The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-05
SPLENDID CAMP
FOR STATE BOYS
BOYS FROM NINE PROMINENT
COUNTIES ASSEMBLE At STATE
COLLEGE FOR WEEK
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE ATTEND
Counties Send Manly Representatives
Enthusiastic and Eager
to Learn.

The Boys Camp that closed at the
State College last Friday night was
certainly a glowing success in every
way. The counties represented were
Lyman, Stanley, Hughes, Codington,
Clark. Sphinx, Beadle, Kingsbury and
Miner. All the counties that had coun-
ty agents sent those gentlemen along
to look after the boys. The total in
attendance as given in last weeks pa
per was two hundred and fifty-three,
and they ranged in age from twelve
20 twenty years.
Some of the boys came as a mark of
reward for excellance in club work,
some for what they had done on the
farm and some for their school stand
ing. 1t was a reward of merit grant
ed to those boys who attended the
camp and that made it worth some
thing to them. To say that they all
enjoyed every moment of their stay
would be to express it mildly. No
body was i'll during the time and no.
body had time to get homesick or
waste their time. To some of them it
was worth more than any money re-
ward that could have been given them,
and to all of them it was a liberal edu-
cation in a small way.
A regular schedule was observed
during the camp, with an assembly
every morning after breakfast, at
which DR.. Perisho made an address,
along with other speakers. Then the
morning was put in under the direct
ion of the various professors of the
college, in studying the different
branches of agricultural development.
Live stock, their judging, feeding and
disease. Grain, crops, soils, etc, Were
considered. Dairy interests and poul-
try culture and all the other branches
of science allied with the making of a
farm were given their place on the
program. In the afternoon a short
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and the balance to sports and recrea-
ton. Every day there was a ball
game, and Lyman county turned out
the winning team for the champion
ship of the camp. In the evenings
there were entertainments. State
Commissioner McCaffree occupied one
evening, Prof. F. E. Brown, another. A
reception by the president another and
one was a stunt night, when every
county gave one number to the pro-
gram of events.
This stunt night was certainly a
winner. Some Of the noteworthy do
ings were the model club meeting,
with it's business session, entertain
ment and boxing match put on by the
Kingsbury county boys. Another was
the lassoing contest by the Lyman
county fellows. C%odington county
gave a numerous number, Lyman
county furnished the recitations and
Sphinx county had a real wrestling
match. All in all it was a nights en-
tertainment that was most enjoyable
and delightful, because it was better
than could have been expected.
Thursday afternoon the boys parad-
ed the streets from town to college
and made a big showing on Main
street, an onlooker would hardly
think that so many boys could be got
ten together at one time. They were
headed by the Lyman county boys and
in the absence of the band they sup
piled all the enthusiasm needed.
There were some boys in the state
however, who had planned to come,
and could not. The boys of Douglas
county had to stay at home as the
crop conditions there demanded their
attention and work. One little fellow
from Lyman county who had made all
his arrangements was breaking a colt
and the horse fell on him and injured
him so that he had to stay at home. A
party of boys were out strolling about
town one evening and in passing the
home of Prof. j. H. Shepard, fell into
conversation with that excellent teach
err and good fellow. And as one of the
boys said, "He is a dandy man, he
told us all about how to raise hogs"
We feel assured that the time spent
by the boys with Mr.. Shepard can
v be counted as a lost moment.