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Show "Syzygy" Stumped 'Em. Spellers at the Presbyterian Church Couldn't Spell it. The "old-fashioned spelling bee" at the Piesb)teilan chinch last Friday evening drew a goodl) uiowil of interested inter-ested spectiitois and p.utlclpants and tliey all had a good time His said. Mis 1 F Angle and Mrs P. 1). Stoops "ehoe up" and foi tin hour or inoie tvvcuty-llve on a side spelled and attorn ped to spell the knotty mixtures Prof. L. A Ostlen "pionunclated', to them. Valiant things wciedone in that time but the sides weicso cvenlv matched tha' at tlie end of tha houi the tallies made by each side weienlne, neither side scoilnga vlct-oo. vlct-oo. Then came the gteat eent, spilling forthellooi. This involved the process pro-cess of the speller sitting down and getting out of the game when ho spoke with a ciooked tongue. Piof. Ostlen dished up some of tlie most tangled combinations of letteislhat lie was able to llnd. One by one the spelleis went away to tlie leai and sat down and llnall) "sjgy" stumped the whole bunch with the exception of Dr. J as. Cocluau. This gentleman pioed himself as good as the fellow who makes dictlonaiics, and aflei lie had spelled all tlie woids the "piouun-clalor" "piouun-clalor" could piououucc he was let go as a taitai. The guests then deoted theinst'hes to light lcficshments which the ladles had picp.irod, and at tills they proved inoie adept than at spelling big woids Those picscut were unanimous in their expressions of pleasuie. |
