Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-04
BELFAST
First Soldier Dead Brought to
Belfast for Burial-Sardine
Factory Opens

The first soldier dead to be brought
% Beifast was laid to rest Wednes $
gay beside his mother in Grove cenl-
ctefy. Cadet Edward G. Sawyer was
Killed by falling with an aeroplane
on the aviation field at Mt. Clemens.
Mich. last Friday his COMPANION
also meeting the same fate when the.
plane caught fire and came down. He
was given military funeral at
Sefridge field and his remains sent
T. Belfast escorted by a young Off
Ger OF his company and met hero by
his father, Edgar Sawyer of Con-
necticut, formerly of Belfast. The
heavy metal casket was completely
hlcden BY the folds of the flag foE
which ms young lie vas given and
funeral services VIZ. 1ald Wcdncs-
Gay afternoon at thu lttlo chapel at
Cove cemetery at . o'clock. Rev. :
Nilbor Richardson of the Baptist
church officiating. The MAYOR of Bel =
fast with members of the city gov
eminent. other prominent business
itie:l, and members of the " Ing SOL
Gers class in high school We're IN
attendance TO do him holcr.
Cadot Sawyer was 4 so.d,c- no
chanic and was borr in Maasacnu-
sets 20 Years and . ~ nths ago. He
passed his boyhoodN in bc,fa. t At
tending the public schools and WAS
q freshman in the Belfast ,rsn when
his people left Belfast. He would
have been graduated in the class of
Il had he remained in Belfast
Those who knew him and rcrnem-
Der him in his school days her
speak in highest terms of him and his
tragic and heroic death is deeply
dciicred. He was l<eenly intc:csl" Cd
in aviation and was a volunteer Tic
deepest sympathy IS cxtel;!"d his
hcI eaVed father and sister
Members Of Co. F. 3rd Maine IT.
fantry. acted as bearers. Capt. Orrn
]. Dickey, Lieut.. Roscoe Hammons,
Sergts. Roy Young, Robert Rollins,
Herman H. Coombs. Pearl Benncr.
! Taps were sounded as with barred
heads they lowered the flag -draped
casllct into the grave and Belfast's
first soldier dead was laid to rest.
The local sardine plant Of the
Booth Fisheries Of Chicago, formerly
the Lubec Sardine 90. plant, was
opened for the season a day or two
ago, over two months late owing 10
extensive repairs and changes and
delay caused in shipment of ma
terials. F. f. Steinhart of New HAY :
en- is the general manager and has
for a superintendent L. ]. Black, for
number Of years a foreman IN the
plant. Miss McCracken of ChamcOok
is the forelady and Harry Clements
Of Belfast is foreman of the packing
room y. G.. MacFaul. who has ST.
perintended the factory since it was
built here some eight or nine Yeas
ago. resigned few months ago ow-
ing to i'll health.
With any sort of fish it is hoped o
make up for lost time and end TIE
season with as large or larger pack
than usual.
The musical friends in Belfast Of
Brig. Gen. Herbert Al. Lord. formerly
city editor of the Rockland Courier
Gazette, will be pleased to hear Of his
promotion TO that rank. He has had
a most spectacular career since The
old days of newspaper work in the
LIMERICK city when he was one of
the best known musicians in the
county Of Knox. and with Mrs. Lord
was constantly in demand for con
certs. entertainments and the like.
His delightful personality made MIN
very popular and his friends were
and are many. He left Maine and
newspaper work to become private
secretary of the late Congressman
Dingiey, was soon famous for his
wonderful ability especially in the