Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-23

President Wilson has signed the bill
passed recently by Congress providing
that all men who have reached the age
of ii years since June 5, 1917, shall
register for military service on June 5,
1918. General Crowder has already
put the necessary machinery in motion,
and it is estimated that 100000 men
date named. Out of this number it is
estimated that about 100000 will be
made available for service, allowance
being made for 100000 exemptions
for physical causes or other reasons.
Under the new law the men will be
placed at the bottom of the list of Class
registrants now awaiting their call
Sergeant Robert w. Moran, former
student at Shepherd College, now in the
Depot Brigade at Camp Lee, Virginia,
was in Shepherdstown this week with
his wife for visit of few days with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Show.
He has been in the service since last
October, and is getting along very we'll,
having been promoted to be sergeant.
His brother, Grover Moran, also a
student at Shepherd College few years
ago, is in the same camp, member of
Battery d, 3l3th Field Artillery. The
Moran boys are fine young fellows and
are natives of Tucker county.
DR.. Ernest H. Bitner, formerly Of
: Kearneysville, this county, has sailed
for France, but before he left this side
he was gratified to receive his COM
mission as major in the Medical Of
ficers' Reserve. He has been in the
service nine months, practically all of
this time having been on duty at Camp
Gordon, near Atlanta. He was made
captain last winter, and now he gets
further promotion and ranks as
major May good fortune attend him
across the seas and when he reaches
the other side.
Seventy-one men from Washington
county have been ordered to report in
Hagerstown May 9th for army service.
neighborhood and the southern part Of
Among those from the Sharpsburg
the county are the following: Oliver
F. Kretzer, Earl l.. Benner, Roy
Richard Row, Robert D. Waters, Aaron
w. Grimm, Chas. R. d. Knode, William
L. Champion, Walter G. Ward, Alvey L.
Benner, Walter T. Winks, Russell Stull,
Allan F. Lisky.
We learn that Henry M. Sigler, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Sigler, Of Shep-
herdstown, is with the Jefferson coun-
ty contingent that leaves Charles Town
81, k,,o Ill
Ohio. He was the first alternate, and
as luck would have it, one of the prin-
cipals failed to appear. Good luck to
lake" and here's hoping he can knock
the hel out of Wilhelm.
William A Morgan, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. c. Morgan of this vicinity, and
grandson of the late Col. Vim. A.
Morgan, of Confederate fame, has en-
listed in the Fourth Regiment Of En-
gineers as private, and has gone into
training at Fort Myer, Va, near Wash
ington. Mr.. Morgan has been in the
government service in Panama for sew
eral years past.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. c. Myers, of this
place, received a telegram yesterday
from their son Clayton, telling them
that he had just arrived at his home
port after having made round trip to
a European port. He is in the marine
hospital service and is assigned to duty
on one of the transports carrying our
soldiers to France.
Berkeley county sends the follow
ing nine men into army service this
Thursday morning-they 60 TO Column
bus Barracks, Ohio: Eber c. O'Roks.
Will Cramer Ice, Walter Newton Fulk,
Charles James Mckee, William Paul
Knipe, Raymond Bitner, Angelo Brown,
Lacy Weightman Busey, Leo Custer.
/ Private Lewis Hensley, of Battery E,
3l5th Field Artillery, Camp Lee, Va,
has been. sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment for desertion. He was a
West Virginia man and was arrested