The Washington times., 1913-11-02

as colored couple, and Officers Nc
Mahon and Rooney as a new scout
master and wife.
A taffy pull, a marshmallow roast. q
jungle hunt and a costume parade fol-
lowed Howard Gatley took first prize.
being dressed as a girl in red. Lowell
Davis as an old lady was second. The
jungle hunt was won by Denisow Eg-
sieston, with .,onald Stewart second.
our regular boat drill was held on
Sundas afternoon. and We went out
IN the dory and speed boat. d. c. NJ
Monday night Scoutmaster Harrles and
some or the scouts decorated the
Iakoma Lodge Masonic Hall for the
grand visitation. so the school at the
naval battalion was in charge OF Mr..
held on Tuesday night the Masons gave
US a vote Of thanks for having decora-
ted the hall. They said II had never
been done so well before.
Six Of our scouts expect to pass their
second class examinations this week.
ana IL they do this we will have only
two tenderfoot scouts In our troop.
SCOUT SCRIBE. TROOP No. Il.
To the Scout Editor:
The recent moving picture play, The
Making of a Scout was considered a
great success by Troop No. TO- some Of
our boys going to see IL twice. Thurs-
day night was of particular interest to
Us as our scoutmaster, Mr.. Pirtle, and
two of our first class scouts received
their merit badges. Arnell Carpenter,
one Of the two. received badges which
mark him as a Life and Star Scout.
Chester Guy. the other scout who re-
ceiyed several merit badges, lacks but
one test of being q life and star scout.
Mr.. Pirtle's badges were for music
and for first aid.
Our leading scouts are taking ad-
vanced first aid work and we hope to
win the highest honors in this branch
of scoutcraft. This class now has ten
members.
Some OF our best scouts are unable
to attend our meetings and have asked
for honorable discharges. which have
been given. They may return any timed
when they find II possible to do 80. We
have two new first class scouts. Albert
McCurdy and Thomas Nikirk.
SCOUT SCRIBE. TROOP NO. 10.
To the Scout Editor:
Troop No. 4S is now beginning to set
tie down to its winter actvtes At our
regular weekly meeting last Thursday
we saw the radiopticon demonstrated |
by a representative Of N. A. Leese,
optician. We especially
enjoyed the views of North American |
birds. I
on Friday evening Troop q was en-
tertained by its auxiliary organixa-
tion, the '.Ingieside'' Camp Fire Girls, |
in its new headquarters. under the d.
rection Of Mrs. c. N. Fflkins. Camp |
Fire guardian. Dancing, games, and i
the general spirit and pranks Of Hal
loween made the evening one long to |
be remembered. The gay costumes OF |
the Camp Fire Girls, IN contrast with [
the somber brown uniforms Of the Boy |
Scouts, made q pleasing picture.
The Camp Fire Girls present and their
costumes were: Misses Ruth Hum
phrey and Evelyn White. Yama Yama
girls: Evangeline Sullivan, Spanish
dancing girl: F1eta Thoman, Cinderella:
Helena White, japanese: Katherine
Talbot, Red Cross nurse; Misses May
Defer, Irene Archer, Ruth Archer,
Louise Neitzey, Faith Neitzey, and Jen-
ME Payne, clown costumes. They
termed the Circus" Miss Helen Hum
phrey appeared in q dainty colonial
Mrs. Filkins wore the resu- L
lation Camp Fire guardians costume.
were served, and every
BODY went home pleased.
SCRIBE. TROOP NO. a.