Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-07
BOY SCOUTS PLAN
FOR CAMP FIRE
Will be Held at Brandywine Park
on November
29th.

On Friday evening, the Doth OF this
month, there will be grand reunion
of all the scouts Of the city and height or
ing towns, at n camp fire held in Brandy
wine Park. Every scout and any friends
of the scouts. who may be Interested
may be present.
This will be n camp fire long To be
remembered by the scouts. One OF our
great campers says. 81 cannot conceive
camp that does not have camp
fire Our city houses do not have 1T, not
even fireplace. The fireplace is one of
the greatest schools the imagination has
ever had or can have. 1t is moral, and 1t
always has tremendous stimulus to the
imagination and that is why stories and
FIRE 90 together You cannot tell good
story unless YOU tell it before fire.
You cannot have complete fire unless
YOU have a good story teller along.
Middletown reports. that after work
of six hours, they have found and marked
sixty black walnut trees. They have The
co-operation of farmers III that section
of the State, and are doing good work
for Uncle Sam. Their Fourth Liberty
Loan amounted to SIS .500lO0 Middle
town has Is active scouts
Scout Executive Grccnhawk received
a letter from his brother Reuben, known
to the Wilmington scouts as loots VINO
is IN France lie describes very interest
ing air hight as follows, L saw pretty
lively air fight one afternoon tahout
80, moi long ago We were standing
in line for chow, when an antl-aircrait
suddenly opened up on the lett oi US
As the shots Increased and we heard the
hmm of the motors and saw old Fritz
or Jerry scoot,ng through sharhpne
pufIs in big dark observing plane ln-
tcrest in chow lnsscned he aircraft
/. haSed him nearly over head twaN
upl and YOU could hear remarks, Whef"
are all nur machines, that he can drive
around like that when apparently out
o( nothingness tive little scouting planes
cropped on HIM like hawks after an
r,oic Boy. there was some tall man s,ver~
ing and machine gun work, Those boys
divpd. slid and loupol around Jerry,
until he did not know where to get of
az At the most interesting point OF the
scrap We lost sight of them behind the
woods, but they had hum going down
and We heard later that they liked hum
nroprr Tunts was an assistant STOUT
master before gong with Uncle SAM and
saws Their, are lots oi cx-scouts III France
III apprrciatcs what scouting has done
for him and will again take up the work
qualified for the work
There are several troops that have
not sent IN their questionnaircs These
must be brought OF sent to the othcc
during the next week II Is lmpussible
10 list the scouts active for Scout War
Service without these reports
Scrutmastcrs Association will meet
on the 18th
Notices of expiration are mailed to
every troop in ample tune for prompt
r,,-reglst ration Failure 10 rc-rogister
nrornntly ncecssitates much additional
N or and expense At National Head
quarters. Patriotism demands That labor
ar expense not he wasted II your
troop rr-rcgIstratIon is due now, please
send ii 10 this otilce
TROOP Q.
Troop Q had its regular meeting Tues
| day evening at Hanover Church. Alr.
| Long was absent and Fritz took charge.
| Mr. Grccnhawk. Scout Executive spoke
/ on several subjects Details about a
| troop marty were discussed, and chair
| man appointed on the committee. Dur
! ing the absence of Scout Brown, Scout
! nonavon was appointed Chaplain.
| hike is proposed for Saturday at ! i m.
| sh9rp All bc sure To come and bring
yOur supper ne ohS'ne~N heetiht NAs
! adlourned, and several games were playe
| upfore going home MI out Tor next
/ mceunE
/ TROOP l..
Troop II met IN regular meeting at
| Trinity Parish House in Friday night.
/ Several new officers were appointed. and
NJ had a visit from Mr. Grecnhawk. Who
| told Us about the Victory Bows and
j also gave each fellow Scout War Service
certificate Mr. klrhus gave US an IN
tcrest,ng short talk. and presented 10
/ those who had sold their amount. the
3rd Liberty Loan emblems, PIN bars and
| bars He also presented two ace medals, :
, and several achievement buttons We