The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-06-21
CHAMPION sPELLERs.
List of Pupils Who Scored Highest
Averages in Contest Held in
Public Schools May Pine Rec
ords Made in Various Grades.

Public Schools May Pine Rec.
ords Made in Various Grades.
E The results of the spelling contest
held pn May 2 in the public schools
Iof Ascension parish have been. tab
ulated and announced by Supt. =. T..
Rusca. Pupils of the fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and
eleventh grades participated in the
contest, which comprised words Sc
lected from the Century Spel1er, Part
I II, and Mayne's Business Speller.
Two hundred words taken from diff
ferent lessons in these books con-
stituted the test in every grade ex-
/ Ecept the seventh, in which 1872 words
were given out.
The highest Individual scsses in
each grade were as follows, She fig
ures representing the nuAber of
words spelled correctly:
Fifth grade-First, BerthaI King,
DutchtoWn High School, 1893; second,
1erena Webb, Oak Grove High
School, and Alma Young, Gonzales
High School, 1872; third, Lorena Rob-
erts, Oak Grove, Landry Leblanc,
Smoke Bend, and Tariaph Landry,
Karl Landry, and Harriet Smith,
Dutchtown, 100; fourth, Rose Lalo-
mia, Donaldsonville High School, 1S9;
fifth, Ida KOS, Belle Helene, Don
Herman, DtachtoWn, and Lavinia
Simpson, Johnson, 18S; sixth, James
Chapman, Donaldsonyille, 1856; sew
enth, SylVere Babin, Calbasse, Mary
Roddy, Johnson, 1S5; eighth, A. John
son, Johnson, 184; ninth, Mercedes
Truxille, Burnside, and J. Lesaicher-
re, Gonzales, 183; tenth, Helena Belle
and Beatrix Hebert. Burnside, 182:
eleventh, D. Folse, DonaldsonVilIe,
and Lucille Hunt, Burnside, 181;;
twelfth, Lillian Guedry, Dutchtown,
HiIda Mire, CalI9sse, and Florence
James, Johnson, 180; thirteenth, Al
fred Heath, Johnson, 17S;; fourteenth,
Clarence Stephens, Oak Grove, i e;
fifteenth, Cled Ferguson, Brittany,
and Nellie Oufrae, Elise Memorial,
~
selser and " elnlina GIauner, Don-
aldsonFilIe, and Maurice emery,
Gonzales, Its; seventeenth, Benton
De1aune, Galbasse, II eighteenth,
Gladys Belle, Elise Memorial, 1773; 70;
nineteenth, JohnaF. Saxon, Burnside,
172; twentieth, Jules Schmalzrid,
DonaldsonVil1e, ITO.
Sixth grade-First, Josepha Judice,
.DonaldsonVille, 1876; second, Jane
Judice, Donaldsonyille, 1S9; third,
George Schmalzrid, Donaldsonyil1e,
and Helen Sehuster, Elise Memor-
iaI, 1877; fourth. Evelyn Montecino,
Donaldsonyille, IT'S; fifth, Alice Dyer,
Brittany, IT'S; sixth, Paul Comeauy,
Martin, 174; seventh, Leonard Lee
Blanc, Smol1eA Bend, 1I2; eighth, Lin
dez Temples Dona1dsonyille, I'll;
ninth, Ida Landry, Smoke Bend, ITO;
tenth, Lsga Fridge, Martin, 169; seley-
enth, DarVille Gauthreaux, Gonzales,
168; twelfth, Alice Delaune, Brittany,
165; thirteenth, Stella Rivet, Donald
sonVille, and Alice Bourgeois, Black
Bayou, 1633;; fourteenth, Camors Nc
Farland, Burnside, 100; fifteenth,
Miller Young, Burnside, 159.
Seventh grade--First, Irma Cooke
Donaldsonville, 1856; second, Godfried
Bonicard, DutchtoWn, 174;. third.
Hendrfck Leblanc, GonzalesA 172;
fourth, Pearl Fletcher, #MartiI. III;
fifth, Maury ThfSodeaux, Burnside.
and Myrl Richardson, Brittany, ITO;
sixth, Burriss Ianoux, Gonzales, 165;
seventh, Eunice Chandler, Donaldson
vile, 163; eighth, Rita Rome, Smoke
Bend, $50; ninth, Drauzin Babin, Cal
sbasse. 159.
& Eighth gnde-First, Pearl Richard
son, Brittany, 1872; second, Odlin
Gonzales, Gonzales, aS4; third, Maui
rice Ryhiski, DonaIdsonville, 1872;
fourth, Leonard Fo1se, Dona1dsonvil1e,
179; fifth, Eta Mollere, Donaldson
vile, 1T; sixth. Pauline Bloomen-
stiel, Donaldsonyille, and Frances
Bergeron, Galbasse, III; seventh,
Henry Hakenjos, Bonaldsonville, 1863;
eighth, Window White, Oak Grove,
167; ninth, John Hunley, Donaldson
VILE, 161.
Ninth grade-First, DON Dixon,
Oak Grove, 1888; second, Frances
Pnoffitt, Dona1dsonvi1le, 1856; third.
Bertrand Webb, Oak Grove, 175;
fourth, Leslie Osterberger, Oak Grove,
1853; fifta, Florence Taddiken. Dom
jacksonville, 163;; sixth, Lucy Hender-
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