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YOUTHS ABE PREPARING FOR THEIR CAMP WHICH WILL BE OPENED NEXT WEEK—PHIZES ARRANGED FOB WINNERS.ill MRS UNABLE TO SOUnless Some Shelbjvllle People Play Santa Clans—Her. U. N. Spear WOI Spend Week with Scouts.Thirty members of the ShelbyvUla Boy Scoot troop attended the meeting held Wednesday night at the Scout headquarters. All arrangements for the summer camp which will be pitched near Gowdy on July 12, for two weeks, were made. All of the boys who Intend to go on the camping party will meet at the headquarters Friday morning at nine o'clock.At this time they will be weighed in, in order that they may be classified for the various athletic events. There will be three classes of Scouts in the athletic contests. Class A will consist of boys who weigh leBB than 100 pounds. Thoso weighing from 100 to 110 pounds will be in class B, nnd all over 110 pounds will be In class C.The first delegation of the Scouts in . charge of Scout Commissioner Earle W. Beckman will leave here next Monday morning for the camp site- They will leave at seven o'clock in the morning and expect to have the camp in shape for the youugstera when they arrive Thursday. All of the Scouts will meet Thursday morning at seven o'clock at the Sorden garage in North Harrison street. They will be taken to tho camp site on tlio Sorden auto truck.The following young men will assist Mr. Beckman, at the camp: Edgar Tatman, William Blakely, •William Groobel, Carl GIrton aud Paul Cross. Blakely and Tatman will have charge of the athletics; Tatman will supervise the swimming contests; Girtoa and Groebel will bo In charge of. the 11 scouting program, and Tatman aud Cross will lead in the games. A. A. Uirton will lmve charge of tho com-11 missary department, whieh insures s I the boys good food during their out-ijing. Robert Davis will act as tteas-t urcr. Rev. H. N. Spear, pastor of tho s First Baptist church, wilt be with tho a I boys on their first week out. He will deliver a talk bn “Temperance in AH a 1 Things. e Helping Hand is Needed, t There are a number of the Scouts? t who may not get to enjoy the camp I which has bene planned for them, asa their parents aro not able to stand a I the small cost necessary to send them, d | Several boys at tbo orphans’ homodesire to go. In all there aro a dozen 1 who cannot meet tho expense, whichit will amount to about $3.86. The Scout |l! I Council has been to an expense of about $200 in arranging the camp andlike spending any more So if these twelve -1 youngsters go It will be up to soma s of the kind hearted citizens of the it city to Bond them, n I The Scouts who make the trip are to take the following named articles: a j Scout rope, axe, knife, two blankets, note book and pencil, scout hand n I book, four handkerchiefs, pajamas, s J extra suit underwear, two extra pairs d of stockings, old pair of shoes, any if other clothing wanted, six safety pins. L- j comb, tooth brush, clean rags, towels, bed sack 2^x6, oil cloth to place beneath the bed Back, pie pan, tin cup, o I deop pan, knife, fork and sponn, can with handle, bathing suit and five poa-i- tal cards addressed to the boy’s moth-1.1 ers. This is to be packed in a box. Prizes have beep arranged for. thewinners of tho various athletic events, it I Tho boys who make the most point*; ojin the entire meet will be given a pair of Scout blankets.George Crocker, who has been op-g | orating a shoo shop in East Mechanic • o street, has gone to New Castle wh^r® is I ho Ms a position in a large electric- -, ■■ ■ -v.4%1g | Mr. Samuel Tull, of Ktosas,j-1 iting in; the; vicinity of i* I having come - to; Attend flic it I ion which ;;w*r held Inly
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Shelbyville Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 08, 1915
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