The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-03-12
Boy Scout
Column

! The members Of Troop ] are always
glad when their "big Sister Sally" visits
/ them. Last Scout meeting. she inter
rupted just q game of buzz was
started When she comes it is for some
good purpose. She threw en- air OF
mystery over the meeting for a while
for a. she entered. with her usual
friendly smile. she said, Il had such
good time the last time i was here
thought that ! would come again and
If Mr.. Gordon VIII feel around in the
dark outside the door. We all may have
a surprise" Immediately there was a
rush for the door; but Mr.. Gordon
stopped the excited ~o-s and went out
himself. lie disobeyed rules, however.
and left the door open, so he would have
some light He entered with a large
kettle covered with a cloth. The game
went on. but there was not much huz-
zing done. The mysterious kettle must
have Influenced some OF the scouts. ana
50 there was a number OF candidates
for the padding machine. When the
cloth was taken off. there were shrieks
or joy. The kettle started around sne
each Scout got three (Some got Inorel
Some thought that the best part was
that our generous sister promised to
bring some more. Really. then the
next best was the story OF Alex Mr.
Meyer and Mr. Gordon. Yes sir. they
were in that kettle. Our big sister said
that when she made them. thay Jumped
around 50 that she almost had TO give
up getting them out alive especially
Mr. Gordon. They were not very good
portraits OF tho men. but We're made
according to size. What was in the
kettle? Oh, yes. Nice. Great Big
Brown. Fresh Sugared Doughnuts with
real holes in the middle.
Reporter.
TROOP Meeting was called TO or
der a eight o'clock At first. we had
contests and organized some patrols
Pine Tree. Black Bear ana Flying Eagle.
In the contests. questions were asked
about the greet Scouting men and the
leaders, Tho patrols ranged fairly
close for the first part and then Pine
Tree forged ahead and won the contest.
There were sixteen present-one candi-
date amongst the sixteen. We played
games: Tug-o'- War. Push-o'War and
two relay races. We were dismissed
with the Scout prayer.
PETER J. McMrNDs, reporter.
TROOP 4-Troop 4 had a meeting on
last Tuesday evening at 1850. There
were twenty-one scouts and four Wis
ftors. We lined up and drilled first.
Then we had roll call; all the recruits
trained while Schohl, Noonan and c.
Levin passed tests. After that. we
PLAYED games and were excused.
We started our patrol contest and the
Pine Tree patrol is leading with nine-
teen points and the Ratuesnake and
Flying Eagle are second with fourteen
apiece. We take points on hand4bools,
uniforms. inspection, wearing pins in
sight. and attendance.
-VERN McMULLEN. reporter.
TROOP 17.-Troop ~ had their usual
meeting at the Wallace School Thurs
day evening and the meeting was
changed around a little so as to have
the patrols separated. Troop II had
two more scouts pass Tenderfoot tests.
The Crow Patrol has been the honor
patrol since the Tnter-Patrol contest
started. The standing IS az follow;
Crow 254: Eagle COZ: silver Fox 17s;
Beaver SIS. Troop III has three full
patrols and some on the waiting list.
JOE MACCH. reporter.
TROOP s-We started out to Camp
Wicker and got about half way and it
started to rain and we stayed behind
some box cars until it let up a little,
and then we moved on and met Dick
Parker and succeeded in reaching the
Camp where we met Fritz Kolb We
went in ana got the place warm and