Evening star., 1917-10-21
ACTIVITIES OF
BOY SCOUTS

The Boy Scouts of America yesterday
inaugurated a nationwide campaign to
obtain subscriptions to the second liberty
loan bond issue. The campaign will last
until Thursday. Headquarters has re-
quested the hearty cooperation OF every
member of the organization.
During the campaign in the first liberty
loan issue the scouts of Washington OBJ
tanned subscriptions amounting to s77,100.
Officials of the organization are anxious
to surpass this mark In the campaign
now in progress.
Headquarters of the local council has
received medals to be awarded the fol-
lowing boys of this city who sold ten or
more bnods to different individuals dur
ing the first campaign:
Boice Nourse, Troop ~; Caldwell Watts.
Troop Is; Julian Cooper, Troop II; D. c.
Ritchie. Troop II; Jack kerans. Troop 80;
K Livingstone, Troop 80: Hugh Hamil-
ton, Troop 1S; Claude Johnson, Troop "a;
Douglas Pickin. Troop "a: Arthur Laugh
ton. Troop 3; William Furey. Troop 60;
Robert Hess, Troop 5S; William Parsons,
Troop "a; Charles Graft. Troop 81; d.
Goodman, Troop 32; Lee Parke, Charles
Pugh and Paul Murphy, Troop 50. and
J. l. Lee. assistant deputy commissioner.
Heard From the Troops.
Troop 52-P. l.. Ricket, scoutmas.er.
"A military drill was held at the last
troop meeting at the escoutmaster's home
This was followed by the award of med
ais for excellency in scout work to J. Rice.
one year; X. Curtis and l.. Gage, six
months. and D. Mays, one month Since
June % members of the troop have COL
lected $500 pounds of newspapers for the
troop fund. Lawrence A. Gage, Scribe
Troop IF. E. Matthes, scoutmaster.
The troop held business meeting Fri
day night. The main feature was to
settle the boys in their respective patrols
Z. Lawton was appointed patrol leader
OF the beaver patrol and ]. Hanna was
appointed his assistant. Two additional
boys. r. Billups and W. Lawton, were
admitted to the troop. The plans for the
liberty loan were discussed After re
meeting was dismissed.
Saturday. several members of the
troop, accompanied by Mr. Matthes took
a hike to Chain bridge, where game
was played and several of the boys
passed tests."-Leroy Gillette, Scribe
Troop Archie w. Davis, Scoutmaster.
The troop held it's meeting at the
Mckendree Church at o'clock Friday
opened the meeting. after which making
candles for the Red Cross was discussed
Three visitors from Troop 40 were pres
ent After the business a tug of war
was hciu anu OtHeF games played until
10 o'clock. when the meeting was ad-
Journed. Hubert Van Norman, Scribe.
Troop Fl, F. L. Harries, Scoutmaster
The regular meeting of the troop
was held at the residence of Scout
Preston King. Saturday. October 6. for
reregistration and reorganization.
M Harries made the following ap-
pointments: Senior patrol leader, John
Heale; patrol leaders. Robert Holmes,
Preston King and David Findlay: as
sistant patrol leaders, Malcolm Chand-
Ter, David Haas and William Loman
A committee was appointed to arrange
for an entertainment to be held in the
near future. Preston King was elected
treasurer and David Findlay scribe.
William Avery. jerome Hubbard,
Harry knight. Frank Appelby and
James. Vinsen Joined the troop. Will
liam Avery passed the tenderfoot ex-
aminations. David Findlay. Scribe.
Troop 5O-A. NJ. Suit, Scoutmaster.
The troop held its regular meeting
October ~. during which the scoutmas-
ter and troop leader introduced several
new games. A new scout. A. NJ. Suit.
was initiated."-Walter E. Tilghman,
ri ha