The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-05-10
MANCHESTER CENTER
GIRL WINNER
Spelling Contes, at Teachers Meeting
Proves LiveIiest Event OF Session.


Proves LiveIiest Event Of Session
In the town spelling match held
Tuesday April "a, there were 10 con
testan,s selected from the sixth, sew
~n,h and eighth grades Of the different
schools In town. This contest was
conducted by Miss Hosley and Miss
Narden at the Center school building
under the rules and directions pre-
scribed by Supt J. ID. Whittier The
ability Of these pupils as spoilers was
sttested by the fact that they spelled
continuously for almost two hours be
fore all, exccp, the winner, were spell
ed down. The winner, who did not
miss a single word, was Miss Myrue
A. Mooney Of eighth grade Center
srbool. A close second was Miss
Iouise T.. Cadoret of the same grade
and school. As a result Of this con-
test Miss Mooney was chosen to rep
resent the town of Manchester in the
Remington County Spelling Contest
held at Bennington, Thursday evening,
Nay. 3. At this contest each town
in the county was supposed to send
fts best speiler. Some OF the towns
failed TO respond as only twelve con-
testants appeared. The prize was fve
dollars in gold TO the winning pupil
and five dollars in gold to the winning
pupils school, given by the Benning
ton County Improvement Association
A written test of 80 words was first
giyen the contestants, so that IN case
of a tie at the end of the oral spelling,
the written test might determine the
winner, The words for this test were
pronounced by d. NJ. Colburn, who had
a pupil in the contest. This seemed
an unfair advantage over the other
contestants who were not accustomed
10 his voice and pronunciation. IL
was distinctly stated at the beginning
Of the contest that the written test
should not be counted unless a tie
occurred. No tie did occur, but the
written test was resorted to. The fol-
lowing words were missed In the order
in which they are given, the contest
ants being numbered. No. missed
Separate; No. II, beginning; No. IL,
lose; No. Z, Ingredient No. 10, asso-
citation; No. /, infectious; No. 3, ini-
natiye; No. G, No. S, No. 2 and No. .
missed inoculate, which was spelled
correctly by No. 5, who was Miss Myr-
tie A. Mooney. No. 2, who was Miss
Mary I.alley Of Bennington obtained
two trials on the word by claiming
that she did not understand the word.
DR.. NJ. b. Hillegas, who pronounced
the words, allowed her second trial
stating that he thought she had some
difficulty in hearing. The first time
Miss Lalley spelled the word with two
MS and the second time she spelled ~
with two c's. II then passed to NO. A.
Miss Mary Lou Griffith of East Dorset
who spelled in Immaculate After
IL had been announced that Miss Moon
ey had won the prize an objection was
raised which pointed out that Miss
Ialley's written test was perfect while
Miss MONEYS had three errors or SIX
per cent of. Miss Moneys first error
consisted of antarctic" which she be-
van with a small "a" according to
Webster. but which the judges marked
wrong because it was not capitalized
The other two errors were two words
which she misunderstood. writing
.'Gristle" for "bristle" and govern
for "treason." Upon this objection
the two girls were called back 70 spell
again. The word microscope" was
given TO Miss Mooney who spelled II
correctly. Miss Lalley Immediately
objected, and thus brought defeat up
on herself by criticizing the correct
spelling Of the word. Being asked to
spell the word she spelled 1t "miscro-
scope" DIR. Hulegas, however, "as
inclined To favor this spelling of the
word from the fact that in the Jones
word list, which was the one used, the
word microscope" is misprinted
being printed "miseroscopc," and Miss
IAlley had studied and learned it that
way. The prize was thereupon award
ed 10 Miss Lalley, and to d. NJ. Col
burn, her teacher, for the school. Miss
Marden objected to this, stating that
she had noted the typographical error
in the Jones word list, and that she
had taught the correct spelling OF the
word according to Webster. Again
the prizes changed hands and Miss
Mooney was finally declared the win
ncr. Supt Varney Of Bennington
then announced that he would voucf
for the raising Of another ten dollars
AN dthought that both schools should
be treated alike the contest having
been 50 close. Miss lalley was ther
presented five dollars by him. Th'