The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-11
|S-SPEl[ED WORD
CONTEST IS WON BY
MRS.D. c. 'G|LVRAY
DETECTIVES WIFE FINDS EIGHTY.
FIVE MISTAKES IN NEWS
PUZZLE PAGE.
MRS. n. l. PHILLIPS SECOND
WITH SEvEhTY-FIVE WORDS
Spurgeon Turner Wins Third Prize
With Sixty-six Corrections, and Mrs.
N. A. Maddux Fourth With Sivty-
two-Judges Award Prizes From
More Than 100 Contestants.

-iio' ~ VI. MCNHNrdy, Wlle or the
well-known detective and politician,
won the $40 in gold which The News
offered to the reader who found the
most mis-spelled words in the five
issues the contest lasted.
The committee of Judges. composed
OF Thomas ]. Walker, assistant cash
Ter of the Citizens Bank; G. B. Nc
Duff, teller at the Bank of Hattiesburg,
and M. e. Cooper, book-keeper at the
First National Bank of Commerce,
reached this decision last night after
examining thoroughly the papers OF
the various contestants
Several hours were required to
Judge the papers and for this reason
The News did not expect to announce
the decisions until Saturday. The
judges stuck to their work last night
until they finished it, however, there
by enabling US to announce the de-
cision today.
Mrs. McGilvray submitted a paper
having listed 113 mis-spelled words,
but the judges decided that only eighty
five of these could be allowed, the 9TH
er twenty-eight being not actually
mis-spelled but merely the wrong
word.
The Other Winners.
The other winners in the contest
were Mrs. N. L. Phillips, who got
seventy-five words and won the Sec
ond prize, case of Coca Cola from
the Hattiesburg bottling Co; Spurgeon
Turner, who got sixty-six mis-spelled
words, and won the third prize, case
of Goldelle Ginger Ale from the Hat
tiesburg Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; and
Mrs. M. A. Maddux, who got sixty-two
mis-spelled words and won the fourth
prize, ton of Brilliant coal from The
Southern Lumber and Ice Co.
In making their decision the judges
had to decide several rather difficult
points. One was whether a compound
word is mis-pelled if the hyphen is
omitted. At first the judges were in
clned to rule that 1t would be too
technical to rule that such words as
today" and tomorrow" words that
are commonly written without the hy-
phen, are actually mis-spelled when
the hyphen is omitted, but after con-
sulting three unabridged dictionaries
1t was found that all these authorities
agree that these words should be
spelled only with the hyphen, so the
judges counted them as incorrect and |
credited the contestants who corrected !
them with the correction.
The first two issues of the mis- |
spelled word page in The News were |
exactly similar. Then the page was
changed, and the last three issues |
were were exactly similar.
Mrs. McGiIvray's Words.
The words which Mrs. McGilvray |
found in the first two issues were as
follows: In w. A. Lovett's advertise
ment, today for today; tomorrow for !
tomorrow; exclusively for exclusive |
ly; strets for streets; in the Hotel |
Hattiesburg advertisement, hostelery |
for hostelry; in the Acme Restaurant
advertisement boarding house for
clearinghouse; sea food for sea-food;
in the Calhoun's Bankrupt store ad
vertisement, bankrupt for bankrupt;
bisappoint for disappoint; pocketbook
for pocket-book; in the Century Drug
store advertisement, agenss for
agents; in the c. E. Linneman adver.
tiesment, Harwdare for Hardware; in
the Hattiesburg Sheet Metal Co., shy
lights for sky-lights; in the Interna
tional Auto Co. advertisement, escond
hand for secondhand.
Mrs. McGilvray overlooked only one
mis-spelled word in these issues. II
was the word Nunnally's in the Cen.
tury Drug Store advertisement, which
was spelled in the paper Nunnaly's.
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