Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-20
The Camp Program.
The program of the camp this seaso

The program of the camp this season
has been as follows:
Reveille, $50: setting up exercises $40
to Z; breakfast, q Bible reading at !.3o
agricultural or other educational topic;
tent inspection, s; camp Improvement
work; $50 to 1890 this summer the boys
have usually worked four hours instead
period for an hour following dinner, fol-
lowed by afternoon sports; afternoon
swim. SIS: supper, $50, followed by camp
fire in evening with storytelling, in
formal talks, etc; taps, 9.15.
At the swimming periods all boys VINO
cannot swim are placed under the direc-
ton of swimming instructor and all
boys at camp are required to learn 70
The average stay of a boy at the camp
has been 10 days this season.
Jeff Smith told the Journal repre-
sentative who visited the camp few
days ago that since the camp opened
June 25 there had been just 4 1-2 days
of fine weather. but that all days had
been good days so far as the campers
We're concerned. The educational feat
ures of the camp have helped out
much on rainy days, he says. Profs,
Mitchell. Sherwood, Simmons, Mono
han, Little and others of the Maine
CoiltStS nave dIOtl III liliS ItSDtCt
The day the Journal representative
was in camp Prof. Monohan came into
dinner with squad of boys with
whom he was building a hen house and
the boys told how on the preceding
day the University of Maine Extension
Course demonstrator had killed hen
and prepared it for market in order
that the boys might know how and
how not to butcher poultry.
TIE camp has been under no expense
for superintendency this season. Mr..
Smith has given his vacation time to
act as director of the camp and as
sociated with him as volunteer lead
ers are Prof. Little of Colby, Vim. A.
mccormick of Bath. and Robert Boz
en- of Columbia University. For peri
DDS of time Chester B. Henna of the
Augusta Y. NJ. c. A, John Taylor
of the Camden Y. NJ. c. A. and Frank
c. Cobb of the Rockport Y. NJ. c. A.
have given their leadership.
A jolly Lot Of Lads
1t is a jolly bunch of boys that enliv-
ems the white pine grove on the west
shore Of Lake Cobbosseecontee. Rain
or sun. they are in good spirits and
ready to work or play as the time sug-
gests Much of the discipline of the
camp depends upon the attitude of the
boys themselves who as a whole resent
the error of any individual. New
corners who have any of the marks
of spoiled sons are usually taken down
to the shore for an involuntary bath
in the lake several times or as many
to be a good fellow amongst many
good fellows who are unselfish and do
not hesitate to rebuke selfishness.
Then, too, Jeff Smith is a past mas
ter at the art Of disciplining boys in
camp. One night recently two obstrep-
erous youths made sleep impossible for
the tent mates and Mr.. Smith hearing
the commotion about the tent strolled
into the canvassed enclosed darkness
to investigate. Learning the condi-
tons and the cause therefor through
the medium Of a pair of sharp ears,
he called the lads to take their blank
cts and find their way through the
darkness to a deserted tent at some
distance from the others. And he
said unto them: You fellows ought
not to be KEEP. awake by the other fell
lows in your tent who think they need
no rest. Just take your blankets and
walk over there to that tent and sleep
there by yourselves where there will
be no one to disturb you for the rest
of the night" And it is not on record
that they made any midnight disturb
ance "a hours later.
A Novel Debate
The evening before the Journal rep
resentative called there had been a
! novel debate. A graduate of each
Maine college gave a loyal exposition