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1913
Frank A. Danforth at Southern Pines, N. C., celebrated his 80th birthday, April 14 .- The weather was so warm April 21, that open cars were run on the electric railroad for the first time this year .- Rev. Merrill C. Ward accepted a call from the Universalist Church society to become its pastor .- Miss Grace Bicknell, teacher for several
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years at the Parker Institute, Watertown, Mass., visited Europe, going across the ocean in the summer .- Work began on the village sewer this year .- Mrs. Abiah (Towne) Frost, widow of Lewis Frost, celebrated her 95th birthday, Aug. 26, in Lowell, Mass .- Deaths: Jan. 2, Mrs. Sarah J. Stiles 69; 12, Miriam (Bisbee) Libby 81; do, Aaron Page 72; 17, in Augusta, Henry C. Bradford 80; Jan. 19, Mrs. Han- nah H. Jordan 71; 29, Louise (Dudley) Allen 88; Feb. 25, Auburn, Lee M. Watson 40, suicide; 22, So. Portland, Rev. C. A. Brooks 58; 28, Adelaide (Wilson) Sanborn 62; 27, Wid. Hannah E. Stearns 76; 24, E. Otisfield, Thos. J. Everett 72; Mar. 11, Ellen (Scribner) Brad- bury 81 nearly; 13, Warren E. Bartlett 50; Apr. 6, Oxford, Henry Freeman 51; 17, Enoch P. Bartlett 88; 19, Salome (Durgin) Walker 90; 27, in Boston, Mrs. Kate (Frost) Jones 69; May 10, Catharine (Foster) Andrews 71; 17, Clara E. Hamlin 74; 24, Eugene W. Bart- lett 52; June 10, Sophia H. Davis 83; June 24, in Lynn, Mass., Lewis P. Bartlett 62; 28, Wid. Addie M. Rowe 59; 30, Chas. C. Hill 80; July 28, Wid. Mary L. Howe 77; Aug. 12, Jerusha M. Abbott 81; Aug. 5, Martha A. Cordwell 80; 20, Morrill M. Fuller 71; 22, in Augusta, Anna V. Bennett 61; 19, in Montreal, John W. Swan 54; Sept. 4, in Taunton, Mass., Alonzo Palmer 77; 12, Auburn, Chas. F. Bartlett 40; 22, in Lynn, Mass., Allen F. Bartlett abt. 56; Sept. 19, Cent. Me. Hospital, Sampson Scribner 69; Oct., Me. Gen'l Hospital, Charles E. Brown 65; Nov. 1, Cent. Me. Hospital, Herbert F. Richard- son 62; Dec. 20, do., Merritt Frost 56; Dec. 4, Frank S. Gammon 76; Dec. 15, Haverhill, Mass., Abner B. Chase 84; Dec. 25, Ellen (Hobbs) Crockett 76; 27, in Boston, Mary Emeline Reed 78; Dec. 29, Mrs. Melissa Libby 94.
1914
The democratic patrons of the Norway Post Office had a caucus Jan. 21, to indicate their preference for postmaster. It resulted as follows: Frank E. Decoster 146, W. A. Lewis 80, A. L. F. Pike 30, W. S. Bickford 2. Decoster was appointed in June .- The Carroll- Peabody Company of Haverhill, Mass., shoe manufacturers, located here this year, the L. P. Bartlett Company having given the factories up after Mr. Bartlett's death in June, 1913. It was understood that Mr. Samuel H. Hayden started the negotiations .- The ice went out of the lake April 25 .- Clark & Wilbur of Bolster's Mills, purchased the C. L. Hathaway lumber plant .- Mark W. Chandler, station agent of the Grand Trunk R. R. Co., resigned his position in Sept. and re- tired on half pay-he having been in the company's service about 50 years .- Mt. Washington came into the possession of the U. S. Gov- ernment in the summer .- In Nov. the Norway National Bank began working under the Federal Reserve system .- The Great World War began in August by Germany's invasion of Belgium. There was no adequate cause for it. It ended four years and three months later. after an appalling sacrifice of many millions of lives, and billions of treasure .- Dr. B. Frank Bradbury went overseas to enter the hospital service in the Red Cross, in Germany .- Miss Grace Bicknell who had been in Germany, was fortunate to get away and reach home in Sept .- Deaths: Jan. 3, Mrs. Chas. E. Gilbert, a French native of Canada 69; 8, in Portland, L. M. Longley, sen., 87; 22, Mrs. Margaret
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A. Libby, 78, many years president of the ladies' Browning Club; 24, in P. Q., Canada, Anthony Lafariere 70, interment in Rustfield; Feb. 16, Mrs. Sarah E. Packard 79; 19, Agnes J. Kelly 61; 20, Solomon H. Millett 69; 27, Jackson Clark 81; Mar. 5, Geo. I. Cummings 45, fatal accident; 15, Daniel S. Davis at town farm, 83; Apr. 18, Levi Thompson 74; May 2, Chas. L. Hathaway 74; 7, Mrs. J. L. Partridge 71; 24, at Fryeburg, Anna (Chase) Noyes 72; 26, Wid. Vesta (Briggs) Frost 80; 31, Cambridge, Mass., Wid. Sarah E. Hill 86; July 9, Wid. Betsy Jane (Chandler) Bacon 76; 25, Benj. McAllister 20, drowned; 25, Alma (Greenleaf) Bailey 59; Aug. 5, Lydia A. Fuller 77; Sept. 5, Mrs. Maria M. Ryerson 72; 25, Mrs. Harriet M. Hosmer 79; Oct. 3, Wrentham, Mass., Laura J. Reed 77; 13, Horace C. Oxnard 74; 9, Cynthia A. (Perham) Lapham 75; Nov. 8, Wood- fords, Maj. Henry R. Millett 79, interment in Pine Grove; Nov., St. Albans, S. H. Goodwin 65; 24, Brookline, Mass., David W. Noyes 67; 14, in Charlotte, N. Y., Rev. Samuel G. Davis 68; Dec. 9, Clara (Bacon) Hosmer 52; Dec. 10, Dr. Frank N. Barker 60.
1915
A wireless station was installed by V. W. Hills in January for obtaining the time, daily from Washington .- The ice went out of the lake April 15 .- A new shoe manufacturing company began business in the old factory this year. It made children's shoes. The members of the company were Col. A. J. Stearns, Capt. Lucian W. Blanchard of Rumford and D. E. Morrison of Providence, R. I .- The Partridge store at Norway Lake village was destroyed by fire Sunday morning, July 25. The loss to the owners, Witt & Dunn, was heavy; property only partially insured .- Mrs. Alma Pendexter Hayden and Mrs. Mollie W. Whitman composed poems on the war, which the English queen and the wife of the Governor-General of Canada highly praised .- Mrs. Harriet (Porter) Millett celebrated her 92d birthday Aug. 20 .- C. F. Whitman published the Buckfield History in the autumn .- Deaths: Jan. 5, Yarmouth, Mrs. Helen H. Austin 49; 22, Amos Barker 85; 25, Portland, Ellen T. Wetzler 73; 21, Sam'l H. Legrow 75; 19, Viola E. Swan 78; 27, Capt. Wm. C. Brooks 88; 24, Wid. Lydia A. (Parsons) Titcomb 65; 29, Esther R. Whitehouse 70; Jan., Marietta, Ga., Warren E. Crockett, a "Rough Rider" b. in Norway, 58; Mar. 2, Cassie Smith 67; 13, Lynn, Mass., David Young 80; 10, Silas W. Rowe 74; 20, Agnes (Tucker) Brown 40; 18, in Bath, Geo. W. Hunt 70; Apr. 4, Caroline A. Wetherbee 77; 12, Hon. Alfred S. Kimball 72; Apr. 17, James L. Partridge 77, and Diana (Briggs) Starbird 79; 24, in Brewster, Mass., Rev. Edward S. Cotton 60; May 4, Mrs. Ava Y. Bradbury 53; Apr. 30, Susan (Pike) Kelley 82; May 10, Seba H. Gammon 74; 27, Miss Mary F. Hooper 24 yrs. 7 mos .; June 4, Ches- ter W. Horne 65; July 16, Wm. J. Lewis 70, suicide; 20, Geo. W. Wood 53, suicide; 16, Merritt F. Damon 85; 20, in Waltham, Ella (Sanderson) Chase 64; Aug. 5, Albion Buck 91; Aug., in Manitou Springs, Colo., Wm. B. Tee 86; 18, Rochester, N. Y., Chas. F. Part- ridge 57; Sept. 1, Ephraim F. Wood 85; 26, at Mechanic Falls, Laurestine L. Denison 90. interment in Pine Grove; 25, Sewell Austin 73; Oct. 4, Wilbur W. Pride 75; 9, Susan R. (Marston) Ryerson 80;
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Jason F. Rowe 74; 13, Persis R. Bradbury 80; 21, Henry Hodgdon 75; 23, Worcester, Mass., Ralph I. Trask 44; Nov. 11, G. Frank Monroe 73; Dec. 19, Cora (Whitman) Greenleaf 52; Dec. 24, Wid. Harriet (Grover) Foster 70.
1916
The old Elm House, a famous hostelry in its day, was torn down this year, to give place to a fine building for the post office, auto sales rooms, law office and tenements .- There was a great freshet in May- the water in the lake rising nine inches in twelve hours .- Frank Young and wife of Auburn and Minnie Chamberlain of Lakeport, N. H., were drowned in the lake near Gibson's Grove, Aug. 23 .- The republicans in Maine in Sept. had a sweeping victory but lost in Nov. in the national election by the defection of Ohio, Kansas, Cali- fornia and several other western states .- The Norway Company of the National Guard was sent to Texas in June, to patrol the Mexican border. Capt. Moses P. Stiles commanded it. On return of the
CAPT. MOSES P. STILES
company in November, the officers and men were given a reception. C. F. Whitman gave the address of welcome in which he paid a high tribute to the citizen soldiery of the country, who in every war had carried the stars and stripes to victory. Remarks were also made by Rev. C. G. Miller, Rev. Robert J. Bruce and others .- The shoe manu- facturing company from Haverhill which had been reorganized as the Carroll-Jellison Company entered this year on a great and success- ful period of business which has lasted through the war and is now (1922) established on a very firm basis .- Deaths: Jan., at Amesbury, Mass., Arthur H. Swan 44, interment at Pine Grove; 15, at Stoneham, Hon. Jonathan Bartlett 78; Mar. 2, Silas D. Andrews 78; 14 at New Haven, Conn., Eugenia P., wife of Prof. Sidney I. Smith; Apr. 3, Stephen L. Ethridge 76; June 12, at Boston, Chandler Garland, former jailer at Paris Court House, 65; June 18 at Paris Hill, Mrs. Columbia (Rawson) Parris 102 yrs. 3mos. 21ds .; July 20, Wid. Alice N. (Shedd) Frost 87; 28, at Minneapolis, Minn., Elliott C. Allen 73; Aug. 24, Almira (Smith) Foster 78; 29, Dr. Prudent Bedard 63; Aug. 25, Clara Perkins 81; Oct. 3, James Danforth 77; 14, Francis (Barrows)
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Partridge 65; Oct. 24, Sarah M. (Whitehouse) Pike 74; Geo. H. Rus- sell Bennett 53; 27, Darius S. Sanborn 74; Nov. 2, Irene G. (Plum- mer) Locke 75; 12, Mary E. Kneeland 74; Dec. 9, Leonard Flint 76; Dec. 15, Capt. Wright Bisbee 83; Dec. 24, Minnie (French) Stone 55.
1917
John A. Roberts was chosen by the Legislature in January for his second term as Commissioner of Agriculture. He died before his term expired .- Talbot Mundy's "King of the Kyber Rifles," a tale of India, was issued in book form in January .- Mrs. Clara (Ames) Hayden celebrated her 88th birthday Jan. 25 .- Rev. Caroline E. Angell passed to the higher life at Portland, Mar. 28, at the age of 75 .- War was declared against Germany in April, by the U. S. The Norway Company (D) left on the 30th for Biddeford for guard duty .- Free mail delivery was established in the village May 1, with two routes,-Lynn St. being the dividing line. Floyd Haskell and Wm. A. Lewis were the carriers .- Prof. Herbert L. Russell, principal of the Academy at Owego, N. Y., died Apr. 11, aged 52 .- Dea. Wm. H. Porter celebrated his 95th birthday at his home at Steep Falls, May 8. He held the Boston Post cane .- Levi Shedd, a native of Nor- way, Civil War soldier, sheriff and Co. Com. of Coos Co., N. H., passed away May 8, at his home at West Paris, "aged 84."-The monument in memory of the Revolutionary soldiers of the town and county erected in Witherell Park was dedicated with appropriate services, June 14. The presentation was by Miss Margaret Baker and C. F. Whitman gave the address .- Twenty-three students graduated at the high school in June. Several entered college the following autumn .- Lawrence M. Carroll was elected in Sept., president of the State Fair. He wrought a great change in its finances .- Marriages during the year, 49; births, 74; deaths, 58.
1918
Rev. Melbourne O. Baltzer of the Mexico parish accepted the call of the 2d Norway Congregational Church society to become its pas- tor .- The ice went out of the lake Apr. 24 .- Rev. H. H. Rider of San- ford conducted mission services for several months at the Episcopal church on Paris street .- John B. Hazen, a Civil War soldier in the First Me. Cav., died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Richard Dietrich in Auburn, May 12, aged abt. 82 .- C. F. Whitman delivered the Memorial Day address at Oxford, May 30 .- Donald B. Partridge was elected clerk of courts in Sept .- Twenty-one students graduated at the high school this year .- A great earthquake shock, lasting from ten to fftren seconds, occurred on the morning of Aug. 21. Many buildings were severely shaken .- Hon. Bertrand G. McIntire was the democratic candidate for Governor this year .- In October an epidemic of influenza broke out and raged with more or less violence for several weeks. The October term of the Supreme Court at Paris was ad- journed for a period in consequence .- A general armistice among the belligerents in the Great World War was declared Nov. 11, and the disastrous conflict ceased. The news was received everywhere with great rejoicing.
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1919
The ice left the lake Apr. 14 .- Efforts were made in the winter to procure the regular running of the electric cars of the Norway and Paris St. Ry., but ended in final abandonment .- It was decided at the annual town meeting for one selectman to be chosen each year and hold his office for three years .- Early in this year, Lt. Stuart M. Ter- rier, son of Mrs. Judge Morrill N. Packard of Baltimore, Md., by her first husband, in the aviation service of the U. S., lost his life off the Virginia coast by his airship becoming unmanageable. He was a young man of splendid ability and many noble and manly qualities .- The home-coming of the soldier boys from the Great World War was celebrated with appropriate services on the Fair Grounds, June 9. Hon. B. G. McIntire gave the address of welcome. An original poem by Mrs. Alice B. Maxim was read by Donald B. Partridge, and Col. Hume and Gen. Edwards made speeches .- Albert A. Towne, who had . resided in Aroostook County for several years, returned to Norway in July to permanently make his home on the old homestead in Yag- ger .- Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Smith observed the 50th anniversary of their wedding, Sept. 22 .- Frank Q. Elliott died at his home on Cres- cent St., Nov. 6, aged 76 .- Norway had 820 of school age this year .- A Post of the American Legion was organized in the autumn and named "William H. Stone Post No. 82."-Marriages, 46; births, 55; deaths, 43.
1920
Big snowfall in February and March .- The Central Maine Power Company purchased in the winter, the water powers and power and electric lighting plant .- At the annual town meeting Alvin Brown was elected selectman to serve for three years .- The street was paved with cement to Paris town line this year .- Hon. John A. Roberts, Commis- sioner of Agriculture, died at Augusta in March .- Geo. A. Brooks passed away at his home on Water St. after several weeks sickness, Apr. 11 .- Mr. True C. Morrill, Supt. of Schools, resigned to accept the same position in the Bangor schools. W. E. Stuart was chosen to succeed him .- Donald B. Partridge gave the Memorial Day address here May 30 .- The graduating class, Norway High School, numbered 30 .- Hon. B. G. McIntire was the democratic candidate for Governor again this year .- The republicans carried the country at the national election and elected Warren G. Harding of Ohio, President. Law- rence M. Carroll was elected as representative to the Legislature .- Transportation between Norway and South Paris by bus, established during the latter part of the year .- Marriages, 45; births, 66; deaths, 46.
1921
An agricultural course was established at the high school in Jan- uary with Edward H. Brown of Bethel, director .- Rev. M. O. Baltzer resigned as pastor of the Congregational Church society in January .- Wilford G. Conary was elected town clerk at the annual town meet- ing and Robert F. Bickford, treasurer .- William W. Whitmarsh, a Captain in the Civil War, town clerk, county commissioner and popu-
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lar landlord of the old Elm House, died Mar. 29, aged nearly 86 .- Dr. Albert Thompson, lumber dealer, mine owner and able business man died at his home in Philadelphia, Pa., Apr. 24 .- Rev. O. E. Barnard accepted a call as pastor of the 2d Congregational Church. society in April .- Main St. was paved with cement to the old tannery bridge and from the Jason Rowe place to corner of Alpine St .- Hon. Alton C. Wheeler of South Paris delivered the Memorial Day address here this year, and C. F. Whitman at Bethel .- Forty-one students grad- uated at the high school in June .- Herman L. Horne passed to the higher life in July. For many years he had been one of Norway's foremost business men .- The body of Wm. H. Stone was brought from France and interred with military honors, in July, and the remains of Ralph O. Millett, in Sept .- Jesse Allard and Howard Moulton retired from active business in August .- Mrs. Clara M. Elliott died in October .- The Jackson-Greenlaw Co. was organized .- Rev. T. C. Chapman became pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church society in the summer .- The big dowel plant of the C. B. Cummings & Sons Co. at Bemis was destroyed by fire this year .- Marriages, 44; births, 63; deaths, 34.
1922
The 93rd birthday of Mrs. Clara A. Hayden on Jan. 25 was ob- served as usual by her surviving children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren at her home on Pleasant St. She passed to the higher life April 29, following, retaining her faculties almost to the last. She was an exemplary lady, respected and loved by all .- Frank T. True passed away at his home in Council Bluffs, Ia., where he had lived since leaving Norway, from a stroke of apoplexy, Mar. 20, at 61, and Prof. Richard E. Clement at the same age at a hospital in Elizabeth, N. J., following a surgical operation May 6 .- Rev. Chester G. Miller gave the Memorial Day address here .- Rev. Charles R. Tenney received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Tufts College in June .- Hon. B. G. McIntire was the democratic candidate for Congress in this ditrict .- The republicans carried Maine at the State election and elected Percival P. Baxter Governor .- Albert A. Towne of Norway was elected as the democratic representative to the Legislature .- Rev. J. A. Seitz, former pastor of the Universalist Society of Norway, passed to the higher life, at his home at Cos Cob, Conn., Sept. 30, at the age of 85.
The following survivors of the War of the Rebellion were living in Norway at the close of the year:
W. Frank Cox 79, Winfield Scott Cordwell 82, Edward R. Knee- land 81, Dennis Marr 81, David A. Jordan 79, Moses E. Kimball 78, W. Oscar Needham 77, Freeland Young 78, David Flood Jr. 81, George Seavey 80, Clarence M. Smith 76, Levi E. Holden 77, Albert P. Bassett 73, Thaddeus Cross 77, and Henry A. Bickford 75.
Only Cox, Flood, Needham, Smith and Holden served on the quota of Norway, and only two others who so served, Charles F. Millett of Auburn and Edward F. Stevens, a resident of Massachusetts, were living at the close of 1922.
Cross, Smith and Bickford have since passed away.
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CHAPTER XLI.
THE GREAT WORLD WAR.
The greatest and most destructive conflict the world has ever known, began in August, 1914, with the invasion of Belgium and France, by Germany. The apparent cause for this was over some affair in the Balkans and the imposition of conditions upon Serbia, France and Russia which could not in national honor be acceded to. The real reason was an excuse for Germany to begin a contest long contemplated to make that country the dominant power among the nations of the earth and the German race supplant the English in the commercial and literary world. If successful Germany would be raised to a great material power-greater than Rome in the days of the Caesars-whose principal of action should be-not righteousness. and justice-but that might would determine what was right. Her leading men from Bismarck's time when the French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were torn away from France in 1871, had dreamed of, and planned for a time, when German policy would be su- preme among the nations; France lying helpless at her feet; Belgium and Holland absorbed, giving her an outlet to the sea; Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey her vassals, and England, and Russia humbled, and with America, suppliants for her favors. The officers of her army and navy, imbued with this spirit, like hounds in leash impatient to be let loose, on every occasion drank "to the day."
It came at last. But Little Belgium kept the inhuman hordes at bay, till France was in a degree prepared, and France kept them from Paris and the sea till English soldiers appeared on the battle front. The "Huns" were stopped at the Marne, but not crushed. Twice the situation was saved by Russia's attacks in East Prussia and Galicia. But a revolution in Russia in 1916 destroyed the efficiency of its armies and the imperial authority, and once more Paris and the sea were threatened. But they were held till in 1917, American troops- never beaten in any war-went to the rescue, and a second time,-the command of all the forces on the western front having at last been given to one general (Marshal Foch)-the destroying masses were again stopped at the Marne. The English Navy, which fortunately was prepared at the opening of the great conflict, had from the first, held the North Sea and had bottled up the German fleet in the Kiel canal.
Italy, which had been neutral, joined the Allies and Austria was forced to meet this new menace on her frontiers. Early in 1918, notwithstanding the defection of Russia, the prospects of a speedy termination of the conflict were very bright. In the summer, Bul- garia sued for peace, and was followed by Austria and Turkey. It was apparent that the end at last was in sight. The Germans, however, clung to their intrenchments and defied for a time the allied forces from pushing them out of their holes in the ground, and away from the famous "Hindenberg Line," but American, English and French valor triumphed in a series of engagements and
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at last, this line was taken. Germany sued for peace, an armistice declared Nov. 11, 1918, and the war was at an end.
The results of the great conflict are almost beyond conception. Germany has been dismembered and loaded with a debt, which it cannot pay for several generations. The throne of the royal house of the Hohenzollerns has perished and the Kaiser by a cowardly flight into Holland, has saved himself the fate of Napoleon. The thrones of the Hapsburgs and Romanoffs have also perished, and the Czar and his family treacherously murdered, and Russia is being governed by a set of fanatics, thugs and assassins, who rival in barbaric atroc- ity the sanscoulottes and communists of the French Revolution of the 18th century. This great empire, too, has been dismembered as has Turkey. Austria has been almost destroyed. Poland has again risen as a nation, from the smouldering ruins of the great and awful cata- clysm. France, mercilessly devastated in her northern borders, has got back its two provinces, Alsace and Lorraine, and has a grip on former German territory to the Rhine and in Africa. Italy, too, has increased her dominions as have Greece and Roumania. Several new nations have sprung into being. Great Britain has added two em- pires to her own-one in Africa, taken from the Germans, giving it a stretch of country from the Cape of Good Hope to the Mediter- ranean Sea-the other in the Mesopotamian region and Palestine in Asia, taken from Turkey.
The United States, which burdened itself with a debt of twenty- two billions of dollars, and sacrificed nearly half as many lives from the promising young men of the country as in the Civil War- received nothing. It did not ask for any of the spoils of victory. It was a struggle on our part for our own safety and welfare, for it. could be for nothing else under the Constitution of the United States, yet it greatly assisted in the preservation of modern civilization and world peace.
When the United States Government, in 1917, declared war on Germany, it was felt from one end of the country to the other, that the contest must be won at whatever cost. Never in any war were the people, North, South, East and West, so unanimous and united. Every town and city in the land was awake to the necessity of doing its utmost with all its resources. The people of Norway-never be- hind in any crisis-in everything required, did more than its allotted share. Their sons were among the American forces sent to France. They fought at Verdun, Soissons, at Chateau-Thierry and St. Mihiel. They were with the legions who broke the "Hindenberg Line," and in the trenches facing the enemy when the last gun was fired, and the German standards were furled and laid at their feet. Their career has been glorious in the extreme, but it has been at a great sacrifice of thousands of the precious lives of the young and noble ones of the country.
The following is a list of the boys from Norway who had a part in the gigantic contest,. as furnished by the Adjutant-General's office at Augusta.
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NAME
RANK
ORGANIZATION
DATE IN FEDERAL SERVICE
Allen, Harold M.
1st Lt., Capt. Pvt.
Med. Corps, M. C. A. Med. Dept., M. C. A.
July 25/17-Feb. 6/19
Andrews, Francis S.
Aspinall, John S.
Pvt.
Co. D 2d Me. Inf.
Barker, Hubert H.
Pvt.
Med. Enl. Res. Corps
Bartlett, Albert Russell
Bartlett, Donald Stewart
Pvt.
Bennett, William S.
Cpl .; Sgt.
Bethell, Russell H.
Pvt.
Bickford, Henry Knox
Bisbee, William H.
Pvt.
Blaquiere, Arsene G.
Sgt. 1 Lt .; Capt.
Med. Corps
Bradbury, Bial F. Brooks, Hubert W. Pvt. Rev. Father Philip M. Bovin Chaplain
Brooks, Paul L
Brown, Cecil Earl
Buck, Clifford Manson
A. S .; Sea 2 cl .; Storekeeper
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