https://www.kiakimamuseum.org/files/original/98a5a0ff0b3093f9c36b0230f589b529.pdf 108141899ae259b65f2135b2a1060134 PDF Text Text COUN CIL THE FIRE NUMBER 4 JUNE 10, 1926. Regist !'3.ti0n for Kia Kima is now open and all boys desiring to go to Kia Kizra should come in and obtain a registra tion card, have it filled ou.t , si@led by parents and Scoutma st.er, return it 'to Scout Headqua rters 1 and be prepared to stand a physica l examination about foux d€J.Ys prior to going to camp. ly essenti al. This is absolute - The physica l examina tion will cost the boys noth- ing and when they report here, we will send them to a doctor f or this exrunina tion. so that your b~ys Please make this announcement to your troop may properl y understa nd the requirem ents. \ \ The last Eound Table for the summer will be held Monday " night, June 14th at Calvary Parish House at 6:30 P.M., at which time some very importan t matters will be discusse d in regard to Kia Kima. I Please be present and we will make the meeting short and snappy. The Court of Honor will meet Friday night, June 11 at 7:30 P.M. at the 'Builder s Exchange. Th<) First Class Examining Boa rd will me et Saturda y, June 19th at Overton Park at 3:00 P.M. �i TJI E '( C0 V NCI L ,. F I RE r r- October 7, 1926, Number 5 Well, here is the Old Bulletin back again. r ·t has been on a vacation for the summer and is all rested up and ready to go. Letts help it. The Fourth Bionnial Conference of Scout Executives at Hot Springs is over, bn'.; ! t certainly was a huge success and I feol that the good that c3.Ine out of it will last a long time, and that many of the 'id13as that were advanced at Hot Springs'·ca.n be put in force in Memph is and will help us wi 'l:ih our problems a great deal. I am ju:s't busting to tell you all tho good things I learned at Hot Springs, and I hope some of the things will be just whnt you want to know, so please triy to come to our first fall Round Table Meeting, Monday night, O'ctober 11 at 6 :30 at Calvary Parish House and I promise you a good short peppy meeting not to last past eight o'clock. )) 1 Bfien, Super·in<iendent of Rocrerrtion , will be Bob with us at tho Round Table Meeting to ·sub'mit .f 0·r your approval, a Hallow-e 1 en Progrem'.in which the scouts will play a big part. Bob' s ideas aro always good mld I fool sure you will enjoy his ten minute l. ··' t talk. 01 As you have probably be on to ld, noxt week is Fire Prevention Week andcthe Memphis Safety Counc il h as asked us to cooperate with them in Memphis. They want at least threo o.r four boys fr om eve'ry troop to'J report ot Scout Headquarters Saturday.. morning , {9 A. M.) October 9, to help them put up posters. Will you please s ee if you can have youi· troop represented by three or four boys at that time. I '/ We havo" a nmvcomer in our ranks t o:lay, not with a brand new number but wi th' a 'brand new Scoutmaster; Troop 43 at St. Albans Mission in South Mor:1phia. They had 50 b.)ys present at thoir first get togother mooting. Il0v . 'Alf rod L. Clark is the new Scoutmaster and I feel sure that· any encouragement and service you can off er him will be more than appreciated. Camping;, at Eudora at this time of the year i S' wonderful. you a~ e ·taking ad.vantage of this beautiful locnI wonder how. r.w.ny ti0n. o1 I ' The First Class Exomining Bonrd will start mGeting shortly, nnd .YOU will be .. ~dvised of the date. ·'I • Yours 'f or a big Round Table Moati ng. I �THE COU NCIL FIRE Octobe r 14, Number 5 ~926 . :Bob O':Brien has asked thet we cooper ate with him in putting over a big Hallow e'en Program on Saturda y night, Octobe r 30. It is his ~lan to have all the childre n of Memphis assemb le at the various par~ in their neighbo rhood and they will find prepare d for them a program of activi ties for the night. Include d in this will be a huge bonfir e, which will certain ly appeal to all boys of scout age. It is Bob's idea that the scouts should play an importa nt part in this celebra tion; in fact he has honored us by asking t he scouts to lead in these activitie~ and ~e are assign ing certain troops to the park neares t them. It is planned th8t the Scout~asters of various t roops, r.ho are to meet at the same park, get togethe r and map ~~t a program of activi ties for that nif4it. I will be glad to coopera te 1'lith you in arrangi ng these program s in any way I can. The childre n are to meet at their respec tive parks at 6 :30 P. M. and will have a parade all over the neighbo rhood, lead by the scouts. My idea is that the fire will be lighted by a torch either by Fire by Frictio n, or by Flint and Steel. There will be a roped off area for the scouts to use for their program s. The Park Direct or, who will have charge of the p ark neares t you, will comnuni cate with you and arrange to assist you in any way possib le. This is our chance to ~et before the public and show them what the scouts are doing , so let's try and turn out 100%. More de.taile d plans of this celebra tion will be sent you later. The follow ing are the parks and the troop& that will go to each park : Market Square !ickford Park Gutr.tie Park Forres t Park Beaureg ard Park Overto n Park Peabod y Park Litty Park Bellebu e Gas to~ Troops l-~-34-46 Troop 33 TrooJ>s 2 Troops 5-12-38 -40 Troops 4- 5-25-26 -49-54 Troops 9-13-29 -32-36 Troops 7-10-19 -20-45- 47-27 Troop 11- 1 Eudora' Troops 14-24-5 1-30 Troops 3 - 16-43-2 2-4:8 This being Fire Preven tion Week, won't you sugges t to your troop that they do some Community 11 Go od Turn", such as cleanin g up thei r own yards or the yards of some one who have no childre n or who are unable to work about thei r own proper ty. Th.is is also a chance for a g reat service and I fe el we should take ad.vanta ge of it. W"hile at Hot Spring s, l picked up a lit t le Book on Indian Sign Language. I have talked t o several of t he troops about this and they have shown a great deal of interes t i n it. If you think your troop wou ld be intere sted in hearin g about the Indian Sign Langua ge, I will be only too glad to come out and talk to them any night that would best sui t your conveni ence. T.h e Court of Honor will meet Saturda y night, Octobe r 23 at 7: 30 P.M. at the :Builde rs Exchange. Scouts who passe~ Merit Badges at c~ should go before the Gou.rt of Honor here for final approv al of Merit Badges . Please call this to their attenti on. Yours i~r a big Hallow e'en Celebr ation, / (P"-/ t- "' t/ /J( IA- l~_,, �.. ~ THE COU N C IL -·-.- --· --- - F I RE Oct ober 21, 1926 . 1 the city , and Due to the; fact; that :Bob 0 :Brien is ~ut o! the Hallc.we ' en in y dela some has been out for a week, ther e has been ned tc. you assig k Par e th at Pro.gram and p r·~11a., )ly t h o fa:~-k Dir ector me that h e res assu e offic has not ~otten in tou.1~ :1 w-H.h you, but his goin g are ents gem arran will comnn.Ulicate with you immedi~tely a.~d righ t ahea d. to the kind of Ther e seems to be s~me misu nder stan ding as 'en Cele brat ion. It is clot hes the boys shou ld wear at the Hall owe orm s so that they may be pref erre d that the ;cou ts wear thei r unif ipan ts and R O we may ~et dist ingu ishe d from the rest of t he part ic t ime. some reco gnit ion for the work done a t tnat I d new Scou tTroo p 38 has been reorgani zed and has a bran they will go ahea d now mas tert Mr. Fred Lenz and I feel sure that ci ate any assi stan ce e with a full win te r prog ram. Fred will appr th a t you can give him. ra t1 work on Troo p 19 is leav ing . this afte rno on for Eudo com pleti on and Scou tthei r cabi n. This cabi n . i s rapi dly near ing to see it. mas ter .Rog er Stan ley invi tes you all down ial App eal I hope you saw our news item in the Commerc m a su cces s. c"lun this make and 1 er last week. Let s all pull t"l geth Headquar ters ev e ry Sa t urda y Have yeur Scri be brin g the tro ~p news to es s and even tual ly we wil l morn ing and this page will then be a succ have more sp ac~ . thei r firs t The Firs t Clas s Examinin~ ~~ard will hold Park , 3 P.M. rton Ove 3.t 30t:h mee ting Satu rday afte rnoo n, Octo ber nigh t, Oct. 23, The Cour t of Honor will meet thi5: Satu rday at 7:30 at the Buil ders Exch anee . I .1 j ·1 �THE Number 8 COUNCIL FIRE October 28, 1926. A good many of the troops have been tal~ing advantage of. the splendid weather we h 0ve been having and . canping overnight at Eudora. If you have not been down, let me urge th1:- t y.ou take your troop down and show ther:i what a wonderful place Eud.ora is. 'rroops 12, 19 and 38 spent a very en joyable Saturday and Sunday at Eudora last week and several troops have manifested their intention of going down this week-end. Probably some of the boys i,vould like to go Possum Hunting at \ uroda; i f so, just let Camp Director lfiyers know a few days before you get there and he will make all a rrange~ents for the best Possum Hunt you ever had. Let me urge th8t you have your Scribe bring the troop news to Scout HeaC. querters every Friday afternoon or Sa.turday morning, so that we may use all the space the Conunercial .Appeal has so kindly consented to giv e us on Sunday morning, and here let me pause and express my appreciation to the Commercial Appeal for their kindness. · I hope that the Hallowe 1 en Celebratio~ will be a huge success and I feel sure that we have g iven Fr. 0 1 Brien all the cooperation he asked for. 'Ihe First Class Examining :Board will hold t heir first meeting Sa turday afternoon at 3 P. f..·I. in Overton Pa.rk Tourist Grounds. The Court of F.onor will be held Friday night, November 5th, at t he :Builders Exchange et 7. :30. T'nere a.re a number of Merit :Badge Applications th ~ t have been handed in by the scouts and put on the Court of ·.onor Docket but these scouts have failed to appear before the Court of Honor for final review. Plee se bring this to the attention of your scouts and i nsist that they attend to this at once. I 11.r. Allen liug..'ri.es, Jr., who has been a very active Troop Comni t teemen of Troop 5, h a s been appointed as a Deputy Connnissioner. .Any time that I can be of any assistance to you in any way , at your troop meeting or otherwise, do not hef:iitate to call on me. My time is yours and I am more t han glad to do anything I can to assist you. �THE COUNCIL F IRE Number 9 November 4 , Armistice Day , November 11 of this year should be a red letter day in scouting. We· heve been invited to parad.e in the American Le gion ParaC.e on t hat day as a unit. and :C hope that every troop with their Scout.masters will be in the parade lOO)t . As an added incentive to mar·ch in the parade., there will be a silver loving cup given to the be£t troo~ i~ the parade. The judging of the troops will be on the f ollowing basis: 40 50 10 Foints for 1001;6 attendance . Points for appearance . Points for the Scoutmaster marching in the parade. You will be notified where the parade wil1 fo rm and what place in the parade the scout organization will take, by telephone and also by the nev!S-papers. The 50 points allowed for appearance will be based on scouts in uniform, condition of uniform and the way the boys conduct themselve s in the p arade. The troop will score 10 points for having their Sco~tmaster with theQ, regardless whether he is in uniform or not. I will be glad to discuss this matter over with you at the Rou...rid Table meeting. I There will be a meeting of the Scout Leaders Round Table Monday nif:ht , November 8th at 6 :30. At that tir1e I hope to bring to your attention several important matters, so I hope that you will be pres ent . President John T. Morgan has written a personal letter to the Chairman of each Troop Committee urging them to be present at this meeting. You will help us if you will urge them to cor:1e also. The Court of Loner will meet Friday , November 5th at the Builders Ixchan1.< e a t 7 :30 P. ~;. . Judge Harry B. .Anderson of the Federal Court has accepted an invitation from the members of the Court of Honor to become a member of that court and henceforth will meet with them at their regul ar bimonthly meetings . The First Class Examining Board will meet Saturday , November 13 at Overton Park at 3:30 P.M. P.S. The scouts will march behind the Military Division in the .Armistice Day Parade. Troops will form on the south side of Co~rt (by felephone Co . ) between Third and Fourth in nuraerical order at 9:30 A.Yi. �THE COUNCIL F I iL2 November 10, 19 NU: 1iE.R 10 Saturday night, November 20th, at Overton Park, we are going to have a scout party. The first part of the program will be a Will-o 1 -the-Wlisp Hunt, for which the two winners of this hunt will receive a prize. The rules for this contest are as follows: All scouts and their friends desiring to enter in this hunt must register at Scout Headquarters prior to the 20th of Nov. On the night of November 20th, they will meet just east of the Soldier and Sailor Memorial 1n Overton Park at 7:00 o ' clock. A few minutes thereafter, they will see a flash of li~ht somewhere near them. This li~t will thereafter continuously flash until two boys have caue,ht the light. The boys· will be further instructed in this game when they get to Overton Park • .After the i'lill-o 1 -the-Wisp Chase, we wi 11 have a ·: einer Roast near the East Pavillion for those boys who are registered for this ChPse. We hope to have a nice turn out for this pa rty. All a.re invited, especially the Scoutmasters. Hereafter no scout will be allowed to take more than gwo Merit Badges per Court of Honor. This is not an arbitrary rule but is one which wa s discussed at the last Scout Leaders Round Table and was agreed upon • .. The last Scout Leaders Round Table meeting was certainly a huge success and I hope those of you who were not with us can be present at the next one and see what a good time we have and how much good comes out of these meeting s. I · The First Class Exa..vnining Eoard will meet at Overton Park Saturday afternoon, November 13th at 3 :00 P. M. Our Camp Director at Eudora tells me tha.t there is mighty good Possum Hunting down there . If you would like to go Possum Hunting, just let us laiow a couple of days ahead so we can have the dogs and we will promise you the time of ~our liire at Camp Currier. Don't forget to have your Scribe r eport the doing of your troop every Saturday morning so that we may have it in t he Commercial Appeal Sunday ~ Sincerely yours, ~ 17~---~ II li/!Z ~-0 �C 0 U N C I J, THE F I R E November 24, 1926. N'limber 12 Novet1ber 26th, Mr. :Sen Scovell, a well known author and enter~ainer is going to talk to Troop 34, Calvary Parish Troop 34 extends House, corner of Second and .A.darns, at 7 :30 P. ! ~ . a cordial invitation to all other troops in the city to attend this Mr. Scovell is the lecture and to be their guests on this ni~ht . author of the First English Scout Constitutio n and is a very close personal friend of Str. :Sc.:den Powell, Chief Scout of the World)}' I know that the boys will enjoy this talk very much. Friday ni~nt , There has been a great deal of interest manifested in the ~~niature Contest and I feel ' sure that there will be a great many If any of your boys need models to go interesting articles made. Contest, tell them to come to Scout Bridge or by on the Toturn Pole to show them pictures of miniature glad be Headquarter s and I will have not brought this matter to ou y If bridges and totum poles. you will do so and urge them to hope I , the attention of your troop get in this Contest. The Will-o 1 -the-Wisp Hunt at Overton Park was a huge success and I hope to follow it up with several other interesting games later on in the season. " Troops 2, 10, 11, 14 and 40 plan to spend this week end At any time you want to take at Eudora and go Possum Hunting. your troop down there to go Possum Hunting, just let me know so I can rncike necessary arrangement s. I I wish each and every one of you a pleasant Thanksgivin g • . Sincerely your friend, I /:·N '/fzd~ �THE COUNCIL December 2, ·1926. Number 13 ~ A..li!D NOW .ANO'l.11IER .! ! ANOTHER Wtli..T ? ? ? 1 ? This time .AMOTHER m:.Q.....0.11.X._WIPE YA~~!QL'b'IB SCOUTS. it will and difficult, r.iore tJe t J.i a anC. ted complica more little a endid spl Twelve win. to s h& scout a that take the best thou?ht .A Yl'einer Roast and every th ing. prizes to the twelve winners . Riverside Perk is the place; Tuesday, Decemb8r 28th is the day and .All t he scouts in the Chickasaw Council are· 11 :00 A. M. the time. This will be a different kind invited and urged to participate. More of a Treasure Hunt from wha t the boys have ever had . Further details will be ieysterious - - !lllore daring - - and more fun. in each succeedin~ Bulletin but be sure a~d tell the boys about it now , so they can be making their plans to attend, and I prQmise them the best time they ever had. Troop 27 is the newest addition to the Chicka saw Council with three full patrols and Richard Busby as Scou tmaster . I fe el sure that any advice you could give Dick would be ap~reciated. Dr. Geor~e Graham has taken hold of Troop 26 and they are going right ahead. Troop 9 also has a new Scoutmaster, Mr. T.J. Turner. He is full of enthusiasm and I feel sure we will hear more of 'l'roop 9. I Keep after your boys and get them in the Miniature Contest. Lots of boys are now workin ~ on it but the more the merrier . ~ny information they want about this, tell them to come to Scout Headquarters and I will be glad to give it to them. The First Class Examining Board will meet Saturday afternoon at 3:00 P.H. at Overton Park Tourist Grounds. The Court of Honor will meet Saturday at the Builders Exchan~e. ni ~ht , Deaember 4, Yours for a" big Treasure Hunt. -~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chickasaw Council Newsletter Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document I THE COUNCIL FIRE NUMBER 4 JUNE 10, 1926. Regist !' 3.ti0n for Kia Kima is now open and all boys desiring to go to Kia Kizra should come in and obtain a registration card, have it filled ou.t, si@led by parents and Scoutmast.er, return it 'to Scout Headquarters 1 and be prepared to stand a physical examination about foux d€J.Ys prior to going to camp. This is absolutely essential. The physical examination will cost the boys nothing and when they report here, we will send them to a doctor f or this exrunination. Please make this announcement to your troop so that your b~ys may properly understand the requirements. \ The last Eound Table for the summer will be held Monday " night, June 14th at Calvary Parish House at 6:30 P.M., at which time some very important matters will be discussed in regard to Kia Kima. Please be present and we will make the meeting short and snappy. \ The Court of Honor will meet Friday night, June 11 at 7:30 P.M. at the 'Builders Exchange. Th<) First Class Examining Bo a rd will me et Saturday, June 19th at Overton Park at 3:00 P.M. I i '( ,. r TJI E C 0 V N C I L F I R E Number 5 October 7, 1926, Well, here is the Old Bulletin back again. r ·t has been on a vacation for the summer and is all rested up and ready to go. Letts help it. The Fourth Bionnial Conference of Scout Executives at Hot Springs is over, bn '.; ! t certainly was a huge success and I feol that the good that c3.Ine out of it will last a long time, and that many of the 'id13as that were advanced at Hot Springs'·ca.n be put in force in Memph is and will help us wi 'l:ih our problems a great deal. I a m ju:s't busting to tell you all tho good things I learned at Hot Springs, and I hope some of the things will be just whnt you want to know, so please triy to come to our first fall Round Ta ble Meeting, Monday night, O'ctober 11 at 6 :30 at Calvary Pa rish House and I promise you a good short peppy meeting not to last past eight o'clock. )) 1 Bob 0 1 Bfien, Super·in<iendent of Rocrerrtion , will b e with us at tho Round Table Meeting to · sub'mit . f 0·r your approval, a Hallow-e 1 en Progrem'.in which the scouts will play a big part. Bob ' s ideas aro always good mld I fool sure you will enjoy his ten minute talk. t ··' l. As you have probably be on to ld, noxt week is Fire Prevention Week andc the Memphis Safety Council h as asked us to cooperate with them in Memphis. They want at least threo o.r four boys rfr om eve'ry troop to'J report ot Scout Headquarters Saturday .. morning, { 9 A. M.) October 9, to help them put up posters. Will you please s ee if you can have youi· tr oop represented by three or four boys at that time. We havo" a nmvcomer in our ranks t o:lay, not with a brand new number but wi th' a 'brand new Scoutmaster; Troop 43 at St. Albans Mission in South Mor:1phia. They had 50 b.)ys present at thoir first get togother mooting. Il0v . 'Alf rod L. Clark is the new Scoutmaster and I feel sure that· any encouragement and service you can off e r him will be more than appreciated. Camping;, at Eudora at this time of the year i S' wonderful. I wonder how . r.w.ny o1 you a~ e ·taking ad.vantage of this beautiful locnti0n. I ' The First Class Exomining Bonrd will start mGeting shortly, nnd .YOU will be .. ~dvised of the date. ·'I • Yours 'for a big Round Table Moati ng. '/ I THE COUNCIL FIRE Number 5 October 14, ~926 . :Bob O':Brien has asked thet we cooperate with him in putting over a big Hallowe'en Program on Saturday night, October 30. It is his ~lan to have all the children of Memphis assemble at the various par~ in their neighborhood and they will find prepared for them a program of activities for the night. Included in this will be a huge bonfire, which will certainly appeal to all boys of scout age. It is Bob's idea that the scouts should play an important part in this celebration; in fact he has honored us by asking t he scouts to lead in these activitie~ and ~e are assigning certain troops to the park nearest them. It is planned th8t the Scout~asters of various t roops, r.ho are to meet at the same park, get together and map ~~t a program of activities for that nif4it. I will be glad to cooperate 1'li th you in arranging these programs in any way I can. The children are to meet at their respective parks at 6 :30 P. M. and will have a parade all over the neighborhood, lead by the scouts. My idea is that the fire will be lighted by a torch either by Fire by Friction, or by Flint and Steel. There will be a roped off area for the scouts to use for their programs. The Park Director, who will have charge of the park nearest you, will comnuni cate with you and arrange to assist you in any way possible. This is our chance to ~et before the public and show them what the scouts are doing, so let's try and turn out 100%. More de.tailed plans of this celebration will be sent you later. The following are the parks and the troop& that will go to each park : Market Square !ickf ord Park Gutr.tie Park Forres t Park Beauregard Park Overton Park Peabody Park Litty Park Bellebue Gas to~ Troops Troop TrooJ>s Troops Troops Troops Troops Troop Troops Troops l-~-34-46 33 2 5-12-38-40 4- 5-25-26-49-54 9-13-29-32-36 7-10-19-20-45-47-27 11- 1 Eudora' 14-24-51-30 3- 16-43-22-4:8 This being Fire Prevention Week, won't you suggest to your troop that they do some Community 11 Go od Turn", such as cleaning up their own yards or the yards of some one who have no children or who are unable to work about their own property. Th.is is also a chance for a great service and I feel we should take ad.vantage of it. W"hile at Hot Springs, l picked up a litt le Book on Indian Sign Language. I have talked t o several of the troops about this and they have shown a great deal of interest i n it. If you think your troop would be interested in hearing about the Indian Sign Language, I will be only too glad to come out and talk to them any night that would best suit your convenience. T.he Court of Honor will meet Saturday night, October 23 at 7:30 P.M. at the :Builders Exchange. Scouts who passe~ Merit Badges at c~ should go before the Gou.rt of Honor here for final approval of Merit Badges. Please call this to their attention. Yours i~r a big Hallowe'en Celebration, /( P"-/ t- t/ /J( IA- l~_,, "' I ~ .. THE COUN C IL F I R E -·-.- --·---- Oc t ober 21, 1926. Due to the; fact; that :Bob 0 1 :Brien is ~ut o! the city, and has been out for a week, there has been some delay in the Hallc.we ' en Pro.gram and p r ·~11 a.,) ly t h o fa:~-k Dire c tor at the Par k assigned tc. you has not ~otten in tou.1 ~ :1 w-H.h y ou, but his office assures me that h e will comnn.Ulicate with you immedi~tely a.~d arrangements are going right ahead. There seems to be s~me misunderstanding as to the kind of clothes the boys should wear at the Hallowe'en Celebration. It is pref erred that the ;couts wear their uniforms so that they may be distinguished from the rest of t he partic ipants and RO we may ~et some recognition for the work done a t tnat t ime. Troop 38 has been reorg anized and has a brand new Scoutmastert Mr. Fred Lenz and I feel sure that they will go ahead now with a full win te r program. Fred will appre c i a te any assistance tha t you can give him. Troop 19 is leaving . this afternoon for Eudora t1 work on their cabin. This cabi n . i s rapidly nearing completion a nd Scoutmaster .Roger Stanley invites you all d own to see it. I hope you saw our news item in the Commercial Appeal last week. Let 1 s all pull t"l gether and make this c"lunm a su ccess. Have yeur Scribe bring the tro ~p n ews to Headqu a r ters ev e ry Sat urda y morning and this page will then be a succe s s a nd eventually we wi l l have more sp ac~ . The First Class Examinin~ ~~ard will hold their first meeting Saturday afterno on, Oc tober 30t:h 3.t Overton Pa rk, 3 P.M. The Court of Honor will meet thi5: Saturday night, Oct. 23, at 7:30 at the Builders Exchanee. I .1 j ·1 I THE COUNCIL FIRE Number 8 October 28, 1926. A good many of the troops have been tal~ing advantage of. the splendid weather we h 0ve been having and . can ping overnight at Eudora. If you have not been down, let me urge th1:- t y.ou take your troop down and show ther:i what a wonderful place Eud.ora is. 'rroops 12, 19 and 38 spent a very en joyable Saturday and Sunday at Eudora last week and several troops have manifested their intention of going down this week-end. Probably some of the boys i,vould like to go Possum Hunting at \ uroda; if so, just let Camp Director lfiyers know a few days before you get there and he will make all a rrange~ents for the best Possum Hunt you ever had. Let me urge th8t you h ave your Scribe bring the troop news to Scout Hea C. querters every Friday afternoon or Sa .turday morning, so that we may use all the space the Co nunercial .Appeal has so kindly consented to give us on Sunday morning, and here let me pause and express my appreciation to the Commercial Appeal for their kindness. · I hope that the Hallowe 1 en Celebratio~ will be a huge success and I feel sure that we have g iven Fr. 0 1 Brien all the cooperation he asked for. 'Ihe First Class Examining :Board will hold t h eir first meeting Sa turday afternoon at 3 P. f..·I. in Overton Pa.rk Tourist Grounds. The Court of F.onor will be held Friday ni ght, November 5th, at t h e :Builders Ex change et 7. :30. T'nere a.re a number of Merit :Badge Applications th ~ t have been handed in by the scouts and put on the Court of · .. onor Docket but these scouts have failed to appear before the Court of Honor for final review. Plee se bring this to the attention of your scouts and i nsist that they attend to this at once. 11.r. Allen liug..'ri. es, Jr., who has been a very active Troop Comni t teemen of Troop 5, h a s been app ointed as a Deputy Connnissioner. .Any time that I can be of any assistance to you in any way , at your troop meeting or otherwise, do not hef:iitate to call on me. My time is yours and I am more t h an glad to do any thing I can to assist you. I THE COUNCIL F IRE Number 9 November 4 , Armistice Day , November 11 of this year should be a red letter day in scouting. We · heve be en invited to parad.e in the American Le gion ParaC.e on t hat day as a unit. and :C hope that every troop with their Scout.masters will be in the parad e lOO)t . As an added incentive to mar·ch in the parade., there will be a silver loving cup given to the be£t troo~ i~ the parade. The judging of the troops will be on the f ollowing basis: 40 Foints for 1001;6 attendance . 50 Points for appearance . 10 Points for the Scoutmaster marching in the parade. You will be notified where the parade wil1 fo rm and what place in the parade the scout organization will take, by telephone and also by the nev!S-papers. The 50 points allowed for appearance will be based on scouts in uniform, condition of uniform and the way the boys conduct themselves in the p a rade. The troop will score 10 points for having their Sco~tmaster with theQ , regardless whether he is in uniform or not. I will be glad to discuss this matter over with you at the Rou...rid Table meeting. There will be a meeting of the Scout Leaders Round Table Monday nif:ht , November 8th at 6 :30. At that tir1e I hope to bring to your attention several important matters, so I hope that you will be present . President John T. Morgan has written a personal letter to the Chairman of each Troop Committee urging them to be present at this meeting. You will help us if you will urge them to cor:1e also. The Court of Loner will meet Friday , November 5th at the Builders Ixchan1.<e a t 7 :30 P. ~;. . Jud ge Harry B . .Anderson of the Fede ral Court has accepted an invitation from the members of the Court of Honor to become a member of that court and henceforth will meet with them at their regul a r bimonthly meetings . The First Class Examining Board will meet Saturday , November 13 at Overt on Park at 3:30 P.M. P.S. The scouts will march behind the Military Division in the .Armistice Day Parade. Troops will form on the south side of Co~rt (by felephone Co . ) between Third and Fourth in nuraerical order at 9:30 A.Yi. I THE COUNCIL F I iL2 NU: 1iE.R 10 November 10, 19 Saturday night, November 20th, at Overton Park, we are going to have a scout party. The first part of the program will be a Will-o1 -the-Wlisp Hunt, for which the two winners of this hunt will receive a prize. The rules for this contest are as follows: All scouts and their friends desiring to enter in this hunt must register at Scout Headquarters prior to the 20th of Nov. On the night of November 20th, they will meet just east of the Soldier and Sailor Memorial 1n Overton Park at 7:00 o ' clock. A few minutes thereafter, they will see a flash of li~ht somewhere near them. This li~t will thereafter continuously flash until two boys have caue,ht the light. The boys· will be further instructed in this game when they get to Overton Park • .After the i'lill-o 1 -the-Wisp Chase, we wi 11 have a ·: einer Roast near the East Pavillion for those boys who are registered for this ChPse. We hope to have a nice turn out for this party. All a.re invited, especially the Scoutmasters. Hereafter no scout will be allowed to take more than gwo Merit Badges per Court of Honor. This is not an arbitrary rule but is one which was discussed at the last Scout Leaders Round Table and was agreed upon • .. The last Scout Leaders Round Table meeting was certainly a huge success and I hope those of you who were not with us can be present at the next one and see what a good time we have and how much good comes out of these meetings. · The First Class Exa..vnining Eoard will meet at Overton Park Saturday afternoon, November 13th at 3 :00 P. M. Our Camp Director at Eudora tells me tha.t there is mighty good Possum Hunting down there. If you would like to go Possum Hunting, just let us laiow a couple of days ahead so we can have the dogs and we will promise you the time of ~our liire at Camp Currier. Don't forget to have your Scribe r eport the doing of your troop every Saturday morning so that we may have it in the Commercial Appeal Sunday ~ Sincerely yours, ~ 17~---~ II li/!Z ~-0 I THE C 0 U N C I J, F I R E N'limber 12 November 24, 1926. Friday ni~nt , Novet1ber 26th, Mr. :Sen Scovell, a well known author and enter~ainer is going to talk to Troop 3 4, Calvary Parish House, corner of Second and .A.darns, at 7 :30 P. ! ~ . Troop 34 extends a cordial invitation to all other troops in the city to attend this lecture and to be their gue sts on this ni ~ht . Mr. Scovell is the author of the First English Scout Constitution and is a very close personal friend of Str. :Sc.:den Powell, Chief Scout of the World)}' I know that the boys will enjoy this talk very much. There has been a great deal of interest manifested in the ~~niature Contest and I feel ' sure that there will be a great many interesting articles made. If any of your boys need models to go by on the Toturn Pole or Bridge Contest, tell them to co me to Scout Headquarters and I will be glad to show them pictures of miniature bridges and totum poles. If y ou have not brought this matter to the attention of your troop , I hope you will do so and urge them to get in this Contest. The Will-o 1 -the-Wisp Hunt at Overton Park was a huge success and I hope to follow it up with several other interesting game s later on in the season. " Troops 2, 10, 11, 14 and 40 plan to spend this week end at Eudora and go Possum Hunting. At any time you want to take your troop down there to g o Possum Hunting, just let me know so I can rncike necessary arrangements. I wish each and every one of you a pleasant Thanksgiving • . Sincerely your friend, I /:·N '/fzd~ I THE COUNCIL Number 13 Dece mber 2, · 19 26. A..li!D NOW .ANO 'l.11IER .! ! ~ ANOTHER Wtli..T ? ? ? 1 ? .AMOTHER m:.Q.....0.11.X._WIPE YA~~!QL'b'IB SCOUTS. This time a little more comp lica ted a nC. a J.i t tJe r.iore difficult, a nd it will take the best thou?ht that a scout h &s to win. Twelve splendid prizes to the twelve winne rs . .A Yl'einer Roast a nd every t h ing . Riverside Perk is the place; Tuesd ay, Decemb8r 28th is the day and 11 :00 A. M. the time. .All t h e scouts in the Chickasaw Council are· invited and urged to participate. This will be a different kind of a Treasure Hunt from wh a t the boys have ever had . More ieysterious - - !lllore daring - - and more fun. Further details will be in each succeedin~ Bulletin but be sure a~d tell the boys about it now , so they can be making their plans to attend, and I prQmise them the best time they ever had. Troop 27 is the newest addition to the Chicka saw Council with three full patrols and Richard Busby as Scou tmaster . I fe e l sure that any advice you could g ive Dick would be ap~reciated. Dr. Geor~e Graham has taken hold of Troop 26 and they are going right ahead. Troop 9 also has a new Scoutmaster, Mr. T.J. Turner. He is full of enthusiasm and I feel sure we will hear more of 'l'roop 9. Keep after your boys and get them in the Miniature Contest. Lots of boys are now workin ~ on it but the more the merrier . ~ny information they want about this, tell them to come to Scout Headquarters and I will be glad to give it to them. The First Class Examining Board will mee t Saturday afternoon at 3:00 P.H. at Overton Park Tourist Grounds. The Court of Honor will meet Saturday ni ~ht , Deaember 4, at the Builders Exchan ~ e. Yours for a" big Treasure Hunt. -~ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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