The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1922-03-09
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
MEETING POSTPONED
Too Much Sickness to Insure Attend
ance; Take Place OH 25h.

The annual meeting of the Idaho
county school trustees announced for
the 18th of this month. has been post
p0ned until Saturday. March 25th,
there being too much sickness through
out the county to insure good at
! tendance, in the opinion of County
superintendent Mrs Olive Lyon. and
in consideration of the county health
board. AS no very serious cases have
been reported il is hoped that condi-
tions will be 50 improved by the 2Jth
that every district in the county will
be represented at this meeting as
much good is deriver from these an
nual gatherings.
The spelling contest scheduled for
the 18th has also been postponed until
the 24th of March
Fine Monthly Reports Received.
"A number of teachers monthly re-
ports have been received by Superin-
tendent Mrs. Olive Lyon, which show
pertec attendance. A mighty fine rec
ord for any school during this season
when so much sickness in prevalent
throughout the country.
School Average Contest.
The school average spelling contest
Will be held in the different school dis
tricts of the county on March 2Sth
AT the conclusion of this contest COM
parison will be made with the results
obtained in similar contests in Lewis
ana NeZ Perce counties. In the events
the following rules will govern in the
three counties:
l. The contest shall be written
one and the score made by each school
Will he the average of the grades
made by all pupils in the contest
:. Pupils will write the contest list
of words in their respective school dis
tricts, and each pupil will write the
list CT words prepared for his respec-
tive grade.
3. Only those pupils above the sec
ond grade will be eligible to write In
the contest and no school will be con-
sidered participant unless all of the
pupils above the second grade enter
the contest Provided, that commit
tee appointed by the county superin-
tendent and of which the superintend-
ent is member will judge the eligi-
b1lity of school to become a partici-
pant II one or more of the enrolled
pupils above second grade fail to write
in the contest
4. The list of words for each grade
will be selected by the county SUPER
intendent from the part of the speller
to he completed by that grade during
the school year. Each list will con-
tain fifty words
.. The teacher and trustees in
each school district shall select three
Judges Give or more in Il large schoo-
who will grade the papers of the pu-
pills in the district and will send pa
pers and grades to the office of the
county superintendent
q. The county superintendent will
mail to the teachers of all the schools
the six lists of words, which are to be
opened on the day of the contest In
the presence of at least one of the
judges chosen for the contest The
teacher will pronounce the words for
each grade; after the contest the
judges shall meet and grade the pa
pers written i'm the school
Z. Two per cent shall be counted
off for each misspelled word. and the
Incorrect use of capital letter shall
be counted as the misspelling of a
word
8. The information blank given out
must be signed by the teacher and
given to the judges. who will also
sign it and forward to the county sup
erintendent together with the graded
papers.
.. The county superintendent and
assisting committee chosen by her
shall average the grades in the var
ious districts, and determine the
school receiving the higest score made
in the contest.