Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-12-22
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES


! At noon last Friday a short mass
meeting was held In TIE assembly
GALL TO work up pep for the first bas-
/ Eethall game of the season. (which was
played at Edgar with The Edgar High
school, Joe Winetzki presided and
| called upon some Of the members OF
the team for short talks. Mark Rick.
John Slocum. Kermit Iaabs, Haroia
Rapraeger, Clarence DickerI and CLAIR
ence Allen gave talks. Mr. Maxwell
also gave a short talk, Edmund
Sawyer, the school cheer leader, led a
few poppy yells.
Friday evening the Wausau High
school team defeated the Edgar team
in an interesting and hard fought
game of basketball The final score
was 26-13. The Edgar boys put up a
hard fight during the nrst half but in
the second half Wausau came back
strong and succeeded in getting on the
big end of the score. The Wausau
team had no individual stars but it
had good team work and it is ex-
pected that this can be developed
still more. The Wausau line up was
as follows; Rick, RI; Allen. If; Rap
raeger, If; Dickert e; Laabs, rg;
Riebe, lg.
Hilmar Hansen, Rex Short, Harry
Sisson and Frank Barden accompanied
the team to Edgar.
The Skyrocket which came out last
Friday contained the prize Christmas
story. The skyrocket conducted this
contest and offered a prize of five
dollars to the winner. George Simon
son, sophomore, wrote the winning
story entitled Christmas on the Mac
kenzie". One can almost hear the wind
howl and feel the snow blowing in
his face and then see the dark cir
Gle of wolves as they attack Dan
Dawes. The judges, Miss Nichols.
Miss Lane and Miss Zemmerman, gave
second place to. Henry Underwood.
Another story that deserved special
mention was one by Miss Ethel Hard
ing which was very well written. Miss
Hading is student in Miss Gault's
deaf school and is taking first year
high school work
Tuesday noon there was meeting
of the Freshmen class for the pur-
pose of organization. The following
officers were elected: Miss Jean
Crockef, president; David Smith, vice
president; Russell Lyon, secretary;
Miss Mary Dingee, treasurer
On Monday the following visited
high school; Miss Dorothea Wells
from Lawrence college; Miss Doro-
thy Paff from Milwaukee, Downer;
Miss Alice Lyon from Burnham,
Northampton, Mass; Miss Gertrude
Luebchow from Lawrence; Miss Mar
garet Stone from Dana Hall in Mass;
and Miss Dorothy Milne and Miss
Florence Marks, both of Lawrence
college.
Miss Prudential Woodward, who is
an alumna of our school and is at
present visiting her parents, visited
school on Monday. Miss Woodward is
a government clerk in Washington.
Mr.. Coon's agriculture class has re-
Gently had debate on the question,
Resolved, That the manufacture of
filled milk should be prohibited. The
Affirmative team was composed of
Eugene Conway, captain. Ivan Leven-
hagen and William Ford The mega
tive team was composed of Hilmar
Hansen. captain, william Tress ard
Leslie Newell The team; had DON.
lot of preparatory work, and a very
interesting debate was the result.
Miss Huss, teacher of public speak
ing, acted as judge and rendered
decision in favor of the armativc
The students of Mr.. Coon's agricul
ture class held corn and potato iudg-
ing contest last week at the city hall.
Material from the grain exhibit was
used. Norman Kruger won first
place. Leo Hackbarth won second
place, Frank Gamble, third aud Will
lard Miller, fourth