Pueblo chieftain., 1921-04-11
Pueblo Scout News

Troop carried off the first three
events, firemans carry, stretcher race,
and semaphore signalling and We
thought we were goners sure. How
ever. we did not get beaten nearly so
badly in the stretcher race as we ex-
pected. This race and the fireman's
carry were close, Troop beating us
by only few feet in each case.
Then we rallied and defeated them
in First Aid and tied them in wig
wag signalling. This was an interest
ing event as Troop finished first
but had two mistakes. We came in a
few seconds later with a perfect mess
| age. so the points were divided.
When We won the last event, ante
lope race. the score was S1 to 2k in
favor of Troop o.
Troop was represented down at the
City Auditorium by two boys wednes-
day and by five Thursday. We had a
swell time even though we did have to
work hard
Friday night we held a very short
meeting and adjourned TO go to Foun-
tain school where a community meet
| fns was held. We saw a good enter
tainment and had some swell eats.
LEWIS BARNUM, Scribe.
| ''oOp y JOnn hIaSO-
vitz. Meeting place, st. Mary's School.
Time of meeting, Thursday, T. NJ
Whoopee! Wow Say, fellows.
why weren't you at the City "Y" last
week to sec the field meet between us
and Troop 1t was some meet? we'll
| say.
The first event was the fireman's
| carry race, The teams from both
| troops were good, but our team was
the better one. Good speed was also
shown by Troop 5, however, and it was
very close event.
Fircbuilding was tho next event. AL
though neither OF the teams succeeded
in really getting fire. Troop . had
small blaze which was blown out
before the judges saw II.
Semaphor signalling was the next
event on the program. but as Troop
did not have a team in this event
they ceded IL to lis.
First aid was the next thing on the
program and was very interesting.
Both teams showed that they had
practiced hard for this event but Troop
was the better OF the two. The re-
suit was three to one in favor OF Troop
).
Wigwagging was also very interest
Ing. Both teams got their messages
to the judges at tho same time. Each
| troop received n half-p point for this
event.
The final and last event waa the
antelope race. This event gave TrooI
. another point. they winning easily.
The final score showed that Troop
had won by score of 3i4 to ~.
This is the second time Troop ha,
defeated Troop In a meet Severa-
months ago VIC Issued a challenge tc
any troop in tho city for a semaphor
and now we have won the field meet
giving second place in the City Field
Meet held at tho c. +. & !. W in
February OF this year.
Two Scouts from our troop reported
at the City Auditorium for duty Thurs
day. They were kept busy by tho Ro-
tarians. running crrands and doinE
other kinds of work for the visitors.
our meeting last week was held on
Tuesday evening instead of Thursday
last week. And talk about meeting.
VIC sure had IL.
II was expected that two Scout.
would pass their Tenderfeet tests at
cnt.
Most Of the time was spent In talk
ing over the field meet with Troop 5.
Several other topics wcrc brought up
and discussed, however
A short business session was held
and then we spent the rest OF the
timc in playing games, practicing for
the meet. and otherwise amusing our
selves. Signalling. first aid, and as
pecially firebulding. were practiccd.
The usual new knots were shown Us
by our Scoutmaster. and the use of
troop are getting SO that they know
several more than the Tcnderfoot
knots now. as cur Scoutmastcr has a
now one to show us every week.
Next Thursday evening at our rcgu-
lar meeting we hope to choose new pa
trols and elect patrol leaders and as
sistants. we will have at least three
patrols and will have few to form
part OF the fourth patrol. As soon rs
the patrols are fully organized We cx-
pcct to have some lively contests be-
tween the patrols.
with a story told by one OF th..
and the meeting adjourned.
JOSEPH MERHAR, Scribe.
Troop 10. Scoutmastcr r. C. Jcn-
nings. Meeting place. First Baptist
church. Friday night, 7:iS. It makes
mo laugh to think OF II. oh. boy. such
an awful thing for some troops' To
think. that when some OF tho troops
had and s fellows out they let two
beat them all to pieces in the dande-
lion contest. But It is true. George
Dotson and decided that We would go
out and try to win tho individual
the most dandelons. We'll, last sat
urday morning VIC went to the court
house to start in. When we got there
we found that a lot of Scouts had been
digging for quite while. We started
in. About noon everybody laid off and
after "A little story telling we had
lunch. Then we had our pictures
taken. After this had been done We
went back to work, In little while
the other Scouts began to quit and go
home. but George and l stayed. When
Mr.. Alverson camo around We found
that we were behind tho others as
much as two bushels in some cases.
Then after Mr.. Alvcrson had to take
the last records everybody excepting
George and 1 went home When We
quit that evening We had dug six and
ono-uuartcr bushels and were ahead oil
the highest of the others. That night
1 dreamed about dandelious, great big
ones that chased me all around with