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k?13W y6u.r crrr' The Birmingham (Ala.) Junior-Chamber of Gbihmerce is doing a great deal to aid scouting by :-a- . contest kno.wi) as “I Know Bifmingliam:’’ One hundred questions have .been suggested by the .different civic '/organizations covering tlie' 'historical, geographic, population, climatic, iiid'ustrlal, trims,-poiiation, public utility,, municipal,. edViCaiioind, financial, real estate aml-genoml. phases of the- city. - The scouts who successfully, pass', one of the exr. animations which are' held each quar-' ter receives a bronze bar, bearing the words “I Know Birmingham.” And: US' soon as (lie scout earns this bar, Jii.j record in civic service is then keptrendered 1('»0 hours of such service, u sinr.II bronze civic service medal is suspended by .chain*). from, this bar;': then when liis record, as certified by the scoutmaster, shows he has rep*, do red 50!) hoars of civic service, a silver medal is substituted for the bronze: and then when his totalreaches 1:000 hours, lie will receive a. goid medal in phu^^jS-the. silver.This contest is stimulating much ip-’ terest, not only among tb.e scouts but among ■ the citizens as weij. In addi-i tion to this award, the 30 boys who pass the highest grades during the year are taken on a truck trio over some of the old southern, battlefields and points of interest along the way. The; 10 boys who take this trip will meet 10 men from the Junior Chamber' of Commerce on the night before they leave, and’ hold a meet along the lines of tb.e old-fashioned spelling match with these questions forming the basis of competition in place of the spelling of words.THE SCOUT HAND BOOK.Reading Up'- -cn A!! Things Having to Do With the Wonderful Outdoors Is important.ELKS ADOPT BOY SCOUTS.Tlie Elks of Minneapolis have purchased as m permanent camp site for tlie use of local boy scouts, an 18-acre farm- located on Lake Minnetonka which Scout Executive Dale pronounces the finest camp site in. America. The former ,owner of tlie farm, Benjamin A. I’aust, has not only made a generous sale price for the property, but lias also -agreed to help tlie Elks finance the enterprise. It i's confidently excepted that other Elks’ lodges throughout tiie country will follow the example of their Minneapolis brothers.And what did the boys themselves say to the proposition? “Oh, boy!” they exploded with glee. “A whole fariu with woods an’ hayloft an’ lake tos swim in- an’, every tiling. These Elks are regular-guys!”. UNIVERSITY A DOPTS SCO UTING.Two boy scout troops have been installed in tlie minimum department of the University of Notre Dame. Rev. James Burns, presidbnt of the university, lias this tp say:“After investigating the' boy scout . movement under Catholic leadership ■ and realizing the good it is aceomplisli-- ing among cur boysV tliioifghoiit the United States by inculcating such virtues as kindness, obedience and-rev-,erence, I take great pleasure in giving my endorsement to this praiseworthy work atad will do all I can in a practical way to further the movement here at the University of Notre Dame.”BUSY COY SCOUTS. 1On6 hundred boy scouts set out . to rid a Lawrence (Kan.)...park of its dandelions, using gasoline to • do the. K • C.'-Worcester (Mass.) scouts -joined 1n search of 'a missing mail, and Brockton scouts were called out - by- the police to search uhmg the river for a .young, weman who, A’ whs feared,' had. com-mitted suicide. ' „; T v‘• •' '■ 'Eniontown boy sebutswver 6■ recently mobilized witl/’ a-swat-thefly campaign.^;' -
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Newburgh Register
Newburgh, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 19, 1921
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