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"PRIVATE ORVILLE C. DAVIS KILLED IN ACTIVE SERVICE ON APRIL 8," READS DISPATCH [Bolded] ________________________ Well-Known Poland Young Man Who En- Lewiston listed in Canada, Three Years Ago, Journal Gives His Life For Cause of Allies [Bolded}

                                                                                          April 26,

POLAND, Me., April 26 (Special). – 1917 A telegram has just been received by relatives in Poland from headquart- Page 1 ers in Ottawa, bearing these words:

    Private Orville C. Davis, infan-

try, officially reported killed, in active service, April 8, 1917.

  Young Davis enlisted at Montreal 

in the Canadian expeditionary forces, three years ago last August, and from there went to Salisbury, En- gland, where he was trained with the other soldiers. Many interesting letters have been received from him, bearing the heading, "Somewhere in France," and the last letter was dated from Belgium.

  Some of these have appeared in 

the Lewiston Journal, and have been read with great interest in the granges, and by teachers in schools in various towns.

   When only 16 years old, Orville 

Davis came to Poland Station, as baggage master, where he served with credit in that capacity, and also as telegraph operator. Later he serv- ed up and down the Maine Central line as station agent from Vance- bor to Rumford, and two years ago last summer he was stationed at Rangeley, as the regular station agent. From there he went to Can- ada to enlist.

     Orville Davis was an ardent lover 

of music and played several instru- ments well. He made warm friends wherever he went.

     He leaves a wife, Mrs. Clarissa 

Davis, and three little children; a widowed mother, Mrs. Ana Davis of East Poland; three brothers, Guy, supt. of the National Fiber Board Co.; Harry, station agent at the Em- pire station on the Grand Trunk; and Wheeler, a wireless telegraph operator on the U. S. S. Henley; and two sisters, Mrs. Clarence Pulsifer of this town, and Miss Louise Davis, a telephone operator, in the Mansion House at Poland Spring. ____________________________________

[Down the right side, a full length photograph of Mr. Davis in uniform that reads: ORVILLE C. DAVIS, Of Poland, "Killed in Action."]