Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-24
Troops Will Start
Military Activities
AtCamp Reyes Today
Sunday Features
At Camp Reyes
Religious Services $50 A. M,
Conducted by CRUDE B. Cor
nlsh, Regimental Chaplain
and Lieutenant Commander
Allison J. Hayes, Chaplain at
the National Home-Regi-
mental Parade 4.3O P. M.

Officers and men Of the Supply Com
pany' 1o3rd Infantry. Maine National
Guard. and two units of the famous
9th U$S. Infantry from the Portland
Harbor coast defense forts. and Com
pany I, 103rd, of Millinocket. silent
under canvas at Camp Keyes last
night, and by l o'clock today the en-
TIRE enlisted personnel of the 1O3rd.
the S6th Infantry Brigade Headquar-
ters and Headquarters Company, and
olllcers OF the 3O3rd Infantry Reserve
VIII nave detrained at this city and
marched to Camp Keyes to enter upon
the Is days period of intensive field
training under the command of Brig
adler General Albert Greenlaw. camn
commander and ranking officer of the
S6th Infantry Brigade Of the 4Srd Di-
vision.
A detachment from the Supply Com
panf or the 103rd from Portland, I'M
der the command Of Captain Chapman
has been at the great field several
Gays making ready for the advent of
the nearly 1900 National Guard, Re-
serve and Regular Army troops. The
Mlillnocket rifle company came to Au-
gusta yesterday.
NAA AANets d i1ldCHlHe gun CeCaCh-
ment Of Co. H and the entire personnel
of Co. f. 5th U. S. Infantry, under the
command of Captain Farnsworth, ar
rived at Camp Keyes and were quar-
tered in the pyramid tents. 1t was I'M
derstood last evening that no call had
been made upon the camp quartermas-
ter for any issue of Sibley stoves to
heat the tents. The 5th u. S, Infan-
try was the last regiment of the
American forces in Germany to leave
that country at the termination of the
occupation of the Rhine territory by
allied troops.
Special Troop Trains Today
The remaining units of the 103rd In
fantry. which regiment is commanded
by Colonel Harry M. Bigelow of Port
land, will entrain at their respective
home stations today and will come to
this city by special train and trolley
A special troops train will leave Port
Iand at A. NJ, proceeding to Win
throp, where the troops will transfer
and continue to Augusta by special
electrics over the A. & X. line The
Howltzer Company from Portland, the
Regimental Headquarters Company
from Auburn. the Headquarters Com
pany of the LIST Battalion from Farm
ington, and the following rife compa-
MES will be transported in this man
ner, reaching this city at about noon:
Companies A of Biddeford, of Rum
ford, of Norway, D of Livermore
Falls, z of Lewiston, H of Lewiston
and the Regimental Band from Au-
burn.
The eastern companies will board
special train which will leave Bangor
ak n'p1noly
in Augusta at 1920 p. NJ In this de-
tachment will be Companies G of Wa
terville, K of Belfast, l. of Dover-Fox-
croft, NJ Of Bangor, Medical Detach-
ment from Bangor, Headquarters of
the End Battalion from Pittsfield and
3rd Battalion from Dexter.
Company F of Augusta, under the
command of Captain Frank B. Sprague,
will proceed from the Armory at City
hall to Camp Keyes at o'clock this
forenoon, as will the Seth Infantry
Brigade Headquarters Company, Cap
tain Almon B. Sullivan.
Royal Welcome Awaiting
Citizens Of Augusta and vicinity
have manifest unusual interest in the
annual tour of duty of the Maine
Guard and Reserve and Regular Army
units of this year and a splendid pro-
gram of welcome and entertainment
for the officers and men of the several
units has been arranged. Every where
about the Capital City the spirit of
cordially and hospitality to the
training soldiers will be in evidence
and several monster social events will
be participated in during the two
weeks. All Augusta clubs have opened
their doors to the men in uniform and
the encampment of this year promises
to be most successful IN every way.