Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-19
National Guard Notes

Is learned tndl Tie 1OItdSc VI
horses which has SO Inconvenience
the I'd Maine officers has been re-
lieved and that mounts have been
supplied. Thirty-si1 saddle horses
we're received last saturday.
All hands in the 2d Maine are pleased
at the assignment for outpost and
patrol duty, for the boys from Maine
are being selected to relieve regulars,
and the veteran officers of the regulars
who are running the shooting match on
the Mexican border are not selecting
greenhorns to do mems work, by any
means.
The destination of the Sd Battalion.
I'd Maine, the first of the regiment to
be sent on outpost duty, is Zapata,
Texas, about so miles from Laredo.
The pronunciation of the Spanish
words are bothering the boys a little,
though most of them are catching on
finely. One of them writes that the
people there say what sounds like Yer
when they seak of Villa. say Werta,
when speaking of Huerta and usually
say RAMA, when Il ey speak of the
big Mexican chief
Bangor CommerciaI-Mayor Wood
iildil ueClueU IOIudS 11OIHlnS 10 dC-
cept the offer of Hon. Taber D. Bailey
to be one of five men to loan the city
$500 each for the soldiers relief work
according to Mr.. Bailey's proposition
first published in the Commercial Sat.
urday, and will ask for more offers Of
the same kind from total of 20 Bar
gor men, who will loan the city enough
to cover the expenditures for the fami-
lies of militiamen, up to $4,000. Four
public spirited citizens have already
Joined with Mr.. Bailey in making this
offer, Hon. |. X. Stetson of the First
| National bank, Thomas R. Savage.
James W. Cassidy and Hon. Arthur
Chaplin. The loan will be for one
year and will be at three per cent. AS
the city is either up to its debt limit or
has passed it. this loan will not be-
come part Of the legal Indebtedness of
the city-it will be in the nature Of A
| debt of honor SO as to speak The
banks would gladly loan the money to
| the city but for the fact that it would
not be a legal loan, and in justice to
their depositors and according to gov
! ernment and state regulations, they
cannot loan money without all safe
guards of this kind
Dover Foxcroft-The committee IN
charge of raising a fund for the bene-
fit of the members of Co. + has prac-
tically completed its work and will for
ward the funds now in their hands to
Capt. Norton on Monday or Tuesday.
The committee, whirn consists of Rob
ert +. Hall. J. H. Danforth and Caleb
H. Gushing. has worked hard and met
with a general response from all over
Piscataquis county, the total sum COL
lected being about $3.50. The com
mittee had aimed to collect $500 and is
much gratified to find that more than
this amount has been contributed
Portland Press, July 1s.-Maine Cen
trail car No IS stood in the Union sta
ton yesterday on its way back from
Laredo to its home point, Waterville
The car has on both sides an inscrip-
ton in chalk which announces that it
contained B Co. of the Second Maine
infantry. On one end is the legend
Remember the Alamo and amidships
is a picture Of a bewhiskered gentle
man with spectacles on who is called
Carranza and concerning whom some
rather faded remarks are written.
| There are also some inscriptions to the
effect that I'VE lead; others follow
| and similar remarks. This is all much
faded and probably when the car clean
ers at Waterville get at it the last YES
tige of it's war trip will be obliterated.
These cars that went South with the
soldiers have all come back now and
most of them have been distributed to
! their proper points.