Evening journal., 1915-11-10


rural grammar grades took a test
with 200 words, also selected from
everyday life.
. T. A. Davis, educational secretary
Of the Y. NJ. c. A., pronounced the
words to the High School pupils. w.
II. Beacon, of the Beacon Business
College, pronounced the words to the
grammar grades, and was assisted by
Mr. Davis, the children being divided
into two sections.
These men. together with Miss Mary
E. Rich Of the Women's College. New
ark; Mrs. John B. Hutton. of Dover.
and Floyd Johnson of Friends School
acted as the judges of the contest.
Miss Carrie Downie and Miss May
B. Cooley of the New Castle Schools
and Miss Mary Stelle, Of Brandywine
Springs School. acted as chaperones
+ for the children. The children were
served a full course dinner at the
Hotel DUPONT.
/ The words were pronounced and
each participant in the contest was
required to write them. The prize
for children of the successful rural
high school is a sterling silver cup
donated by William Winder Laird
banker. The prize offered to the sue
cessful grammar school is a sterling
silver cup donated by THE EVEN
/ ING JOURNAL. The trophies are to
remain the property of tn winning
school for year and are to be com
peted for at each annual teachers
institute.
+, Three hundred words were submit
ted to the high school children and
three hundred words to the grammar
school children. The results will be
judged by the spelling of the first
/ two hundred word lists, and if there
/, should be a tie i'm them. then the adj
ditional one hundred words will be
used as a basis for breaking the tie.
Miss Myrtle wakeland of Newark
High School. won the individual prize
in the spelling contest and Newark
High School won the Laird trophy.
The contest for THE EVENING JOUR-
NAL trophy was undecided early this
afternoon.
This afternoon the children in the
contest will visit the Majestic Theatre
and also see the making of a news
3 paper in THE EVENING JOURNAL
Office.
Those Taking Part.
Pupils taking part in the spelling con
= tests are;
, High Schools Martha Davis, Heller
Gallagher. DUPONT Frank Schaeiler
Delaware City; Ella Sanders, Myrtle
Wakeland. Newark; Bessie Leach
Phoebe Sapp Henrietta Dorne, New
= Castle; Samuel NcSorley, Mount Pleas
ant; Nellie NJ. Grassland. st. Georges
! Naomi Morgan. Odessa; Mary i. Mayer
Newport
Grammar Schools-F Florence Gray
= Welch Tract: William Money, Howell
. Martha Davidson Hickory Grove; Jun
T johnson. Middletown; Ethel Cloud
( Yorklyn Bessie Armstrong. Melon
! oueh, John Wood, Van Dyke; Rutl
: Morrison. st Georges; May McGordy
Montchanin; Ruth Marker, Oak Hill
Josephine Graham, Naaman; Thelm
: Hines, Carrie Talley, Sharpley; Pau
Ward. Helen Camperson, DUPONT; Mar.
Cmane. Christiana; Elizabeth Foard
Marshallton; Harrison Davis, Odessa
Mildred Holiday, Helen Deemer. Mar.
d, Eliason, New Castle; Helen Eliz
Cleaver, Dales Corner; Ruth Gicker, Nil
ford Cross Roads; Madeline johnson
Forest Oak; Margaret SchaefTer. Alher
u McAIanus, Delaware City; Hele
Schwartz, Pleasant Valley; Gauet
Handy. Etna Norris. Elizabet
Bowman. Mt Peasants Franci
b. Maloney. Red Lions Hele
r. Boys. Eden; Alma Dunlevy, BeatriC
IN Nansant. John Green. Newark; FlorenC
)t Stirling. Elizabeth Emerson, Harmony
s. Marguerite NJ. Ryan. Elizabeth Zeigle
in Eighth Square; Edna NJ Porter. Blacl
e. bird; Maggie b. Ialley, Sara Maud
Webster, Forwood; Mary Ellen Smitl
Newport Sarah Pennyton, Harmony.
Friends Of education had offered
silver trophy to the High School win
ming the contest and THE EVENING
JOURNAL a silver cup for the gram
mar school whose delegate wins tn
contest in that class. The secon
prize in the High School contest is
set of Shakespeare and library @
fifty volumes is the second prize in tn
grammar grade contest. There ar
other prizes for individual spoilers
both classes.
IL had been expected that the Iesu
would be announced at dinner but thi
A-N
announced until later in the after
noon.
nix A second contest was held in III
vs. grammar grades. The ten best spell
ers in this grade we're given q se'
zen ond test this afternoon, when the
md were given fifty words.
or For the individual prize in the His
ric School contest the result was as 70
i've lows:
!. First-Myrtle wakeland, Newal
nee High
ill second-Phoebe sapp. New Cast
,ur High.
Third-Bessie Leach. New Cast
to- High.
Fourth-Helen Gallagher. duPo
High
Fifth-Henrietta Dorne, New Ca
tie High.
/ High school Prize (SchOol Trophy
L No Newark High.
5 No New Castle High.
No. 3-duPont High, Mt. Pleasant.
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