Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — Boy Scouts Tried To Save Life Of Drowned Druggist. [ARTICLE]

Boy Scouts Tried To Save Life Of Drowned Druggist.

Merl R. Warren, son of E. G. Warren, now of Lawton, Okla., and former residents of Rensselaer, is an enthusiastic boy scout, and recently while the scouts were camped at Medicine Park, a druggist who could not swim ventured out too far and was drowned. Boy soouts finally found his body and brought it to the -bank of the bathing pool and Merl led the effort to revive the man by mean# of the Sylvester method, in which the boys are trained. Merl worked a half hour-hut the druggist was too far gone In a letter to a friend here, Merl suggests that a troop of scouts be organized here.