The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-04-12
EDUCATIONAL.
BY w. Z. LARSON.

The following extract from western
paper telling about county contest in
Kansas will be of interest to us
This was the first county spelling
match ever held in Shawnee county
Superintendent Carter was it's originator
and it was by his efforts that it was
carried out The plan was that there
should be a spelling match in each school
to determine which three pupils should
represent the school in the township con
test. At the township contest the three
best spoilers were to be eligible to the
county contest.
The assembly room at the court house
is Oh the third floor and seats about 200.
1t was well filled Saturday afternoon.
There are II townships in the county
and there were to have been three con-
testants from each township. However,
there were only % contestants. Two
townships had only two and one was
not represented at all.
The test was made with one hundred
words. Each of the contestants sat at
a desk and as the pronouncer said the
words the contestants wrote them. Then
the sheets containing the written words
were exchanged among the pupils and
the pronouncer spelled the words aloud
William Cusic, a boy of fifteen, spelled
every word correctly. Miss York and
Ralph Taylor missed one each. This
made them n tie and twenty-five diff
| ficult words were selected for them to
try out on. These they wrote on the
blackboards Miss York went through
this test as serenely as she did go through
| the other. writing every word correctly.
Young Mr.. Taylor, however, spelled ten
of the 25 words wrong
The twenty five words were as follows:
Get somebody to read them off to you
and see how many of them you can spell
Ambrosia, adolescence, molecule, nau
seous, obsequies, amateur, perennial, pa
trician, benefcence, cinchona, desuetude,
litigious, ohliquity, denouement, contag-
ious, hygiene, kaleidoscope, diacritical,
inchoate, hymeneal piquancy, guillo-
tine buncombe
The 100 words that were given for the
contestants to write in the principal con
test were as follows:
Bicycle, erosion, cohesion, catarl h, pref
ace, vinegar, bicuspid toothache, chiv-
airy, nuisance, intercede, tyranny, lam
guage, secede, supersede, eczema, hya-
cinth, sycamore surcingle, nelter, phae.
ton, resonant, acceptable, separate prai.
rie, sumac, luxuriant, exaggerate, fer.
tilizer, privilege plateau, isotherm, estu-
ary, delta, nautical, canon, glacier, eau
casian, revolution, ratio, quotient, avoir-
dupois, equilateral, circumference, equiv
alent, blizzard, catalpa, chrysolite, bar
barous, crystalline, solstice, heliotrope,
promontory, seminary, pantomime, sui,
triness hemorrhage, nasturtium monot-
onous, parochial, girdle, tiendish, parasol,
lovable, ecstasy, deferred, dantiness,
aguish, parishioners, daisies, caterer,
shepherd, Wyoming, nemesis, grimace,
palatable, impious, desultory, referable,
irrevocable, tolerable cellular, disputant,
plebeian, aborigines, momentous hedge-
ling, artesian, archipelago, pygmy,
chandelier, mathematics, effaceable,
blamable, arstere, trivial, asphalt,
spinach, tweezers refulgent.
A contest of the Manitowoc County
Graded Schools will be held at Reeds
vile Friday evening, April 20. The
schools participating will be Reedsville,
Mishicot and Newtonburgh. Further
particulars will be given next week.