Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-14

panied by his son, visited the cam,
Friday.
Inc parade of the 1st Regiment last
evening, was very creditable. ana His
hNceilency, Gov. Powers EXPRESSED
himself as very proud Of the command
When the LIST Regiment boys learned
mat they We're to be hustled for tho
oouth, the men gathered in the com
pany streets and cheered fer all thew
were worth.
Ihere are large number of un
| CANNED letters in the End Regiment
postofiice. This Office will be closed AT
ABOUT 10 o'clock, today, and thereaft ar
all mail will be handled in the Is;
| Regiment
Inc Unitarian Society has presented
Lieut.. {. II. Blackington of Co. f with
colts army revolver. Lieut.. Black
mgton prizes it highly, coming. as If
ooes' with the good will of the church,
Where he has sung for so long time
II is now Col. Lucius H. Kendall. 1st
Maine regiment, L. 5. Volunteers, and
ms address in a week will be Chicka-
manga. Maine will not suffer at the
hands of the splendid troops that viii
leave the State next week, for the
front.
b,Itl Il,
telegraph line when he got orders to
go home, today. The lieutenant feels
badly to think that he could not remain
camp two weeks more at least in order
to give the men Of his command the
dfliilnS in the work of the key that
they so much desire ana deserve.
ID. f. Mcleod. a graduate of Shaw's
Portland business College, viii act as
stenographer to Colonel Kendall. Ne
Leod is Well-knoWn in Augusta, having
resided here all Of last winter He en-
listed in Co. 6. 2nd Regiment, while
reporting on the staff of the Bangor
News, and on Thursday. was mustered
into the service OF the United States in
Co. l. of Portland.
Captain s. p. bennett, now md Lieut..
OF CO. c, lst Regiment, Is very highly
commended for his actiou in pnjn. in
to the LIST Regiment and he reduced i'm
the ranks, all for the sake OF getting
whore he can see some service. He
certainly did not wrong his company
by leaving. for though he is fine off
Ger. he left the company in command 81
as capable officer as there is in the
Guard, Lieut., II. S. Boardman
Some of the officers of the md Regi-
ment have been investing a little
money in manner that will pay them
good interest. Many Of the men ar.
rather short OF money, and as it will be
at the least. several days before they
get their pay, they are willing to give a
good rate of interest for their money
now The said officers have the pay
made over to them by the men. ana
give in return the men their money
minus perhaps 20 per cent.
Charles f. Johnson, the colored
member of the Signal Corps, and other
wise known as Honey" among the
men Of the Corps. is a fine singer and
Shakespearian reader. The Journal
was treated to few samples of his
ability in this direction. yesterday
afternoon, through the courtesy of
Lieut.. Butler. When you ask Honey
to sing he goes right at il with an air
of "Ifyou- don't-like- it don t-listen,'
and he sing just as though he liked to-
He acts his reading parts to perfection
The following is the corrected list of
those who We're mustered into the
United States service in Company f,
LIST Regiment, n. Ct. 5. NJ, Thursday:
Capt Dana w. Lovejoy. LIST Lieut..
Cyrus H. Blackington, ID Lieut. Benz
d. Savage. 1st Sergt, Wifred r. Toll
man. q. NJ. Serst. Lester A. Partridge
Sergeants. John \. Degen, Asa A.
Chapman, Winfield S. Nichols, George
4. German. Corporals George +.
Temple. VIM. Y. Tobey, Paul V. Brown,
Thos. O. Leavitt, Walter w. ePoore,
James w. Hanson. Musicians Frank
p. Lovejoy. Seth j. Morrow. Artificer.
Clarence Written. Wagner Henry +.
Pease Privates. Harry L. Austin.
Chester +. Benner. Edward Nj. Bianch-
ard. William Bond. BENZ. f. Bowden,
Chas. A. Branch. Jesse T. Brann, Fran
els O. Bubor, Henry Butler, Chas. d.
Carver, Fred X. Clark, John H. Clark,
Micheal Golfer. John Conner, Edward
Coyle, Guy Cummings. Levi Cyr, Jere-
mah Daily, Ernest s. Farnham Daniel
Furgeson, Geo. II. Fox, Geo w
Getchell. Ellis a. Clifford, Joseph Gill |
bert William Gould, Samuel r. Grimes,
Robert L. Hall, Walter r. Hall, Fred
Harvey, Daniel Hayes, Theodore Hayes, |
Merrill r. Head. Elmer NJ Hewitt, |
Chas S. Hill, Alfred J. Howard, Ar
thur r. jacques. Wilfred T.. jacques
ChaS T.. Kitchen. Eugene Lebanon |
William A. Leighton, John Lydon, Or
vile +. Morrow, Ronald McBain En-
nest J. Mcleod, George a. Morgan,
Chas. S. Murphy. Stacey T.. Oliver, |