Scout Association of Hong Kong were in total 155 members in the first census. During World War I, many Scouting leaders served in the war, which limited Scouting in Hong Kong, but the 1st World Scout Jamboree between 30 July and 8 August 1920 revived Hong Kong Scouting. Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Bowen returned to Hong Kong after the end of the war, and actively participated in the Movement. He became the Colony Commissioner in July 1920 and reorganised the Hong Kong Branch. At the end of 1920, membership was approximately 140 members. The reorganised branch held a Scout Rally at the Murray Parade Ground on
First schoolhouse in Olympia, Washington when the school moved to the Central School location at Union and Washington, the old schoolhouse was used as the Thurston County courthouse. First schoolhouse in Olympia, Washington The first schoolhouse in Olympia, Washington was built in 1852. According to an 1853 newspaper, it was one of three schools north of Cowlitz Landing, Washington (i.e. in Washington Territory), and the only public school of the three. Its foundation preceded public schools in other early Puget Sound region settlements; Steilacoom, the state's first town to incorporate, was taught out of a living room when the state's first school district was created