The Republican journal., 1918-02-14
The Third Maine Regiment.
Big Rally Will be Held in This City FRI
day Evening.

held in this city in the interest OF the
Belfast Company Of the Third Name
REGIMENT will take place at the court
house tomorrow, Friday, evening at 1:oo
o'clock. The Belfast band will furnish
music for the occasion and there will be
a number Of speakers from out OF the city
who are interested in this movement.
General George Mel. Presson, adjutant
general of the State of Maine, is expect
ed to be present; Hon. Ralph .. Brewster
of Portland, Capt Sabine W. Woods OF
Company B., and Lieut.. Cushman OF
Company B., of Bangor. These officers
will endeavor to give concise and clear
explanation of the wants OF the Ihiro
Maine Regiment in the State of Maine.
They will answer all questions of doubt
in the minds of the young men VINO
might be interested in becoming members
and it is hoped that as result OF this
rally. there will be more liberal enlist
ments. Bangor, Portland, Millinocket,
Houlton, Waterville, Rockland, Dexter
and Bar Harbor are all organizing COM
panies or already have done so and BEL
fast should not be behind.
Men from 18 to As, physically tlt are
eligible. The new regiment is IN the ma
ture of home guards, and no man Will
necessarily be absent from his business in
order to drill as the training will be done
at night That Belfast has been slower
than other cities of her size in the State,
in which Third Maine Infantry Com
panv has been started, has been a matter
of comment. The movement is not local
to Maine or any other State, but is ma
tional one. Maine has been asked to do
her share in the raising of troops for
home service.
Adjutant General Presson says ut is
distinctly understood that these men are
not enlisting for immediate service. l
can assure you this is not what the de-
partment at Washington or the North
eastern Department want Tins fegl-
ment is to be for State purposes and only
called in case of absolute necessity.
So much talk has been made of the I'M
mediate service of a locally recruited
Company that even Secretary OF war
Baker has announced that it was not the
intention of the government to use the
men in the Third Maine Regiment until
the men of the draft call had been ex-
hausted With some two million men
available for draft service, the members
of the Third Maine Regiment would not
stand much prospect of an early call, and
not unless the war continued for couple
of years.
The following men have been examln-
ed. passed and accepted for membership
in the Belfast Company: Roy E. Young,
Robert w. Rollins, Thomas b. kennedy,
Albion P. Goodhue, ). Elliott Clements,
Roscoe L. Hammons, Arthur Robbins,
RAYMOND Mendall, William w. Dickey,
Fred r, Dickey, Walter j. Clifford, harl
Herman Robbins, Charles E. Mahoney,
George Lowell, Orrin j. Dickey, ROBBIE
Creasey, Harold McKeen, Harvard Sails
bury, Basil Linton, Alvin Scott Gray,
Jr., Lewis Snyder, Jr., Daniel Floyd,
James Thayer, Walter P. Tweedie, Chas.
H. Hahn, Byron M. Salter and William
McLoon. This gives 26 members OF the
company who are ready for service and
there are some ten others who have not
yet taken their examinations who are
likely to pass and carry the company
well on to forty men. Following is list
of men who have been called for exami-
nation: Fred M Wentworth, George
Bray, Harold Fletcher, Milton Blake,
William H. Gray, Belfast, and Manter
L. Murphy, Brooks
Hon. Ralph O. Brewster of Portland,
member of the Portland law firm of Chap
man & Brewster and is himself men,
Der of Company A., of Portland. Mr..
Brewster is native of Dexter, where his
parents still live and has many friends in
this city. He was educated at Bowdoin
/ College and later taught school in Castine.
Mr.. Brewster is an able speaker and one
who will be in position to make clear
to those who hear him Just what the
Third Maine Regiment is being recruited
for. He was a member of the Maine
Legislature last session and has been an
active worker in Portland. He appeared
sometime ago in this city at the Belfast
Opera House in the Bowdoin College pre-
sentation of ''Half Back Sandy in one
of the leading characters.
Capt Sabine w. Wood of Bangor of
Company B., of the Third Maine Regi-
ment, who will speak in this city Friday
evening, is member also of the Public
Safety Committee of Bangor and well
known there He has been interested in
military work for long time. In addition
to his work in recruiting the Bangor
Company he has been engaged in work
in Dexter where another company is
nearly recruited and there has been much
work done in other sections under his di-
rection. Capt. Wood will be frequent
visitor to this city in the future and good
results are expected from the able in
struction as drill master that he will