Information Sheet

 

 

R         Camp Carry-on (Linn Creek, Mo.).

1186                Brochure, 1919.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a brochure for Camp Carry-on near Linn Creek in Camden County, Missouri, for the 1919 season.  Located on the Big Niangua River, the camp offered “military training for girls” in three-week sessions under the direction of Natalie Wilson and Delle B. Corum.

 

Camp Carry-on (sometimes styled as Camp Carry On) was located about six miles west of Linn Creek, Missouri, on the Big Niangua River.  This area is now probably under the waters of the Lake of the Ozarks.  The first of two three-week “terms” began on 1 July.  The camp directors were Miss Natalie Wilson of San Antonio, Texas, who was a graduate of “Sargent’s School of Physical Education,” and Mrs. Delle B. Corum of Sweet Springs, Missouri.

 

The camp was run in military fashion, with “bugle call” at 6:30 A.M. and taps at 9:30 P.M.  In between the girls went hiking and boating, learned crafts, swam, and apparently engaged in “light” military activities, such as learning semaphore signals and codes.  The cost was $50 per term.

 

 


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