Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-17
SOLDIER BOYS

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Goliath of
Dexter have received letter an
nouncing the safe arrival overseas of
their son, Lieut.. George r. Goliath of
the 309th L. :. Infantry. Lieut..
Goliath is one of DeXter's boys who
won commissions at the Plattsburg
training camp last year and for sew
eral months was stationed at Camp
| Upton, Yapkank, Long Island, New
| York. The regiment to which he is
attached is composed largely of New
! York drafted men.
There is talk among the wives and
mothers of Bangor boys in Company
G. and the Bangor Machine Gun Co
! of organizing an association similar
to the regimental associations in
Massa chusetts and other states. These
organized groups OF soldiers relatives
work together for the boys in the
! trenches and the mutual acquaintance
and advice that ore features, of the
meeting help to make the period of
waiting for the boys to return easier
/ The ladies' auxiliary of the railroad
unit is a similar body.
Henry Murray JOY Of Gray Road.
Gorham, who has graduated from the
L. $. a. School of Military Aero
nautics at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, has recently been
commissioned second lieutenant in
the L. S. Signal Reserve Corps and is
now stationed at Camp Dick Dallas.
Texas. Lieut.. Joy took an intensive
course of training in engineering as
whom there are a large number for
every man in the air. They see to
the condition of the machine, its re-
pairs and maintain the line of sup
plies which are absolutely necessary
for aviation work.
| Raymond Davis. formerly of Port
| land, a graduate of Bowdoin, in the
class of 1905 and of the Yale Forestry
School in 1907. and for the past few
years engaged in forestry work on
the Pacific slopes has been COM
missioned as q first lieutenant in the
10th Engineers. He enlisted 10
months ago at San Francisco After
getting his degree. master of forestry
from Yale, Lieut.. Davis was located
for some time in Minnesota. as a sur
veyor of timber lands for a big lum-
Der concern, and has not lived in the
East since he graduated from Bow
doin.
Bruce Paxton, the deserter from
Fort Williams who was arrested in
Bangor Monday afternoon, was taken
back to Portland by Deputy Chief Of
Police Powers. Mrs. Paxton, his
young wife, was also sent back to
Portland, Mrs. Jennie Johnson. the
city missionary, securing money to
pay for the railroad ticket.
Officer William S. Merrill of the
Portland Police department Monday
morning picked up a deserter from
the United States Naval Training
School at Newport. r. I. The man
was taken on the street at Portland
and it is understood that he deserted
some time ago. He will be taken
back to Newport
BY q strange coincidence three
brothers, registrants before the York
County No l Exemption Board, have
been called for service and will leave
Saco for Camp Devens together on
May 20. The local board does not
believe there is a parallel case in the
country. The three brothers are
John D. Neault, Oscar Neault ami
Herman Neault. who reside at AZ
Bradbury street, Biddeford.
Herbert freeman of Bangor. Me-.
employed at the United Box & I.um
Der Co. in Rochester, n. H., since last
November, coming from Portland.
Me-, was arrested in the mill yard
Wednesday by a sheriff from Bangor
and special officer from Portland
on charges of deserving the United
States Army and his wife. He was
taken to Bangor. freeman was called
in the draft early this year, but paid
no attention to the call. He left his
Wife and baby seven months ago.
Walter Guy Stone, a senior at the
Bangor Theological Seminary and as.