The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-02-02
ANNIVERSARY WEEK TO BE
OBSERVED BY BOY SCOUTS
February s to IA Designated as
Celebration of Twenty Third
Birthday of Incorporation
FULL PROGRAM ARRANGED

The twenty-third anniversary OF
the Boy Scouts of America will be
celebrated February 8 to IA. The
celebration recalls the fact that q
good turn" performed in London fol
an American visitor by an unknown
Boy Scout was responsible for the
! bringing of the Boy Scout movement
to the United States.
The Oakland Boy Scout troop will
celebrate the event with a meeting
on Wednesday night, Friday night
Saturday morning, Sunday morning
and Monday evening.
On Wednesday evening, February
8, at $3.50 in the Scout Hall, the scouts
will rededicate themselves to the
scout oath and law, at the same time
every other scout in the land is do
ing the same thing. A short pro-
gram is being arranged and w. w
Dawson, chairman of the troop COM
mittee, will say a few words. 1t is
planned to have all older scouts who
are in this community to attend at
this time.
At the regular scout meeting on
Friday evening, February 10, there
will be a special program, and on
Saturday morning, February II, a
scout mobilization will be held fol-
lowed by community good turn,
which will probably be the planting
of about 300 historic nuts.
Sunday morning, February ~, the
scouts will attend st. Paul's Meth
odist church in a body where Rev. w
S. Patterson will speak on a subject
linking the boy scout ideals to Lin
coin.
Patterson Dinner
| A father and son dinner, in the ma
ture of pig roast, will be held or
| Monday evening, February IS, at G
o'clock. William Turney, camp cook
for several years past, will preside at
the pig, which will be roasted by
Henry Lauer, member of the court
of honor. A program is being ar
ranged by John McIntire, Eugene
Nordeck, Irving Broadwater, Jack
Treacy, George Stuck and one or two
others, and scout. contests will be
conducted.
Officers assisting the scoutmastel
in the general arrangements of de-
tails include Bernard Gender, Jr., as
sistant scoutmaster; Robert Altstet-
ter, junior assistant; Schell Hoye, Sc
Nor patrol leader; Walter Dawson
Jr., Kenneth Lawton, patrol leaders
and the committee above mentioned
While this dinner will bring the an
niversary week officially to close
there will be an overnight hike on the
Saturday following at the scout
camp, weather permitting.
During the twenty-three years
since the formal incorporation of the
Boy Scout movement took place, or
February 8, 1910, more than 100000
men and boys at one time or another
have shared membership in the or
ganization.
Pass Fifteen Merit Badges
Six second and first class scouts
passed fifteen merit badges at the
regular meeting of the Court of Hon.
or held Monday evening in the Ma
sonic club room. Robert Broadwatel
and Horace O'Donnell passed five
each; Ward limbaugh passed chem
istry merit badge, the first one to
pass this examination in the history
of the troop.
| Merit badges were awarded as fol
lows: Robert Browning, firemanship;
Robert Broadwater, animal industry
reading, sheep farming, pathfinding
public health; Ward Hinebaugh
chemistry; John Darby, firemanship;
Hopwood Wooddell, first aid, public
health; Horace O'Donnell, first aid
handicraft, reading, public health
pathfinding.
William Grant and Laural Whip
key completed their tenderfoot re-
quirements at the last meeting and
were presented with the second class
haduaS