Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-01
BELFAST
Big Crowd Visits War Train
Man Arrested at Shoe Fac.

MAN AffeSCeQ AZ Sn0e rae.
tory
Belfast. April so-wednesday was .
half holiday in Belfast. the schools.
banks, stores and factories shutting
down from . to AZ in order that all
citizens might have an opportunity to
visit the war train which wa side
tracked at the Maine Central station
and open to inspection during those
hours. The train consisted of two
fiat cars. two box cars and a tourist
sleeper in which the party lives dur.
ing the tour OF Maine and Vermont.
Vermont was visited last week and
went over the top while Train No. 4
was in the state and during it's
Maine tour it hopes to put the same
thing across The party on board
consists OF the following: Fred A.
jerks. known to the party as Capt.
Jenks," OF the Plymouth Cordage
Company, who has charge Of the
train and presides at the meetings
held in each place visited. He has
devoted much Of his time for the past
few years to war work and Is an able
speaker. His assistant is A. J. r.
Helmus, q Cambridge broker, who,
unable to got into active service has
done a good deal Of Red Cross. Lib
erty Loan and other war work. G..
w. Ellison Of Reading, Mas, a B.
& NJ. trainman has charge Of train
arrangements and Alex MacLean Of
Cliftondale, is mechanic. Others in
the party are Capt. Julian P. Brown
OF the L. S. Marines, wounded in
France; Ensign John n. White;
Sergt. Samuel J. Limits Of Boston,
wounded and gassed and invaded
home; Sergt. Charles NJ. Weiner Of
Everett, Mass. who saw service in
France with the French. English and
American hospital units. was badly
gassed; Sergt. Wilfred Linfield, West
Somervilie; Corp. John E. Hines, East
Boston; Private Sidney C. Perham,
Chelmsford Of the Boston City hos
pital unit: and Privates Everett l..
Finklestein, and Morris Green Of
Dorchester; julius Geldstein of Rox-
bury and George D. Carpenter of
Cambridge. These men acted as
guards. guides and speakers. Fully
5000 men. women and children were
at the station, the children march
ing with their teachers, carrying
flags and led by a fife and drum
corps. The war relics, most a. them
captured from the Germans included
big and little guns, and other imple-
ments Of warfare.
Allen Cook formerly Of Liberty, an
operative Of Leonard & Barrows shoe
factory was arrested Tuesday OH
complaint of Supt. Herbert H. Stew
ems. and given hearing before
Judge Maurice w. Lord. He was
charged with obtaining money fraud
ulently by falsifying his work checks.
and plead guilty. He was fined $25
and costs or 10 days in Jail. He paid
and was released. Cook admitted
that he added check numbers to his
checks for piece work done in the
factory. and his only defense was
that he wished to add to his wages.
This is the second time that cheating
of this sort has been detected and a
careful system of checking up will be
| used in future and anyone else de-
tected in a like offense will be even
| more severely dealt with. The local
factory is not only paying good
| wages. the average wage. for man,
woman and boy being $1067, per
week. but has had and continues to
have steady work while many factor
les have been obliged to shut down
since the end of the war.
Keith A. the infant child of Ru-
dolph and Annie (Curtis) Saunders
died Tuesday aged one month. Pray
ers were held at the residence this
afternoon, Rev. Charles W. Martin of
the Methodist church officiating.
Funeral services for Miss Anger
ana Stevens were held at her late
home at Northport. Tuesday at 2
o'clock, Rev. Charles W. Martin
officiating. Miss Stevens was q
worker in the East Northport Metho-
dist church whenever her health per-
mitted and had many friends. Her
death occurred on Sunday.