National Republican., 1873-05-05
THE SPELLING CONTEST.
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The s.ece-.f.I schools and Scholars.
The annual spelling contest among the pupils
Of the public schools took place on Friday last,
At the jefferson school buildins, under the dlrec-
tlon Of the committee on prizes and examina-
tions. The SIX best spoilers In each Of the
Grammar and intermediate schools were Sc
iecied 10 represent their schools, respectively,
was ss heretofore, thai the medal for each grade
should be gwen 10 the school having the least
.ssoo q snd 70 %sne out 10
each grade. The words for the Grammar schools
were selected by Mr., J. W. Hunt, for the First
second interrnsdIate by M. r. y. Foster, and
wick - 80.
the prizes were awarded as follows: Male Gram
mar TO the Fourth district school, MI. J.; Z.
Thompson, teacher; II. G.. Anderson and Her
taTily be a further contest between them.
Female Grammar TO the Inst district, Mrs N.
4. Neyltt, teacher; me s contest w Ssing oe'"ee"
First Male Intermediate TO the Fourth district
school, Mr.. \. II. Thompson, teacher the con-
Muton. ,Ss each Vy S.ylps I missed % one word. @ ' -
First Female Intermediate TO the Third dis.
trict school, Miss Lucy D. Davis, teacher. An
Sonsea auentiy the contest here win DC very lively.
The names Of the pupils are Cora X. Ober, Mar
Raret }. scaTTn. Helen N. Jefriee, Belle Carroll,
MnFN Z, Jones anti Annie .. hhItluHtOus
second Male Intermediate TO the second els
trict school, Miss Adele TAFT, teacher. Here
there viii be three contestants, viz: 4. Everett
Rider, samuel q. Wise and VIM. X. Cohen.
second Female intermediate to the First dis
trict school, Miss Lucilla \. Smith, teacher
Enen Fltzhugh will get the prize without furthei
Third Male Intermediate to the second dis
trict school, Miss Mary Z. Rowe, teacher. Pnzs
awarded TO Frederick 4. Tasker.
Third Female intermediate TO tho First dis
trict school, Miss Ellen Gibbs, teacher. The con
test here Is between Ella Bates and HATH
Foster.
il viii thus be seen that three Of the prlses g,
20 the First district, two TO the Second, one Z
the Third, and two to the Fourth. The whole
number Of words written was lp,?Oo numoe
Der of errors were as follows; Male Gramma
lSi, Female Grammar so; total 2il. First Nal,
Iots u.s. sscona aas @ sseos
Female intermediate ls4; total $50. Third Nal,
intermediate III, Third Female intermediate ss
total 2so.
The following statement shows the number o
errors In each school and each district, and ais
shows how much better spoilers the girls ar
aaie u,ammar-First district, a; Second, 81
Third, ~; Fourth, 8. Male intermediate No. l.
flst district, ~; Second, 10; Third, 90; fourti
second, 10; Third, s5s; Fourth, iel. Male Intel
Tsiri 81; Fourth, ~ Total msie~fint dIstric
lp eSss sssSn@ as4SFsi ~ nsF tIs fRsrs Sss 'tS
is; Third, %; Fourth, le. Femsle 1utermcdiat
No. l-First district, 9; Second, L Third,
Fourth, II. Female intermediate No. f-Fin
district, Is; second, s2; Third, 20; Fourth, .
Female intermediate No. s-First district,
Second, IS; Third, .; Fourth, 10. Total Female.
FIRST district, bi; Second, iOT; Third, pi; Fouru
II. Grand total-First district, 2oo; Second, 20
Third, bSl; Fourth, SlT.
In the spelling contest last year the san
number OF worls were given, and the number
erron 623. A comparison Of the words show
that this years list was much the most dlnicul
The contests for the medals In the Seoondal
schools were conducted by the sub-OOards In 90
erAl OF the districts on Friday, bnt the result hi
not been fully ascertained. In the advance
grade Secondary Of the First district, Charles
McNabb, OF Secondary No, /, Miss fulle
teacher, was successful In the male schools, an
In the female schools the contest lies betwet
Alice Curl and Hattie Hauptman, Of SecondAl
No. g. Miss sarah Gibbs, teacher.
The spelling contest Of the secondary schoo
Of the Second district was conducted at the Sc
ton school building on Friday last. and the 4
lowing schools were successful: Boys No. ., MI
Kate r. Brown, teacher, and girls No. 10, MI
II. Jennie FIJI, teacher, OF the higher grade, nj
boys No. D. Miss Amanda N. East, teacher, 81
girls No. 10, Miss Meteila King, teacher, Of u
lower grade. In No. the medal was awarded
James W. rubman, and In No. 10 to BOph
Dahler, but In Nos. and 10 new contests will
necessary as they were perfect-in the form'
Albert Wiley, jefferson smith and Frank Reil
and In the latter Addie LAnsdale, Dora McMJ
ray and Ella Dom. Besides these Moses Ne
mayer and Francis W. Clement, OF No. I, al
Amelia Jakob, Of No. &, were perfect.