Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-31
SKETCHES MAINE
BOYS REPORTED
CASUALTY LISTS

gram Monday from the war depart
ment announcing the death of their
eldest son. Private Alfred Crosby. %,
which occurred Oct. 2. Death was due
to lobar pneumonia.
Mr.. Crosby was graduated from
Bliss business college in Lewiston,
afterwards going to Boston where he
was employed as bookkeeper and
stencgrapher with the Westinghouse
Lamp Co. Shortly after the outbreak
of the war he enlisted IN the army
branch of the service and was sent
to Camp johnson for training. He
went overseas about six months ago
and was assigned to clerical work in
the office Of the quartermaster corps
, in France.
Besides his parents he leaves his
wife. formerly Ruth Erskine of
Rockland, to whom he was married
one year ago last July: also three
brothers, John in service in France,
Donald and Douglass of Bath; also
two sisters, Mrs. Martha Davis and
Miss Madelyn Crosby, both of Bath.
Calais, Me-, Oct. S0-Private AL
bert Lee Of the 236th Mclean Kilties,
Canadian forces, was killed in ac-
ton Oct /. his sister, Miss Violet
Lee, was notified Tuesday. Private
lean army several times but was un-
der weight. He leaves two brothers
and seven sisters.
Calais, Me. Oct 3o.-Mr and Mrs.
Robert Mowatt of Calias have been
notified that their son. Harold n.
Mowatt. has been killed in action in
France. He was % years old and had
been in France only short time.
Lewiston, Me-, Oct. 30.-Private
Theron Grover, who was killed in
action Sept. IL. will be remembered
by many Lewiston Auburn people as
the sweet-voiced singer who used TIC
be at Music hall. He left Lewiston
several years ago and for a time
Travelled through the West singing in
different theaters.
He enlisted in Ottawa with the
Eighth Kings Liverpool Regiment.
That was in 1914. and after the en-
trance Of the United States into the
regiment from the states.
Private Grover was the son OF the
late Chester Grover Of Lewiston. He
was % years old and leaves beside
his mother, Mrs. Susie Grover, two
sisters, Mrs. Harriet Mason of Free
port and Miss Doris Grover Of Lew
iSton.
To- re
of Bath, one of the IS enlisted men from
the cruiser Salem, is missing as the
result of the capsizing of motor peat
in which they were returning from shol e
leave at Key West, Fla. was the son ot
Mr. and Mrs Gorham D. Weeks of Bath
Roland Weeks enlisted in the regular
navy in May. 1917, as third class hosp
tai assistant, and in little more than a
year received five ratings. reaching sec
ond class pharmacists mate about IT, o
weeks ago. In a letter received by his
mother recently Mr.. Weeks wrote that
he was perfectly we'll and nursing IS
patients with influenza. He added that
he was studying hard to become frst
class pharmacists mate. Mr.. Weeks
was rs years old. He was of the cla IS
OF 1910, Morse high school.
Gardiner, Oct. 30.-Jasper L. Haines.
born in Gardiner 10 years ago. was the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram S. Hain.s.
He left Waterville high school to en-
ter the service of his country April 8,
1917. He went to Bath for guard duty
later to Westfeld, and sailed for France
in October. He was reported wounded,
degree undetermined. Oct. 2S.
Wells Depot. Aug. 3o.-Among the
names of wounded included in the ia.-
est Canadian casualty list forwarded
from Ottawa Is that of Rev. P. c..
Clarke. former pastor Of the United
Baptist church at Wells Depot. Mr..
Clarke succeeded Rev. Lester c. Holmes,
now pastor of the Adams street Baptist
church in Biddeford. as head Of the
church at Wells Depot, and he in tur:,
was succeeded b. Rev Henry H. Hail,
now confined in the county Jail under
indictment for the alleged murder of
his wife.
Bangor, Me, Oct. 29-Private Eu-
gene Russell has died in France Of
pneumonia. according to notification
received today by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Russell. He was %
years old and employed in a dental
laboratory here. when he went to
Camp Devens last July. His death
occurred week after no landed in
France with medical replacement unit
No. u. Besides his parents he leaves
six sisters.
Auburn, Me, Oct 29-Mr. and Mrs,
William H. Cox of Auburn have re-
ceived word that their son, Albert
Merle Cox, has been wounded in the
leg. He is q years old and enlisted
three years ago in the Canadian
forces.
Portland, Me-, Oct. 29-Corado Cor
radino, y, reported missing in action,
was wounded Aug. q, according to
word received by his sister, who lives
here. He went across in Co G, 103rd
Infantry, having enlisted in the
Spring of 1917.
Rome, Me, Oct. 29-Wiliiam z.
Thurston, reported missing in action,
Is %. the son of Edwin Thurston. He
was a volunteer in the 2nd Maine,
now the 1o3rd Infantry. Just before
entering the service he married Miss
Ethel Mooers. who now lives in Vi