Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-09
SOLDIER BOYS
WHY ENLIST
In the Third Maine Regiment
INV Harold McKeen, Belfast.)

(By Harold McKeen, Belfast)
ooh! Why are we here?"
Quoth John to Bill Lane.
ITO fight for Old Glory
And to win her more fame"
The 3D. Maine will be ready g.
To fight Kaiser Bill"
Whenever they need US
And fight him we will.
The doctors and surgeons
Are enlisting In Maine.
So why do you hold back?
Just sign up your name.
The clerks and the merchants
Are found in the ranks.
It's the best chance you'll have. boys,
With yourself now, be frank.
You can't be a gutter
Who lays down and groans,
For you've got to aid us
To help guard your own.
We will soon have a quota.
OF course! there's some graft
You enlist while you're able
And beat out the draft.
(Afterthougho
In the Company from Belfast
Will be found you and ],
Just ask Orrin Dickey
And he will tell you why.
E. J. Filter, the former Syrian student
In the Leavitt Institute. Turner. is now
in the United States aviation service. He
writes to an Auburn friend from Savan.
nah that he has been ordered to Pensa-
cola, Florida, to enter the aviation school.
AS soon as he Is sufficiently trained he
will be sent to France. Mr.. Filter has
written patriotic sentiment which he
has printed on post card and Is now
sending it to his friends in these cities
Here it is: THE New Spirit Of Patriot
ism: The day has come when the
thoughtful youth is privileged to shed his
gave him birth and happiness and the
place which he has treasured here. All
this spirit is made and is to be made to
protect the World Democracy against
any possible loss or sacrifice that can 30
avoided in this great undertaking."
Leslie E. Wight. son of Mrs. Ada
Wight. formerly of Bethel. who has for
two years had charge Of the shipping %
sugar from plantation at Porto Rico.
could not resist the call to enlist although
he had received his exemption papers and
was one of the 400 accepted out OF 5000 OK
amined In that section He is now Sta
toned at the officers training camp at
San Juan, Porto Rico.
Another OF the boys Of Bethel in whom
many are interested Is Roland Narsden.
son OF Mrs. Nora Burbank Marsden. a
former Bethel girl who for several wear.
mas been superintendent Of nurses IN 4.
Philadelphia hospital Mr.. Marsden ha.
mad many thrilling experiences IN m.
several years he has been in the navy a "A
III the last Two years. the ships on which
ne mas been stationed have been sunk nv
submarines. His last trip was on the an.
ia'ed Aceaeon. Only about 40 were r,.-
soed. They were taken to Spain wher.
Tor four months Mr.. Marsden ha. r,,,..s
10 return to the United States. He :, -
In New York City.
Lieut.. Milton S. Kimban left csmn
De.ehs last week for Fort Omaha
Neo.. TO observe and conduct the f,re
~ me pig artillery guns, which are
similar TO those being used across the
water, From there he will probai,lv 20
10 OFT Sliis. Oklahoma for further
running. Lieutenant .Kimball was cne
VI nine 10 take this trip, there being
'hree heutenants from each OF the three
regiments.-Bath Times.
Major George A. Buker, who re-
turned last month from three
months training at the Officers school
Fortress Monroe. Va. is stationed at
fort Williams. Portland Harbor.
ROBERT Holden, with the American
iorces In France, writes to his grand
mother, Mrs. Harriet L. Hastings ~
Ellsworth Falls. denying the rurnor
mat the American troops are sack
from the wilds Of France" LAS a