Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-28
Just Talks With Scouts
CONDUCTED BY MABEL PUTNAM Gibson

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The night was vet and i was, too,
For my umbrella was asoak--.. -.
Not with the rain; but with the Jew;
Left il with him when I was broke.
Dear friends, this wonderful bit of
poetry has been trying Ia get publish
ed for some time; but until now il
didn't seem wise to use it, Now, how
ever. since every report speaks of it
being wet last week. it seems appro-
pirate indeed to.publish it. II.
RAMA handy excuse TO offer for
being absent from meeting; but rath-
er funny. don't YOU think, consider
ing that we live in liquid sunshine
most of the time here in Honolulu?
On Friday night some of the boys
belonging to Mr.. o. p. Soares' troop
thought enough of him to scramble
through tile rain and answer rollcall,
up Punchbowl way They drilled a
little. were given the John Guild dia-
ries, and adjourned early. "... ..~..
Troop NX met as usual on Friday:
night. with a good attendance. They
had drill and bugle practise, and re-
ceived their diaries, according to
Scribe Cooper. ~. :. 49,.
BY. the way. il is fine to see the
boys appreciate a present as practi-
cal as the little diaries Mr.. Guild has
given. They are quite like miniature
scout hand-books. g.. .-..~ -
A troop that met and got right down
to business-fun businesS-last Fri
day night was Troop VIII. They de-
corated their hall with ferns, set up
moving-picture machine, and made up
their minds to let the rain pour and
leave their umbrellas down at I'm
cle's" for the night. Charlie Chaplin
trotted out on the screen in two reels.
while the scouts ate candy; then after
he had disappeared and they had
cried at his departure. they wound
UP by having dessert of ice cream
furnished by the seoutmaster Then
they all pranced down the home
with ii coconut apiece, shelled
and presented by Robert Mcconnell.
1t was great party. ~ -.
Fook Ching of Troop II says:
"Wednesday night was pretty wet
and only 10 scouts and three officials
turned up. Four new boys filed APP
plications for membership and two of
them were examined in their tender
foot tests. Three scouts from other
troops wanted to join, but were told
that they must give us proof that they
had left their own troop in good
standing and that their scoutmasters
were willing that they should be trans
ferred. Henry Young, one of our best
scouts and one of the star swimmers
in Troop II, leaves for China on Tues,
day next and will be gone for some
years. He is going to school in China
and hopes to join the scouts there, so
the scoutmaster gave him a transfer.
We practised signaling anu rescue
drill. There will be no meeting dur,
ing Christmas week.. .... =. 49,. ~. d,
We we're all so busy getting ready |
for Christmas that only few of us |
thought about writing letters to the |
poor. tired editor. sitting patiently at |
4 desk, chewing on a pencil-point, hold !
ing telephone receiver to the ear, !
waiting for scout news and receiving |
almost none. Tears dropped upon the |
lesk below and the stains may now
DC viewed by any interested parties. |
Boys, DO you know that there |
are blind scouts, and that they are to
nave some of your stories published |
n Searchlight, magazine for the |
blind? It's wonderful how the scout !
dea is spreading. --..: 49, -.
The scouts of Lowell, Mass, are be-
coming successful wireless telegra-
,hers At their camp last summer
hey had an efficient station
The installation of the station was
completed in less than two hours, and
'ull operation was begun at once
dessages were received from several
in Boston harbOr The
correct time was received every night
rom Arlington. -. ..:....-. r:
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Nellfleet station was received, and
ZACH morning two-page paper was
published and posted at the mess tent
The scout who was in charge of the
tation did his work with so little
uss that he had an issue of the pa
Ter out before the other scouts discov.
red what he was doing They we're
until they had compared
lis news with the dailies from the
tiles. ~. ...--. -" T.. >.s
Classes are now being formed IN the
different troops ,of Lowell for the
tudy of wireless telegraphy. ...a."..
Anyone can give advice, but it is a
wise boy who Knows when to accept
t. -. @.~ -. e, ~. -. /
So says Armstrong Terry, who goes
he American life insurance COM