The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-02-10
MANY PARTICIPANTS
EXPECTED IN CONTEST

County Contest in Spelling and Rapid
Calculation to be Held in the Court
House, at Mays Landing, on Satur-
day, March 31st-Rules and Regu-
lations Governing the Afair-Cash
Prizes to be Awarded to Winners.
Also Two Beautiful Pennants to
Districts Having the Highest Team
Averages.
The Annual County Spelling Con-
test will be held in the Court House
at Mays Landing on Saturday, March
31st, 1917, at 10 A. M. and the fol-
lowing rules have been adopted to
govern the m
The contest shall be written and
shall consist of one hundred words.
Proper names shall not be used and
pupils shall not be required to insert
hyphens.
The words shall be such as the high
est elementary grade may be expected
to be familiar with.
The pronunciation shall be that
sanctioned by Webster's New Inter
national Dictionary. Spelling shall
be sanctioned according to same au-
thority.
The words for the contest shall be
selected by someone not connected
with the schools participating, and
shall be dictated by someone not di-
rectly connected with any of the dis
tricts participating.
A second list of fifty words shall
be prepared and shall be used in case
of a tie. Further ties, if any, to be
decided by order of Committee.
The several districts of the county
shall be entitled to one pupil for ev-
cry hundred of the enrolment of the
district, or fraction thereof, as re-
corded for January, 1917.
ellis; paper will be furnished for con-
testants.
The person debating shall pro-
nounce to contestants ten or fifteen
words not in the selected list before
contest opens in order to familiarize
pupils with his voice.
Eight or more examiners shall be
appointed to examine papers of con-
testants; said eight or more examin-
ers shall work in four or more groups
of two each and each paper of the
set allotted to each group shall be
separately examined by each exam
liner.
A judge shall be appointed to act
in conjunction with the examiners to
decide any doubtful points.
The prizes for the Spelling Contest
shall be as follows:
Ist Prize to the pupils making the
highest average, except that a pupil
can win first prize only once; in all
succeeding contests he may spell for
honors only.
End Prize to pupil making second
highest average.
Third Prize to pupil making third
highest average.
Five prizes to the next five papers
in points of average.
Prizes-1st, SIS in cash; End, So in
cash; 3rd, 50 in cash. Five one dollar
prizes for the next five papers.
Contest shall be limited to pupils of
the elementary grades who have been
in school during 8 or more months
prior to the date of the contest.
Each district is to select its own
team in any it sees fit, but
not before March 22nd.
Districts wishing to enter contest
shall notify Mr.. D. R. Rohrbach, Egg
Harbor City, N. j., giving at the same
time the names of those who partic-
ipate.
Contest in Rapid Calculation.
At the time of the County Spelling
Contest a contest in the four funda-
mental operations of Arithmetic shall
be offered to pupils of the elemen-
tary grades, said pupils to have same
qualifications as pupils entitled to en-
ter spelling contest.
The contest shall consist of two
problems in each of the four funda-
mental operations.
Problems in addition to be 6x10.
Problems in subtraction to consist
of eight and nine digits each in Min
uend and ~Subtrahend.
Problems in multiplication to con
sist of five and six digits respectively
in Multiplicand and three digits each
in the Multipliers.
Problems in division to consist of
six and seven digits respectively in
the Dividend, and two and three digits
respectively in the Divisor.
All papers to be collected at the
expiration of II minutes, and prizes
awarded according to merit of the
papers presented. In case of ties,
the committee will provide for a con-
test between the tieing contestants.
Prizes for fundamental operations
to be same as offered in Spelling Con-
test.
A beautiful pennant will be award
ed to the district represented by a
full quota of contestants attaining
the highest team average in spelling,
also a similar pennant to the district
attaining the highest team average
in arithmetic. remnants are to be
held by the district for n year and
to become the permanent property OF
the district if won for three consecu-
tive years.
March 31st, 2 p. M.
Music by Egg Harbor Public School
Orchestra.
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