The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-04-03

The Annual County Spelling Con-
test will be held in the Court House
at Mays Landing on Saturday, April
10th, promptly at $50 A. NJ, and the
following rules have been adopted to
govern the ame
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 I%nterna-
tional Dictionary. Spelling shall be
sanctioned according to same author
ity.
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 de-
cided by order of committee.
The several districts of the county
shall be entitled to one pupil for every
hundred of the elementary enrolment
of the district, or fraction thereof, as
recorded for January, 1920, on pages
6 and 7 of Register.
Pupils shall provide their own pen
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 On
testants; said eight or more examin-
ers shall work in foul or more groups
of two each and each paper of the
! set allotted to each group shall be
separately examined by each examin-
er.
A judge shall be appointed to act
in conjunction with the examiners to
decide n doubtful points.
1st Prize to the pupil 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 ito pupil making second
highest average.
9rd Prize to pupil making third
highest average.
Five prizes to the next five papers
in points of average.
Prizes-1st, IS; End, SO; 3rd, 81.
Five o%ne-dollar prizes for the next
five papers.
Contest shall be limited to pupils of
the elementary grades who have been
in school during three or more months
prior to the date of the contest.
Each district is to select its own
team in any manner it sees fit, but
not before March goth.
Districts wishing to enter contest
shall notify Mr.. S. G. Huber, Mays
Landing, N. j., giving at the same
time the school enrolment census and
the anne of those who participate.
Contest in Rapid Calculation.
At the time of the County Spelling
Contest a contest in the foul funda-
mental operations of arithmetic shall
be offered to pupils of the elementary
grades, said pupils to have same quail
ifcations as pupils entitled to enter
spelling contest.
The contest shall consist of two ex-
amples in each of the four fundanen-
tai operations.
Examples in addition to be 6x10.
Examples in subtraction to consist
of eight and nine digits each in Min
uend and Subtrahend.
Examples in multiplication to con-
sist of five and six digits respectively
in Multiplicand and three digits each
in the Multipliers.
Examples 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 pa
pers presented. In case of ties, the
committee will provide for a contest
between the tieing contestants.
Prizes for fundamental operations
to be same as offered in Spelling Con-
test.
A beautiful pennant will be awarded
to the district represented by a full
quota of contestants attaining the
highest team average in spelling, also
a similar pennant to the district at
tanning the highest team average in
arithmetic. remnants are to be held
by the district for one year and to be
come the permanent PROPERTY of the
district if won for three consecutive
years.
Committee in charge-Mr. S. G..
Huber, chairman, Mays Landing; Mr..