Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-10-20
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Mis-spelled Word Contest Pop
ular With News-Budget
Readers

Increased interest was manifested in
the News-Budgets mis-spelled word
contest last week, 80 persons entering
lists. There seems to be zest in CIV
ing yourself an examination as to your
ability as a speller, with the addition
al incentive of cash prizes to the most
successful, that appeals to a great
many of our readers.
1t takes more than mere spelling
ability to win, however, and keen
eye is a most important qualification
Hardest Error Was Easy
This was most conclusively proven
by the fact that the hardest error for
the spelling brigade to find was very
easy, in fact it was the word "easy,"
from which the final letter was omit
ted in the advertisement of the R. J.
Sands Hardware Co. Of course, every
contestant read their advertisement of
the Easy Vacuum Electric Washer
carefully one or more times, but
great many failed to notice the word
on the cut that illustrated the machine.
The error is very plain when you no.
tice it.
There were seventeen mis-spelled
words in last weeks double-page
spread of contest advs., as follows ::
Seventeen Errors
In Ditmanson & Nelson's adv, the
word special" mis-spelled SPECIAL" /"
Diedrichs Hat Shop adv.-"con-
ture," should be contour
Lanes Music Shop Stationery
was spelled stationary"
Benson" spelled "Bensen" in Ben
son Bros adv.
In W. A. Carrolls advertisement
the name spelled Carol" in two
places; "sotre" for store"
Heading mis-spelled twice in miss
spelled word contest"
Vaughan's Clio HING Store
''Vaughns' in two places
r. J. Sands Hardware Coin the
illustration of the Easy Vacuum Elec-
/ tric Washer" the "Y'' is omitted from
the word Easy" on the wringer.
Golden Rule Store, "wol'' should be
'wooP' in 'all wool slip-over sweat
ers."
O. B. Ellingboe's adv, "undertak-
ing spelled undertaking"
Racket Store adv, "tripple-coated'
should have been ''triple-coated."
The name 'Kopp" should have been
"Copp'' in the III. l.. Copp shoe shop
adv
The name "Hoveland" was spelled
'Hovelund" in the Ladysmith Phar-
macy adv.
/ Many contestants listed "sox'' as
mis-spelled word. This spelling, though
not warranted by the dictionary, is
now widely used in advertising and
we did not count it an error; neither
did we count it as an error against the
contestants as word they listed as
mis-spelled when it was correct
The Winners
Twenty-six lists contained fourteen
or more mis-spelled words. Twelve
found fifteen of the errors. Of these
three found sixteen errors and only
one found all seventeen. This latter
list was submitted by Mrs A. 1. Col
Inns, Ladysmith, who was therefore
clearly the winner of the $500.
The three who found sixteen of the
errors were. Miss Hilda M. Nelson,
Mrs. A. NJ COnklin and James B. ST.
mon The first two missed ON ''easy,"
while the latter found "miss-Spelled''
/ only once in the heading lines, or if
he noticed both places failed to men
ton it. Contestants who find the same
word mis-spelled in two places, should
mention both, for of course credit will
only be given for the errors mentioned
as found.
In the drawing for second and third
prizes, between the three who found
all but one of the errors, second prize
was won by Hilda M Nelson and third
prize by James Simon.
The contest is easy this week, but
remember, you've got to look sharp to
win!
The News-Budget desires to distrib-
ute the prizes as widely as possible and
for that reason announces that those
in the same family, as the winner are
ineligible to compete until the final or
sixth week, which will be open to all.
One list, containing less than half
the errors, was received too late,
Thursday morning, making total OF
just an even hundred replies Lists
must be in by Tuesday.