Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-15
Teachers Institute
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Pedagogues of County Il
Meet in Wilmington
Next Week
SPELLING BEE
AGAIN A FEATURE

DR.. T. J.. Cross, county superintendent
of the rural New Castle county schools
has completed arrangements for the New
Castle County Teachers Institute, the
first session of which viii be held in the
rose room of the Hotel DUPONT at 9
O'Clock next Monday morning. The an
nuai spelling contest win be held in the
Y. M. Q. A. building on Monday morn
ing. The children from the high and
grammar schools are to report at the
Y. NJ. G. A. hap, Wilmington, not later
than s.45. The contest will begin at 0
o'clock The contestants from the high
schools will spell for the Laird trophy,
silver trophy, won last year by the
Newark school The grammar schools OF
the county will contest for THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL trophy, won last year
by the Marshalltou school.
Cummings, the photographer, No. 720
Market street, has offered dozen IS
photos as the individual prize for the
winner Of the Laird trophy. There will
be sixteen contestants in the high
school spelling bee. There viii be many
valuable books for the individual spell
ers. Fifty words viii be given to the
spoilers by disinterested educators, and
then should there be ties for positions
an extra fifty words win be used TO
determine the. contest The children are
TO be pleasantly entertained while in
the city. Points of interest are to be
visited and dinner will be served in the
Hotel dupont. In the afternoon the
bows and girls will be the guests of the
management Of the Majestic Theatre.
During the past year Miss Mary II.
Askew Mather offered a prize Of $40 to
the school girl in the county who would
make the best collection of wild flowers.
Elizabeth r. Shallcross, a pupil of Mill
Lane school, No. 80. has won the prize,
and the attractive and interesting St.
Georges hundred girl will be presented
with the $40 gold piece on next Monday
afternoon. The album prepared by the
girl containing the flowers mounted will
be on exhibition.
"Tt is going TO be difficult task 70
decide the spelling contest this year.
said DR.. Cross this morning. Recently
sent ont the following lists OF words
to the schools:
For High School Contestants-
Crystallize. prejudice. mortgage. Fab
renheit. chsutauqua, acguiesce, appar-
atus. avoirdupois. hypothesis. v cissi-
tude. accommodate, homogeneous, n.y.
pothenuse. Mediterranean, parenthe-
s's. auxiliary. simultaneous, comme"-
cial. mysterious. phraseoiogy. gent
tive. homologous. privilege, committee.
chauffeur.
s.F'or Grammar School Contestants
Despair. practice. ceiling. bicycle,
governor, familiar, supersede. college.
prairie, algebra, persuade. rhombus,
syntax, prejudice. syllable, eligible.
aeroplane. heinous, tenement, hypoc-
r'sy, village, oxygen. tragedy, similar,
chauffeur
THE pupils in some schools tied
with an average OF 100. Another set
OF words was sent out and there we're
ties again. This shows how our spell
ing contest last year has encouraged
the teachers and pupils 10 work for
trophies. Miss Carrie Downie, Mss
Nav b. Cooley and Miss Mary B.
STEELE viii be in charge Of the child
rem during their stay in Wilmington
Governor Charles r. Miller Will at
tend the institute on Tuesday morn
ing, when the Parent-Teacher Assoc
Citations and teachers will meet in
The Playhouse. A splendid program
is being prepared. The speakers will
be: DIR. p. p. ClaxtOn. commissioner of
education of the Tn ted States: Mrs.
Julia Fried Walker OF Indiana and
DR.. S. c. Mitchell. president OF Della