Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-06
SOLDIER BOYS

pr. Herbert NJ. Howes who has re-
Gently joined the local faculty of the
BoWdoin Medical School has just re-
ceiNed commission as first lieutenant
in the Medical Reserve Corps. Dr.
Howes graduated from Bowdoin Col
lege in The class Of 1913, and from the
Bowdoin Medical school in 1917. For
the past six months he has been house
physician at the Maine General hos
pital, Portland.
John ST. Marie of Biddeford, a mem
Der Of the 54th Company. Heavy Artil-
lery who was captured on Bacon
street, Biddeford Thursday night by
two of the officers of Portland, was
taken back Friday to Fort Williams
He was member of the It'll Company
of Biodeford, G. A. c., when they were
called to duty last summer At that
time he was cook of the company. The
officers said that he had been away
fror, the fort without leave for eight
daTs
Philip r.. CoYle, a prominent Boston
lawyer, who formerly made his home
in this city, has been commissioned a
major in the Judge Advocates Reserve.
He was born in 1873, graduated from
Portland high school and Harvard uni
Versity and then took course at Har-
ward law school, from which he grad
uated in 1904. He was connected with
the Boston Elevated Railroad in a le-
gal capacity for two years and thea
with the Boston firm Of Coolidge Il
Hight.
Portland people will welcome the
news that the 23rd and 21st companies
of the Coast Artillery Corps. State Of
Maine, now part of the federal forces,
which have been stationed at the Wa
tertown arsenal to do guard duty. are,
to return to the local forts. These are
men from Portland, Brunswick. Au-
burn, Sanford and Westbrook. They
will be relieved at WATERFOWL by COM
panies from Springfield and are ex-
pected to arrive in town by Next Tues
day-Portland Telegram.
DR.. s. A. Cobb. one of the best known
physicians in that section of Maine and
for the past few years resident Of
Sanford has left to join the colors.
He Is now in North Carolina in the
Medical Corps. DR.. Cobb was MEM
Der of the Sanford Baseball and Foot
ball Clubs. His parents live in Sanford
and he has a wife and one child Dr.
Cobb also has a brother in the United
States Service.
A Bar Harbor mother, Mrs. Lillian
Brewer. has three sons in the Nations
service. Reginald. who is only 16 years
old. is electrician on destroyer on
duty with Vice Admiral Sims fleet.
Shirley Brewer. 26 years old. enlisted
in the Hospital Corps in Boston last
fan. and is training at Bellevue hos
pital, New York. lie expects TO he as
signed to foreign service soon. Ralph
Brewer, % wears Old, is n corporal in
the 54th Aero Construction Squadron
and is in France.
Feeling that giving her three fine
sons to the service of the country is
not enough, Mrs. II. +. Dexter of Abb
bot, has gone to Newport. r. r.. to take
up volunteer work in the United States
Naval Hospital, closing her fine home
for the present She has been promi
nent in Red Cross work. The three
sons enlisted in the navy in December,
passing fine physical examinations and
were ordered to the Naval Training
Station at Newport on the 14th. They
are Clifford Ellsworth keene, Walter
Hugh Keene and Donald Norman
keene. Mrs. Dexter is the wife of IL. +.
Dexter, a travelling salesman.