The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-09-15
Scouts Have
A Marvellous
Time at Fair
Weeks Outing at st. Paul
Was Intensely Enjoyed,
and Educational
ALL LADS GAIN WEIGHT
Speaking Well for Efficiency
of the Quartermaster
Morton Weeks

asst. Scoutmaster G. v. Morse)
Many moons will pass by before
the trip to the State Fair by Scout
Troop IS will cease to be a lively
topic of conversation among the
boys and a decade will pass before
the remembrance of that trip will
be dimmed in the memories of all
who participated.
1t seems self-evident that every
boy acquired something of benefit
and possibly one of these boys re-
ceived an inspiration which will be
of benefit to his whole life. The in
teresting events and occurrences
of the ten days are too various and
many to put in one article, so a
brief summary of the entire ten
days is all that is attempted here
AT the outset, it might be we'll to
mention something which will prob
ably be the most unexpected result
of the trip, and that is the gains
which the boys made in weight. Up
on their entrance into Camp, the
first extra duty was to pass a med
ical examination which included
the taking of the boys weights.
These weights were again taken
at the end of camp. The boys gained
from two to five pounds each for
the eight day period from Satur-
day to Saturday and the average
gain of the boys was 36 pounds.
This is not reflection on the home
larder it is more an evidence of the
results of outdoor life, regular sup
ervision and good cooking. The ex-
position had a prescribed menu for
every meal during the entire time.
This menu was drawn up by H. H.
Prescott, Camp Director, in collab-
Grafton with the chief dietician at
the Mayo Clinic at Rochester and
was of course designed particularly
for the Boy Scouts. All but one
Troop at the Exposition showed
consistent gains. This Troop al
most as consistently lost weight,
the reason for the loss not being
evident although it might be at
tributed to, sickness, change in wat
er or possibly poorer cooking. Some
of the Troops cooked on the patrol
basis which is not likely to bring as
good results as cooking on the
Troop basis which latter plan was
followed by Troop 25.
AS has been stated heretofore,
the Sauk Centre boys were part of
the Boy Scout Exposition and there
fore part of the great Minneso-
ia State Fair, so that from the
time of arising in the morning un-
til the last rocket had exploded in
the air at night, the boys time was
largely given over to duties in con-
nection with the Exposition. it
was not work in the sense that
each boy was obliged to apply him
self diligently to duties which were
more or less onerous to him. On
the contrary the Exposition duties
were along Scouting lines wherein
each boy should have derived a
considerable amount of Scouting
was fulfilling his part in making
the Exposition a success as an ex-
hibit and addition to the State Fair.
That this Exposition was a success
from the standpoint of the State
Fair was clearly indicated Friday
night when Ray Lee, secretary of
the State Fair, presented the
Troops with ppedallions and stream
ers. AT that time he made the
statement that. the Fair Board con-
sidered the 1882 Boy Scout Exposi-
ton as the outstanding new attrac-
tion of the State Fair.
Thus it can be safely said that
Troop 25 acquitted itself in a cred
liable manner, that the boys all de-
rived benefit along Scouting lines,
at the same time all had an oppor-
tunity to visit and see the principal
educational attractions throughout
the Fair grounds by occasional
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