Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-10-07
THE BEST SPOILERS
Emily Vaughn md ANN Rome to Re-
present County In state Contest


An interesting spelling match was held
at the Edmunds high school yesterday
afternoon when the winners of spelling
contests In various towns OF the county
met in an old-fashoned spell down" to
decide the championship OF the county
Each town in the county had the privilege
of sending two children from the gram
mar grades to represent the town In the
contest. There were q young people who
took part in the spelling match ana 1t re-
quired more than an hour to spell them
down so that only two remained standing.
These two, who were declared the win
ners in the county contest, were Emily
Vaughn of Shelburne and Anna Rome
of Burlington
Principal Earle r Tracey of the Junior
high school gave out the words In the
contest and he had to take some rather
difficult ones in order to catch the spellers.
They went down fairly rapidly at first.
but when about one-half the number had
gone, it became more and more difficult
to find words which they could not spell
John Medlar of the Burlington junior
high school was the last one to go down.
1t looked for a time as though the two
representatives from the Junior hlgh
school would be the winners, hut Medlar
finally succumbed to the word existence"
and the two girls mentioned above were
! left az the winners.
| Indications point to the fact that the
girls of Chittenden county are much better
spoilers than the boys. out of the Il
participants in the contest orlN TOUR
were boys. And out of the first four to
drop out Of the match. two were boys.
The third boy was the seventh to drop
out.
t11nr int
Cured during the course of the spelling
match One Girl said she had never heard
the word "crazy" and could not spell It,.
She was a girl who had stayed more than
half way through the contest, too. she
said that she knew the meaning of the
word but never remembered seeing it in
print.
= One Of the boys, when asked to spell
the word piece" asked: What d va
mean, piece o. pie?" He didn't want to
confuse his words and try to spell the
kind of peace which President Wilson has
talked 80 much about, when the word re-
quired was the one which referred to a
section OF the foremost American pastry
Another noticeable dictinction which
was made was in the spelling of the
words republican, and democrat" The
girl who was given the word democrat
snelled II with a capital %" But when
the word Republican" was given out II
was spelled with a small 81" Both spell
,ngs we're allowed. The word Republic
was given the dignity Of a capital N.
Some of the words which were missed
in the contest were: Rruise, expense
Juicy. offer, possible, raisin. visit, bust
ness, crazy. deceive, fertile. frightened
important, existence. etc.
For the most part the children were very
good spoilers. Those who took part IN
the contest were Emily Vaughn and
Viola Langdon Of Shelburnc: Anna Rome
and John Medlar of Burlington; Ethe
Bullock and Walter Blaisden of COL
chester Helen Bigelow and Georglanna
Swan of Essex Center; Charles Burnet OF
Williston; Winifred Piker of North
Williston: Jessca Manning of Hunting
ton; Elizabeth Page and Florence over
of Hinesburg; Beulah Palmer and Mary
Freeman of Essex Junction; Hattie
Parker and Aldena Aube of Charlotte
Mary Nurcala and Annie Becwar OF
Winooski. and Myra Brand and William
Dennis of South Burlington.