“With the Scouts,” July 10, 1921

Throughout the 1920s and into the 1940s, the local newspapers ran sections specifically about Boy Scouts.  These went under various names, such as “With the Scouts,” as seen here, or “Boy Scout News” or something else.  The Tennessean gave a whole page for several years called “The Nashville Scouts’ Own Page.”  The news was similar: council news, yes, but predominantly Troop news.  After all, writing articles was part of what a Scribe did!

Here is an article from July 10, 1921.  The second part is some troop news (rather brief this week), but the first part is about Boxwell.  Indeed, this article is discussing what the very first week at the very first Boxwell was like…

“With the Scouts,” The Nashville Banner, July 10, 1921, pg. 14