The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-24
TH|RTY-F|VE IN
SPELLING CONTEST.
Elimination Contest Held
to Determine County
School Team
TWO TO ATTEND
STATE CONTEST


Rawson of DummerstOn Center to
Compose Team-79S Oral Words Used
Both 100 in Written Test
Thirty pupils representing the
schools of Windham county gathered at
the high school building here yesterday
afternoon to participate in the annual
county spelling match to determine
which two pupils should represent the
county in the state match to be held in
St. Johnsbury Oct. u, at the time of
the state teachers convention. School
superintendent, teachers, parents and
friends attended the match. which was
said by John d. Whittier, state super
visor of elementary schools, to be one
Of the most enjoyable he ever attended.
Mr.. Whittier pronounced the words
The match was won by Warren G.
Brown of the South school in Vernon.
who was awarded the county silver low
ing cup to be held by his school for one
year. The last pupil to go down was
Agnes Rawson of the Dummerston Cen
! ter school. These two, it was announced.
! viii represent Windham county at the
state contest.
The rules provided that the pupil of
the last two standing who had received
the higher rank in the written contest.
which included 30 words and watch was
/ conducted before the oral contest. should
be declared the winner of the contest.
examination of the papers showed that
/ both Warren Brown and Agnes Rawson
had received a perfect mark in the writ
| ten contest, and, therefore, it was neces-
sary to continue spelling TO determine
the winner. 1t was 40 when the last
round was started, but it was soon
( brought 10 close, for Miss Rawson
missed her first word-correspondent-
and the match was over The cup was
awarded and the pupils and audience
scattered quickly to board the north
! bound and southbound . o'clock trains
/ for their homes.
| The oral match began at go o'clock
and the pupils spelled once around be.
| fore the spelling down begah. At the
end of an hour only half the pupils had
| been spelled down. A recess of 20 min
/ utes was then taken and the pupils and
| judges were served ice-creafa cones by
/ the Parent-Teacher associations of
/ BrattleborO At $50 the smelling was
resumed and when a total of 797 words
had been given young Brown and Miss
| Rawson were the only pupils remaining
4 in line. In the Orleans county match
/ S2S words were used in the oral contest
but in that county 3S pupils partici-
/ pated, making the average number of
I
age in Windham county.
Much laughter was caused when
Helen Alexander was given the word
| "casket following a series of disease
words which had fallen to her lot, in
Guiding chicken-pox, appendicitis, bron-
chitis and pneumonia Inasmuch as the
/ words were taken from a printed list
and pronounced consecutively it seemed
| a peculiar coincidence that all these
words should have fallen to the same
speller and in the order in which they
| came.
The pupils to receive mark of 100
/ in the written test were: Clara s. Gro
sier of Halifax, Carlotta Nido of New
| fame, Agnes RawSon of Dummerston.
| Marion Akley of West Brattleboro, WAR
rem G. Brown of Vernon, Ira Charnock
of Londonderry.
- Seventeen had marks of from 90 to
9S in the written test. They were
John +. Wood of Westminster. 9S
Elmer Rowley of Westminster. 9S
| Marion Rice of Brattleboro, aS: Leta
NJ. Thurston of Wilmington, 9S; Ellen
HIammarlund of Brattleboro town school
9S; Charlotte Dewitt of Newfane, 9S
Florence Worden of Townshend. 90
Stacia Pilusky of Bellows Falls, 90;
William A. Putnam of Wardsboro 96
Cora Gillett of Whitingham 90 Charles
Coleman of Gailford. 96; Hattie Davis
of Dummerston, 90; Helen Alexander
OF 1t0ckiHSDam. b4 :. Harvey carrier OF
Whitingham, "a; William Breslin OF
Brattleboro incorporated district. "a
William l.. Marsh of Townshend, "a !;
Clarence w. Butler of Londonderry, 90
Others who took part III the match
were: Eva McCullock of Putney. Ma
bel Fitzpatrick of Wardsboro, Clarice
Poland of Putney. Ruth Turner of vii
mington. Gladys Thomas of Guilford
Clara Miner of Halifax, Charles l.. Park
, of Grafton. Harold Miner of Vernon
Warren J. Bruce and George Coates oi
Marlboro. Malcolm Brandt and Beverley
T1edrew of Brookline.
The towns were Athens, Dover, ia
maica, Somerset. Stratton and Windham
There is no school in the town of STRAIT
ton.
The judges were Principal Il. II. Cav
erly of the Brattleboro high school
Frederic K. Brown of Brattleboro, Com
munity Service worker, and Mrs. Henry
w Frost of East Putney.
Following is the list of words on which
the pupils spelled flown: Fortunate
, balloon. patriot, vaseline. consumption
: prejudice. maintenance. marshal. terri
tory. circuit. axle. excusable, naphtha
quarantine, abscess, confederate, tenant
! disinfectant, mattress, corrugated crys
5 tallize. collateral all right, maintain
e obligation, requirement, remittance, as
. signment fraternally, distribution, cou
: mons nrior. forrpSDoudeut