Evening journal., 1915-08-26


throughout the summer. On a recent
Saturday afternoon the members Of
this troop took a hike" 10 Folly
Woods. on the Newport pike. Some
of the tenderfoots passed their fire
lighting and cooking tests. Second
Class Scout Macklin produced
blackberry fiapjack as one of the re-
quirements for the first class cooking
tests He not only cooked it. but ate
it and successfully survived the or
deal rule of this troop is that in
passing culinary tests, the product of
skill of the Scout must be tasted by
both the scoutmaster and the Scout
and for the latter to pass, both the
tasters must be alive on the following
day So far there have been no va
cancies caused in the troop on this
account and the scoutmaster is still
on the job. although at times a little
pessimistic Although the Boy Scout
movement is strictly a non-military
one, it cannot be denied that Occa-
sionally one does run risks Senior
Patrol Leader Mode and CoXswain
Miller, of Troop IL. accompanied
Troop on this hike" and upheld the
honor of their troop, especially when
the ice cream cone man was encoun-
tered. Coming home the boys "hiked"
as far as Richardson Park, patronizing
the trolley company the balance of
the way. The Blue Tortoise Patrol
won the inter-patrol contest in Troop
2 for the month of July. making
total of 172 points. Their record was
due principally to the good work of
/ NJ
Leader Kenton and Scout Alexander.
The three month contest in this troop
will close next Tuesday evening and
interest is keen TO see which Scout
will win the prize offered for the
most points won during this period
Troop 10 is meeting every other
Friday evening during the summer
months at Emmanuel Church, at 7S0
.. m. The next meeting will be held
Friday evening. September g. and it
is hoped there will be good attend
ance at that time. as there are certain
plans to be discussed.
The interest taken by the Scouts of
this city in the merit badges is very
gratifying At the next meeting Of
the Court of Honor there will be a
large number to pass the final tests
in a number Of these subjects.
Troop II. of Mt. Salem, returned
home Wednesday August IS. all
happy and we'll from their camping
trip of 10 days at Georgetown Kent
county. Nd. on the shores Of the
Sassafras river No serious acci-
dents happened to mar our pleasure
although some rescues were made
Louis Stats and Earl Hopkins res
cued a woman from drowning and
Harry Corrigan rescued a cat. The
boys used artificial respiration on the
cat. Ward Johnson, Walter Conner
and Joseph Barkley performed a re-
markable feat of swimming Saturday
At the point where our camp was To-
Gated the river is about three quar-
ters of a mile wide Johnson swan
across and back. Conner swan across
and almost half way back and Bark
ley evan across once. The boys
were accompanied by a rowboat
neck was the champion diver O
the bunch, making a twenty-foot dive
on the bridge that spans the river. I
was lucky for Scoutmaster Latter
mat It rained Friday night and KEEP
the BOYS in their tents. as he lef
Saturday morning to spend a weel
with friends at Bowers Beach. Del.
and a grand time had been planned
for his departure What the bow
would have done will perhaps never
be known, but the preparations look
ed as if someone was going to b,
lynched. On SUNDAY we ATTENDED
church at Galena and Just missed {
severe thunder storm. In the even
ing our pastor. Rev. T. r. VanDvke
preached 2 fine sermon and the bow
all sang IF Your Heart Keeps Right
In old-time style Our bigges
trouble this year was in keeping tn,
boys away from the girls in Galena
especially Heck. Homer. Louis AM
Hoppe. AThe girls all fell 10
"Emmie" at first sight and called hin
Cutie" Needless TO say. "Emmie
was tickled to death Mr. Mortime
gave us an exhibition of baseball
sliding when he slid half way dow
a steep band in his bathins suit
Someone said he has been eating hi
meals off the mantel-piece ever since
Our pastor had numerous visits from
friends, this being the neighborhoo,
where he was born. Each night ",
had huge campfire and on Tuesda,