Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-05-08
50 WORDS OF
A POSSIBLE HUNDRED
Winner in Spelling at the Coun-
ty Contest.
Fourth Annual Event Was More Sue
cessful and Largely Attended
Than its Predecessors.

The fourth annual Grant county
contest III spelling, writing and
arithmetic was held at the high school
building last Friday and was a most
successful event. A keen interest
was displayed in the various depart
ments and all the contestants did very
we'll.
The prize winners are given as
| follows:
WINNERS IN SPELLING
1st prize 8-Christine Walz, No. 9.
Glen Haven, Mrs. Ella Winner,
teacher.
End prize $7-Anna Jones, No. 6,
Smelser, Floretta Luce, teacher.
3rd prize $6-Ethel Hamilton, it.
No. 6. Paris, Edith Barron. teacher.
4th prize $5-Vera Burr, No. Is.
North Lancaster, Mae Boyle, teacher.
5th prize $4-Susie Walz, No. 8.
Glen Haven, Mrs. Ella Winner,
teacher.
9th prize $3-Kathryn Burr, No. To-
North Lancaster. Mae Boyle, teacher.
9TH prize $2-Rose West, No. g.
CassviIle. W1nifred Okey, teacher.
Sth prize $1-Rosa Bendorf, No. z,
Waterloo, Nellie Martin, teacher.
WINNERS IN ARITHMETIC
1st prize Willie Wieland, No.
3, South Lancaster, S. E. Livingston.
teacher.
End prize $7-MiIlie Geyer. No. 6.
Smelser, Floretta Luce, teacher.
3rd prize S6-Florence Wieland,
No. 8, South Lancaster, s. E. Living
ston, teacher.
4th prize $5-Leo Noises. No. j. 1
Glen Haven, Grace Pendleton teacher.
9TH prize $4-Vera Burr. No. Is
North Lancaster. Mae Boyle. teacher.
9Th prize $3-Kathryn Burr, No. 10
North Lancaster, Mae Boyle, teacher.
18th prize $2-Douglas Hampton.
No. it. 4. Glen Haven, Ella Becke-
meier, teacher,
8th prize $1-Anna Jones. No. 6.
Smelser. Floretta Luce, teacher.
WINNERS IN WRITING
lst prize $7-Pearl Curtis. No. 4,
Smelser, Bertha earns. teacher.
End prize Sc Florence Wieland.
No. ), So Lancaster, S E. Livingston,
teacher.
3rd prize So Ethel Groom, No. 2.
Cassville. Lucy Taylor, teacher.
4th prize $4-Christine WaTz. No:
9. Glen Haven. Mrs. Ella Winner.
teacher.
9TH prize $3-HeIen Pendleton, No.
2, Little Grant, Grace Barr. teacher.
9Th prize So Hilda Vosberg. No. .,
Smelser, Mary McGeever. teacher.
9TH prize $1-Lenys earns. No. 2.
Smelser, Tillie Sphinx, teacher.
The following program was carried
out successfully in the afternoon:
Selections. ,--.. Gross Orchestra
address ---,--.. Supt. }. c: Brockert
contest -..........----.-.... Arithmetic
SeIectlon --. Gross ORCHESTRA
Picture OF oil those assem- DleQ
The decision of judges was then
given. The judges were Prof f. W.
Trainer, assisted by the following high
school pupils: Misses Ionia Roesch,
Pearl Poland, Ethel Weisbenner,
Velma Richardson. Vesta Johnson,
Bernadine Knobel. Emma Knobel,
Leila Bennett and Leone Bryhan;
Messrs. Fred Henkel. Clay Halferty
and Will Rowdon.
One hundred words as given below
were pronounced by the superinten-
dant in the spelling contest.
Library, orchestra, tuition, con-
scientious, solder, cipher. assessor.
radius, circuit, circumference, giggIe,
register, naturalization, executive,
epidermis, caucus, Tennessee,
skeleton, terminate, fertilizer,
alfalfa, grievance, alphabet, privilege,
vaccinate, gevser, sponge, territory,
boundary, grammar, nickel, sickle,
hyphen, auxiliary, meridian, promOn-
tory. traffic, cocoa, cataract, allspice,
solar. porcelain, census, bananas,
generosity, saleratus. immense, bene-
fetal, cinnamon, forcible, vigorous,
rheumatism, rhubaTb, deficit,
collision, lilies, women, professor,
similarity. apparatus. prairie
companion, dense, ninety, license
tuberculosis supersede, parallel,
Wednesday, vegetable, tranquility.
parochial. icicle bicycle. Suez.
sapolio, balance. appendicitis, denim.
miscellaneous, mosquitoes; gases,
possess, nuisance, glycerine, certifi-