The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-12-22
40 SCOUTS RE-REGISTERED
FOR 1888 in LOCAL TROOP
Scouts Earn 131 Merit Badges
During the Year-Annual Re-
port Sent to Headquarters
20 ADVANCE IN SCOUTING

Forty scouts of Oakland Troop No.
1, were re-registered for the year
1888 at National Scout headquarters,
according to George Hanst, scout
master, who has just forwarded the
list along with the annual report of
the troops activities. The year 1888
marks the beginning of the ninth con-
secutive year for the troop.
Twenty-four first and second class
scouts passed 131 merit badges, 20
members of the troop advanced at
least one rank, and other achieve
ments for 1882 are recorded in the
annual report.
Each year re-registration is
necessary, and for 1888 there were
six associate scouts, twenty-one first
class scouts, eight second class scouts
and five tenderfoot scouts listed as
remaining active in the troop. Four
other boys are about ready to become
Tenderfoot scouts. Eleven scouts
were dropped on account of inactivity
and lack of interest.
Merit Badges Passed
One hundred thirty-one merit
badges were awarded "a first and
; second class scouts. Badges were
won in leathercraft, cooking, pioneer
ing, swimming, pathfnding, first aid,
lifesaving, handicraft, woodcarving,
machinery, fremanship, animal in
dustry, public health, personal health,
dairying, beef production, sheep farm
ing, architecture, stamp collecting,
archery, canoeing, wood turning,
physical development, first aid to ami
mails, camping, athletics, scholarship,
music, craftsmanship, bugling, book
binding.
Hopwood Wooddell won the highest
number with 16, while Carroll Casteel
and Kenneth Lawton were second
with II each. Horace O'Donnell won
II and George Stuck, Lewis Jones and
Bernard Gender, Jr., 9 each.
Two overnight hikes with an
average attendance of 18 and five day
hikes with an average attendance of
10 were taken during the year; the
troop participated in civic activities,
planted trees, held a program during
anniversary week and assisted IN
other community enterprises. An
average of 81 boys spent two weeks
in the Scout camp on Deep Greek
Lake, at a cost of 46 cents per day
per boy.
A public program for the scouts,
their parents and friends, will be ar
ranged for Scout Anniversary Week
in February.
Those who have been re-registered
for 1888 include:
Associate scouts (those away at
school but still active) Carroll Cas-
teel, Thomas Gender, Lewis Jones,
Joseph Sollars, Howard Rathbun,
James Treacy.
First Class-Robert Altstetter, Irv-
ing Broadwater, Robert Browning,
George Browning, Harley Dawson,
Walter Dawson, Richard Gender,
Ward limbaugh, Schell Hoye, George
Kerins, Kenneth Lawton, Robert Law
ton, Charles Mason, John Mc1ntire,
Howard Naylor, Eugene Nordeck,
Horace O'Donnell, Harry Stemple, Jr.,
George Stuck, Hopwood Wooddell,
Robert Broadwater.
Second Class-John Edward Baird,
Wilbur Altstetter, John Darby, Law
renee Dixon, Leroy Stewart, Robert
Utterback, Jack Treacy, Maurice
Treacy.
I William Grant, Ralph
Kahl, Howard Smouse, Laural Whip
key, J. Billie Yutzy.
About to become scouts-Guy Hine-
baugh, Jack Hinebaugh, Erwin Smith,
Donald Helbig.
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