The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-07-06

30 or more in attendance, took defin-
ite formal action at a meeting held at
the Association of Commerce rooms
Friday evening to organize first
class district Scout council. The dis
trict is to embrace Ward, Mountrail,
McHenry, Burke, Renville and Botti-
neau counties and is to be known as
the Minot District council. Minot is
to be the center and headquarters of
the district and to serve it in all gen
eral matters as New York headquar
ters has done heretofore.
The executive board of the council
met Immediately after the council
meeting and voted unanimously to
employ D. D. Riley, who has been
Scout commissioner Of Minot for some
years and the pioneer worker in
scouting in this city and region, as
full time executive. Mr.. Riley ac-
cepted the election and entered upon
his duties today. He will open an Of
fee Immediately and will devote all
his time to the Scout work. At pres
ent his office is at his residence but
other quarters may be secured later
when due announcement will be made.
The formation of the new council
marks an important step in scouting
and boys work in general in this part
of the northwest. Devils Lake has
just formed similar district council
with six counties included and the
district adjoips the Minot district on
the east. 1t is the first time such
work has developed west of the Red
River valley. The executive will
serve his entire district, partly by cor
respondence, partly by visitation and
OWL hIy r,y1% tot, ,.,,,{
at his office coming from the various
localities. By having the headquar-
ters in Minot, the various Scout
troops of which there are about Is in
the district outside Minot, can obtain
tions and secure other service much
more quickly and conveniently here
than by sending to the Twin Cities or
New York as is now the case. The
executive will keep a large stock of
supplies on hand here at all times
Another part of the executives
work will be the enlistment, training
and assistance of Scout leaders. His
| experience will be invaluable to new
scoUtmasters and other such leaders.
General meetings of Scout leaders
and troop officers will be held and
much excellent training given bv
those means
MIR. Riley has been considered tho
l,oslcal man for the new post. He has
neeh ne with the Scout movement in
-Mlhoc since the beginning about II
years ago. He was for a long time
me me scoutmaster of the first troon
me original Troop l sent most of IT,
1AT'Jers Wnn1J TO the army during the
MorIo war and later disbanded. its
pace and number having since been
~ III vacant, there being no Other
Troop l to this day. ''Aei
r. Mr. Riley has seen scouting grow
from ~ f: me ground up, has stayed with
~ laltn1ully thru the years when if
was weak, misunderstood and even
opposed has labored often without as.
ISSUANCE s,n,% and has finally seen it de-
seiop into robust organization with
asVen organized troops in Minot and
.,n ,ia elshth about to start, with com
Lt pteee corps OF Scout leaders, with a
n,rons aggressive council and with
uP"ards up a OF $50 boys enrolled to date
IN, Inc scout camp, closed last week With
lo4 boys attending and everything
success!ul' was in no small degree
the frultion of Mr.. Riley's efforts, and
us success was in considerable part
Que to his work. The scoutmasters
were unanimous in asking for tn.
appointment of Mr.. Riley as Scout ex.
ecutive.
Everett Davis was chosen Scou1
commissioner for Minot to succeed
Mr.. Riley Mr.. Davis has been scout.
master of Troop and is still one o.
! its sponsors. He has had severa
years successful experience in Scou
work and his appointment meets witt,
general appreciation.
| The council voted last evening to
adopt the proposed budget of So, zoo
| for the first year. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Riley will attend the Scout
leaders, schools at Culver, Ind, and
ltasca Park, Mimi, this season if en-
trance can be secured. The organiza-
ton Of the second class Scout council
that has hitherto served Minot was
transferred intact to the first class
council for the balance of it's term, to
Dec. 81. The officers follow:
President-H. NJ. Wilson.
Vice residents-William Dunnell,
William Woodbridge, c. J. German.
Secretary-C. B. Davis.
Treasurer-Walter Bond.
ne cOuIlClI VOCeu TO udlne dQQlClOu-
al directors for the new district coun-
Gil and chose the following additional
members:
Burke-Frank. Koprive, Bowbells;
Clarence Carey, Bowbels.
Renville-F. 0. Johnson, Tolley; F.
S. Randolph, Grano.
Mountrail-B. w. Taylor, Stanley;
P. S. Brose, Van Hook
Bottineau-William Hunter, Botti-
neau; Ben Wolf, Lansford.
McHenry-Horace Bagley, Towner;
j. G. Thorpe, Velva.
Ward-P. M. Clark, Kenmare.
C. N. Meserve, regional Scout di-
rector, was present at last evenings
meeting and gave outlines of the work
and many helpful suggestions for
launching the new council. Mr.. Me-
serve has made several visits to this
city in the interests of the new moves