Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-25
SOLDIER BOYS

| 1t is now certain that Westbrook will
| have platoon in Co c of the Sd Maine
Regiment About . have signed up at
both ends of the city and the two ada
cent towns of Gorham and Windham
The physical examinations will be held
shortly and a meeting will probably fol-
low for the purpose of organizing AMI
selecting commissioned officers.
report in Boston newspaper Satur-
day stated that Sumner SewaIl of Bath
with six others has received for distin-
guished services as an aviator during
recent battles in France the French
cross of the Legion of Honor, although
the gallant young mans father, William
d. Sewall, has not as yet received such
| information from his son.
Friends and relatives IN Springyale
! and Sanford will be interested to learn
of the arrival at Ellis Island, n. Y, of
| Private Parker s. Jenness of SPRING
vale. He has sent word to his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. B. II. Jenness, that after
passing few days in the hospital he
will come to his home here, having been
invalidated from France. He has been
critically i'll with pneumonia
Laurence G. Barton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Llewellyn Barton of Portland for
merly a student at Bowdoin college and
graduate Of the second Plattsburg camp.
has been made captain. according to
news reaching his parents. He has been
ordered to Camp Grant, Ill.
With prpepf of Oh bic
| lung, received while dressing wounds IN
front line trench, Lieut.. Harry D. Nc
Neil has arrived at his home in Bangor,
the first Bangor man TO return wounded
Lieut.. Mcneil who is a graduate of
Bowdoin Medical College, went overseas
in September 1917.
Roothbay Register-Rev. Willard H.
Curtis, who was called to Camp Devens
as a private, and who first rose to cor
poral, is now a second lieutenant and
stationed at Camp Travis. Leon Springs,
Texas. in Battery A, SOD Field Artillery
He has recently received his commits
sion.
DR.. William J. Lewis of Freeport, a
well-known physician, has been COM
missioned first lieutenant in the Unit
ed States Medical Corps. and has been
ordered to Camp Greenleaf, Ga. for
training. DR.. Lewis is a graduate of
Bowdoin Medical school and has been
practicng in Freeport for eight years
and has been very successful in his pro-
fession.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albion II. Eaton of Ca
lais are flying a three-star service flag
at their home in honor of their three
sons who are in the U. S. Army service
Lieut.. Horace Eaton is attached to the
heavy artillery and is now in France.
where he received his commission in
one of the military schools. He is L. of
NJ. Law school graduate. Lieut. A. Keith
Eaton is Division commander and in
structor in flying at San Diego. Calf.
Re is a Bowdon graduate was captain
of the college baseball team and Maine
tennis champion. Professor Carleton,
Eaton, who was formerly head of the
forestry department at the University
of Maine, is now taking course at the
Massachusetts School of Technology to
ut himself as an inspector of aeroplanes.
Sergt. William E. Fish. Co G. 103d In
| fantry, recently back from France and
| assigned as instructor at Camp Devens.
was the principal speaker at the unfurl-
ing of 15-star flag Sunday evening at
the Forest Avenue Congreeat ional
church at Bangor.