The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-02
Cost to Be Divided Pro Rata and
Should Not Run Over So
Per Week.
ARE TO GOVERN THEMSELVES
Each Tent to Elect Members tt
Central Body in Charge Of All
Disputes.

In connection with the University
week to be held in Bemidji in June,
arrangements are being made for a
boys camp which will be composed
of boys from the farms in this vicin-
ity and such boys from the city as
may find room. The purpose of the
camp is to give the boys valuable and
practical information on stock judg-
ing, seed choosing and other topics
of interest to boys on the farm.
No less than twenty-five nor more
than 100 boys will be received at the
camp and applications for member
ship should be sent in to w. B. Stew
art, county superintendent of schools
as soon as possible. No one less than
ten nor more than eighteen years of
age will be received at the camp,
which will run from Monday morn
ing to Saturday afternoon
Tents and cots will be provided
free, each boy will bring a sheet,
two blankets, soap, towels, knife,
fork, tin plate, cup, etc., and each
will do his own work. The only ex-
pense connected with the camp for
the boys will be the cost of the food
and this will be shared equally. The
boys will also be asked to bring in
such athletic equipment as they have
so that it will be available for out
door sports
The government of the camp will
be vested in the camp manager and
agricultural instructor, who will be
his assistant. For each tent, the
boys will elect a leader and these
leaders will form the camp senate.
In addition each tent will elect two
members to the camp house of rep
resentatives. 1t is planned to put
ten boys in a tent. Boys breaking
rules will have their cases consid-
cred by this managing body.
All boys will have to rise at $40
and half an hour is allowed for dress
ing and making of beds. Breakfast
will be served at Z and followed by
convocation hour. At S:15 the
boys will be given fifteen minutes for
camp cleanup work and for an hour
at $50, they will listen to lectures,
different each day, on topics of in
terest to themselves. At $50, they
will be given setting up exercises
for half an hour and at 10 will de-
vote an hour to stock judging. From
II to -, they will receive instruc-
ton in rope tying, splicing, and the
handy devices generally used by the
boy scouts. Dinner will be served at
noon
The afternoon will be devoted to
field trips to study crops on the
ground, general athletics, a reading
hour, possibly camp newspaper,
and supper at 6. For an hour after
supper, the boys will be allowed to
ask questions, and hear talks given
along the lines of practical helps in
farm life. At 8 p. M, they will all
attend the evening entertainment
down town and taps will be sounded
at 10. If possible, the camp will he
pitched on Diamond Point and the
fair grounds used for athletics and
stock judging. ~
''The whole purpose of the en-
campment," said Mr.. Stewart, els to
give the boys on the farms equal op-
portunity with the boys in the cit
les to receive the benefits from the
work which will be done here by the
University workers that week. The
entire program will be as practical
as possible and extra efforts will be
made to bring to the attention of
the farm boys information of pecu-
liar value to them. The University
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