Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-21
THE SPELLING BEE
BIG CONTESTS TO BE CONDUCTED
IN ADAMS SCHOOL. BUILD
ING SATURDAY, MARCH a.
Written Contest for Pupils in City and
Country Schools at 10:3o a. M
Free.for-AII Old Fashioned Match at
2 o'clock-A Dark Secret.

A free-for-all old fashioned spelling
match to determine the best speller in
the county is to be held Saturday aft
ernoon, March 4, at o'clock, in the
Adams school building under the di-
rection of Miss Emma Nye, county
superintendent. In the morning at
1890 o'clock is to be held d written
spelling contest to determine the best
speller enrolled in the city or country
schools of the county.
A gold medal is to be the prize Of
fered in the written contest. The
prize for being the best speller IN the
county In the free-for-all contest has
not yet been announced.v
List of 1000 Words.
In the written contest list of 1000
words has been prepared by Miss Nye
and will be used on the day of the con-
test. Three hundred of these words
will be given to the contests at the
morning session. After the words are
written the papers will be collected
and number of judges will mark the
papers to determine the winner.
If no one person has proven his SUI
periority the contest will be resumed
at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and an
other 300 words be written.
At the end of the written contest
will come the free for all. An admis-
sion of five cents for all participants
will be charged. y The old blue back
spelling book will be used in this con
test.
Have Studied the Words.
| Every school in the county is ex-
pected to send representatives to the
contests and each school is entitled to
as many representatives as it cares to
send. The list of words which will
be used has been in the hands of the
teachers and pupils of the county for
several weeks and all have been prac
ticing faithfully upon the words which
they will be called upon to write in the
contest.
The contest is to be held in the
second floor of the Adams building
The main room will seat perhaps
eighty contestants and the other
rooms on the floor perhaps two hun
bred more. If necessary the down
stairs rooms may also be used.
The Judges.
The principals of the larger country
schools in the county, some of the
teachers from the city schools ant
| some of the older teachers of the
county will be called upon to act a.
judges and to pronounce the words tt
the contestants in the various rooms.
I AS second prize in the written con
test a prize has been offered by the
American book company to the ont
holding the second place. The priz,
will be an academic dictionary will
patent index. All paper and pencils
required in the contest will be furn
ished by Miss Nye.
And Now for Secret.
And now for secret. This mus
not be breathed to any one except {
dearest friend and then with a eau
ton not to repeat attached.
| Miss Nye prides herself on her spell
ing.
''If there is anything that 1 can dc
it is to SPELL" she used to declare.
The list of 1000 words was CAREFUL
prepared by the superintendent an
forwarded to the printer with a eau
| ton to follow copy accurately.
The printer did his duty but fol
lowing eight words in the list he ha
suggestively placed an interrogatio
mark Recourse to Webster shove
that the suspicious of the printer wer
correct and that the words were mis-
PEELED in the copy.
J Miss Nye meekly confesses eff Their
is one thing that l know l can do, it i
to mis-spell."