Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-23
SOLDIER BOYS

I Clarence Fox, son OF MI anu MIS-
Elmer r. Fox of 163 Parkview avenue
Bangor, has volunteered for hospital
service abroad and is now serving as d
member of the Kings county base hospi-
tai unit, Bellevue hospital, New 1orh
/ City. The members of the unit are to
! take an advanced course in hospital work
and will continue the coarse until they
are called into active service. Mr.. Fox
is a gr lduate of Pratt Institute of Brook
] lyn. " Y, and has been engaged in ar
! chitec,ural work,
/ Clyde A. Names. a corporal in the 18th
Co, Fort Baldwin, and Miss Annie Cath
| crime Roderick, were married Tuesday
/ evening by City Clerk Grassy in the al
dermanic chamber, 50 Bath city building,
The groom is an electrician and has been
employed BY the Atlantic Express Co.
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs Joel T.
Names of Georgetown. His hrde.is the
daughter of Mrs. Minnie Roderck, Bath.
She will continue to live with her mother
in Bath.
Army model shoes are being sold in
great numbers in the TWO cities, and as
one local man puts it. 1t will be good
thing for some of these boys to get used
to them before the next draft. Lewis
ton journal.
DR.. F. Q. Lyford of Pennington has a
cousin,~ Capt. Roger Wolcott Weeks Of
Massachusetts. the youngest captain in
Massachusetts" of whom he must we'll
be proud. Captain Weeks is only y years
. old one of the Boston papers recently
u
now in the efficient discharge of his du-
ties in the Depot Brigade at Camp Dew
ems, is q living demonstration of universal
training for the young men of this coun-
try" Capt. Weeks is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Weeks of Hyde Park,
Mass. For the four years OF his course
in the Hyde Park high school he was a
member of the high school battery. and
when he finished his course was the lieu
tenant colonel of that organization. From
high school he went to the Massachusetts
Agricultural college. and one of his first
ACTS was to Join the military organization
! of the college. in which later he became
high ranking officer. So at the break
ing out of the war last spring. 50 far as
the United States was concerned. Young
! Weeks he'd had practically seven years
of preliminary training. He was one of
the first to apply and be accepted for
/ membership in the Reserve Officers
school at Plattsburs. His education along
military lines gave him an advantage
over lust as periodically inclined citizens
who had not his experience. His commits
sion an officer of the new national ar
my was the result. followed little lat
I er BY his assignment to the 18th com
Brigade at Aver, where he now is. and
where his early training as a soldier
makes him one OF the most valued of Off
cials in the cantonment. Capt. Weeks is
fine, soldierly looking Young man. and
the Youngest to have conferred upon him
\ the rank of captain that has come out of
the Plattsburg camp. AS Congressman
Richard Olney says, he is the Youngest
man to be so honorcd in the 18th congress
sonal district of Massachusetts,.
A letter has just been received by Mrs.
f. katherine Winch Mason. l13 Forest ave
nue.. Portland. from her son. Ansel B.
Winch. who is now corporal in the First
Maine Heavy Artillery which is now in
-
make their winter quarters before leaving
for. somewhere in France He states
! that they were well treated in Westfield
and tells Of the excellent training received
there. lie is in the best of health and
weighs close 10 $50 pounds. Corporal
Winch is a member Of the First Maine
Heavy Artillery football team. playing a
tackle position. and although during his
college career he was unable to play
much football. he has since developed
into one of the greatest defensive play
crs which the artillery squad boasts Of
He enlisted in Battery A as a private and
soon was made corporal while stationed
at Camp Chamberlain at Brunswick. He
is we'll known in Portland. having passed
a great part Of his life there. When only
"A years Of age he travelled the 3. F.
Keith circuit, going as far as Sacramento
Calf, and performing all through the
Western states. Recently he received a
letter from his employer asking him to
Join him again in London, England
,,l,sre he &c Oou- MIA