Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-27
SCHOOL CHILDREN
N. SPELLING MATCH
Annual "Bee" of Short Course
Attracts an Immense Crowd
to the Odeon
soys WIN FIRST PLACE
soys WIN FIRST
PLACE
Oral Spelling Contest Won BY Homer
Cough, of Taylor Township = Earl
Girton, of State Center, Wins First
in Deciamatory Contest - Boy and
Girl Tie for First in Written Test

S~>'sN
ing forty-eight OF the rural and town
schools of the county met in the an
nual spelling matches and declamatory
confession the short course at the Odeon
Friday night for cash prizes of 500.
The audience, which came from all
parts of the county to witness the
event, packed the Odeon to its seating
capacity early in the evening", and be-
fore the first match was opened many
who came little late were denied add
mission.
Boys the Winners.
In public contests of this, kind 1t
would appear from the results as tho
boys were the best performers. Boys
won f1rst place in two matches, and one
of these winners tied with girl for
first DONORS in third contest.
Homer Cough, OF the Willow Hill
school, Taylor township, vol the oral
spelling match from field ,of ninety
four starters in splendid style His
prize was IS. He also tied with Miss
Elsie Lynch, of school No. Z, of vi
emma township, for first place in the
written spelling test. Each received a
prize OF 81 in this match.
Earl Girton, Of the Stale Center
school. won the declamatory contest
with the story OF horse race called,
"A Son of Abdallah," and with 1t a
prize of IS. Great was the glee of the
State Center contingent that was in
the audience when the result was an
nounced.
Winners Of Written Test.
The following is a list of the win
ners in the three contests:
written spelling test of a list Of
thirty -four words - First, Homer
Cough and Elsie Lynch, prizes 81
each. Neither of these misspelled a
word. The following six missed but one
word: Agnes Bridgeman. Bengor No.
j; Elsie Lang, State Center No. 4;
Ruth Petit, Bangor No i !; Bessie Rose
Liberty No. 1 Ethel Tucker, Bangor
No. 1, and Hazel Tucker, Bsngor No.
!. Prize, 81 each. 1t will be noticed that
four Of the six Of these good spoilers
are from one school, Bangor No. L.
The following eleven missed but two
words: Edna Davis, Liberty No. s;
Fred Erickson, Greencastle No. g; Ada
johnson, Quarry; Keith Kinney, Mar
ion No. Z; Fred Loupee, Jefferson No.
8; iAlva Lynch, Vienna No. q; Jennie
Lynch, Vienna No. z; Maud,s Nichols,
State Center No. 4; Lewis Isoss, Lib
erty No. s; Florence Toedt Laurel.
and Matte vanMetre. Liberty No. Z.
Prize, 81. The boy, Keith Kinney, of
this group, won second place in oral
match last year.
Oral Match Holly Contested.
I It required two hours to spell down
the big number of pupils who entered,
and the vocabulary of the Popular
Spelling Book, the text book the chill
dren have been using, was Practically
exhausted before but one speller was
left on the floor. The partisan feeling
OF the groups in the audience, which
were interested in certain spoilers win
ming, applauded loudly when their
e'hopeful' successfully negotiated the
word that a rival just below him had
tripped and fallen over. The spelling,
as a whole, was much better than last
year, and with but one exception not
more than two went down on the same
word. Usually but one went down on
q word.
nose VINO WON
Ingenious" which he spelled with
out the 20" is what stood between Fred
Loupee, Of Jefferson No. AMI possible
victory. The "o'' was added by Homer
Cough, and with It he won the match.
The following are the prize winners
and their prizes: First, Homer Cough,
Taylor township No. 8, s5; second,
Fred Loupee, Jefferson, No S, 81;
third, Bessie Dunn, Liberty NO. 9, So;
fourth, Maud Nichols, State Center No.
4, 81.
The following eleven, who were in
cluded In the last fifteen to go down,
were each given prizes Of 81: Lura
Clapsaddle, Lfscomb No. 6; Isdna Da-
Wis. Liberty No. 6; Hilda Johnson,
Marietta No. s; Keith Kinney, Marion
No. q; Elsie Lynch, Vienna No. Z; Jen-
ME Lynch, Vienna No. G; Archie
Petit, Bangor No. 1; Lewis Ross, Lib
erty No. g.; Bessie Ross, Liberty No.
s: George Smith, Linn No. 2; Hazel
Tucker, Bangor No. 1.
State Center Boy Winner.
Earl Girton, Of State Center the
winner of the declamatory contest.
was chosen first out of a field OF seven
His prize was s13. The
following are the other prize winners
Of this match: Flossie B. Wertsel, Mel
bourne, second, $40, and Esther Beng
stem, high school, Marshalltotvn third,
81. The following four, who were not
ranked, received prizes Of IS each:
Gazelle Fitzgerald, Rhodes; Maude
Nicholas, Albion; Glen Patterson, Gill
man. ana Mabel F. Tressler Liscomb
Superintendent Aaron Palmer, and
prof. r. K Bliss conducted and
indged the two spelling contests. The
judges of the declarna tory n.est were
q 3. Fleming, Of Tama; Prof. A. Nc
and Prof. r., K. E'liss, OF
Nmes. President III. II. Se'erley OF
Inwa State Normal School Cedar
Falls presented the prizes to the diff
ferent winners.
The. Majestic Male Quartet opened
she program and sang four add
tional numbers between the contests
,f the evening. The quartet made
decided hit, and was repeatedly en-
,ored.
FIRST TRUST AND SAVINGS.