Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-05
BOY SCOUT CELEBRATION
At CHESTERFIELD CAMP
Parents and Friends Will Join in
Dinner and Big Athletic
Meet.
EXPECT 1000 TO TAKE PART
Program Includes Eighteen Events
With Appropriate Medals and
Prizes for Districts, Troops and
Individuals.

The Boy Scouts of Richmond and the
surrounding country will celebrate La
Dor Day tomorrow with an elaborate
dinner and a big athletic meet ut their
camp at Chesterfield Courthouse. Not
only the scouts. but their parents and
friends and the residents of the county
ard Ticinity, will gather in the gem
erai celebration. Nearly 1000 people
are expected to be present
Ihose In charge OF the event have
arranged for free transportation by
automobiie from Ccntralia to the camp
ana return. Cars will leave the camp
ior Centralia at $50 O'Clock in the
e'ehihs' meeting all trains.
me athletic program calls for
e!s hteet events. Including dashes. hur-
u!e ana relay races. tree climbing, log
choppinS, signaling, demonstration in
hFst aid long distance diving, form div
ing, fancy diving. swimming race an
PIE grabbing contest and tracking.
MANY MEDALS AND
PRIZES TO HE AWARDED
To the district winning the meet n
pennant VIII he awarded: the winnin.
troop VIII get a silver cup: a gold
medal will so to the scout winning
the greatest number of points: sill
yer one TO the scout winning the sec
ohd greatest number. and a bronze
one to the scout winning the third
greatest number. In addition to these.
twenty-siX individual first place prizes
VIII be awarded.
The troop OF. the district winning
the greatest number of points In this
meet Will hold the pennant until Oc-
toper ]. when 1t Will go to the troop
having the best report for September.
1udsed oy attendance. number of hikes
promptncss in turning In reports. II
VIII be won In this manner until the
next meet, when IT can be won again
by the same district or another ANY
district winning the pennant three
timeS In succession has 1T to have
and to hold.
Al n meeting of the BOY Scout court
OF honor the following scouts and
scoutmasters were successful in the fol
lowing merit badge tests: j. u. Fox. No
20, swimming and first aid; Scoutmaster
r. Z. Jones. public health. camping
| COOKING, carpentry, business, crafts
manship. cycling, handcraft. swim
ming, personal health. and first aid: +.
! H. farater camping, pioneering, cook
B ing, bird study and athletics: Leon
| Mayteld first aid: Erwin Thomas
physical development camping and
/ iirst aid; Wilson Brooks swimming: q
nun, swimming and first aid: W. T.
Jones, Jr., interpreting, scholarship
luolic health, civics. 'firemanship. cy-
/ cling, and first aid: w II. MalcoIn,
|
/ L, Westman, swimming pioneering
poultry Keeping, camping, athletics,
machinery, first aid TO animals, pub
lie health and signaling: Eddie w
Face hremanship pioneering. personal
hea!th, craftsmanship, public health
cooking, carpentry, athletics and swim
| ming. and Henry Lawrence. painting
and physical development
| Troop No. % has planned a reception
! 10 be given on Thursday night in the
club rooms of the troop, at the Church
! of the Holy Comforter in honor of the
| incoming and outgoing executives. The
/ Twenty-Five members of the Richmond
+ Council of the Boy Scouts OF America
/ the court of honor. and all the scout
F., masters of the city have been invited
! to participate
1 William Todd, chairman of the camp
/ committee Of the Richmond Scout
/ Camp. has asked the various troops
throughout the city to make twenty
| I'VE bird boxes, with the numbers on
| them. To he placed on camp property
! during the fall and winter