The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-15
Boy Scout Activities in Ardmore

reader, Rays arithmetic to long di-
vision, the good old blue.back spcller,
and writing. From my eighth TO siN.
teenth year my time was spent about
as follows: in the summer. planting,
cultivating ana harvesting wheat, oats,
nay, barley, rye. corn and all kinus
ot vegetables in the winter | woulJ
have sixty days Of school and the
balance Of my time was occupied NJ
feeding stock. clearing timber larI.
splitting rails and building fences,
chopping and splitting wood for the
cooking fire the next summer. nv
evening recreation came in the form
of milking the cows, carrying in
wood, and drawing water enough FOR
morning use from well seventy feet
deep.
mo, had nothing like your boys
have now Boy Scouts We're not heard
of then, and such a movement was
not needed as much then as il is now.
although il would have been of help.
! had all the work | could do and,
being thrown upon my own resource.
SO much, acquired by hard knocks
the knowledge your boys gain in
pleasant ways now.
after reached the age OF six.
teen ! was living in Texas and put.
ting nearly an Of my time in the
cotton patch, blowing, planting, hoe.
ing and picking cotton. There is
something remarkable in the way cot
ION goods have played an impor.
ant part IN my life.
one year spent as cowboy
ON the plains OF Texas. aud il wa
while was riding after cattle On
those western plains far from civiz.
alton that ! dcc.ded would take up
salc-manship as a profession. Strange.
perhaps ID may seem for me 10 have
decided upon such "a profession with
The little training had had 10Y
such a position. But SO I decided, aul
came back TO the settlements where
IS now located the city Of Mckm.
l"y Texas. ! was just nineteen years
of go whom ! secured a position, rath-
er ! should say got a joh' in u drv
goods store at $25 a month. Working
10y day and studying at night / pro
cecdcd 10 try to fit myself for the
profession had chosen.
cone thing which did not learn.
nor have / ever learned is the mean.
ing of the expression j can't My
motto is u can, and viii ON the
other hand | did learn that only
Dos absolute honesty and trustwortni-
moss could ever hope to succeed.
The beginning of my real hapr.
ness in life came when 1T the ase
of p | married one Of Texas swcc,
est and most beautiful girls who.
Ike myself had lived on the plains
where seemingly the whole world Il
one grand flower garden at spring.
time. She too was endowed with the
spirit OF 4 can. and ! will she be
lieved in me and believed in her.
and when she told me that she knew
| could 20 to the top Of my pro.
fession, that confidence so inspired
me that ! resolved anew that | woul1
ll'iN' - SbNAtSS vi nv sun lIAl1S.
That, in brief IS a sketch of my
life. The boy Of today starts oEt
under far greater advantages than
we boys OF fifty years ago did, both
in matters of schooling, moral training
and through Scouting. the principles
Of good citizenship and trustworthi.
ness in business which lots os
as had 20 dig out for ourselves"
This man. Scouts, \. u. Peterman.
sray-naired. quiet and unassumine.
has been citizen Of Ardmorc for
years, is s,ill learning and applying
what he learns to make himself bottor
in his chosen profession rising from
the position of s25 per month CLERK
10 that Of the exclusive selling agent
in the state of oklahoma for tho