Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-06-10
MIDD AND MONKTON
WIN SPELLING BEE

Mary Crane of Mddlabury and
Robert Eddy of Monkton were declar-
ed the champion spoilers Of the grade
schools of Addison County when they
defeated forty other boys and girls in
the County Spelling Bee in the Grange
Hall Tuesday afternoon The contest
lasted an hour and fifty-dve minutes.
So hard pressed were the victors for
their title that they were forced to
spell total of l04 words before being
declared winners. Their championship
entities them to compete in the state
spelling contest early next fall for all
Vermont honors
Mary Crane is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Philip E. Crane. She is in the
graduating class of the local grade
school. Robert Eddy IS the son Of
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Eddy Of Monkton,
Both winners were thirteen years old
The judges of the contest were Rev.
H. L, Howard, pastor OF the Memorial
Baptist church. Rev. H c. Newell,
pastor of the Congregational church,
and Mr.. Dwight Eddy w l. Cogglns
of Vergennes, superintendent Of the
Addison Northwest district and Coun-
ty Chairman of Spelling Contests, pre-
sided at the meeting Rev. E W.
Gould, pastor of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, acted as conductor dur
ing the first part of the contest and
was later succeeded by w. A Beebe
Of Bristol, superintendent OF the Addi-
sou Northeast District.
The following pupils took part in
The contest. From the Northeast Dis
trict: Addison, Hilda Tatro Gabriel
Swenor, Mary Dumas; Ferrisburg,
Grace Hall, Edmund Wimme EFT;
Monkton Robert Eddy, Helen Dean,
Mildred Smith; Panton, Nicola Bige-
Low, Bessie Bigelow; Vergennes, FL
len Kellogg, Mildred Rawson; Walt
ham. Mildred Hall, Allen Clark, Cath
crime Hallock
From Addison Central District:
Cornwall, Sanford Witherel; Middle
bury Town, Helen Seeley, Vonda VOL
colt; Weybridge Myron Wales, Lloyd
Jewett, Middlebury Village, Mary
Crane, Robert Cartmell
Addison Northeast District Bristol
Margaret DEMO, Magdeline Orvis, CIa-
ra Kellogg; New Haven, Katherine
Cushman, Alice Lucia, Edward Tromb-
ley; Starksboro, Grace Rublee, Reta
Cunningham, William Taft; Lincoln,
Irene Baslow, Elizabeth Kent, Mil
dred Cram
Addison Southwest District: Bird
port, Cora Allard, Carl Lee; Ssore,jn, |
Ruth Moore, Eva Swenor; Orwell,
Edith Bascom, Alice White. Leicester,
Helen Wilson, Evelyn Oliver; Whiting,
Ada Marcelle
The words acquire and amateur"
were the first to send a contestant to
a seat apart from the class Then the
match narrowed down to a lively bat
tie of memory among four early IN
the second hour of the contest Grace |
Hall of Ferrisburg Eva Swenor of
Shoreham and the two winners held |
their places for more than a half hour
with honOrs evenly divided regarding
the confidence with which t ley
promptly spelled off the words chosen
Grace was the first to fall The game
continued from the completion of
Grade VIII List with such words as
"victuals", tuberculosis" and the like
over into the Supplementary Word
List to the harder words, "ascetylene"
alfalfa, ammonia" Then Robert Ed
dy seemed to have lost when he spelled
"antiseptic" with final 81. He plead
ed a pardonable misinterpretation Of
the word as pronounced by Conductor
Beebe and was given another oppor-
tunity. For ten minutes more the two
girls and boy spelled without falter
They seemed to enjoy the contest fully
as much as their parent and friend
spectators, determined to remain there
all evening, however, rather than re-
lieve the tension by stumbling in their
spelling Then Eva Swenor was asked
to spell "heifer". Although her par
ents are farmers and Eva herself has
always lived on farm, she hesitated
Beginning the first syllable Alright, she
retracted and put the q" before the
"e" 1t passed the conductor, but
few moments later the judges request
ed the re-spelling of the word and Eva
fell