Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-09

matter Of fact" he writes. I'VE are as
healthy and as happy q bunch as ono
would wish to see."
Horace Reynolds of Dexter was dis
| appointed last spring when he was re-
I jected from Co. A Of the old I'd Maine
| Infantry for physical reasons but his
persistence remained with him and
on Monday he left for Camp Greene.
| Charlotte, N. c.. from where he viii
| be sent overseas with the next lot OF
! troops to leave the southern camp and
I when once across the waters will De
sent to join Co. A. 13d u. 8. Infantry
"sonaewhere in France" Young Rey-
| no1ds was In the draft and when call
ed before the examining hoard was
| passed as physically fit for military
| service. He registered a vigorous kick
at being deprived OF the priv
ilege Of serving in his old
company and after. appealing to all the
various draft boards things were ar
ranged to send him to Co. A. in Franco.
He was . well satisfied young man
when he departed from Dexter Monday
morning.
1t appears from the Boston papers
that Lieut.. Col. Frank B. Cummings
OF Portland. formerly of Bangor ana
son Of Edwin A. Cummings OF that
city, has received an honorable DIS
charge from the army. having peeh
one of many men from the National
Guard and the regular army renewed
Of duty by Gen. Pershing in Franco.
Many other officers have had the same
experience in the rigid process insti-
tuted by Gen. Pershlng.
DR.. D. F. Cummings for nearly four
years in active prictice at Cherryheid.
has enlisted in the Medical Reserve
Corps and been ordeed to report in
Washington at once for active servica-
Harry NJ. Nightingale. who was ic-
ported to have been slightly Wounced
in action in France on Feb. %. came
originally from Aroostook county, and
his mother, Mrs. Martha Nightingale,
Is still living there. in Mars dni.
Nightingale has worked much at farm
ing and sometimes in the woods. He
has O number Of brothers and sisters
living in Fairfield. Houlton. Norridge-
wock and Skowhegan. He has cous-
in serving in a Canadian regiment.
Private Nightingale is now IN co. r.
13d Regiment, 26th Division, and u
letter which arrived at Rumford last
Friday stated that in January. when
he wrote. he was we'll and contented.
DR.. l.. L. Powell Of Saco. who en-
listed in the Milliken Regiment and
is now somewhere near the firing line
in France, writes that he expects to
move soon, where there will be plenty
Of work for tho surgeons, and where
there will Be plenty Of music"
Mr.. and Mrs. Theophile Bishop Of
Mechanic street, Westbrook, Thursday,
received word from tho War Depart
ment of the wounding Of their son. Ma
poleon, member Of the 1osrd Field Ar
tillery in France. The report, giving
just the bare details. states that the
wound is not serious, the young man
having been struck in the shoulder by
a piece OF flying shrapnel. He was
formerly a member OF Company NJ,
stationed at Fort Mckinley. but was
transferred into the 1o3rd artillery
regiment. He has a brother. Louis E.
in the service. and he Is aaso some
where in France"
A very pretty military wedding oc-
CURED at the Central church parson-
age at Bath Thursday morning, when
Corporal John w. Drews Of the 18th
Company. Coast Artillery, now sta
toned at Fort Baldwin, Popham
Beach, was married to Edith Duffey
Myers. daughter Of hte lighthouse ten
Ger at the beach. The groom Is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Drews
Of Danville. Ill. and has been In the
service some time. The bride IL q
well-known resident Of Popham.
Captain Erwin r. Gowen of Co. d.
srd Maine Regiment OF Biddeford. has
received orders from the adjutant gen.
erals ONCE at Augusta to have his
company ready Wednesday evening,
March Ia. for inspection. 1t will be
the first inspection by an army off,
Ger. and incidentally the company will
be officially recognized for the first