The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-04-24

BILE" and concluded to become a
spectator. Our worthy tradesmen
X. G Coburn and Geo. L. Brooks,
Esqs., thinking the times are too
hard to advertise" to any great ex-
tent in THE SUPERIOR TINES, have
not bad that word in their mind
very much of late, and hence put a
z in place of. the s. The color in
Miss Frank Greely's face was hardly
that of "alabaster' after she had
sat down for putting an extra | in
that word. Mss Myra McVicker
preferred to sit down rather than
climb to an eagles "eyrie." Had
it been "aliment' materialized, our
friend Will Smith could undoubtedly
have got away with it, but the word
itself was too much for him and so
he became a spectator. After spell
ing the second syllable of "alkali'
k-l, Mrs. p. E Bradshaw conclued
not to spell any more, as did also
Eddie Gates, who, had he studied as
closely and carefully as we have for
the past few weeks into the life and
character of a certain "allopathiSt'
could undoubtedly have spelled that
word with ease. Miss Phebe CLARK,
being fond of nuts, retired TO her
seat to pick out the she put in cal
mond." Mr. Pryor, Of THE TINES,
and our friend Geo. Smith, Duluth's
wide-awake commission merchant,
are both very fond of fish, while
George deals in them quite extern
sively, but notwith standing this fact
small member of the finny tribe
called "anchovy" caused these
worthy coves, together with one or
two more spoilers, to suddenly be-
come lookers-on. Mr.. I. !. Moore
came home from Washington just in
time to attend the spell; while in
Washington he undoubtedly did not
fail to observe how terribly awful is
the control of the devil over the
people of the capital city, and his
mind was probably dwelling upon
that fact when the enunciator hurled
the word 'beelzebub" at him, for it
seemed to so completely overpower
him that, after gaSping forth two or
three confused syllables, he COM
| pietely succumbed to the power of
the evil one and silently took a seat
amongst the spectators amidst ire
mendous applause on their part.
BY this time both sides had be-
come pretty well thinned out-quitc
a number having gone down on
words which we have not mentioned
| for lack of remembrance of them
leaving about half dozen on Capt.
Bardon's side to a dozen on the side
of his opponent.
OF those left on Captain Bardon's
side, Mrs James Edwards soon
passed on "casslmere" while "Cap
ting" B., himself, became suffiocated
with "chloride", leaving off the e;
and being soon followed by Mrs.
McCormick-who had spelled ionr
and nobly, but was finally carried oft
by "chimpanzee"-Miss Belle
Calverly and Mr.. Douglas were the
only persons left standi ,g on that
side
And. now the contest waxed in
tcresting, as Col Hayes side had
also been decreased to three, if we
remember correctly, Judge Clark
having succumbed to "bissextile",
and Mrs. Geo. w. Perry having
managed to "discern" way to get
seat by putting an in place of
the c in that word, while Mrs.
Hayes and Mrs. Coburn, both of
whom had made a gallant stand,
had gone down on words which we
have forgotten, thus leaving Captain
Hayes, Miss Perry and Miss Bardon
to fight out the battle, who, how
ever, had not long to fight, as Mr..
Douglas, having been deserted by
Miss Calverly-who went down on
some word which we do not now
remember-soon become very "doc-
lie" aud concluded to become one
of the audience, thus leaving Col.
Hayes side victorious.
This ended the contest, as far as
sides were concerned, though the
spelling still went on, to determine
who would be the last one up, and
resulted in victory for Miss Perry,
Miss Bardon succumbing to some
pulling word, and Mr. Hayes be-
ing obliged to take his seat because