new electric fire alarm has been
installed in the Walker school. There
is an electric bell in each hall and
when the signal is given, the pupils
all march down in double file. The old
fire bell did not work very satisfactory
because it could not be heard thru
out the building.
Friday, Feb. 1, each player of the
| ball team was presented with V
neck sweater with a black "W" upon
it, Each player had to give speech
| before he received his sweater and
| this sometimes seems harder to do
than to play the game. The boys
felt very happy because this is quite
| an honor, and it proves that they have
earned it by keeping up in their
studies and training reasonably. 1t has
been a couple of years since the High
| School team had sweaters presented
to them, so it was a great surprise.
G. D. Hyper superintendent of the
public schools is assisting John
O'Sullvan in registering the German
alien enemies.
The animal husbandry class has a
setting hen, and we are going to ex-
pertinent to see what luck they will
have. They have "Rhode Island
Red" hen on IA eggs. The eggs are
a cross between the plymouth Rock"
and the white Leghorn" AS soon
as the weather mOderates the class
is going to purchase an incubator and
raise chickens. The pupils of the
class foot all of the bills and the pro-
ceeds, if a profit, will be put to some
good purpose.
The debate conducted in the GIVES
class this week was won by the
affirmative. The subject discussed was
'Resolved that the United States
Government sECull own and operate
the railroads after the war" Members
of the class acting as judges cast an
almost unanimous vote in favor of
the resolution. The team favor;ng
the resolution was composed of,
Hazel Thoreson, Isabelle Stevenson
and Charles Gierzack while Harriet
Johnston, Agnes Myhre and Cornelius
O'Sullivan held the negative side.
In the other Division of the Civics
class the same side of the question
won out.
The winning team was Paul I'm
grodt, Edwin Sagen, Genevive Gunhus,
Myrtle Bartness. The losing team:
Clayton Robinson, Nan Buzard, Roy
Taberman and Marie Lien.