Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-09
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

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4 Win the War With Gardens-Her-
bert Treu.
The Beginners Garden-John Hess.
Selection of Seeds-Edward Even
son.
Simple Talks for Beginners Carl
Wolfe.
Flower Gardens-Louis Leak.
General Joe
A Story for Real Americans-Eve-
Ign Cawley. Pauline Mathie, Lucille
Dale, Wilma Hecker, Gladys Egdahl,
Catherine Cawley.
The girls annual basket ball tourna-
ment was held Friday afternoon in the
school gymnasium. The class cham
pionship and silver trophy going to
the Sophomore A girls team. The
first game was played between the
Junlor-Senior teams and the Sophie
more AS, the latter team winning by
a score Of to A. The second game
which was played between the Fresh
men and the Sophomore BIS was won
by the former by score of IL to l.
The losers played a ten minute game
which resulted in victory for the
Senior-Juniors with a score of a.
The final game played between the
winners of the two elimination games
was easily won by the Sophomore A
girls, the final score being IL to l..
Miss Marilla Zellhoefer refereed the
games.
The boys oratorical contest was
held Friday evening in the high school
auditorium. The orations given were
all live issues of the war and were
very interesting. The contest was
judged by ]. A. Rowley, A. r. Brown
and Frank p. Regner The following
program was presided over by Walter
Ebert, president of the school Iyceum:
The French Soldier of -Steurt
| Manson.
Why Are We Fighting Germany
| Calvin Clark.
| American Ideals-Morton Schaeffer
| Musical Numbers-"T AID Maids
Dream"-Harry Sisson, Stanley How
arth, Edwin Poole.
| The Hope of the World-Leroy
| Rodehaver.
The War Legacy of Hatred-Fred
| Gaedtke
Meaning of Americas Entrance Into
the War-Elroy McFaul.
First place was awarded to Elroy
| McFaul and second to Morton Schaef-
fer. These two will represent the
| school at district contest a little
later in the season.
The Betsy Ross club held their regu-
lar meeting Friday evening at which
hnal arrangements were made for
] dancing party to be given soon, for
| yryI, iaI. Wv i%rt L.
week.
| The Freshman class gave their an
| nual party Saturday evening in the
school gymnasium. Dancing was en-
| joyed throughout the evening and
| light refreshments were served.
Monday morning at 1915 O'Clock all
members of English classes took part
in an essay contest writing on the
subject ''Why Man Should Own His
| Own Home" The essays will go be-
fore judges and prizes are to be
awarded by the Wisconsin Box fac
| tory, who are the originators of the
| contest.
Friday evening the girls contest will
take place in the school auditorium.
The following selections will be given:
Eleanor Bucklin-Mice at Play.
Jeanette Nequette-The Melting Pot.
Evelyn Roloff-The Lost Word.
Marie Pedigo-The One Hundredth
and Oneth.
Grace Frederick-Patsy.
Kathryn Geier-Molly Make-Believe
Margaret Schrankel-Jean Vatican
and the Bishop.
The following are last weeks High
School notes, which came in too late
for publication:
There will be a contest between the
Sophmore and Senior classes versus
the Junior and Freshmen classes dur
| ing the next Liberty Loan drive in the
selling of Liberty Bonds After GER
tain number are sold the school will
be entitled to half day vacation. Miss
Kieckhefer is at the head of the Semi
| or-Sophmore classes and Miss Zim-
| norman for the ior-Freshmen
classes.
Misses Verna Gensman and Cathe-
rine Mathie, high school graduates,
| and now attending Milwaukee Normal
visited the school Thursday afternoon.
The Betsy Ross club held their reg
ular meeting at their rooms in the
school Friday evening. Twelve men,
bers were present. Sewing for the
Belgians and Red Cross work was
done and plans were also made for
| dancing party to be given for the bene-
fit of the Red Cross. Misses Angelina
Biller, Josephine Koenig and Margaret
Biller were chosen for a committee on
| Schrankel was elected chairman of the
decorating committee. During the
| meeting many pictures on the Life
of Christ" were shown.
Friday morning after the first
period class the students were dis
| missed and marched down to the ST.
Paul train to bid their farewell to the
drafted men who left on that day.
The annual girls basket ball tour
nament will be given Friday afternoon
in the school gymnasium. The seniors
will play the juniors, and the soph-
mores the freshmen as preliminarys.
Following that the two winners will
play for first place and the two losers
for third and fourth. A silver cup will
be given to the winning class as
trophy.
The following lyceum program will
be given if it does not conflict with
the girls basket ball tournament:
|. Win the War with Gardens
-----------1erbert Treu
ii. The Beginners Garden---
--------------- Hess
III. Selecting Seeds---
--------------Ed Edward Evanson
". Simple Talks for Beginners
Wolfe
V. Flower Gardens Louis Leak
WI Gannrol ToaA Ctorv for pool