The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-05-26
Scouts in Sham Battle
Are Routed by Cows

Last SUNDAY the BON SCOUTS Oh
Troop 2 had memorable day. In
the FIRST place they took hike out
to Cedar Springs; that is, they
called it a hike, but it must be the
latest twentieth century variety.
because they went out in automO-
biles.
After they had finished the last
bean, and devoured the last morsel
of hard boiled eggs, they began
drilling with army tactics, and
soon divided into two groups with
captain and lieutenant on each
side for q sham battle. After
lively selective drafting on both
sides, the battle began, and such
heroic efforts We're put forth, that
soon every cOmbatant was either
killed or wounded, and SO they had
to begin all over.
In the midst of this second bat
tie. however, things suddenly took
an unexpected turn. A troop OF
belligerent cows had spied the red
and white signal flags, and without
giving the patriotic young Ameri-
cans chance to arbitrate or eE
plain the matter, at once declared
war and charged down upon the
enemy with such force that the
whole sham battle was turned into
very real and very wild retreat.
That ending to the battle was en-
tirely a sideline, however, and the
main events Of the hike are report
ed by one of the Scouts himself:
Sunday, May 20, the Boy Scouts
took hike to Cedar Springs, for a
good time. There were three divi-
sions leaving at $3.50. 9:15 and
1920, respectively. All the parties
left IN autos.
The bngler who is stationed here
with the national guards, went
with us. After we had dinner, Mr..
Brammer. our assistant Scout Mas
ter, called rest.
"Tacks" has Hard Time
The bugler was called "Tacks."
and he was all in. But poor Tacks
had a hard time TO get to sleep,
when ten active boys are bOthering
him all the time. Mr.. Brammer
had 10 call the court marshal and
the result was that one of the boys
was dacked in the String.
Then we had war game. There
were two divisions of six each,
with Conrad Ottenfeld as captain
Of one and Harold Sinnex as cap
tain of the ether, and with Earl
Keisker and Sid Watt sergeants.
MIR Brammer sent Sinnex's divi-
sion out in the woods to hide and
in the meantime Ottenfeld had
mustered his troops and we built a
fort There were three trees in a
triangle and we found lot Of CID
barbed wire laying around. This
we took and wrapped around the
trees. The object OF the war game
was to touch the other fellow on
the back and he was dead and il
he was touched any place else he
was wounded. II man was
wounded times he was dead
Scouts Are Annihi|ated
We got orders from our captain
to advance on the enemy. We
chased them under a culvert and
completely annihiiated them with
out a single loss. Then Captain
Sinnex reorganized his army and
we retired to our fort.
They attacked us and the battle
ended with a complete rout of the
enemy with 3 dead on our side
Then we rested and started for
home, Mr.. Brammer, Sidney Watt,
Cecil Cureton and Earl Keisker set
ont at a fast pace and we were
soon ahead of the rest. We waited
for the second division to come but
they didn't show up. Then a seven
passenger Aperson Jack rabbit
came by, SO we all piled in and
rode home. That was a fine car.
At the next meeting Mr.. Bram-
mer will appoint lieutenants. cor
pOrals and sergeants-Earl Keis-
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