The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-12-20
The Third Maine Regiment
NiA Have a Company Organized in This
City in The Near Future.

With the visit of Adjutant General
lesrge Mel. Presson of Augusta in this
~ last week there was started move
nent for the organization of a company
militia to be known as part of the
hTd Maine Regiment and the plans to-
gard the perfection of the organization
are well along, already The ages of this
. ompany are from IS to As, inclusive, and
IS soon as there are thirty signers to the
.pplcation, a surgeon will be sent to this
ty to make an examination of the ap-
aIcants and swear them into the service.
Orrin j. Dickey of this city has been
sppointed as the acting recruiting officer
tor this company and Mr.. Dickey already
eports sufficient number having signed
he application for the examination, so
nat as soon as the Adiutant General di-
ects, a surgeon will come to Belfast to
make the examinations. AS soon as the
= rst one has been made, which will form
he nucleus of the company, a local physi-
an will be appointed who will have
aarge of the examinations to be made
oT the company here.
1t is desired to secure for this company
At least 100 men and the names of that
number or more are expected to be Sc
aTed in Belfast, as other smaller places
ave done much better. This will be
,nown as the Third Maine Regiment In
antry of the National Guard In this
rganization, draft men may be enlisted
md in this company secure the advan-
ages of training under government Of
er before being called in the draft
1t is not intended in the formation of
rom those who in the draft age will be
.sed in any other place aside from Bel
asst unless conditions should arise in the
ountry that men aside from the draft
ge should be called into service, and in
hat case the men who were members of
ms company and in the draft age would
ave the advantages of having been
AIMED when they were called into ser
re. Men who enlist in this company
are fully equipped by the Government
aith uniforms and arms and the State
finishes the armory, and in this city it is
1pected that the Belfast Opera House
would be taken over. There is no ex-
ense to the organization on the part of
The local members, other than that they
could be expected to attend a certain
lumber of evening drills at the armory,
Tor which time they would receive COM
gensation
The office of Acting Recruiting Officer
: oTin j. Dickey is located in the Pythian
Block, where signatures are being re-
reiyed and where all who are interested
II the movement will be given full in
tormation regarding the company before
hey sign the papers and seek to become
member of the Home Guard.
among those who have signed the pa
lers in this city are the following: Orrin
hickey, Byron M. Salter, Walter P.
Iweedie, Ed. White, NJ o. Dickey, A. H.
Morse, William M. Estes, Ross l. Ham
mons, T. B. Kennedy, L. j. Hoag, Alvin
s Gray, Jr., F. o. j. Horne, B. F. Lin
On, Harrison A. Shaw, Fred w. Drew,
fred M. Wentworth, Harvard w. Sails
bury, George H. Salisbury, Norman L.
WE, William H. Gray, Russell S. Beck
with, Charles E. Mahoney, Raymond
Aendall, Herman X. Robbins, Raymond
Jutch Roy E. Young, Elmer L. Keene, j.
Iardner Harmon, Charles H. Hahn, Ed
win S, Perkins, Walter j. Clifford, Albert
A Gray, George C. Thompson, James w
hayer