Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-10-27
NEW BUNCH
OF WINNERS
In Mis-spelled Word Contest
Adds Zest.-l14 Lists
Submitted

of 116 lists of mis-spelled words
submitted in the News-Budget's con-
fest for the issue of Oct. 20, not one
had perfect score. There were four
| teen errors. Three contestants got all
! fourteen. but each made one error !:
Mrs. Elmer Peterson, Bruce; Mrs. Il.
! Reik and Miss Helen Smith, Lady
smith. Miss Minnie Stevens and w.
IC. yoigt, both of Ladysmith, turned
in lists of thirteen of the mis-spelled
words without an error. The last
| two lacked one point out of IA, so
| were thirteen-fourteenths correct,
while the first three had lists that
were fourteen-fifteenths correct. The
| point was so close as to which We're
| the nearest correct that we decided
/ to draw between the first three for
| first and second prizes and between
the last two for the third prize, with
| the following result:
First prize-Helen Smith.
Second prize-Mrs. r. j. Reik.
! Third prize-W C.. V0igt.
The errors in the Oct. 20 issue were ::
/ /. "Holts'' in the Holtz Dry Goods
| Co.'S adv.
2. "O'Niel' mis-spelled in Stur-
geon's advertisement of Peggy O'Nen
dresses.
| Sd. ''Hovelund" should have been
'Hoveland'' in the Ladysmith Phar-
macys advertisement. In the same
advertisement the brand of candy ad-
vertised, "Plenty-Full, was mis-
spelled "Plentyful."
5. "Bottlings'' was spelled bot
lings" in the Ladysmith Bottling
Works ads.
6. Halloween" was spelled with
only one Il" in the Racket Store adv.
/ Z. One I'm" was omitted in trim
mings' in Ditmanson & Nelson's adv
! S-9-"Pumpkin" was spelled, pun
kim in two places in Volkman Bros.
adv.
! 10. In vaughan's Clothing Store
adv, MARI should have been Marx" ;"
! 11-12-In the advertisement of the
Bon Ton store, "Naphtha" was spelled
"naptha' and 'saucers" was spelled
| "saucors."
1914. .Radyo'' in two places in
| the Ladysmith Radio Shop adv.
The word most generally missed was
/ in the adv of the Ladysmith Phar-
macy The name of their new brand
j of candy was given as Lowney's
| "Plentyful" Perhaps nine-tenths of
/ the contestants saw there was an er-
ror in this word, but most of them
| jumped to the conclusion that the
name of the brand was plentiful" !"
whereas 'Plenty-Full is correct.
'Dutchess" trousers, advertised by
the Golden Rule store, was stumb-
ling block to many who thought it
should be spelled Duchess"
Many listed "challies" as incorrect
in the Bon Ton adv.
In r. J. Clark Auto Co.'S adv a de-
/ feet in the cut made ''six-cylinder Sc
dan" look like it was spelled "cix-cyl-
1 inder" One or two other cuts had
J letters that could not positively be
identified as an "e'' or .'o." These
were not errors but were not counted
/ against those who listed them. 1t
showed that those contestants were
not overlooking anything.
Several listed Halloween as in
correctly spelled, as some dictionaries
omit the apostrophe and Halloween"
is no doubt preferable. However, both
are in common usage and we have
not been marking the insertion or
omission Of the apostrophe in previous
weeks contests.
Lists were sent in from as far away
as Corning, Calf, although the one
from that place arrived here a week
1 late.
All who enter lists would do well to
/ read the preceding contest articles
closely. In listing errors in trade
names of any kind verify them when
possible Listing an error once that
occurs twice is only counted as one
error found. You must spell the mis-
spelled word correctly or you have
not correctly and definitely located the
error Lists must be in by Tuesday
night, or be too late.
! Sharpen your pencils and wits, for
there will be new bunch of winners
this week and you want to be one of
them. It's good practice and there is
no guesswork about it.