TROOP SEVEN TO ORGANIZE TEAM Doughty Scouts Will Play Basketball; Hay Receives Ace Medal The first scout in Troop 7 to re ceive an ace nieclal for selling War Saving Scamps is James Hay. So far, just three scouts have receiv ed achievement buttons. At the last meeting of the troop a committee was appointed consist- j ing of Paul Heming, Lloyd Gotwult ; and Bud Kidiger to consider the possibility of maintaining a has- ; ketball team. •• The troop merit System was put ; into effect last week. It is hoped that it will stimulate Interest of bet- I ter attendance. A suitable reward l will be given to the scout■ or scouts \ getting -the highest number of' points. Starting this evening the patrols TRY THIS FOR LIVER ANj) BOWELS Brew it at home yourself, save money and better right away. \ if you want a splendid, economl- i cat remedy for • constipation, sick i eaUache. dizziness and torpid liver, 1 get a small package of Dr. Carter's H. and B. Tea to-day and drink a cup el your own brewing whenever you • need it. I This idd reliable vegetable remedy has stood the test of time and is now . more popular than over. Keep a package in ilie house all •the time and brew a cuptui when you ! eel out of sorts, feverish or bilious. It always helps—promptly—and be ing mild and gentle, is just as good r chi. 'e-n as for grownups. A Health Builder For Weakened Lungs Where a continued cough or cold ; threatens the lungs, Eckman's Alter ative will help to stop the cough, i strengthen the lungs and restore health. Site and $ 1.0 bottlbs at drug- I gists, or from EC KM A X LA BO R A TORY. Philadelphia. ■ 3" -NMMKKIfV - The Gift of All 1 v Christmas Gifts * , # ' Much of the real joy of Christmas wpuld iV' l ac^in ff vvere it not for the many wonder u' i ewelr y particularly gifts of Diamond Jewelry /w.\ : f- Judging by the tremendous volume of p#' • business we have been favored jv'ith thus far, thiS S^a,S ° n promises to b rea k aP record| for We show wonderful assortments of Dia i VM-fellS * monds of all sizes—Diamond Rings—Dia- V. ' mond I.a\ all itM es —1 )iamond Scarf Pins- * FRIDAY EVENING^"*""'' will take turns In furnishing the troop with some stunts or extra program. Tl)e first aid patrol, Carl Gingrich sonlor patrol leader, prom ises to have a new stunt. Every scout of the troop wants to soe It. Troop 26 Elects Scout Balmer as Treasurer At our meeting Monday evening, 11. Ktnneard McCleary was sworn ' Into the tenderfoot ri\nk and ap plications from two candidates for 1 membership were received. The ' office of treasurer has been made i vacant through Scout Herman Jones moving to Scrunton, and Scout Ben Maimer was elected to fill the vn : cancy. We elected new patrol leud j ers and reorganized the patrols, j Those elected were Scout Jones, Fly ; ing Eagle; Scout Mossier, Stag: -Scout Zimmerman, Reaver; Scout : Singleton, Eagle. . ' All the • tenderfoot scouts are : studying signaling for a. test In the • near future and hope io pass the second class exuminutiau early in the new year. An entertainment is I being planned to be giVen in the ; church for the-benefit of the troop, i We have some talented Soodlts and I expect to put on a good show. TJie Scouts are being well versed in the i Scout laws, und are keeping mental ily awake for opportunities to do good turns. We \yant all Scouts to be iyesent at our ntetding next Mon day 'night, Which will be the last meeting of the old vear. PAUL WARFIELD. Scribe. t -7 —--—^ Troop 16 Has Interesting and Vefy Busy Month The month of November was a busy one for Troop 16. Five indoor meetings-and four outdoor meetings i were held. The troop Is taking up ' under the leadership of Assistant Scoutmaster George. S. Spangler, map , making and other detals of second class work. Two new scouts, John Essick and Henry Delaney, have i been added to the troop, which now numbers twenty-seven. Besides this there are twelve Wolf Cubs under the paternal care of the yoop. Troop No. 16 has responded to every ap- : peal for service that has been made; thus far, and ranks onV hundred per j cent, in civic efficiency. WORK I'OH Bl'1) .CROSS Saturday morning wil be a busy time for the scouts of the city. Each I troop will distribute to every house in its district a pamphlet in the in terest of the Chrismas membership j drive for the Red Cross. It is a big I "good turn," and one worth while. *NEWS RNP NOTES OFTHE BOY STOUTS j TROOP STUDIES IN FIRST AID Scouts of City Invited to Par ticipate in Ctiurse With Troop Twenty-six Troop 21 lias started a winter course In first aid cohering a month or six weeks under the direction of their new assistant scoutmaster, Paul Kohlhaas, who Is captain of the Bethlehem Steel Company's first aid team. Mr. Kohlhaas is considered one of the best first aid men in this ter ritory and will tuko the scouts through first aid up to the most ad vanced work. After .the course is finished Mr. Kohlhaas will select a first aid team from among the scouts of the troop and will train them to compete with any first aid team in Harrisburg. An invitation is extended to the Pcouts of other troops In Harris burg to attend this course, which will be held each Monday evening at the Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, Thirteenth and Vernon streets, at 7.30. Scouts wishing in formation on any points of advanced first aid for their first class test will be given any assistance they desire by applying to Mr. Kohlhaas after the close of the regular Monday night troop meeting. L. E. VAN A NAN, S. M. Troop Twenty's Business Meeting to Be Tonight The business meeting of Troop 20 for December will be held- to night. The Red Cross Christmas honor roll will be explained. A teach er has been secured to teach the bugle corps. All buglers are requested to bring 'their instruments to take their first lesson. After the meeting, tenderfoot examinations wilt be held. A number of members of the troop will soon be ready to take examina tions at headquarters. HEXRY A. BAER, Scribe. KJttUUSBURG TELEGRAM THE WOLF By Scout Robert Keller Our friends the dogs should lead the list by right of their advance ment, but It will be better first to examine some of their wild proto types, especially the wolves, the most typical and powerful of the cin'ne The great gray wolf, still more or less prevalent throughout almost the whole of northern hemisphere, meas ures in its largest subarttc form about three and a half feet long, ex clusive of the somcwhut bushy tail. Which hangs to the hooks, and weighs one hundred and fifty pounds o, thereabout. . This northern wolf has an under fur of slategra.v not found in southcrnly examples, and is vpi cally of a rufous or yellowish gray above, more or less grizzled, while the under parts are whitish, and the tail Is often tipped with black. These hues are paler in northern than in southern specimen*, and the latter are also Inclined to Ixy 4 smaller; in many warm regions /totally black races are known, and the black wolf of Florida Is considered by Merriam a distinct species; as also are the great pure white wolf of our Arctic coast and the wolf of Japan. In gen eral the animal Is a creature of wood ed mountains, —a "timber" wolf. In summer a pair will retlte to some cavern or convenient shelter, often dug by the mother herself, and there six to ten whelps are coin, but usually only two or three sur vive to full age. At this season small games is numerous everywhere, and the animals, Wandering about alone by day as well as by right, pick up a good living with little trouble, and grow fat. Indolent, and cowardly, or at any rate peaceful. As the summer closes and as the whelps glow the parents take them 'out with them and show them what Is good to eat and how to hunt for it. with the onset of winter, times become harder, the small creatures disap pear, and then the wolves must arouse their strength and intelligence to .outwit and overcome the larger unlnials—the wild cattle, deer, an- i telopes, and the like upon which they prey. * The peaceful disposition of sum mer change* as the snow fills the forests, the cold Rales moan through the trees, and the long, dark nights enshroud an almost dead world, Into I hungry foroctty and u force of craft | and caution born of the direst need, | breeding a daring which at list j makes the animal formidable to man | himself. Much exaggeration ni* I crept Into the popular history of j wolves, from the superstitutlous tales | of ol(,l: but basis enough remains .o ! make it certain that travelers through I the wintry wilderness of Canada or [ Itusata have more then otice been at | tacked, pulled down, and killed i>>" j these beasts, whose boldness, ens i durance, and persistence In pursuit j when crazed by famine, are almost boundless. Nevertheless more po - sons have been scared than hunt: ml that mainly by the terrific howling which multiplies itself by Its rapid, echoing volume, until it seems as though a dozen wolves were clamor ing in concert." -It. is In winter, mainly, when the larger animals must be depended upon, that the wolves form them selves into packs and assist one an other. To this class of animals hunt ing is truly "the Chase," for their method Is, having found their quarry In which the good nose {or a trail and the keen hearing assist them),, to keep, it in sight and fun It down. The endurance of their, gallop is aa- I tonlshing, yet rrioat deer, antelopes, j and horses can outspeed and outswiip | thetn, and would usually escape a j single wolf. Therefore two, pr some-. | times many, unite, and by relieving one another, cutting across corners, I surrounding a pond In which some j rteelng victim has sought safety, or I otherwise acting in concert, will ex- I haust and pull down an animal i enough to furnish a meal for all— | if the later ones are not to slow !h I arriving. A band of Artie wolves ; will depopulate a district of reindeer j In one winter: only the polar bear i and the niusk ox can hold their own | against them. Very pretty tactics are often employed, especially by co yotes, whose work must be doubly strategic because done In the opeii. Plainsmen still call a particularly big old gray wolf a "buffalo run ner," recalling the time when tltf principal prey of those of the West, was the bison. "The wolves seldom molested the buffaloes unless they i were disabled by wounds or sickness. The young calves were what they were after when they skulkd through j the herd, dodging the old bulls and j angry cow buffaloes In the tall bunch j grass of the plains." Dwellers on tho frontier, or in thinly settled and mountainous dis tricts. suffer from the depredations pf the bigger wolves, which maim more than they kill and eat, when famine, or the lesson from some prev ious success, leads them to attack , domestic aulntals. This destructive- I i,ess, and the value of their pelts, j have led to their extermination throughout .the more thickly settled parts of both the United States and Canada, and even. In the far West they become scaroe 'since the dis appearance of bison. elk, .and hluck tall. A black variety still, haunts the recesses of the Florida ever- I glades. In the ranching districts, : however, cattle and sheep keep many bands alive wherever there are rocky ! fastnesses to which they may retire. ! in. spite of the .traps, poisons, and J guns which they understand so much 1 better than their forefathers: but they are not as adaptable, clever, and safe as the coyotes. In Eurppe. they still persist on the continent even in France and Bpuin, wherever a rough country gives them parbor, whence they may race forth on win ter nights to ravage the farms and pasture#; And official returns show that more than hnjf a million head of.- cattle and sqigller {i vest pelf ftre annually destroyed by wolves In Europenh Russia alone, - In Saxon times wolves .were very abundant. Acllan added to his mar vels and asserted that the wplt can not bend its neck; if It should happen to tread on the flower of tho squill It at once becomes torpid, So the wily fox, fearing his more powerful en emy, takes care to strew his path i with squills. The conversion of men Into wolves was a well-known sup erstition. dated from Grecian and Roman times; It formed the basis of much of the witchcraft persecutions of. the middle ages and onward, and has left Its mark in folklore. After other business the. troop ad journed by holding the regular ex ercises which was formed by repeat ing the Scout Law, singing the "Star Spangled Banner" nnd saying the Lord's Prayer, After these exercises, the ,two troops adjourned to the gymnasium where games were com peted by running them off by pa trols. Troop Thirteen won half of the games played while Troop Eleven showed up fine also In the games played. No one had gym. shoes on and the games were run under diffi culty because of the slippery floors. After a successful good time, both, organizations suspended to the flrßt where both troops enjoyed the tr.dvles. After Ave redls of good pic tures. the two troops beat It fpr home. This was the first time this part of the year that any troop vis ited Troup Thirteen and as this union meeting between the troops can be called a success, many more troops who are situated close to Troop Thirteen'* place of meeting are ex pected to come and have a good time. Last year the troop enjoyed the fellowship of other troops who visited them "and held a union meet ing together. Among the thliygs of interest dur .lng the scout meeting was when Bcout Karl Mocsleln was given his achievement button which he won. Although the troop has,not yet cap tured any Aye Medals, she has to her credit at least seven buttons. To Scouts! All the older Scouts of the city aro Invited to attend a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday afternoon at *.BO to hear Cap tain W. A. Dtetrlck, a former Scoutmaster of Troop No. 2, Great Falle, Mont. Captain Dletrlek was one of the first Scoutmasters in the country to enter" an officers training camp and recently has been commanding officer of the I. A. T, C. at Temple University, Philadelphia. All Scouts aro urged to come In uniform and est In Fahne stook Hall In a body. SCOUT HAMER IS TEAM MANAGER Troop Nineteen Calls For Games and Challenges All Teams of Cily I Scout J lamer was elected manager Jof Troop 19's basketball team and 1 he culled for candidates on Decern i her 17 at. St. Paul's floor. Second [and Emerald streets. Scout Fallen | was elected assistant manager. The following are requested to re ! port: Hauler, Hummel, Hoffman, I Elssner, Taylor, Duly McCafvel) ■ Paul. Tetter, Welsh Fan nee K. Mov er, C. Moyer, Townsend und Weills. Troop 19 issues challenges to any •'scout team In the city or out of the I city. Please notify for game. Rob i ert Hamer, 1100 North Second street, | Harrlsbutgv Fa. Troops Eleven and Thirteen Hold a Union Meeting Troop No. 13 has an advantage over other troops by having use of . the gymnasium and other parts of If he Boyd Memorial building. In ac cordance of this advantage, Troop 13 has arranged to have various troops of the city enjoy the use of the building by holding union meet ings together and then play games |on the Gym floor. The meeting I started off with the reguar exercises j which was the repeating the Scout loath, singing a verse of "America" j and saying sentence prayers. In this way the meeting was began. The meeting was shorf and after the re port on good turns were given by I patrols the trdop arranged itself for j a talk which was given by the As | sistant Scout Master Hassun of Troop I 13. The talk itself was of vast- im . portance to the boy and was enjoyed j ; by all thoso present. At every meeting the troop holds, j some scout helps to make it interest ! ing by giving a talk of something 1 I that is sure to hold the scouts in- ' ferested and that is beneficial at the I j same time. Scout Robert Keller vol- i vjnteered this week to give a talk; Atid his subject was on that of the. "Wolf." The talk was interesting | from the start to the finish and told ! of the haunts of this animal. Troop 2l> held it's regular weekly meeting Monday night and welcomed Its new assistant scoutmaster. Paul Kohlhaas. He will take over the in-, struction of first aid, etc., and hopes to get up a first aid team from among the troop that will beat any Scout first aid team in Hnrrisburg Mr. Kohlhaas instructed llie troop in the proper tying of the kno{ to he used in applying a bandage and how to bandage an injured or in fected eye, the proper way to handle the dresslhg-to apply to the wound and the proper method of applying a head bandage. "Andy" was used as the patient und made quite a "vic tim" in his long pants. We are getting considerable equip ment on hand and when the merit system goes into effect we hope to nave a pretty good average. QiHljW If. T. COLLICOTT. Scout. Approved, L. E. Vananan. S. M. The New Officers By Scout Executive \ train Some of the busiest and best men ' of the city are back of tho scout j movement. That was clearly shown ' at the annual meeting of the local j council last Tuesday night. The I members of the council expressed ' their pride in the scouts of the city, j and in more than one way showed i that they were glad to give of their i experience and time to direction I of the boys. J. William Bowman, the ! new president, will carry on the high standard set by George S. Reinoehl. the retiring president, and the scouts ' will build up on the basis already laid. The scouts of the city should feel I proud to he led by such a body of j men as we have behind us. is.*. i ~~ " n | Qifi ShsSostioritP [ &or tyhou§htfulJBi{ifi>r& HOLIDAY NOVELTIES /. The unusual of tfifts of good tjuali try imported from Erance, Italy, Swit zerland and Holland before the war. ; , ( Special low prices. * TOYS IN ABUNDANCE , \ A groat deal of this large store room * ' ' • . is tilled with toys of every rtaseriptic.u. ' J) GILBERT BUILDING ' V J ■# Opposite Uourtliou.-e 4 * ... ..J DECEMBER 13, 1,918. !j : Swifts Premium If Oleomargarine f | in This Package The name it bears has been a guarantee of purity and , good ness far half a century. < I MM . •* I I 11 Made from Government in spected animal oils, pure vege table oils, Pasteurized milk and butter, and finest dairy salt. It has the elements for growth that all children need. Not touched by hand in man jj I| ufacture or packing. II * !i. The U. S. Food Administration suggests Oleomargarine—dietetic specialists recommend Oleomar garine—millions of housewives H are using Oleomargarine. Swift's Premium Oleomar- • j| garine has the better flavor. It is N || easy to get—the most widely dis tributed brand of Oleomargarine. It saves 20 cents or more a 11 pound.- „ Swift & Company, U. S. A. Harrisburg Local Branch Seventh and North Streets F. W. Covert, Manager Other Quality Brands IS . |J I 13
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