The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-27
BOY SCOUTS HAVE
RETURNED TO MOSCOW
AFTER SPENDING WEEK In GRIZ-
ZLY CAMP, SCOUTS RETURNED
MONDAY MORNING

The Moscow Boy Scouts returned
Monday morning from Grizzly camp,
brown and happy and only Wishing
that they could have stayed the re-
mainder of the summer. All the
Scouts interviewed are very enthusi-
astic over their trip and the Scout
commissioner says that this camp was
one of the best he has ever attended.
Arriving in camp last Monday, the
! boys set up their sixteen shelter tents
/ and four larger tents upon an ap-
proved camp plan. Beginning Tues
day morning they started in with their
Scout tests and by the end of the
week one hundred and twenty one
Scout tests were passed, four new
tenderfeet were initiated, five Scouts
passed to second class Scouts and one
to first class.
The boys were organized into three
patrols for the camp, and each morn
ing were inspected. The Beaver pa
troll under Lyle Drury proved to be
the crack patrol of the camp, largely
due to Scout Drury's experience with
Mr.. Hawley at the Spokane camp.
However, the Bob Whites under Mer-
rill Stinemates and the Pine Trees
under Clyde Anderson ran the Beav-
ers a close race. They became SO per-
feet in their work that by Saturday
two patrols received grade of 100
percent and the third patrol received
SO per cent (they overlooked greasy
frying PAM, but Sunday morning they
didn't overlook anything and all three
patrols were perfect in inspection.
That meant that there was not a
piece of refuse as large as a dime IN
camp, that every bed was made and
dish washed, that every Scout had
cleaned his teeth, taken his morning
dip, was dressed neatly and kept good
order in rank and was in good health.
The Scouts enjoyed fine swimming |
every day at least once. Zone Scout !,
says that one day he was in four
times) However, they were not al
lowed to go in directly after meals
and guards were always present
Many of the Scouts made excursions
into the timber especially during. |
their search for ten trees for an OBJ
for tracking test.
The commissioner says that he is |
especially pleased with the amount of
Scout work accomplished and the
discipline of the Scouts. The i'm
full. These very important requisites |
of good camp were due to the able
corps of camp officers. Scoutmaster
Ray Garvin as assistant camp direc-
tor and drill master kept the Scouts
on their toes. Assistant Scoutmaster
II. R. Armstrong acted as inspector
and superintended Scout tests. He
was ably assisted by Scout Clyde An
derson Lyle Drury, in addition to
turning out a prize patrol, took care
of the camp firemen. Russell Knapp
nobly in the kitchen, ably
assisted by Merrill Stinemates and a
squad of Scout helpers. Ted Kitley
arrived in camp late, but fitted in
quickly, doing numberless odd tasks,
while Bugler Harold Rowland in ad
1ition to rousing the camp and blow
ing ''soupy, soupy', looked after fur
perishable supplies for the
camp.
Mr.. Hawley also says that aside
from the camp, he was able to catch
some very nice messes of ten-lnch
.rout, his catches amounting to over
fifty during the week-on Friday the
whole camp had a fish dinner.
Grizzly camp offers almost an ideal
place for a scout camp, and with the
of a little money to i'm
prove the swimming and to provide :
equipment it would make a
Scout camp that would care for all
he Scouts in the Palouse council. The
commissioner says that next year he {
,an take care Of one hundred boys
here as we'll as he cared for thirty ,
his year. Next year it is planned to {
make the camp last at least two |
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