West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-06-23

two correspondents at the front,
@. q. Mouser. of Newburg, and Ira
u. Gibson, from Hudson.
Thomas j. Watson. the one
armed veteran from near Reedsville,
has surely contributed his share to
the war, as he now has four boys
in camp ut Chickamauga enlisted
for the war. One boy. Hugh. went
at the first call and Is in the Elkins
Company aud three more went last
week. Frank, Nose and Ben. The
first two went TO school two winters
to the editor OF this parer, when
we were were in the service teach :
ing the young idea how to shoot. so
it seems to be bearing fruit now.
Here is the list of Preston BOYS
and their post Office address as
near as we can get a complete list ::
VIII Rexroad, Charles b. Smith,
Will WotrIng, George Frank vii.
son, George DE vera, Walter s.
Wilson. Ernest Stemple and Ben
Franklin Stewart. from Klng@ood;
and Chris Hartmeyer, Bruceron:
Ira O. Gibson, Hudson; Frank
Emerson and j. NJ. Clarkson,
Neweurg; Frank A. Feather,
Lenox; Jos. N. White. Herring I;
Frank, Nose and Ben Watson and
Pryor Guseman. Reedsville, Will
Turner, Howesville, and the fol-
lowing ooys whose address we are
not sure about: s. f. White, A.
S. Pyles, q. l.. Myers, G.. b.
Larew, A. l.. Wiblin, w. III Cobun,
Okey Golf, w. w. Collins, John
Payton, John Plum mer, John
Royland, Frank Riley, Albert Gun
ningham, e. Z. Watkins and G.
W. King.
In addition to these boys we have
in the regiment under the first call,
as follows: b. Fairfax Scott,
Terra Alta; Hugh Watson. Reeds
vile; Clifford Davis. Etam; O. @.
Mouser and George Lyons. Newburg
and Charley Burke, of Terra Alta,
who is in Pennsylvania Regiment
and j. Newton Calvert, of King
wood, is now on the way to the
Philippine Islands with a Tenne-
see Regiment. Also, DIR. w. s.
Daley, of Terra Alta, this week
received an appointment AS Sur
geon in the Second Regiment and
left yesterday for Washington to
receive his commission.
Besides all the above to the
credit of old Preson, the Tunnel
ton Band has been selected as the
Regimentsl Band for the Second
Regiment and will be commissioned
and enlisted in the service soon as
the regiment is ready to 60 into
camp down near Charleston. where
the regiment will be organized and
mustered in. The camp will be
named Camp Atkinson" after
the Governor. The Tunnelton
Band goes under the leadership OF
Prof. Vincent, OF Grafton, who has
been teaching the boys the past
year or more.
1t looks now like DIR. Gland r.
Sherwood, of Kingwood, will get
to GO the front yet with a company
of our boys. Arrangements have
been made for Major Hudson, of
Pied mont. and the Doctor. to raise
a company between them, the
Major to be Captain of it and the
Doctor to be 1st Lieutenant. The
latter received orders this week to
get his men together and make
preliminary examination Of them
aud be ready to start for Charles
ton by the last of the week. The
Adjutant General sent him trans
portatlon for fifty men, to be- filed
up as he needed it.
1t is said that O. C.. Pierce, Of
Rowlesburg, is to take fifteen men
from there for this company to join
the Piedmont half Of it and that
Pierce is to be Second Lieutenant.
DR.. Sherwood is gathering his
men in and has headquarters here
az the Jenkins House and is in
specting and examining them at
the Court House. The Doctor can
tell whether they will pass or not so
az not TO take men who wont stand
the rigid examination by the Gov
ernment Surgeon. A man must be
between IS and As years of age,