Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-05-25
ALICE COLBY WINS
Barton Contestants Rank High in
County Spelling Contest

Barton Contestants Rank High il
County Spelling Contest
Miss Alice Colby, seventh grad.
pupil of the West school and daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Colby o1
Scott avenue, Newport, holds the
honor of winning in the county spell
ing contest, which was held at the
armory Saturday afternoon. Miss
Colby not only won the honor, but
also won for the seventh grade the
silver cup offered by the Newport
Chamber of Commerce, which is to be
engraved and kept in the schoolroom
until such time as some other shall
win it for another grade or school
in the county.
She also won. the five dollar gold
Chamber of Commerce to the scholar
winning the contest.
For the purpose of stimulating q
greater interest in spelling the edu-
Gators of Vermont deemed it wise to
have town, county and state spelling
contests, the first of such taking place
year ago, at which time pupil of the
West school, Adelaide Humphrey, and
Miss Miles of Irasburg won in the
county contest: This year these con,
tests are taking place in several
counties in the state.
Previous to the county match three
pupils of each school were selected by
the teachers who came together in
the several town centers for similar
contests and from which the two who
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port in county contest to compete
ing highest at the county trial are Lo
enter state contest to be held al
Rutland at the teachers meeting Oct
IL to ID. The other pupil entitled
to the honor of representing Orleans
county is Ethel Ames, an eighth grade
pupil of Derby.
The other two scholars to figure
prominently in the contest and who
will act as substitutes, are Everett
Chase, an eighth grade pupil of Al.
bany, and Winifred Webster, aged 10
fifth grade pupil at Barton
Bernard Cote, winner of the New.
port city contest, was the thirty
fourth of the class 80 to misspeil
and Marian Tower of Barton was
33.
r Much interest was manifested
in the contest, more than $50 being
present.
Col. c. S. Emery, president of the
Newport Chamber of Commerce, in
very fitting remarks presented the
prizes to the winner and the seventh
grade school,
The interest shown by the Barton
school in Winifred Webster and
Marion Tower was manifested when
a truck arrived loaded with "a class
mates and friends of the two girls
At the opening of the contest pupils
of the 9th grade, East school, fur
nished music, which was followed by
short and very interesting remarks
to the children and parents by State
Commissioner of Education G. H
Dempsey.
The words were given out by Mr..
Dempsey and one hour and fourty-
five minutes required to close the con-
test, during which time the entire
state list of words of 889 were ex-
hausted, as well as the state suppli-
mentary list, Mr.. Dempsey then re-
sorting to a second supplementary
list.
The judges were Mrs. A. H. Grout,
Miss Inez Miller and Walter H.
Cleary and Marion Hamilton and
Janet Knowlton kept the record of
misspelled words and trials as
required by the state rules.
In the audience were State Super
intendent J d. Whittier of Burling-
ton and the following school super
intendents:, E. A. Hamilton of New
port, o. l.. Dugan of Newport Center,
Carl Batchelder of Barton and E. S.
Boyd of West Charleston. There
were several school teachers from diff
ferent towns in the county present.
The words misspelled were: Regu-
larly, missionary, razor, phosphorus,
apparatus, disciple, oxygen, expel,
chiffonier, ingenious, battalion, con-
tagious, formally, chaperon, pronoun-
citation, license, principle, sacred,
crystalline, cooperation, fragment,
privilege, mysterious, investigate,
radiator, misunderstanding, repre-
sentative, ridiculous, decent, appear
ance, dessert, ammunition, applicant,
ccmical, appendicitis, occurrence,
apology, catarrh.
Below is given a list of pupils in
the contest, town, grade rank in which
they went down and number of trials.
Name and Residence