From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, April 6, 1915: The Boy Scouts of Indianapolis today took advantage of the first real spring weather and many hikes were made to woodland places by the boys in khaki uniforms. Large groups early wended their way toward country places with well filled haversacks on their backs. Troop No. 9, of the Irvington Methodist Episcopal Church, used a truck in response to the “call of the wild.” Scoutmaster Francis O. Belzer has hit on the novel method to get his boys to the heart of the woods for their repast of beans, “dogs” (hot sausages), clay baked chicken, camp “sinkers” (hot baked bread), boiled eggs (carefully wrapped in wet newspapers) and marshmallows toasted over the dying embers.