Chinook High School - Breeze Yearbook (Chinook, MT)

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Chinook Implement Yard W. A. GESELL. Manager ALL KINDS OF FARM IMPLEMENTS The Emerson Foot-Lift Line We Sell PIANOS and PHONOGRAPHS Player Rolls, Sheet Music Records ALLISON’S ART STORE Page L. B. Taylor, President. J. L. Sprinkle, Vice-Pres. F. M. Burks, Cashier H. J. McCabe, Asst Cash. Farmers National Bank Capital $25,000 Surplus $50,000 L. N. Beaulieu FARM LOANS, LAND AND INSURANCE Chinook, Montana f wentv-eight

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The Scouts’ Garden “Say wouldn’t that be fun?” urged John. “Oh, come on, let’s do it,” agreed Harry. “All right,” agreed Ted. “When shall we begin?” asked Harry. “Let me see; it’s the middle of March now,” mused John, half to himself and half to the boys. “I think that we can begin at once. As you know we had our gardens plowed last fall and we’ll have them disked and harrowed as soon as possible. In the meantime we can be planting our seeds in boxes and in the hot house we made. I think by the last of April we ought to have radishes and lettuce a good way along and also some tomato and cabbage plants.” The boys were rather surprised at John saying so much as John usually listened while everyone else talked but now he was excited and why shouldn't he be? The three boy scouts, John, Ted and Harry were going to try to see who could make the best vegetable garden with the least expense and the most profit. There were two things which led them to think of this. The first was that they had received some information from Mr. Abbey, the president of the boys’ and girls’ club of Montana ,asking them to ;oin. Next they had heard old Peter Jones say, “Aw, those kids can’t do anything anyway. All they'll do is waste perfectly good seed and ground that would otherwise be put into good use for the gove’ment.” This last is what made the boys think and they decided to show Peter Jones a thing or two. “It’s all right with me,” agreed Ted. “I’m going to begin at once.” “Hadn’t we better send our cards to Mr. Abbey, stating that we have joined? Because we want to show old Peter Jones what a boys’ club can do, if they try.” “Well I’m going now,” said Harry. “And I'm going to send my card right away. You know we have to keep a record of the cost and the state sends us record books so we might as well get them as soon as possible. I’ll tell you what let’s us do. Meet once a week and talk things over and In the meantime let’s not say a word to each other about it. We’re just wasting a lot of time talking. By the way you know' Mr. Potter said if we got in trouble to go to Mr. Thorfinnson, the county agent, for help. That’s where I'm headed for now. Good-bye. ’ “He certainly seems to mean business, doesn’t he?” laughed John. “Guess I’ll go too. Well good-bye. See you next Saturday in the hayloft of our barn.” “All right,” agreed Ted, as he hurried away. About a month after this conversation occurred, there were about three of the busiest boy scouts im- Page Twenty scorn

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aginable around there. At their meetings they would discuss just how they could help Uncle Sam if they tried. Then they would get excited and work all the harder. It was not long before there were three acres of ground in the suburbs of the city green and flourishing. The boys were up early in the morning and worked till late. The largest prt blem that came before the boys was how they were going to water their gardens. They solved this however by making a dam in a little stream near there and by building irrigation ditches. After this the gardens flourished. If you lived in their city, you would have these three boy scouts visit your door with fresh vegetables about twice a week and if you were patriotic, when they told you that they were selling these for Uncle Sam, you would buy some. As true boy scouts they kept at their work and in the fall, Harry, Ted and John each had a Liberty bond and had given some money to the Red Cross. Their mothers’ cellar was well stocked with carrots, parsnips, beets and cabbage and also with well filled cans. The boys had their sisters do the canning as the girls belonged to the canning club. At the contest it was decided that John should represent the boys’ club at the State Fair and that May his sister, should represent the girls’ club. —KATHRYN T. EASBEY, ’20. ATHLETICS The athletic season came to a close with the county field meet of May 3rd. Miss Noonan, the girls’ coach, and Mr. Provow, the coach for the boys, both deserve a great deal of credit for the time and interest they have given to athletics. Harlem was our principal competitor and the final score was 55 to 43 in our favor. All the races and contests were exciting and everyone present seemed to enjoy the events immensely. Perhaps the most spectacular race of the day was the mile run. Christy of Chinook and Ring of Harlem were both coming strong on the home stretch, but when about one hundred yards from the finish, Ring sprinted and won. The Chinook girls did well considering the amount of practice they had had and they all declare they will be out for firsts next year. Chinook was awarded the attractive high school pennant but Harlem won the grade pennant. The main point winners for Chinook were Gesell, 11; Pavley, 10; and Christy 9. —LEO GESELL, ’18. WANTED—Boys! Juniors. Page Twenty-nine