Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1914 — BOY SCOUTS ON A 300-MILE HIKE [ARTICLE]

BOY SCOUTS ON A 300-MILE HIKE

Youths Camped at Monticello Wednesday Night—Gave Play to Help Pay Their Expenses. Monticello Journal. ' Between 25 and 30 Boy Scouts from Lizton, Hendricks county, northwest of Indianapolis, camped here over night on their way south from Monon to Indianapolis. They are on a three hundred mile hike and are taking .three weeks for the trip. Coming north they passed through Crawfordvsille, where they visited the home of Lew, Wallace and Wabash (College, and Lafayette, where they visited Purdue university and enjoyed the advantages of the gymnasium. From there they went to Battle Ground, where they camped and attended the camp meeting. Then they proceeded to Monon, where they took the excursion train to Michigan City. They had a special permit from Governor Ralston to visit the penitentiary at that place. Yesterday they left Monon on their return trip and reached Monticello the same evening. They went south this morning, determined to go as far as possible before evening. The boys march in military fashion, headed by a drum corps, and wear modified scout uniform. They have their own- supply wagon an<J tents. From time to time they give a playlet ‘The District Convention," to help with the expenses of the trip. Rev. Hicks, a Methodist minister Qf Lizton, is scout master, and is making this a memorable hike for the boys. The boys have been averaging twenty miles a day even on the first day, but they said on the second and third mornings out they found blisters as big as half dollars on some of their feet. The organization is not a regular Boy Scout band but is modeled on the same lines and will eventually become such.