The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-18
BOY SCOUTS FINISH HIKE.
Leon Youngsters Return from Their
Trim to KeOkuk in Fine Shape.

kuk to see the big dam, returned by
train last Friday morning, having
had most enjoyable outing, and
none of them were any the worse
for their long walk except Scout
master Bradshaw's nose, which was
nicely blistered. The following ac-
count of the hike was written by the
scouts, each boy being assigned to
report one day while on the hike:
Monday, July 4, 1912.
Six miles east of Leon.
Left Leon at 4.30 p. m. Quite a
crowd came out to see us off. Had
a little rain about 5 p. m, and made
camp at 7 o'clock and had supper at
s D. m. On the way we met six au-
tomobiles. We aim to keep a rec
ord of the automobiles we meet to
see how much travel there is on the
Waubonsie Trail. We are camped
about fifty rods east of Weldon river
in timber close to the road. We
expect to be in Corydon Tomorrow
John Gates.
Tuesday, July 2, 1912.
Everybody was up by two o'clock
because several of the scouts were
not tired enough to settle down and
kept up some sort of music all
through the night, succeeding in
keeping everybody awake. We had
breakfast by $50 o'clock because we
thought we might as we'll be on the
road in the cool of the day since we
were not sleeping. At ten minutes
of four we broke camp and got to
High Point by four thirty. At five
forty-five we walked into Lewisburg.
A few miles beyond Lewisburg we
struck mud which continued to with
in a few miles of Corydon At ten
O'Clock we camped for dinner about
two miles out of town. After a good
rest we started in and were met by
the Corydon scouts. We stayed in
Corydon about one hour and half,
had our pictures taken, and then
went to our night camp between
Promise City and Jerome. We made
3Ok miles to-day. We are now en-
camped in a hay field 38 miles from
Leon. Ralph Stewart.
Wednesday, July 3, 1912.
The day dawned cloudy and
everybody was in a hurry to get on
the road before it began to rain.
We broke camp at o'clock and
started towards Jerome. 1t soon be-
gan to sprinkle rain So that we had
to get in and ride. From Jerome we
could see the Seymour and Gladstone
mines in the distance. Our next halt
was made two and one half miles
west of Centerville, where we had
dinner. The Sunshine mine was
within one hundred yards of us and
we had the engineer to take us
| around and show us the main parts
| but we did not go down into the
shaft. The mine has about forty reg
ular workers who live in little set
Element near the mine. After din
! ner we started for Centerville and
arrived there at 4.45 p. m. We were
there until after 6 p. m. We trav'
eled until 8 p. m. and camped on
the Charlton river. We had supper
about p. m. and went to bed.
Leal Buchanan.
/ Thurday, July 4, 1912.
Up, ready, and gone by $50 a. m
We're in Moulton about l o'clock
stayed there about one half hour
liked on to noon camp 8 @ miles
west of West Grove. Left camp fol
the east at about 4 p. M, went or
to West Grove, and then on east tt
within miles of Bloomfield. Here
we fed the horses and went on tt
Bloomfield and watched the fire
works awhile. Then we all piled IL
the wagon and went out to a farm
house, got the man out of bed anc
made camp in the barn lot. Slept II
the barn. Made 20 miles to-day.
Edgar Rowell's Note Book
! Friday, July ), 1912.
Got up about six o'clock and hao
breakfast. We went on the roat
about 7.45 a. m. Passed through
Pulaski about 10: As a. m. Did some
purchasing at that town and Their
proceeded to a point three miles
west of Milton and ate dinner. AT.
ter dinner we took swim in pono
near Milton and then went into town
There we had a cold drink and while
there we met some Leon people or
the road home from Keokuk. Lei
Milton at 5:15, passed through Can
trill, and went into camp about one
mile east of Cantril.
Forest Grimes.
Saturday, July 6.
We went into camp about IL
miles east of Cantril at about nine
o'clock p. M, and we were up fol
I breakfast by five. Broke camp a.
5:15 and were soon on the road
We passed through Mt. Sterling
Just about noon We took the Wau'
bonsie out of town and soon left il
along a short cut through CLARK
County. Missouri. Stopped for din
ner about a mile south of the county
line. This was another instance
when a Missouri farmer was very
hospitable. We stayed there quite
a while after dinner as we needed
a rest. After reading the newspa
pers we proceeded on our hike tt
Keokuk, which we expected to reacl
early the next day. We passed
Through Peaksville and Revere
where we supplied ourselves will
more food. From Revere we hiket
five miles over a very muddy roat
and reached camp about ten thirt!
o'clock. A Missouri farmer wht
took interest in the boy scouts pitch
ed our tent for us and gave hay fol
our horses. He also was very hos
pitable. We had supper and wen
to bed about twelve. We made g.
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