L to R, Bottom Row: Frank Seger, Louis Hodge, Lyle Thompson, Francis Steadman, Roy Conrad. Seconf Row: Donald Hill, Richard Pitkin, Wendell Squires, Floyd Conrad, Leonard Herbst, Irvin Rowe. Third Row: Chandler Hicks, Alfred Stewart, William Seger, Edwin Weber, Harry Seger, Channing Blatchford, Herald Jacobs. Fourth Row: Tunis Strick, Harold Seger, Bernard Case, Gerald Morgan, Ronald Bird. Top Row: John Bidwell, B. E. Allen, Scoutmaster, 1918, Meredith Pitkin, Assistant Scoutmaster.

     Ellsworth Blake, Meredith Pitkin, Basil Charles, David McGrath, Sterling Gambel, Clyde Thompson, Lloyd Merrihew, Clare Crippen, Austin Otis and Charles D. Jacobs. The complete Boy Scout program of loyalty, patriotism and chivalry was immediately introduced and enthusiastically pursued. The troop rapidly increased in numbers and in the following two years underwent a development that with the United States' entrance into the Great World War, enabled it to meet its new duties thus created with due sense of patriotic responsibility, and so efficient were its operations during those months of national strain that, considering its opportunities, its figuring in the winning of the Great War is of no little significance and should not be forgotten.

     At the call of the government the troop launched campaigns for the sale of Liberty Bonds with each of the five issues, aiding Livingston County each time to surpass its quota. Scouts Herald Jacobs, Charles D. Jacobs and Scoutmaster Frank M. Lansing were awarded medals of honor by the National Scout Headquarters for the selling of ten or more bonds each. In the War Savings Stamp drive the troop established a remarkable record and scout Bernd Baetcke was cited by Headquarters for special service. The scouts also assisted the Department on Public Information by distributing leaflets, posters, etc., and their persistent cultivation of "war gardens" and the practice of the habit of economy and thrift merit admiration and praise.

     Carter Glass, secretary of the Treasury, in presenting Victory Loan medals to the Boy Scouts of Washington, D. C., asserted that "If the Boy Scouts of America had done nothing more than they did in the five Liberty Loan campaigns, they would have earned distinction enough to entitle them to the respect and affection of all the American people." In recognition of the war-time service of the national Boy Scout movement, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, said: "The Boy Scouts of America have rendered notable service to the Nation during the world war. They have done effective work in the Liberty Loan and War Savings Campaigns, in cooperating with the Red Cross and other war work agencies, in discovering and reporting upon the black walnut supply, in acting as dispatch bearers for the Committee on Public Information, and in other important fields. The Boy Scouts have not only demonstrated their worth to the Nation, but have also materially contributed to a deeper appreciation by the American people of the higher conception of patriotism and good citizenship."

     Standing L to R: Charles Moyer, Charles Grieve, Perry Cook, Russell Wells, Gayle Gibson, Clarence Sharpe, Carl Polite, Willard Gregory, Eugene Defendorf, Frank C. Watters, Minister and Scoutmaster.

     Seated, L to R: Elgin Norwood, Frank Dingman, Wayne Gibson, Erwin Luce, Alden Tomion, Sidney Ferrin, Loraine Liverance, Wayland Richter, Frank C. Watters, Jr., Roscoe Hoyt, George Munsell, Glenn Gibson.

     Among the great activities of the scouts during the period of the war was distributing in stores and conspicuous places posters with announcements of the Liberty Loans. Besides this the Scouts solicited and sold Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Scout Hubert Cobley distinguished himself by the sale of $500 worth of W.S.S. One Boy Scout, Loraine Liverance, purchased over $100 worth of W.S.S. with money earned by selling papers. Other scouts bought stamps in lesser amounts. The Boy Scouts are loyal and patriotic and would be among the first to respond to the call of their country for service.