Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-28 | Page 9 | Ogden Girl Becomes Spelling Champion

Ogden Girl Becomes Spelling Champion J Stone year old eighth eight tIt grade rade student of the Lincoln school of Ogden Oden Utah became spelling champ chami cham cham- p i o 0 n ii of cit grade school students stu stu- 1 dents of Utah and r western vestern W Wyoming oming i 1 Wednesday c e evening eve eve- v eing e- e ef f- f ning ing when she she out out- r spelled I f fifteen I 1 f t tee e a n nother H other ther d district is t r c t t Y champions in the A J. J interstate finals of g The Salt Lake Tribune spelling j bee cc Iris Parker of Wt ElSinore was run- run M. M ne ncr er Miss i Stone who Cis C the dau daughter ot of is Mr and Mrs M. M j w J Spencer Stone beC beame be be- bei i X JJ c a ame m e c champion Josephine Stone when after aUer surviving a barrage o of words which eliminated all but bul buther her and Miss Parker she spelled plenteous correctly after Miss Parker had misspelled it Then she spelled a comparatively easy word the ic next on the line malice correctly correctly cor- cor to claim the championship By her victory Miss Stone wins a day ten vacation tour of California Californian in n company with the spelling chamion champion cham cham- pion ion of Nevada Idaho the oratorical champion lampion of Idaho and the oratorical champion lampion of Utah who is to lo be seeded selected se so- eded next week She also won a 3 silver medal and bI bionic plaque for reaching the finals and a gold medal for or herself and arid a 3 bronze plaque for her school for winning the champion champion- ship