The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-12-23
SHORr..COURsE::..: / !.
SPELLING BEE
Arthur {. Brown Of Leighton Wins
First Place.
DIRECTORS ELECTED FOR 1910
Written Examinations in All Glasses
This Morning--Auction sale of =,
Corn, Fruits and Vegetables
ThiS Afternoon.
DIRECTORS ELECTED FOR 1910

at leighton, In the county spelling
match conducted in the court room
Friday evening In connection with the
Short Course. Prof P. G.. Holden, of
Ames, pronounced the words and
Prof. Bliss, also of Ames, acted as
referee. Someone said it wasn't
strange an auctioneer should not
know anything about veracity, but
at any rate the competitors for the
prizes in the adult class were equal
to the task of spelling until after 10
o'clock before missing. The first
prize was $40 in cash, and second
prize SIS in cash. &c., s.n.
Chiidren's Glass.
In the children's class, Sth grade,
and below, prizes were awarded as
follows: ' .a. ....- -.s- ...
First-MadgeH Cunningham, SIS. ".
Second-Harlan walker, SO. ',-.->-'
Third-Mildred MendenhaH,~ S.
Fourth-Lester Holiday, So '"0'i
Fifth-Elsie Hoover, 50. t7.'
Much Competition.
Thirty-nine entered in. the adult
class and while the first poor spoilers
were weeded out quite rapidly, more
than half stood up until the contest
grew exceedingly. interesting. On the
first round after the contest began
one went down on "seghientp one on
''belfry," one on "gullet,"'- and two
other words caught one victim each
genus" took one, batter" one, "doric'
one, lunar" one, 'leper" two and
''rabid" one. Then four times around
failed to reduce the ranks, but on the
fifth giant was too big word for
one, "icy' too cold for another, one
claimed to have been with Cook, but
couldn't spell arctic" two failed on
''peevish,' one on Sequel" one on
maxim" one on holly" nineteen
then remained. A dose of "calomel'
killed off one, 'hyena" got another
one choked to death on little word
and sixteen remaining were called
farther to the front. where the contest
could be watched more closely by
the large and interested audience
Courageous" was almost too much
for the judges themselves, but the
speller was ruled out because, of a
displacement of the gu" Some OF
the other stickers were "proselyte,'
''logarithm," syllable" "laudable.,
"vicissitude." periphery service.
able" and "volatilize. Ike Reed
Miss Nettie McMurray. Arthur E
Brown and Mrs, J, B, McMurray stood
alone for. a long while, but Mrs. Nc
Murray went down and Miss McMur
ray followed soon, leaving the two
to battle for the prizes single-handed
In the children's class when nine
stood in the row the little 'gnat" Bit
two at atime and another fell on
'gnaw." "Bruin" got one who thought
the word was brewing" although the
definition had been given. The other
five were the prize winners, the last
two spelling $50 words each after
the others had been defeated, before
Harlan Walker missed "offense."
Honors to Leighton School.
Special honors fell to the Leighton
public school for its teacher, A. E.
Brown. won first in the adult class
and both Madge Cunningham and
Harlan Walker, winners OF first and
second prizes in the children's class
are pupils in the school, 80 ss,s fut
The spelling match will be an au
nual affair in connection with the
Short Course and study should begin
at once in preparation for the event
next year, as still more valuable
prizes will be offered and this will be
one of the big features of the week
Elections. Held. .. Dat,
Election of :, directors in both the
mems and ladies', departments of the
Mahaska County Short Course and
Farmers Institute was held Friday
afternoon with the result that three
changes were made in the directory OF
the mems department and none in
that of the ladies' department. The
new boards of directors will elect Off.
GERS and make their report within
a few weeks. The directors for the
ensuing year are as follows:
Mems Department.. A. Stephen,
son, ], H. Williams, I. B. White, Frank
iOiiSHIS,, l. ~. dS lOI, ~ N. OHSlCh-
err succeeding J. G. Lytle), G. G.
Laughlin 1sueceeding, E. It. Hanna),
Albert Rinden, c. w, Moore, lsuc-
ceeding MILFORD. HULL j R.. Hoover,
e. E. Masteller and Willis Pettitt.
Ladies' Department-Mrs. c. w.
Jordan, Mrs. Albert. Rinden, Mrs. T.
B. White, Mrs. j. H. Williams, Mrs.
MILFORD Hull, Mrs. Wilbur Johnson,
Mrs. w. l. Rice, Mrs. e. Z. Masteller,
Mrs. Sara c. Terrell, Mrs. }. p McMur-
ray. Mrs. w. H. Treddick and Mrs.
]. G. Lytle. .s.g.,,.s,.S ....,..,. ,
Examinations To-day.
Written examinations were conduct
ed this morning in the High school
building in the live stock and grain
judging classes, and at the Christian
church in the domestic science class
es. More than a hundred wrote in
the two former classes and between
fifty and seventy-fve ladies in the
domestic science class.