Charlevoix county herald., 1918-03-01

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spirit that pervaded all. Not grouchy
boy or girl yet found and it is>a big
thing to learn that our boys and girls
know how to take defeat and that the
parents are teaching them to be brave.
Each child had brought a few sand
wiches aud the teachers furnished
coffee. After the program and contest,
light refreshments were served free to
the assembly and all gathered for
friendly visits before departing.
Antrim County voted to hold the
Institute in Bellaire again next year
but only 4S per cent of her teachers
were present. The Com'r hopes to get
a more successful straw vote by mail.
They are with us, however in insisting
that their Institute shall be in October.
We wonder if the state department will
wake up to the kinds Of drifts we have
here.
Emmett county has not yet been
heard from on the Institute vote.
The spelling contests are drawing to
close. Evelne held the last one on
the mainland at Ironton on the after
noon OF Washington's birthday. The
Com'r told the visitors at the beginning
Of the contest that so far Bay stood first
in excellence of spelling, Marion
close second, with Wilson and Evange-
line tied for third place. Someone
whispered that Eveline would be first
in about three hours and the Com'r
just smiled. Such forecasts are not
uncommon.
There were SO contestants, the very
largest class yet prepared in any town
ship. OF these one was from Advance.
The rest had no way to get to the place
of meeting and all expressed regrets
at such a condition. There were 25
from Ironton, 2 from the Mountain
school, IL from the Star school, 9 from
Walker and 10 from Three Bells. After
the written contest the score stood as
follows in numbers of 100 per cent
papers: from Advance, /; from Ironton
IA; from Mountain school, /; from Star,
2; from Walker, 4; and Three Bells, s.
While the teachers were looking over
the papers the schools united in
patriotic program in honor of Washing
ton and our boys in the cause of free
dom. Favorite songs were, "Keep the
! Home Fires Burning" beautifully sung,
, 'Your Flag and My Flag" and "We'll
Never Let Our Old Flag FALL, sung by
Star School. Several reciatations were
given, all well rendered, but the one
by Miss Mildred Wangeman, was
especially appreciated.
Directly after the report of the writ.
ten contest was announced, the 20
students with perfect papers, took their
places in semi-circle at the front of
the hail. II was the largest class yet
standing for oral work in the county
spelling tests, and the crowd was in
tensely appreciative. There was no
such thing as confusing this class. Two
hundred words were spelled before a
mistake was made and even then the
mistakes were few and far between.
Little Wilma Mcclure stood up until
over 300 words had been pronounced
and then made only slight mistake
but OF course had to 60 down because
OF the old time rule, one trial only.
When the entire thousand words had
been pronounced there were still l3
standing. These 13 were as follows:
From Three Bells seven students,
Percy Lane, age l3, 7th grade; Bertha
Simmerman, age IL, 9th grade; Mamie
Gaunt, age IA, 9TH grade; RosabeIle
Lane, age 10, 9th grade; Mildred
Wangeman, age l3, 9TH grade, A. j.
Wangeman, age 10, 9th grade. From
Ironton four students, Frances Coblentz
age IL, 9th grade; Elsie Ward, age 10,
9th grade; Glenn Alleu- age Is, sth
grade; and Edward Hammond, age IA.
From the Walker school, one student,
Vernon Boyer, age 10, 9TH grade; and
from the Star school, Archie Hayden,
age Is, 9Th grade.
The rejoicing and the clapping be-
came such continued ovation that il
was impossible for some time to even
attempt to award the prizes to the
victorious schools. II proved only too
true our oft quoted philosophy that il is
not the prize that counts, il is the work
we do. There was no need to tell this
crowd that Eveline had gone over the
top, nor was there need to explain that
Three Bells alone had more victors
than any previous entire township, nor
did we need to explain that no other
school had previously quite come up to
the goalreached by Ironton that day.
Nor did we need to forget Walker and
Star for their standard could be sur
passed by none. II was fight worth