Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-08
SOLDIER BOYS

| The engagement is announced of
! Miss Elizabeth c. Sleeper Of South
Thomaston to David H. Mason OF
Brookline, Mass. She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland +. Sleeper,
formerly of Brighton. Mass, was
student at Mt. Ida School, Newton,
! Mass, belongs to several social clubs
in those places and has done war serv-
| ice with the Ambulance Corps in Bos-
ton. Mr. Mason is chief yeOman in
! the Naval Reserve and has been at the
Rockland station. He is son or
Henry White Mason Of Brookline and
while at Whittier College in California
was elected quarterback on the All
Western eleven.
The raising of a National Guard
company in Rockland has been intrust-
ed by Adjt. Gen. Presson to Ensign
Otis, who has made considerable prog
ress when the destruction of his news
paper plant by fire necessitated the de-
voting of all his time to his personal
affairs. Mr.. OTIS has practically decid-
ed to retire from the newspaper bust
ness, and as soon as his losses have
been adjusted will resume the task of
assembling a company for the new Sd
Maine Regiment.
Sergt. James Albert PooIer of OrOno,
home on a furlough from Camp Dew
ems, is i'm the hospital at Bangor for
treatment of a severe cut in his foot.
VI lille chopping wood at his home the
AK glanced. severing three toes. DR.. T..
Il Sanger of the examining board for
warded statement of the mans con-
dition to the Camp Devens command
ant today. pooler had served an en-
listment in the Navy with rating as
coXswain and gun pointer and was
drafted short time after receiving his
discharge.
The first drill of the Brunswick COM
'pany of the new Sd Regiment Infantry,
Maine National Guard, was held Mon
day uright at the armory. They will be
held weekly and until an election Capt.
Harvey T. Winslow of Gardiner of the
Quarternasters department. will have
charge of the drills.
In December the Brunswick Chapter
Of the Red Cross shipped 292 sweaters
! l36 pairs of socks, III pairs wristers. {
| mutilers, 20 helmets, 10 shirts, y sets
BAHAMAS and knitted blankets for the
! use of the soldiers. During the same
period in the wolkroom 29i0 gauze
dressings and 450 muslin bandages were
made.
Four Lewiston officers are included
III the special orders recently issued for
the attendance At the Coast Artillery
! School al Fortress Monroe Of a number
Of officers from the Coast Defense at
Portland. They are Lieut.. Col James
lst Lieut. William ID. Spruce and I'd
Lieut.. Charles r. Washburn. Col
Palmer went to Fortress Monroe last
week and the others Will 90 some time
during the present month. They will
take Il seven weeks course at the ar
tillegy school.
Scoring eight hits out of as many
shots in 81 seconds, Harold f. Robbins
! Of SaCo, a former student at Thornton
academy, recently won the first prize
If so in q United States navy marks
manship contest. He is only IS years
Of age. and is one of the youngest men
in the service to qualify as first class
gun pointer. While at Thornton he was
a member Of the football and baseball
shops. after he left school, and was en-
| entered the navy.
i Howard WiddoeS Of Dexter, captain
Of this wears varsity baseball team at
Wesleyan University, on Friday took
his examination at New Haven for en-
trance into the flying section of tho
i Aviation Corps Mr. Widdoes is "a son
Of MI. and Mrs. Andrew 3. Widdoes of
i Church street. Dexter and is the third
/ Of their sons to enter the United States
service.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fox
I at Calais flies three-star service flag.
for their three sons, who enlisted some
time ago, eager for action. The boys
/ have a vein OF fighting blood, as they
are grcat-gr andsons Of the Revolution.
Percy Fox, "a years Old. is a bugler
in battery f, 18th Field Artillery. now
al Camp Robinson, Sparta, Wis. Ray
! mond Fox, y, is a seaman on the trans
port Leviathan, formerly the German
liner Vater!and, Merrill Fox. 20 years
! old. is radio operator on the cruiser
/ Chicago.
! Arthur j. and Carlton Lombard, sons
4 Of Mn and Mrs. Lombard of Pleasant
/ street Saco, were 50 insistent on fight
ing against the Kaiser that they told
their parents, when they went to take
| their physical examination. that IL they
failed TO pass they should not return
| home bat would take a train for Mont
real and enlist in a Canadian regiment
Both were accepted. Arthur is in
France, and Carlton Is at Fort Will
liams, Portland. Carlton was 10 Mon
dav and Arthur is 90. They entered the
\ 7th Company, c. A. c., Of Biddeford,
when they were old enough.
To-
C,atchelrs nomination as brigadier gen.
erel comes on the third anniversary OF
orders transferring him to the Portland
artillery district from Fort Strong.
! Boston. He is a native Of Providence,
and a graduate Of the high school