Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-29

4 family there are the following
daughters and sons: Mrs. Stella San
born Lewis, whose husband. Ray
:sanborn, is in service overseas: Mrs.
| a. A. Jewett, Mrs. Claude Jewett and
Mss Beatrice Sanborn and two sons
Fred and Harold Sanborn. all of
Charles Woodcock of Norridgewock
is deceased and there are grand
children Phillip, Elizabeth, Farms
worth and Harold Jewett.
Funeral services are to be held
from the house Friday afternoon at
o'clock.
H. L. SWEET is visiting relatives in
| !;angor.
Mrs. Hiram Bigelow of Norridge-
wock and her daughter. Mrs. Florian
Eeaton and little son Winston Of
Mercer have been guests this week
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H.
Hprleby, Jewett street.
Miss Caddie Brown left Wednesday
FOR visit in Fairfield and Benton.
| Many Somerset county homes were
made proud yet sad again Wednes-
Gay when another quota of drafted
men left to begin their military ca
rcer at Camp Devens. The men be-
| gan to arrive the day before and
| Tuesday evening the First Regiment
| Band gave concert in their honor
! from the Russell street stand which
had been handsomely decorated in
! the national colors; the band ser
vice flag being prominent in the
odornments. A feature of the mu-
steal program was the singing by j.
Harvey White of Bring Back My
Daddy to Me-"
The men left at .35 A. NJ. and the
usual large number of Somerset
county people gathered to bid the fu-
ture soldiers farewell. Rev. George
Merriam Of the Bethany Baptist
church offered the farewell address
The First Regiment Band With a
bevy Of young women as Red Cross
nurses, acted as escorts, parading
from the Exemption Board head :
quarters to the station.
: The following men left to begin
, their military career: Arthur G. Ian
caster, Pittsfield Eugene Doucette
Wilfred Neillieux, SkoWhegan; Eli
Goulette. Taratine; Harold E. Weeks
Fairfield; Axias Langlais, Jackman;
Arthur Roy. Jackman; Jerome
. Grant Berry, North Arson; Siad Ma
mer. Waterville; Fred Ashley, Jack
man Station; Elmer Clark Huntley
, Pittsfeld: Savilian Earl Field, De
troit; Helan Hagan. Jackman Jack
man Station; Linnwood Guy Ma
COON, Harmony; Cecil Ray Pcaseiey,
st Adams; Floyd Lee Padham,
Bingham; John Lee Mcdonald, Lake
Austin: Anthony Joseph Thibodear,
Madison; Walter Hayden. Skowhe-
gan; Alton b. McGee. Madison Sta
mis- Cabll, Jackman: Charles Henry
Corners, Arson; Hubert Murphy,
Kineo Station; Leon E. B6atin,
Skowhcgan; Erban Berry Emery,
Oakland, r. F. D.; George Pooler,
Iackman Station; Louis Quirrion,
Jackman; clyde VIM Cookson,
Hartland; Lemley John Hight, Read
cid Harry Elmer Bracket, Pitts
! field; Daniel Mclaughlin. Canaan;
Chester Mullen, Norrdgewock; Geo.
Roger Written. Pittsfeld; Guy l..
J
! Jos. Temple, Detroit: Cyril George
Thereault. Augusta; Arthur Shaw,
Jackman Station; John Alfred King,
| lockwood; Kenneth r. Cilley, Har-
mony.
| Another quota Of men leave Sept 9.
Nelson Washburn went to Cam
! den Wednesday to join his wife ana
| child and accompany them home.
Howard Steward is repairing his
residence on East Leavitt street.
/ Phillip Peter Poulin, the 15-year-
| old son of Mr. and Mrs. f. y. Poulln,
! left Wednesday for NaterNiile,
where he will join his cousin and go
to La Sale college, Hartford, st., -
| begin course Of study. He has at
tended the grade schools and is pre-
+, parcd for high school. Howard Bill
| leau formerly Of this town, is study
| ing for the priesthood at the same
| institution.
| Lincoln Merrick of St. Adams was
visitor in town Wednesday.
j. W. Fogler went to Rockland
Wednesday to attend the annual re-
union of the Fogier- Payson families.
| Supt. John F. O'Brien of Wilcott, \.
j., arrived by special car Wednesday
forenoon with equipment for the Red
path Chautauqua which open this
| Thursday.
| Mr.. and Mrs Mellin Hight of Athens
were in town Wednesday to meet their
son. Donald Hight who has been in
| field aviation service in Texas and ex-
poets to leave for overseas in a short
! time