Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1908 — To Camp on the Tippecanoe [ARTICLE]

To Camp on the Tippecanoe

Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the Presbyterian church, has a job on his hands. And he has called in some help to handle it. With the assistance of others he has been looking after the interests of the boys’ secret order —the Knights of King Arthur. This society is not denominational, but is closely allied to the Sunday schools, and one of the requirements of membership Is that the hpyß attend with punctuality some Sunday school. A feature of the society is an annual camping party and the members of che local K. O. K. A. have been planning for a long time for the 1908 camp. The date was set some time ago and it is to be for six days, beginning with next Monday, August 3d. The location is the Smaller Maple Grove camp, on the Tippecanoe river near Buffalo, in White county. The boys will be under the constant care of Rev. Parrett, who will be assisted by Walter Lee, and probably part of the time by Judge Hanley and others. The camp selection is an ideal one; there is a farm house near by and a store at Buffalo, also close at hand, and the river is very picturesque and there is some fishing there. It is intended by Rev. Parrett and his comanagers of the party to establish rigid sanitary rules, to maintain the best of order and to havel everytning done according to system. One of the first things to be done will be to rope off a place in the river where it is perfectly safe for the boys to batbe. And no boy can go in bathing nor into the boat unless he has the written consent of his parent or guardian. And one of the men who is with the party will be constantly with the boys when they are in the water. If any of the boys engage in dares or are caught violating any of the rules of the camp they will be hustled back to Rensselaer. , About twenty-two boys will take part in the camp. Each should have a change of clothes, old but clean. Those who go bathing should be supplied with a bathing suit. Those who .wish may take a sofa pillow for their heads. Each should have a body towel and each must have a dish towel to wipe their meat pans with. The party will leave Rensselaer next Monday, probably on the 10:55 train, and will leave the train at Monon and be hanled by wagons to the camp site. They will • return home the following Sunday. Each boy is to pay one dollar toward the expense of the trip.