Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 173, 22 July 1922 — Page 16

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PAGE FOUR TUB RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1!22 ' My-Lo! Ki-Ro! Grandest Camping Place We Know!

Fifty Boys Will Need to Set an Alarm Clock Next Wednesday Night Tuesday's the day, July 27 when at 8 o'clock In the morning, about fifty boys in holiday spirits and camp tog3 accompanied by Perry Wilson and."Sid" Peters will clamber Jnto some 14 watting trucks and automobiles and begin thei. 25 mile trip to Ki-Ro camp, the first group to go to the new Richmond boys' camp purchased for thorn fcy tho Kiwanis and Roti 'rUl9 or this city. These r7otfs are 10. 11

NOTICE CAMP ASPIRANTS! Registration for the first period of camp for boys aged 10, 11, and 12 years which opens July 27, and closes August 5, may be made at the Y. M. C. A. office any time now until 10 o'clock, Tuesday evening, July 25, after which no applications for the first period will be received.

How's This Menu For

J0.itiriry Campers

Introducing Mr. Howard ', One of Camp's Chiefs His Highness, the Cook As necessary as water to swimming is a good cook to a camp. Knowing this, the camp's directors selected Mr. Burton Howard for

that highly Important dutyk ,. ir. Howard has ti rrracB " ? xnerienee

J, J! cOOEmgTTiaving been employed

RADIO SET PROVIDES NEW ENTERTAINMENT

rttr 17 years of age and will be In

camp 10 days. The camp site is near Fairfield, Ind., and by that time the entire grounds 23 acres with its pavilion, headquarters'

tent, five sleeping tents, the river, the old swimming hole, baseball diamonds and wooded place3 will bo all ready to welcome them. ' The leaders will be there too, they will go down with Secretary Wilson several days gefore to get everything in readiness and will remain there while Mr. Wilson returns to Richmond to accompany the boys to the camp. ' Floyd Wilson, Robort Wilson, Paul Runge, Roland Robinson, Robert Snyder, Reed Kinert, Thomas A. Hale, Richard Coate, Robert Dafler, Willard Traylor, Elias B. .Rogers, O. Russell Dilks, Ralph "Oesting, William Page, Ralph Green, Robert Harlcn, Robert

Campbell, Hansel Harter, Tom

auj, Uiuman nooinson, nuoen lMt:

Davis, Robert Kruse, Harry later-1 1. . ft I 1 1 I 1 Ji S .1 1

ling, cnaries tiaweKuue, iiaiie,i i

Druitt, Edward Wilson, Mark Fred, Charles Rogers, Wjliaiu Hood, Victor Thalls, Russell Crisman, Henry Cook, Harold Klute, Joseph Thalls..

Oh Bqy! Here's what e camp

director will tell the cook to prepare in plentiful quantities for that first big meal in camp, Thursday noon: Boiled beans and pork Bread and butter Creamed peas Sliced tomatoes Peaches . Graham crackers and for supper: Scrambled eggs and dried beef Bread and butter , , Prunes cakes cocoa

Camp Director's Prepared! The camp director has announced that he's got a gallon of castor oil in headquarters ' tent, and a crate of oranges to mix with It!!!

at the Elk's club, at a local reslau

rant and recently at the Country Club before and after he was in service in the World war.Mr. Howard was a member j)t the 814th Pioneer Regiment of the 93rd division and was stationed at Nance and LeHavre in France for a period of about six months. Later as a member of a group of soldier entertainers, himself a member of a band, he toured various cities of England for about six wT?rks. , Howard will bo at the camp during the entire camping period which will be about six weeks. "Perhaps some of the campers will see him make a flapjack turn a handsome figure eight in the air - - As do camp cooks In story books.

Complete receiving and transmitting wireless sets have been installed at camp Ki-Ro by members of the DX Radio club. This is sure to provide plenty of entertainre; and will make raffly Yilglns as LVun gSla "camp nights as clear 6nes.

Bible Story Contest Held Each Period In each of the five periods of camp a Bible reading contest will be held. Boys entering this will pick their own text or story and tell it in their own words and explain it, The boys that tells his etory the best, and explains it the most clearly and who is judged by the rest of the campers to have made the best appearance while doing It will be awarded a small

Bible. Next winter when the big camp reunion is held these boys who won these small Bibles will enter another Bible reading contest, the winner of which will be awarded a larger Bible.

3 OF ADMIRAL McCULLY'S ADOPTED CHILDREN READY FOR CAMP.

Kamp Kwerks

One for all and all for each.

It Is rumored that two canoes !

will me moored at the camp. A "flivver" has been loaned to the camp's chief for use In camp. Baseball, volley ball, horseshoes, and croquet are provided for at KIRo. "Pete," just home from the "Y" camp on ,Lake Geneva will be on deck Thursday morning to go with the boys to Ki-Ro. Many beautiful beech trees and straight, handsome sycamores are on the camp grounds.

Three rowboats are the property

of tho camp and will no doubt be

kept busy serving as additional

diving boards.

Papaw trees, which belong to the

Anonaceae or cifstard apple family of plants may be seen at campt not with ripe fruit, however. Tho first group of boys will havJ a part in making improvements on the grounds. On a conspicious hillside of the camp area they will make a sign of Moulders which they will whitewash and the name, Ki-Ro will then be visible for a range of a mile and one half. All mail to campers should be addressed to Everton. Ind., since mail can be Teceived there the evening It is sent. If mailed to Fairfield, it will not be received until the following day.

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Camp Leaders Have Had Long Training With Perry Wilson The leaders will fjy, nfi ImporT' a2t vcul Of tKo tump life during all of the periods of camp. These

leaders are Hi-Y boys who have been trained for many past month.! by Boys' Secretary Wilson to take their places as leaders of the junior campers during their stay at Kl Ro. They will assist Mr. Wilson and Mr. Peters at all times and in all the activities. Each leader will bo chief of a tribe, and therefore head of a tent and of a table. All leaders who pass certain special tests will be awarded the blue and white felt leaders' emblems. Tuesday, July 25, all of the leaders who can, will go with camp director Wilson to the camp to assist in making final preparations for the first group of campers who will go down Thursday. They will pitch the six tents, erect the spring board and put things in shape generally. All leaders except the six who will be in charge of the first group of boys will return to Richmond, Thursday. These boys are Sam Green, William Romey, Pen Ahl, Francis Robinson, George Krueger, and Walter Fulghum. All of these boys will have regular leaders' duties except Romey who will be leader of the camp singing and special activities.

The State of Affairs Two soldiers went into a restaurant In the Near East and said to the waiter: "We want Turkey with Greece."

"Sorry." said the waiter. "We

can't Serbia." "Weil, then, get the Bosphorus."

The boss came in and heard

their order. Then he said, "I don't

want to Russia, but you can't Rou mania."

So the two soMiers went away

Hungary.

This picture shows three of seven Russian waifs ,wh were adopted by Rear Admiral Newton MeCulIy two years ago. They were photographed just before they left town for the summer camp of the Merchant Seamen's Branch of the Y. M, C. A. at Cooperstown, N. Y.

Flag Given Camp by Local Business Man

SO THE STORY GOES!

P.mn0r, Hik,! Did panthers or at least a stray

vaiuwio iu iwuiwaic pantner once rove ovpr Ki-Ro

grounds?

A handsome large American flag, Once upon a time several years has been presented to the camp by: ago some men were going west and Mr. Sam Vigran, a, local business in the ravine to the right of the

Camp Council House, they were

man. This flag will, be raised and

lowered each day with suitable exercises. The flag will be dedicated on Thursday evening, July 27 at which time the camp itself will be dedicated by the campers -with a special program planned by the boys.

Led the Chase . "But the real thrill was when I made sixty cannibals run." He paused and waited for encouragement. "How did you do that?" T ran and they followed."

INDIANA RELICS WERE DUG UP NEAR CAMP

On the bill east of the camp council house on the K-Ro site, arrow heads, hatchets, bowls and other Indian relics were discovered. They were taken to Brookville. . v Norway's J,MVIovie" Money A number of cities of Norway own and operate their motion picture theatres and devote the profits to enterprises which aid in devel '

ing and improving the city and us people. -Christiania distributed the profits of 1921 which amounted to $350,000 to a studio building of a noted sculptor, to people's theatre, to a concert hall, to advancement of natural sciences and to a music pairiion.

surprised by a panther which they shot and killed. That is the story that is told.

Children's Rose Fair In 1921 a Children's Rose Fair was held in Ricjimond, Virginia. It was held in front of the Governor's house and 3000 rose plants were .distributed among the school chiidren. Prizes were offered for the best flowers grown from these plants, and in October at the State

Fair the awards were made

Some remarkable blooms shown.

Shawnee Indians Camped There 1846 By the ford at the south end of the camp grounds, the Shawnee

Indians are known to have camped in 1846 while wandering westward in search of new camping grounds. Two of the four dandy springs which have been discovered on the camp site have been named the Shawnee Springs.

BRING 'EM ALONG

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Have you a cornet or a flute, a "uke" or a saxophone, a drum or a mouth harp? Have you a camerat" a fishing pole, baseball glove, field glasses, a tejinis racket or a flash light? If you have and are comine to

S camp, bring 'em along-

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Plenty of Books! Plenty of books, that is, plenty for a camp will make up a small library in the sixth tent which will be pitched and which will be known as Headquarters Tent.

"Peter Pan" Gifto University The original model of the much talked of statue of "Peter Pan" which is in the Kensington Gardens In London has been given to St. Andrew's University, Scotland by Sir James Barrie, who 'wrote the Peter Pan story.

Tribes Honor System To Form Basis For All Camp Activities The feature which will probably

attract the most Interest In camp Ki-Ro and which will form a basis for most of the camp's activities is the Honor System as planned by Boys Secretary, Perry A. Wilson. At each of the five periods of camp, all of the boys will be divided into four to six tribes, ten boys in each tribe and in the tents and at the tables in the dining room they will be grouped as tribes. They will compete both for individual and team honors by tribes in all the camp activities. Tribes will be named after Indian tribes whoso names have the same initial letter as Camp Ki-Ro or Ki-Ro-Y as was first suggested. Names chosen are Kichapoos, Iroquois, Rottawas, Ottawas, Yukis. , Printed Folders Given to Each Score cards have been printed which name the, activities for whose accomplishment a certain number of points will be given. They include Mental, Muscle ani Moral tests as the booklet names them. Under the first is included tests in the out-of doors in tree and

bird study, and in fire building, In writing letters home and reading certain books. Under the "muscle" head are tests in swimming, life saving, diving, jumping and running. In the third named moral corne certain daily lessons and Bible 6tudy. In addition to this ten points are to be awarded for satisfactory conduct each day and this includes promptness, attendance at Flag Raising, Bible Study and Camp Fire, Obedience and Adaptibility. All these points winning activities are to be ok'd by the leaders. Camp Emblems to be Awarded Felt emblems in blue and white will be secured by every boy who makoH a perfect score on conduct and 25 points in each of the groups of tests, Mind, Morals, Muscles. These emblems have the letters K. R. Y. on them and a feather in felt on a contrasting background. These emblems will be awarded in the big reunion of all of this summer's camper3 at Camp Ki-Ro which will be held at the "Y" next December. Some nice treat wilj bo given the winning tribo at the end of each period in camp. Who'll Be Best Camper? A bronze medalwill be awarded to the boy judged the best camper

in each period. These will be awarded in the big camp reunion to bo held next December, but names will be announced as soon as decided upon.

The compact Red Cross kit which is a part of the camp's property will also be In headquarters tent.