The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-05-24
Boy Scouts Entertain
Elders With Bean Feed
Wednesday Evening Was Red Let
ter Event in Their Lives
Many Promotions.

Troop 10, Boy Scouts of Sank
Centre, were hosts last evening to
District Officer Armstrong, of ST..
Cloud, and about Is of the par
ents and friends. of the organiza-
ton.
The base of the feed was the
old army bean. There was also
cold meat sandwiches, with pep
and all day suckers for the wind
up.
Scoutmaster Kowalke first called
on Glen Sullivan who gave an in
teresting review Of contest
which had been in vogue for sew
eral months and the two losing
patrols were the hosts at the bean
feed.
Troopers Clarence Eckberg and
Charles Rattle favored those pres
ent with several choice clarinet
duets of patriotic music.
Ben Morgan, deputy Scoutmas-
ter, and father of the Boy Scout
movement in Sank Centre, was
called on and gave his buddies a
wholesome talk, congratulating
them upon the splendid advance
ment they had made in Scout work
during the past year. He said he
was very proud of Troop Is and
admonished the boys to go after
the out of doors life at every OPP
portunity.
Capt. Roy Scott, of the National
Guard, said the Federal govern
nlent had leased 80 acres of land
near Fairy Lake for a rifle range.
He offered this tract and the equip
ment of the National Guard to the
boys of Troop Is to use for camp
purposes. His proposition was
greeted with rounds of applause
by the Scouts.
George Berggreen said he was
both surprised and gratified at the
development of the Scout move
ment in this city. He promised
the boys every cooperation from
the Sank Centre Community Club.
l.. L. Kells, a pioneer hacker of
the Scout movement, said he had
found nothing to criticise in the
Scout movement and promised
continued cooperation.
District Officer Armstrong said
that experience had proven that
the Boy Scout movement does not
function as well in the summer
time as in the winter. There are
625,413 Boy Scouts in the various
parts of the United States. In
1927 there were about 100000
of these boys in camp at some
period during the summer. He
said there were 839 Boy Scouts in
this area. Recently II acres of
land had been purchased on Birch
Point, Big Sphinx Lake, near Avon,
which will be used exclusively for
Scout camp grounds. There are
possibilities of making this one of
the best Fairgrounds in the West
for boys. He urged the Sank Cen
tire Scouts to avail themselves OF
the very generous offer of Capt.
Scott.
Last evenings meeting was of.
ficially designated as a Court OF
Honor. At this meeting a mum
Der of the local Scouts were
awarded badges for various Scout
activities. The following We're the
awards in the various classes:
Tenderfoot Scouts - Donovan
Wernig, Orville Carpenter and
Pat Dubois.
Second Class-Clark Barry, Jess
Clough, Norris Gallea, Robert
Gruetzmacher, Herb. Hanauer,
Chas. Rattle, Donald Rattle, Rober
Vandesteeg, Lester Wruck and
Harland Pickett.
First Class-Harry Hamilton,
Willis Dahlem.
Merit Badges-Ray McCracken,
Julian Markson, Ed Kells, Clar-
ence Eckberg, Willis Dahlem,
Richard Bergman, Dean Knsella,
Harry Hamilton.
Star Scouts - Julian Markson,
Julian Larson, Clarence Eckberg,
Glenn Sullivan, Raymond Nc
Cracker, Merrill Forsberg.
Junior Scoutmaster Julian
Markson.