Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-09-20
Soldier Bows Leave Today.

The twenty-three young men who
constitute the 40 per cent OF Jefferson
county's first draft for war service leave
Charles Town this Thursday afternoon
for the cantonment at Camp Lee, near
Petersburg, Va. Their names were pub
lished in last weeks Register. These
men were ordered TO report in Charles
Town yesterday morning at s O'Clock,
and Captain GetZendanner, OF the local
board, informs us that every one OF them
was on hand promptly and answered TO
his name. The three men from Shep-
herdstown were Washington Grover
Banks, Raymond Wisler Miller and Ira
Titus Lowe. After inspection and in
structon, the men were dismissed until
this Thursday morning at 10 o'clockS
when they again reportto the local board.
The people OF Charles Town and JET
ferson county have arranged fitting
send off for the soldier boys, and an in
teresting demonstration takes place today
in Charles Town AT II O'Clock the re-
cruitS will assemble at the courthouse,
wnere the people generally have been
invited to gather, and patriotic meeting
will be held. Local bands will discourse
music and an address will be delivered
by Col. r. p. Chew and others. After
the public exercises big dinner is TO be
served TO the recruits in the town hall by
the ladies OF Charles Town. To this din
ner are invited not only the men who
leave today, but Jefferson county's full
quota of sixty drafted men. The colored
recruits are also invited. AT 2.27 O'Clock
the twenty three who are on the first list
will take b. & o. train for Harper's
Ferry, where they will join the other re-
cruits from the eastern section OF West
Virginia, and on special train will go at
once, by way OF Washington, TO Camp
Lee. They will reach their destination
some time this Thursday night.
God be with them
The men from Jefferson, Berkeley,
Morgan, Hampshire, Hardy, Grant and
Pendleton counties all go by way OF
Washington to Camp Lee. Meals will
be provided for them at convenient points
along the way.
The Fourth Maryland Regiment, which
has been in camp at Laurel for some
weeks past, left last Sunday tor the great
camp al Admission, Alabama, in company
with the Fifth Regiment and other military
organizations. In the Fourth Maryland
are Thomas and Robert Shell and Jerry
Phillips, OF Shepherdstown, and the young
soldiers who guarded the railroad bridge
al this place for several months.
The following forty-nine young men
from Berkeley county leave today for the
camp at Petersburg John David Shields,
Homer Arrie Dick, Clyde E. Coleman,
Edgar Michael Riordon, Albert Kirk
Smith, Allen George Wellinger, Joseph
Ward Flynn, Frank Brown Beard, George
Light Morrison, Samuel Ward Johnson,
James E. Thompson, Hunter Crawford,
Claude J. Roach, James Brenton Glessner,
Albert James Collier, Allen Elmer Pear
rell, Robert Stewart VanMetre, Arthur
Ward Custer, Walter A. Sherman, En-
est Charles Clark, John Harlan Meadows,
James Edmund Beard, Vernon Lee
Good, Fred Lewis, Charles Kllmer,
Albert Rogers Baker Gregory, Calvin
Franklin Runkles, John H. Thompson,
Albert Wilbur Cox, Bailey C.. Light,
George Ashby Falrcloth, Fenton McSher-
ry Fortney, Edward Lawrence Ramer,
Holmes Lawrence Owens, Chester Clar-
ence Gates, Harry Quirk, Lowell A.
Gibbons, Stanley Fry Hinton, Harry
Charles Fine, Jacob o. Woiord, Hunter
James Boyd, Dudley Warner Miller.
Robert Kelley Mason. E. B. Woolford,
Harrison Jordon Fitzpatrick, Kenneth
LaiSe, Thomas Rush Anderson. Howard
L. Smallwood, Harry Adam Daley.