Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-25
SOLDIER BOYS

William RI Wilson, "a Minerva avenue
Sanford, wrote to the local draft ooard
explaining that his son, Sydney {. wilson
il a corporal in Battery B, Maine ls'
Heavy Artillery, stationed in the South.
Then he continued: IF you want me l
am willing to go. You, or Uncle SAM
have got three of my boys and that is all
have, If you are not satisfied. take me.
! am only SO years Of age and am reelng
good enough vet to fight the Germans.
The latest Bates College undergraduates
to enlist are Donald W. Hopkins and Dyke
l., Ouackenbush. both seniors. and who
will be much missed in college activities.
Mr.. Hopkins comes from Greenfield, n.
H., and has entered the Army medical de-
partment He was leader of the Mandolin
/ Club. manager of the baseball team, in
the Student Council. president of the Par
ker Hall Association and active in the
Deutscher Verein and the Jordan Scienti-
fc Society Mr.. Quackenpush, whose
home is at Natick, Mass, has enlisted in
the Navy He is in the Glee Club and
college choir a football letter man, play
ing center on this years Varsity, in the
Deutscher Nerein and a committee chair
man in the college y. NJ. {. A.
! Clifford l.. Brownell, who has been su-
perintendent of manual training in the
schools of Dover and Foxcroft, has en-
listed in the aviation section of the United
States Signal Corps and has been sent
South to a training camp.
Ellsworth A. Stone, Bowdoin, 10. who
was commissioned as second lieutenant in
infantry at the Plattsburg camp, has re
ceived orders to sail for France.
BY far the biggest service flag in that
section will soon be flying at the Univer-
sity of Maine. representing over 100 alum
nj and undergraduates in the -..rmy and
Navy. Selections are being made of 25
students for the next training camp. One
of these is L. T. Nealey. Jr., of Bangor,
who has recently returned from France,
where he saw several months of ambu-
lance service. lie was former officer in
the L. of NJ. Cadet Battalion.
! Determined not to be outdone by her
two brothers, Walter G. and Albain Pelle-
tier who are now serving as soldiers,
Miss Marie f. Pelletier. a trained nurse,
daughter of Frank Pelletier of Biddeford
has entered the American Army Corps of
, the American Red Cross and expects to
see active duty in France b" spring. Her
brother WalterS4s In the 303d Regiment at
Camp Devcns and Albain has been IS
months with a Canadian regiment In
France.
Robert P. Coffin, of Brunswick, col
missioned as second lieutenant in the Re
serve Officers Corps of the Coast Artil-
lery has been called for active service
and last week reported for duty at Fort
Williams, Portland.
Although several undergraduates Of
Bowdoin College were drafted during the
summer vacation. none of the students
had been obliged to leave since college
opened until last week when two men
were called, Elton Fletcher Chase, is. Of
Quincy, Mass, and William Edward Hin,
M'2l. Of Meriden, Conn Both men have
already reported at Camp Devens, Aver,
Mass.
The boys Of Battery F, 303rd Fl. F..
A.. wish to thank Chip" Gibbons for
the deer he sent to Corporal Abe L.
Goldsmith last week. Corporal Gold
smith was home on a furlough when
the deer arrived in camp and as the
boys couldn't wait for Abe to return
and do the honors, they just went to
II. Nenison in camp is rarity and
the boys haven't ceased raving about
it. Bro. Gibbons, you're a real pa
triot. old Town Enterprise