Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-03-28
Notes of Our Soldiers.

Captaln II. u. GetZenQanner, cnalr-
man of the county exemption board, is
in receipt of a notice from the War De-
partment to have the fourteen men in
emergency call Number 70 ready for
entrainment on Tuesday, April I'd. The
men will assemble in Charles Town on
the afternoon of that day, prepared to
leave at GAO over the B. & o. for their
required in the call, sixteen will be no
tilted to assemble, so as TO have two
extra men in the event that any OF the
fourteen should fail to respond. The
sixteen who will be required to be on
hand are: Vicinzo Lila, Granville A.
Hook, Enrico Ranaldi, B. G. Sponsler,
Roy Dyott Cockrell, Claude D. Rite
nour. Oscar Strother Flanagan, Roy
E. Cook, Oscar M. Scarlet, Paul Eu-
gene Winters, Robert Earl Dorsey,
George Rouss Mckee, Harry R. Ridge
way, and William Edward Hawk.
The following are the Berkeley county
men who will report in Martinsburg next
Tuesday under the special call { r 90
600 mer. Berkeley counly's quota i, %
men. and they will be sent TO Camp Lee
for training. They are: Thurman {
Afams. Ralph William Stewart. Alvin
Charles Lamp. James Boyd Cole, Beecher
Brown, Samuel Taylor Beard, Maurice
Hugh Blake Russell Reed. Glen Pitzer,
GUY Luther Everhart. Charles O'Cornor,
Charles Stewart Cline, Antonio Capana,
| mes Henry Aldridge, Robert Lemen
Everhart, George Lee Danner, Paul
Sylvester Meshley, Harry Cleveland Rid
ines Pannicele Giovanni, William Henry
Ii klider, Howard Kyner Brown, Edgar
Alien Wilson, Lawrence L Broy, ! homas
q Adams, William Howard Rauch. Paul
Revere Alvey, lst alternate, lhomaS
Henry VanMetre, "a alternate, Louis
Cohen. Sd alternate. Edward Luther
Marker. 4fh alternate, Charles walter
Morrison, 9th alternate.
We received a card a few days ago
from F. Herman Merchant, a former
employee of the Register Office, who
is now with the American forces in
France as a member of Company B.,
29th Engineers. He writes us that he
is located in a very interesting old city
on a high hill, with q beautiful view OF
the valley below. He says that there
are no jitneys in the city, and the heel
and toe express" is the regular mode
of travel He writes that he is in the
best of health and asks us to give his
regards to all of his old friends about
ShepherdStown. Herman is son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Merchent, of
Roanoke, formerly of this place. He
wants the Register sent TO him regular
", of course.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Walper, north
of town, had letter on Tuesday from
their son, Harry H. Walper, who is
with the American Expeditionary Forces
in France. He writes that he is get
ting along splendidly and that all is
we'll with him. 81 feel like million
dollars" he says, with plenty to eat
and everything that one could expect
in these times"
General Cronkhite, commandment at
Camp Lee, Virginia, says that if posi-
Bile every officer and enlisted man in
the SOth division who desires it will be
given a fve-day furlough before leav-
ing for France. This includes prac-
tically all of the soldiers from this
section who were in the first draft and
who have been in training at Camp
Lee.
Private Cornelius Williams, who was
sent 10 Camp Lee in the Jefferson county
draft. although he had wife and chlld
dependent or him, has been discharged
and returned ST Friday night TO his
'amilv in MariinSOurg Since he wentto
the camp he spent most OF the time IN
the hospital, and was honorabIy dis
charged because of physical disability
Vaughan Bowly, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. H. Bowly, formerly of Shepherds
town, is in the Ordnance Department
of the army, and is now at Camp Jack
son, Columbia, S. C. He was employ
ed for a time in the Dupont powder
works near Wilmington, Del, but some
time since enlisted in the army.
"Safe, WE'LL" was the welcome mes
sage received last Saturday from VIM.
B. Snyder, son of the editor of the
Register, in a cablegram sent from
France. We are anxiously looking for
letter from him, but it may be several
weeks yet before one shall get through.
Corporal Ira Lowe was here a few
days ago for a visit. to his parents.
He has been transferred from Camp
Lee to Camp Meade, and at the latter
place is in training for service in the
tank section or the army. He expects
to soon be sent to France.
Joseph c. K. Miller, of the U. S.
Marine Corps, is home from Calves
ton, Texas, for a couple of weeks fur
Tough with his relatives at Kearneys-
vile. Joe is wearing very proudly a
medal that he recently won for excel
lent Workmanship.
Lieut.. Henry Shepherd, of Washing
ton, Sergeant Thomas Reinhart, of
Camp Meade, and Corporal Grove
Banks, of Camp Lee, spent the week
end with their home folks at Shepherds
town.
Mr. D. H. Nichols, of Harper's Ferry,
has received word that his son, Cor
poral Lewis Nichols, Of the U. 5. Sig
nal Corps. has arrived in France.