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mofWBmCOMMUNITY SERVICE fiECORD- togansport, Ind., has a record of strenuous community service. Among the yearns activities the following are reported: . •One-hundred scouts gave 500 hours of service at the Ki wanis play-fest serving as guides, ushers, kitchen helpers, guarding automobiles, tending check room, acting as messengers, etc.. In addition'one entire troop gave four days of their time distributing posters, etc., 22 - scouts assisted the Salvation army getting its new building in shape,” giving at least 200 hours-of free service.Two-hundred scouts decorated graves of soldiers on Memorial day. Distributed 200 fire prevention cards.Fifty scouts worked 12 hours assisting the American Legion at its big Foiirth of July celebratfon. Saved the lives of 12 persons from drowning in six months. Other, services were performed for the Red Cross, G. A. R., D. A. R.. Camp Fire Guardians, Public Health Nurses, Epworth league and the Masons.STAR SCOUT WINS BADGE.Among the various Merit badges which are open to first-clas scouts is one which boys rarely apply for, though it is an intere.sting one. This unusual badge in blacksfnithing has just been won by Robert Reed, a star scout of troop No. 11, Oak Park, HI. Most of the required preliminary work, was done in connection with his manual training work in high school. The requirements for the Merit badge.'in blaeksmithing are as follows:1. Make an open link of %-inch Stock.2. Forge a chain hook out of % by %-inch soft steel, or %-inch round Iron.3. Make a bolt of %-inch stock.4. Bend and weld three links and form them into a chain, these links to^ be fastened to the hook of requirement No. 2 by a ring, and links and ring to be made out of %-inch round iron.5. Make a. straight lap weld of % by 1-inch stock. ,6. Make a cold 6hiseT out of %-;inch hexagonal tool steel.7. Temper a rock drill.8. Explain how to harden and temper a cold chisel. 'Troop 3 ' of' Long island,repprts the' fol^Kng “good turns Five scouts tTOk part in first memorial Roosevelt pilgrimage, 1920; troop took tickets for All American mass meeting, 1921; distributed 500 circulars for aid of starving Serbians; 200 -.Posters for hospital drive; assisted at Memorial day services for G. A. R.; assisted at Rotary club meeting; distributed boxes in Salvation army drive; helped clean vacant lots; one member of troop rescued a boy from drowning. Notwithstanding all this activity this troop has tieen keen for scout-craft advancement also. During the year 13 boys became tenderfoot scouts, 19 entered second class and six became first class. One life and one star scout and two eagles are also on the troop's record.RELAY PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.The Syracuse (N. Y.) Heraldoilers a perniauent cup trophy for a relay race to be competed for annually by Boy scout troops of the Herald parish in connection with the State fair. Last year the runners carried a message from General Pershing to Governor Smith. This year the message was from Persident Harding to Governor Miller and was won by the Phoenix boy scout team who carried the message front Auburn to the fair grounds, a distance of 26% miles in 2 hours, 19 minues, 10 seconds. The fastest individual contestant was Howard Moyer, who ran a half mile in 2 minutes ten seconds.CITY STRONG FOR SCOUTING.A scoutmaster of . Mt. Pleasant, Utah, reports that nine per cent of the population of the city are in scouting and that the whole town is behind the scout movement heapt and soul, because they .see the wonderful results it is having among the boys who are in it. The, scouts themselves are very touch alive and keen on the outdoor part of the thing. One of the interest-. Ing features of their last summer program was a six-day anto trip to Bruce canyon, a distance of 400 miles, camping en route., The party number 175, 110 of whom were scouts, , the others fathers of scouts and/others interested in the. movement.WORK OF BOY SCOUTS.r Cincinnati scouts .distributed 5,000 window cards in connection with health, week campaign: ‘Mayor Barley, has. Issued a proclamation., to the citizens of Denver, urging .'financial support and. genuine - cooperation .‘jwitlr thie local—boy-scout organization, declaring that boy scbiits are “indispensable” to the best interests^ of every city. The proclamation was’ issued apropos' to the boy scout; week -celebration1 which Depver re-. cenftyyobserved. \ ^
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Newburgh Register
Newburgh, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 16, 1921
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