Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-16
CAMP OPENS MONDAY.
Boys Of City to Begin Y. N. c. A. Out
ina Monday.

Camp Arrwanna, for boys of Mar
| first group of Y M, c. A. boys. The
camp site Is on the Iowa river about
| five miles north Of the city. Eighteen
boys and three leaders will compose the
! first weeks camp and the boys will all
be accommodated in the three new
tents which the association has pur-
chased as part Of their permanent camp
equipment.
The boys will leave the Y. NJ. c. A.
building at 6:45 Monday morning and
will arrive in camp before s o'clock.
| The tents will be set UP, the dining
room and lodge put into shape, and the
other necessary work around camp
done.
| A regular program of camp activit-
les will be carried on under the super
vision of e. E. Mickelwright, camp d.
rector, and the leaders, Waldo Gelvin
and Willis Dent. Baseball games will
be played every day on the camp dia-
mond and on Friday, visitors day, the
official camp field meet will be run off
at 10 o'clock for the benefit of the
visitors in camp. In the afternoon OF
Friday a baseball game will be sched-
uled between the boys on one hand and
the fathers and mothers playing on the
other team.
! Invitations will be sent from camp to
| the parents of all boys in camp to at
tend visitors day each week. The visi-
tors will bring picnic baskets and will
serve the boys and visitors picnic
dinner on the lawn in front of the
camp The road to Camp Arrwanna has
been marked with red and white signs
the camp colors, and any one going
out Summit street may easily find the
camp by following the signs.
| Mail will be received at camp daily,
and will also be sent out daily from
the camp postoffice One of the camp
ers will be appointed as postmaster and
he will handle the postoffice and store,
where CONNECTIONS, post, cards and
stamps will be sold.
The honor tests will be large part
of the camp life, and regular tests
have been prepared which. if passed, IS
per cent perfect by a boy, will give him
silver, camp honor pin. One boy each
week will also be selected by the camp
ers at the last campfire as the best all
around camper, and he will be awarded
felt camp monogram, which will be
the highest award given by the camp.
The honor tests take up the physical,
| educational, social and religious sides
of a boys life and there are tests in
each Of these branches which will
| broaden fellow tremendously.
Camp fire at night will be feature
Of the camp life as will also morning
| bible study. At camp fire in the even
ings. after the marshmallow roast is
over, the boys will be given inspira-
tional talks.
In the first weeks camp are John st.
Clair, Edwin Ketchum, Dick West,
Loren Arney, Edgard Center, Donald
Frazey, Otis Billings. Alex .obert, Neil
Crone, Arthur Fetters, Edward Thomas,
Clifford Eldridge, Mahlon Meeker,
F1ody Glidden, Bruce Evans Raymond
Jackson, Kim Tidd, and Richard Rog-
ers.
The next two weeks after this camp
are also filled up, and camp meetings
will be held every Saturday night to
give final instructions to the next
weeks camping groups. 1t is expected
that the fourth week will be taken by
church camp. two Of which have made
application for this date-July to IA.
The weeks between will all be taken by
Y. NJ G. A. groups.