Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-20
FOURTEEN COUNTRY YOUTHS
SPELL 500 WORDS CORRECTLY
IN CONTEST JUST ENDED.
AVERAGE is HIGH
Ffty-Two MisspeIl Five Words or Less
and Ninety-three Have Twenty
five or Less to Their Credit
Oral Contest to Follow.

tuo SpcliiA6 powers OIL Tue pupils IN IN
rural schools of Wapello county ar
above the average. An instance O
this came to the notice of County Su
|perintendent Elizabeth Burgess
through the medium of the spelling con
test that she inaugurated recent,
among the pupils of the rural schools
The contest in which large numbe
of the pupils entered consisted of spell
ing 500 words, all of which had to b,
written and forwarded to the Office o
the county superintendent The list!
have all been gone over and checked
carefully with the result that no les.
than fourteen pupils won 100 per cent
having every word spelled correctly
Not only was the spelling correct
but the penmanship was good. Fifty
two of the youngsters misspelled five
words or less and the number to quail
! fly for the township class was also
large. To qualify for the township
contest no pupil could misspell more
than twenty-five words. The number
who misspelled twenty-five words OF
less not included among those of the
five word or perfect class, reached
|ninety-three.
Fourteen Schools.
All rural schools were asked to
participate; the following schools sent
in written lists of words:
Adams township-District No. l.,
Bessie Hadley, teacher; No. 2, Alma
Arnold, teacher; No. 3, Angelina Berry
teacher; No. 6, Mae Dagit, teacher.
Goldie Allen, teacher; Round Point,
I'm
Ethel Warren, teacher. 49,
Cass township-District No. /, Mary
Smith, teacher; No. 3, Louise Yochum,
teacher. 49,"
Center township-E1m Grove, Myr-
tie Erbacher teacher; Center school,
Teresa Payne, teacher; Lower Oak
Ridge, Agnes Leinhauser, teacher;
Reveal, Helen Garvin, teacher; High
Point, Lola M. Ross, teacher; Bear
Creek, Edna Adcock, teacher.
Columbia township-District No. 5,
Roy Gardner. teacher; No. 7, Beatrice
Venator. teacher. ,'",','t5-
COMPETING township--Lone Tree,
Mrs. L. ". Brown, teacher; Farson,
Mary D. Hollis, teacher; Lowell, Mabel
Frazier, teacher; Cottonwood Grove,
Phoebe Mcvey, teacher; Deuser
school. Bernice Brady, teacher. .,.-a
Dahlonega, township - Dahlonega
school, Kathryn Quinn. teacher; Maple
5rove. Lena Dimmitt, teacher; Liberty
school, Cecilia Garvin, teacher; Nasty
10. 4, Grace Miller, teacher. -t I
Green township-District No. /,
lula Wellman, teacher: No. 2. Ray V.
Sewers, teacher; No. f. Gladys Mar
in, teacher: No. 5. Leslie Saunders,
eacher.
Highland township-Highland Cen.
er No. 1, Lena Bottorn, teacher;
North Union, Maud O'Brian, teacher:
Highland Center, Louise H. Rickerd,
eacher: Mt Tabor, Evelyn Field,
eacher: Washington No. 8. Moses
teacher; Hopewell, Elizabeth
Williams, teacher. E:s = -.
Keokuk township-Shank school No.
}. Vera Slavens, teacher,
Pleasant township = Bladensburg,
Philip Hickman, teacher; district No. |
}. Rose Payne. teacher: district No. 1,
Warner, teacher; No. 8, Irene
flynn. teacher; No. Z, May Steele,
eacher = |
Polk township-District No. 1,
Esther Carlson, teacher; No. 3, Gene
yieve Lewis, teacher, No. 4, Romola
Jhismah, teacher; No. 5, Mabel CHS !
nan. teacher: No. 6, Bessie Ffske,
eacher; No. Z, Della Keller, teacher; !
10. 8, Jeanette Jackson, teacher: No.
!. Alma Potter, teacher. j.
Richland township-No. 4, Sadie |
Knox, teacher; No. 6, Maud Baker,
eacher: No. 8, Cecilia Rowland,
eacher.
Washington township Cleveland,
edith Provance, teacher; Union No. 2,
Nay Davis, teacher; Pleasant Ridge,
ethel Erskine, teacher; Fairview No. 3,
Cora Gonterman, teacher; eBtterson
70. 4, Louise Glotfelty, teacher; Ash
and, Ida Belle Mingus, teacher.
The Participants.
The pupils receiving 100 per cent,
writing all words correctly were:
Anna O'Connor, Maud Belgard Fran.
.es Fabritz. Pauline Streeby. Leslie l.
Irene Pumroy, Lillian Denny.
yirgil Speer, Mary Neff, Flora Mary
dcSweyn, Hildred Warder. Bertha
,tansberry. Carrie Willard, Vina Davis.
Those misspelling not more than five
words were:
Merle Aire, Dorothy Schwartz, Cora
Jpp Lucia Upp. Martha Warren
loltz. Mamie Pickle. Edna Goodwin.
claude z. Smith, Garrett Gilyeart,
Iartha Scott. Myron Van Fossan, Tom
'umroy, E. l.. Newquist, Earnest New
uist, Anna NJ. Larmore, Victor Denny,
philip George Maser. Nettie Miller,
)live L. Glays, Blanche Wheaton, Rex
varder, Fern McBeth, Mae Holdings
worth. Jessie Marie Kennedy, Jessie
time. Faye Short, Edith Sylvester.
Iva Grove, Florence Sauer, Alva
.oontz, Leora Isabella McSweyn, Mar
IN Mincks. Genevieve Mincks, Belle
terner, Ida Smith. Floyd Giltner,
larie Schaefer. Elizabeth Roberts.
ANA Yeager, Eva Carter, Arthur Sea.
urg, Mamie Seaburg, Ruth Davis
lien Anderson, Agnes johnson. Edna
,yre, Genevieve Agnes Dixson, Gather
le Barrett, Ada Thomas, Vera Simmer,
tito Hermann. .s .'"'
Those misspelling not more than
were:
Eva Kent. Verna Smith, Blanche Z
hields, Ora Shirar. Dolly Ross, Edith
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