Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-09
SKETCHES MAINE
BOYS REPORTED
CASUALTY LISTS

| Cornyille, Me, Aug. S--Mrs D. w
Kelley received the sad intelligence this
morning that her brother. Lester H.
Wormlite. was officially reported as
Killed in action July is. Mr.. Wor1nlte
was the oldest grandson OF Samuel
| Locke OF this town and had made his
| nome with his sister. Mrs. Kelley.
There is another sister. Margery A.
! Read, and a brother. Werner J.. Mr.
Wormlite was born in Harmony Nov.
| 2 1884. He passed two years sheeprais-
Ing in Wyoming. After remaining nome
! Tor one year he Joined the army enlist
!1ng in Bangor. was sent to Fort Slocu:n
for training, after which he wen. to
IeXaS and Arizona. where he was in
! service until called across the ocean.
Mr.. Wormlite went across on the first
eXpeditonary force and has been ac-
| tive for several months
Mrs. Perley Corson of Route !, Madi-
son. received word this week that her
son. Corp. Willard w. Corson, had been
Killed. He was q years of age ana
was born in Athens. He enlisted Nav
z, 1915. and had risen to the rank OF
corporal, being a member of COMPANY
e of the 103d Infantry.
| North Whitefeld Me-, Aug. s.-Ser.
seant George l.. Heath of Co. K. 2Sth
! infantry. Regular Army, killed in ac-
| 'loh IN france. was Is years old He
ENLISTED when the company was recruit
ing Tor service on the Mexican bore,er.
iouT years ago. He served on the Dor
der and at Vera Cruz. Mexico Was
made corporal while at Fort Ringgold
ieNas, FEB 4, 1917. He was made ser
eeaht oct. II. 1917 soon after going
overseas. Sergeant Heath was born in
! "hiteheld. Me, where he spent most
oi ms Tune: was also employed In the
MIL OF the South Gardiner Lumber CO
"he!e ne made many frinds. He leaves
! brother and three sisters. Sergeant
| Heath is the first Whitefield man 10 he
killed
Lewiston. Me. Aug. S-Major How
ara ". Beal. Medical Corps, reported
severely wounded in the list of An
gust !, has died of wounds Notice
to that effect was received Yesterday.
by his sister, Mrs. Bertha Ham NJ
Auburn. Major Be-, was a former
RESIDENT or Lewiston but more lately
lived at Worcester, Mass
| Monroe. Aug Mrs. Walter =
hnoWlton has received word that her
son Lionel Pitts has been wounded in
! ac'lon' He was % years old, single
ana guide. He enlisted in May,
1917 and went overseas last fall.
Hudson. Aug s-Many friends here
Corp. Ellery D. Moody were
grieved to hear that he has been
severely wounded. Corp. Moody is
the son Of Mrs. Abbie Moody Of Hud
son and is q years of age He was
employed as a clerk for the Great
! Northern Paper Co, but enlisted in
Co G, lo3rd Infantry. Immediately at
ter the commencement since Septem-
! Der. He has a brother Bernice c.
Nc ody with Co. x, the Pennington
company. who was at the border in
l6. Corp. Moody has sister, Mrs.
Leonard OConnell of Bangor.
Unity, Aug. Shark L. Grant
named in Thursdays list, is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph c. Grant of
Unity Plantation. The telegram was
received Wednesday evening and
tated that he had been wounded
| seriously July IS. He was a member
of Co. I. 9Th Infantry. and enlisted
in Syracuse. n. Y, April 80, 1917. He
was % years of age and always lived
in Unity He has two brothers and
four sisters residing there NV.
| Unity. Aug. S-Mrs. -era E. Mills
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