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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1917
Page
5
Crops news and mid summer items note a pleasant picnic at Popham in honor of Amherst boys. John D. Rogers planned the trip from Phippsburg Center to Small Point Beach with some workers in the ship yard causing a 1 PM departure.
Relatives and friends of the Bath soldier boys gathered at Fort Popham on Sunday. The steamer Virginia carried a record excursion crowd with autos and power boats bringing many to the fort. Food from home filled boxes as a soldier noted ample provisions for some time. The boys are comfortably camped, though some clothes and gear are still missing.
Travelogue across the western United States recounting cattle grazing in Wyoming and beef supply concerns. The author details the Union Pacific line from Omaha to Granger, a stop in Ogden Utah, and observations of Salt Lake area life and insect plagues linked to Brigham Young era famine folklore.
A Sagadahoc County Exemption Board letter list names and addresses of 41 Bath men certified for military service to District Board No. 1, noting possible adjustments for exemptions or industrial claims. The notice outlines appeal rules and confirms later additions as other claims are processed. District officials emphasize rights to appeal within set timeframes and list responsibilities for local and district boards.
The Milliken Regiment or First Maine Regiment Heavy Field Artillery mobilized in Brunswick Tuesday last week. About 1300 soldiers occupied Bowdoin College buildings with supply and Edwin C Burleigh batteries arriving to prepare camps. Camp hospital and YMCA facilities opened. medical inspection began under Camp Surgeon Dr Henry S Lincoln. Batteries and quarters assigned across Bowdoin campus with Eugene Hale battery at 245 men, largest unit, while others held to near authorized strengths.
Sagadahoe board completed examining the third fifty men in this draft at ten o clock Friday. Those accepted in addition to the list in Friday s Times include Michael P Flaherty Joseph O Connell Charles J Hall William A Beal Bath John J Fardy Richmond Joseph O Lavoie Topsham Linwood C Feero Bath Arthur P Sampson Bath Peter Flaherty Bath Oscar I Wright Bath Victor N Chambers Bath Fred A Haggett Bath Those rejected are Frank C C Jenkins Bowdoinham Edward P Gile Bowdoinham Clarence Wynn Arrowsic Charles J Johansen Bath Mercene F Blaisdell Phippsburg James P King Bath Lawrence Sears Bath Herbert J Stinson Richmond Ralph Lewis Bath George Winters Bath Joseph B Brierly Bath Everett L Richards Bath Harold H Emerson Providence telegraphed from Richmond appeared for examination. Sarl S Thomps in Washington DC will be examined there. The board aims to complete this duty by week s end as some claimants await a surprise. The Sagadahoe board s activity draws statewide notice as other boards delay until next week.
Government agents will seek men registered June 5 under the Selective Draft act who gave fictitious addresses. Slackers who did not report for physical exams will be drafted without further preliminaries, forfeiting exemptions. A weekly checking system with the Adjutant General coordinates enforcement. Francis J. Whelan, Bridgeport, Conn., here to regain strength after a two week hospital stay.
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