The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-02

Grades q. 1 ana = III Dolu the iHCoE-
porated district and town schools are
holding series of spelling matches. Each
teacher will later select from her school
three Gf the best spoilers who will spell
in a local spelling contest The two
pupils qualifying in the local contest
shall be eligible to take part in a county
contest TO be held late in May. At this
contest the two pupils to qualify from
Windham county shall be eligible for the
state contest. the latter to be held at the
time Of the state teachers convention in
October at Rutland.
The state spelling list and any other
standard spelling book used in the town
shall be used in conducting the local
test.
The state spelling list and any copy
righted list or spelling book published
since 1918 shall be used in conducting the
county and state contests.
The following are the state lists to he
used -
List for Grade V.
Grade Y list: Accept, ache. acre. adj
dress. against, agreeable alarm. already,
also. although. amount, angry, appear, ar
range arrangement, arrest, ashes attempt
attend. attract. auto, awful barley, base
luent beast, beauty, became. beet, believe,
beyond bicycle, birth. birthday, biscuit.
bleed, blister. breast. breathe, breeze,
bruise. bundle. bUShel, canal, cancer, capt.
tai. careful carpet. carry. case, cause,
cellar, central, certain, chance, check,
chest, chin, choose, cider, circle, circus.
clerk, climate. climb, clothing. coarse.
coast, coffee, coin, collar, color column
comfort. common, compare, complain, con
ductOr, connect contain, contrary, control.
cottage, country, county, couple. course,
dangerous daughter. deal. death. debt, de-
a.
Sert. reserve. diamond. dictionary, direct,
direction discover. dispute, dodge, dou bic.
doubtful. dream. drown, dumb. during,
duty, earn. effort. eighth. elevator. encour-
age. engine, enjoy, entire. escape. every
thing, exactly. examine, example. except.
excursion. exercise, expense, explain, cX-
pl0re fact factory. failure, false, famous.
favor, favoritP. fear. fellow, fever. fierce.
fifth. final. fitted, Jog. fool, football, fore
noon forest forgive. forward. frozen, fur
ui=h. furniture. further, general gentle,
grief grocery, group, guard, guess, guest,
handle, haTbOr, hardware healthy, heap,
heavens. height, hickory. hire, h0arSe,
harry. husband, idea, idle, ignorant, i'm
possible, Industrious injury, instead, In
tend, interest, invitation, jealous. Jelly,
Jolly. Juicy. kindness. knit. knob. known,
labor, lantern. least. length, level, listen,
lonesome. loose. loss, lot, lumber, lying,
manufacture, maple. marble. marry,
maybe. measure, member, mention, mercy,
national. natural. naughty, negro, ninth,
none. nor, notice, numb. oats, obey. offer
office. olive. orchard, package, pain, palm,
parade. parents, parlOr, passenger, past,
patient, pavement peace, penny, people,
perhaps. person. piano, pickles. piece,
pity, plank, platform, pleasant, pocket
poem. poison, police, polish. position, pos
~iblc postal. power praise, prepare. pres
cnt, press. prison, prisoner private. prob
lem, profit, promise, prompt, proper
prove, pruneS. public, publish, pudding
pupil, punish, purpose, quit, quite. raise
ruiSin, range, raspberry, reason. rebel. re-
Cpive. recent. rCcite, refer, refuse, regard
region remain. remark, repeat. replied,
reoly. report. rescue, result. return. re-
view. reward. rifle. rule, rye, saucer,
scarce. scatter. scenery, score. scrub
search. secret. select, sense. sentence
serve settle. shed, shop. shore, shoulder,
shovel, sign. simple, simply. sincerely
slave, sleeve slippery, smell, soldier
sometimes, somewhere, spare, special
splendid square. stamp, starve. state sta
ton. steady. steal. steam. steel, stomach
straight. strange, strawberry. streak
strength, stretch. struggle. supply. sup
pose. sure. surprise, swift. tank. taste
tear. tenth, Themselves though, thought
thrift. throat, thunder, ticket. till, to
gcther, tongue. tools, total, touch, toward
towel, trade. traveller treat, truck, truth
tUrnip. vacation. valentine valley. verse
vessel, visit. visitor. voice, vote, voyage
wagon waiter. waste. weak. weather
weigh weight. welcome. whatever, when
ever. wherever, whom. whose. wire
woman. women, wonderful, worse, wound
wreck, written, young.