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30 WILMETTE LIFE April 26. 1929 B· O Y SCOUT 'N EWS of the NORTH SHORE TROOPS A ttgular feature page prepared tach week by member· ·of the Boy Scout Prell club, North Shore Area Council Glencoe ·T roops to Hold Award Court Friday, April 26 A Court of Award to be held for Troops 21 and 22 of the Glencoe Union church was a_nnounced by Franklin M. De Beers, chairman of the Glencoe Court of Honor committee. This CI)Urt is to be held in the church Scout Assembly room on Friday evening, April 26, at 7:30 o'clock. This is a special Fathers and Sons Court of Award every scout is urged to attend with his father or other male guardian. .,. Mr. DeBeers further announces that for the program, "we are fortunate in having as a speaker our own Dr. Frederick Patton who will explain to the fathers and boys what is meant by certain portions of the Scout Oath. In order to he good Scouts, we must live up to this Oath anq to do this, we must know what it means and Dr. Patton will tell you and YOur fathers some facts · what we shouid all know about." Troop Notes FUN CONTEST IN TROOP 4 Thursday, April 18, Troop 4 of Wilmette had a swell meeting. Besides the regular things you do at a meeting, we had two contests. One contest was a first aid relay which every man was in. It was won by the Pine Tree Patrol. The other contest was a cracker eating race. Each Patrol entered a man. Each man was given four crackers. The idea of the contest was to eat the crackers and whisde a tune We also played a few other games. The meeting was ended with the benediction.-Scout Billy Lehle, Troop 4, \Vilmette. · Scouts to Compete for Championship First Aid Honors The First Aid contest open to one team of five from each troop of the North Shore council will be held before the Camp Rally at 6 :30 o'clock Monday evening, May 20, at the Deerfield Shields High school auditorium. This will be the North Shore Area council elimination contest to decide the council's best team. There will be awards of first, second, and third prizes. The winning team in this contest will compete that same evening at the Camp Rally against crack teams from Evanston and Des Plaines councils. The winner of this triangular meet will go to Chicago on May ?S to compete against Chicago's best Scout teams for the city chaQl,L>ionship. N umero:t ~ trophies will be awarded tl~ere. All applications for troop teams entering the north shore elimin!}tion contest must be in headquarters immediately so that the teams may get the official regulations and it_1structions. OPEN NEW SCOUT ROOM Troop . 3's new meeting place and Scout club room will open about May 2. Tro_op 3 has waited all year for it· opening. We are paying entirely for furnishing it. We are to have a fine big fire place in it. We will also have stuffed animals of all kinds. The troop is very fortunate to have Mr. Boyce's photograph autographed by him. Mr. Boyce brought scouting to America in 1910. The room will have pictures of the men that are on the front of the Joy Scout Manual. vVe are going to i>et a date when we will invite all troops to visit our new room-Jerome Nervim, Troop 3, Wilmette. The Weekly Bulletin of Boy Scout activities for February 9, 1929, which is sent from national headquarters to all the Scout officers in the country, contains the following interesting item concerning the early history of Robert Townley, Scoutmaster of Troop 13 of Kenilworth, also physical director oi Joseph Sears school, Kenilworth : "Back in 1910 when the first 8oy Scout Patrol was organized in the state of Wisconsin, one of the members of that original gang of nine was Bob Townley, a peppy, enthusiastic youngster. On February 3, when the Mitwaukee Scouts held a gathering at Camp Journal, Bob Townley was there to lead in the stunts and games. He is now Scoutmaster of Troop 13, Kenilworth, one of the outstanding Scout troops of the United States."-Defrecs Holmes, Rep_orter, Troop 13. to the Cabin-in -the-Woods Fridav. April 26, at 4 o'clock. They will stay overnight, pass tests, play games and probably have a treasure hunt-Bob Denham, Troop 17. 25 New Scouts Boosts Our Total to 946 Mark \Vith the addition of these twentyfive new Scouts to the North Shore Area council during the past two weeks, the total number is boosted to 946. The Thousand Mark isn't far away. The council congratulates and welcomes these Scouts ir1.t o the organization. New Scouts admitted during the week ending April 13, were: Troop 3, \Vilmette- Frank W. Hooper. Troop 23. Glencoe-Albert Scott, Jr. Troop 37, Highwood-Nella Mordini, William Pantle, Ralph Southerton, Edwin Cowgill. Troop 47, Lake Forest, Thorpe Acadenn--Robert Kersting, J. William Berry. Raymond Gourley. Herbert R. Scull. James T. Taussig, Arthur L. Young, Jack Bell. Troop 55. Glenview-Richard Bohn. New Scout admitted during the week ending April 20, were: Troop 22. Glencoe- Bill Fischer, Bruce F . Hemison. F.dw. H. Moorer, Robert H. Moulton. Troop 51. Deerfield-Edward Brenan, Albert Durmet. Charles Gruhert, Robert Hatch, Alan G. Lange, Richard Thompson. Scout Acts Promptly to Save Lives of Neighbors Julian Edelson, 13-year-old Boy Scout of Malden, Mass., performed his "Daily Good Turn" in a wholesale man ner on March 2. \\'hen the Scout detected the odor of escaping gas in the street near his home, he became instantly on the alert, summoned the police and fire department and aroused more tlum tweqty-five of his neighbors, assisting several of them to the street. Even with the hasty action of the Scout, seven persons were so severely affected by gas that they were removed to the Malden hospital in an ambulance~ Leaking g·as mains on Dani elson street in Malden, Mass., were re sponsible for the accident. FEATURE TENT PITCHING Troop 5 is going to have a ali-day nike starting at the Presbyterian church at 9 :30 Saturday morning, April 20. The troop will go to the Glenview Forest Prest::rve where tests will be passed. \Ve shall bring some pup tents which we will set up for practice. On Ia t Monday night the troop had a fine meeting. After the opening ceremonies the First Class Scouts practiced bandaging, the second class scouts signaling and the tenderfoots had knot-tying. The first class Scouts of Troop 5 are working on the athletic merit badge ior thi s month.-Dick Hall, Troop 5. · PLAN TWO TRIPS TO CABIN Troop 2, of the \Vilmette Congregational church had a business meeting this Tuesday evening. The meeting was called. to order at 7 :30 and Cicil Cox, our sc ribe, puhljshecl the orders. Jim Baker received his bronze palm award and Art Jones his merit badge for leathercraft. We then had Qatrol meeting to decide what food we · would take on our hike to the cabin on Sat urday morning. Eleven of us are going out on Friday evening and seven on Saturday morning. We will camn over night and drive home about 4 :30 Sunday. Mr. Cook has made p ns for a \Vater boiling contest. ·fire building c'ontest and log-cutting. We arc to eat by patrols and sleep by patrols. This is the first time most of us have slept on the new cots and we are lookin rr fonyard to real comfort.-Troop 2 reporter, Rol~ert Fletcher. . GET REGISTRATION CARDS After the opening ceremonies of Troop 22, Mr. McManus, the assistant Scout executive, gave the rcgistratio!l cards to the boys who had registered for 1929. Mr. Staimard, chairman of the Glencoe Boy Scout committee, presented our Troop charter. He and Mr. McManus told us some interesting facts about the new summer camp. After that we had patrol meetin~s. The Cobra patrol said it was going to put on a patrol stunt next Friday night. We were dismissed with the Scout benediction. George Budd was in charge of the meeting. Out troop meets at the Glencoe Union church.-Bob Nyborg, Scribe, Troop 22. SEE MOVIES AT COURT OF AWARD Mr. Simpson, chairman of the Troop committee of Troop 23, Glencoe, took CAMP MA-KA-JA-WAN soine pictures of Troop 23 scout activi'Vilt \ 'OU be one of the lucky ones tie:s at the Cabin-in-the- Woods 'last to go to the new Scout Summer Camp, month·. He showed them Friday, April Ma-Ka-Ja-,Van? The pays go'ng the 12, at the Court of Award in the public first year "~ill be its "builders." school gym. Some of the pictures were of the boys hiking through the woods. others \\'ere of them cooking WANTED: A CAMERA! and eating, and retreat ceremony. Mr. The BoY Scout office of the North Simpson is going to take some more Shore Area council at 21 North and have a regular troop movie reel-Sheridan road. Highland Park, is Kenneth Hess, Troop 23. badlv in need of a Graflex camera to take 4x5 pictures of the many DECORATE SCOUT ROOM Scouting actiYities along the north Troop 18, \Vinnetka Community shore. The e pictures will be kept House, has just changed to another for a hi ston· of north shore Scoutroom and is making big plans for ing. This ·camera would also he decorating and fixing up this place. used at Camp Ua-Ka-Ja-Vlan this The J unwr leaders have met under summer to bring back to the north Scoutmaster Terry's leadership, and shore people the multitude of exha\·e planned some peppy troop properience of camp life in northern l!rams for the future. Three new can\Visconsin. didates are working on their tender foot test: Henry 'Vilder. Jack HopSomeone, without a doubt, has a used Graflex camera rusting away kins and Harry Hine-Scribe Philip Swabacher, Troop 18. in the attic or lying around some place that they would glad to conTROOP 17 PLANS HIKE tribute this needy use. The counThe scouts of Troop 17, \Vinnetka cil will appreciate such a gift. Community House, are going on a hike .. · HOLD .STUNT NIGHT Fifty-two Scouts were present at our Stunt night last week. The evening proved to be very interesting and exciting one. The Bat patrol cam~ out the winners of the event. We are planning a Court of Honor for May 16, and expect many awards to be presented. We are working on our standard troop awards and need to get 75 percent of the tenderfoot and second class scouts thru at one test and 50 percent of' the first class scouts thru at least one merit badge. We expect to make it.-Scribe Paul Gilbert, Jr., Troop 13, Kenilworth. SCOUT CONTEST Troop 22. of the Glencoe Union church is having a race across the continent. It is lots of fun. The idea is to get across the continent first by win ning miles for doing different Scout activities. These include hikes, testpassing, attendance, etc. Walter McGuire is now leading with nearlv ·tSO miles and Robert Nyborg is secondScribe Robert Nyborg1 Troop 22.