Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14
THE BAPTIST SPELLING BEE
Realty Hall Was Crowded Last Night
and the Audience Had Bush
els of Fun.
A Unique Entertainment That Pleased
Everybody-Miss Lillian Kings.
bury the Victor.

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things are old, The fashions that pre-
vailed in the days Of our grandmothere
are now all the rage with the public, and
anything with a flavor of the antique
about it goes. Consequently the bright
mind among the ladies Of the Baptist
church, that first devised the plan oil
replenishing the church treasury by Civ.
ing an old fashioned New England spell
ing bee, made a capital hit, and the large
audience which crowded the big Realty
hall Tuesday, proved that the people
we're interested in what in these days is q
very novel entertainment. The admission
charged was only Is cents, but notwith.
standing, the ladies cleared about $50
for their treasury.
A board of judges, consisting Of F. W.
Webster, Rev. MI. Anderson and Rev
Mr.. Ramsey, we're elected to decide any
difficulties arising, and Prof. Largent,
principal of the schools, gave out the
words.
Miss Lillian Kingsbury and W. T,
Pigott were elected leaders to choose
sides, and the following ladies and gen.
lemen we're arrayed on either side;
Messrs. Frank p. Atkinson, Leslie,
Dickerman, Goodrich, Lewis, G. M
Webster, Christensen, Chowen, Dickin-
son, Kelly, Raban, Coleman, Pierce,
Robinson, Matteson. Rev. Reid and DIR,
Crutcher.
Mesdames Pigott, Downing, Curtis,
Hawkins, Raleigh, Chowen, Weireck,
Lewis, Berry and Matteson.
Misses Helen Parker, Murray, Perkins,
Kingsbury and Anderson.
The v ords given out at first were cas-,
ones and most Of the contestants 60
along swimmingly, although every now
and then some one went down on an
easy word amid the good natured laugh
ter of the crowd. When the ranks we're
somewhat thinned' on both sides more
technical words we're given out and a
number Of gentlemen tripped up on the
Of ladies dress fabrics. The names
of different sizes OF printers types
caught a number of others and when
it came to medical ames the slaughter
was heavy. Finally, only six Of the con
testants remained. four on Miss Kings
bury's side and two on the Pigott side,
although the leader of that phalanx fell
arly in the fray. The six remaining
were Mrs. j. p. Lewis, Mrs. Raleigh.
Miss Perkins, Miss Lillian Kingsbury,
Mr.. Robinson and Mr.. A. E. Dickerman.
These six we're conducted out Of the
hall and then introduced ore at a time
and given a list of twelve words to spell,
the same in each case. Only two
emerged from this trial perfect, having
spelled all the words correctly. These
were Miss Lillian Kingsbury and Miss
Perkins. Another list of words was
hunted up of a technical character and
Miss Perkins failed in one of them,
leaving Miss Lillian Kingsbury the
champion speller of Great Falls. The
audience enjoyed some Of the mistakes
of the judges in pr%onouncing words fully
as much as any of the spellers' errors,
and when Rev. MI. Ramsay, who
rave out some of the words at
the latter part Of the contest, got tangled
up with medical terms. DR.. Sweat took
great pleasure in correcting him, to the
immense enjoyment Of the audience. On
another occasion the reverend gentle
mar got his Latin and English a little
mixed and defined the word "auriferous''
to mean pertaining to the ear, which got
some Of the spoilers on their ear.
Altogether. it was q very enjoyable
evening and from the expressions Of
those present it was judged that spelling
bees will come into fashion again this
winter,