New Britain herald., 1917-06-08


 other Scouts including Mr. Frost and the Assistant Scoutmaster. Together they cut potatoes, planted and cov- erod the rows. Troop was the only one that worked Saturday and so far is the farthest advanced. About six bushels of potatoes arc now in the ground and bush limas, beans, corn, peas. etc., will be soon planted. The Troops headquarters are in the Junior Department of the Y. M. c. A. Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:30 and visitors are always welcome.
 Troop will hold . meeting June 8. in the Trinity Methodist EpiscopAl church. Tests of the Scouts will be taken and all are requested to be present and prepared to take their tests. The new Scoutmaster, Harry Powell will have charge of the tests.
 MT. Elkins, the new Scoutmaster of Troop made his debut before that Troop at the meeting Wednesday eve- ming, Juno 6. 1917. When Mir. skin ner became executive of the New Britain council 1t was necessary for him to sivo over the active charge of the Troop. Up to this time tho Troop hes been in the hand of Ass sistant Scoutmatsers Schaefer and Williams but 1t was felt that . full- nedged 0coutmaster was needed, with character and qualities fit to manage . group of boys. In these and all re- spects we have certainly . find in MT. Elkins. Tho most sincere wishes for . successful future are extended to Mir. EIkins by his friends In Troop 1. This Troop has contributed its second member to serve for Uncle sam in that Scout Leon Bradley has enlisted in co. l., Conn. Militia Cavalry. Last mall Troop Girl Scouts of Center church gave Troop I Boy Scouts a banquet in the form of . send-on to the Neriden state meet. It was re- gretted that we could not attend the meet as tn moro we ate at the ban- Quet the greater appetite 1t gave Us. to win. But IL is intended to repay the girls next "Wednesday with . ham quet, not in any particular form but 1t will be . reGl banquet.
 Plans are nov being made for an overnight hike July 2. , and 1. Tho members are very enthusiastic for an overnight hike as this Troop al- ways experiences great success on such occasions.
 At the meeting Tuesday evening Troop II decided to have a dark green neckerchief. Scouts Francis walsh and Frank De Carle will be the Troop buglers. As 1t rained last Saturday sooutmaster Bonney decided to use last Saturday afternoons sched- ule for this Saturday. It was decided at the meeting that Troop 14 will give an entertainment in the near future. Many have volunteered to help make 1t . success.
 At a meeting of the court of honor held Tuesday evening June s. the fol- lowing boys passed their testa for ing, John White, bird study; Samuel Spectre, Interpreting: Isadors. Rich man. first aid and Newton Tucker, ing meeting of the court of honor twice . month. 1t will be held once . month and the boys will be eligible to pass tests for two merit badges at that meeting. Tho now court of honor consists of the following mon: Pres ident J. B. Comstock. Secretary Max we'll Hart, Paul Rogers. Scout Com- missioner D. W. Pelton and Executive Dwight skinner. E. o. Kilbourne. Hubert Blake and U. S. Hart have been appointed to serve as judges at tho Scout gardens. At the Scout masters' supper held in the Y. M. c. A., Thursday evening. many impor- tant Scout matters were discussed. The planting of the Scout gardens will be completed Saturday. All Boy Scouts arc hereby notified that they cannot transfer from one Troop to another without permission from the Scout Executive and any Scout who wishes to transfer must have a good excuse for wiShing to do 50. Tho Woman's club wishes to express its thanks to the Scouts for the aid that they gave at the time of their card party for the Red Cross. Their work was a real relief measure to . very busy committee.