The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-07-14
Scout Camp
Will Close
This Week
Troop rs, of This City, Took
Prominent Part in Court
of Honor Sunday
AITKIN LAD HONORED
Eagle Scout Larson Presented
with Bronze Palm by Area
Executive

The Court of Honor held SUNDAY
at Camp Hawakwa was well at
tended and probably the second
best one held this year, it being ex-
ceeded only by the Court of Honor
which was held in this city in the
Spring.
There were a dozen advance
ments in rank and over a hundred
merit badges awarded, the greater
number of awards being made to
Swanville, Sank Centre and Ait
kin in the order as given. Troop
25 had a dozen boys present, Swan
vile eighteen, these being the only
two troops represented by as
large a number. A large proper
ton of the merit badges awarded
were of the harder variety to get;
such as life saving, camping, ca
noeing, forestry and pioneering. All
going to show that the boys have
greater interest in the work this
summer than they probably ever
had before.
The high light of the court came
when Eagle Scout Tom Larson of
Aitken received the Bronze Palm
although a close second to this
was the merit badge this same
Scout received. It was the merit
badge for Indian lore. Scout Exc
cutive Nash stated that this was
the first time that this merit badge
had been awarded in this area.
Eagle Scout Larson, fourteen years
old, is an outstanding Scout not
only in his Troop but in the area.
Aside from the merit badges as
listed last week the following were
additional badges awarded to Sank
Centre boys, badges which thew
won at camp during last week;
Donald Otto, life saving, camping
and canoeing; Judy Dubois, swim
ming; Carlton Eckberg, wood carv-
ing; Troop 25 Therefore. received
more than 80 badges which was a
very good showing.
Saturday night Edward Dick
haus, Bill Parker, Judy Dubois,
Dudley Morse and Francis Mooney,
having won first place in inspection
Saturday morning, spent the night
in the Indian tepee on the island
with Scout Executive Nash. This
island is situated about a mile in
the lake from the camp and the
tepee is a regular Indian one six
teen feet in diameter with the top
open, allowing a bonfire inside the
tent and when it came to retire,
the boys rolled themselves up in
their blankets in true Indian fash
ion and went to sleep by the light
of the fire in the center of the tent.
This week marks the closing
camp week for Scouts and while
season has been shortened this
year, there has been more real
Scouting accomplished at the Camp
than any year since it has been OPP
en-. The Court of Honor Sunday
fitted in very nicely with the gen.
eral order of things and has been
an added incentive to the boys to
study more of Dame Nature and
those things which bring them the
knowledge to acquire Merit Badges
and Scout advancements.
The Camp Nawakwa with its In
dian name was once the camping
ground of Indians, or at least
frequented by them, has been indi-
Gated more than once by Indian
relics found there. The latest con-
firmation of the presence there of
Indians earlier came Sunday when
Rosemary Horse found one of those
hollow rocks which Indians form
erly used as part of the apparatus
to obtain fire by friction.