Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-07-04
Notes of Our Soldiers.

Fifteen young men OF JEFFERSON
county volunteered to 60 to the train
ing school at Richmond, Va, for spe-
cial instruction in various branches
Of the mechanical arts, and will leave
on July 18th. Those who were &C
copied for his service are:
Chenille Gardner.
Edward L. Lancaster.
Joseph William McSherry.
John Patrick Geary.
Calvin Preston Rowe.
Roy Hamill Hoffmaster.
James Bernard Moler.
John Shirley.
William Franklin Bradley.
John c. Fleming.
Daniel Henry Seibert.
Edgar Franklin Jacobs.
Robert Stanley Watson.
Samuel G. Heinz.
Mrs. H. B. Maddox has received a
letter from her son, Sergeant Grover
Maddox, now in France, in which he
says that he is we'll and getting along
splendidly. He says that it is very
beautiful in France just now and the
country is lovely beyond description.
He recently went to town near his
camp, and he said thai he enjoyed a
nights sleep in a real bed in house
the first since he had joined the army.
His address is: Sergeant Grover Mad
dex. intermediate Ord. Depot No. 4,
u. S. M. P. o. TAI, Camp u. S. Troops,
American E. F., France.
Rev. Edmund P. cambridge, rector OF
St. Pauls Episcopal Church at Peters
burg, Va, has been appointed chap
lain in the United States Army, and will
at once 60 into training at the chap
lains' training school at Camp Taylor,
Louisville, Ky. Rev. Mr.. cambridge,
who is "a son of our countyman, Mr.. L.
P. cambridge, of "The Bower" is a
talented young clergyman, and has been
active in looking after the welfare OF
the soldiers at Camp Lee, near Peters,
burg.
Robert Westenhaver, son of 5. A.
Westenhaver, of Martinsburg, has been
commissioned lieutenant in the avla-
ton service, and has been assigned to
active duty over New York City and
harbor. Benjamin F. Fiery, son of
Samuel " Fiery, also of MartinSburg,
has also gotten commission as lieu
tenant in the American Aviation Corps
in France. He has been with General
Pershing in France about a year. He
is a cousin of Secretary of War Baker.
Capt. Lloyd w. Williams, of Berry
Vile, who had been in the thick of the
fighting in France, died on June 18th
from wounds received in battle. He
was a captain in the Marine Corps and
had been recommended for promotion
to major for glalantry in action only
few days before his death. He was a
splendid young soldier, and was 81
years old. He leaves a wife and lit
tie daughter.
Word has been received that Horace
B. May, who was superintendent Of the
waterworks in Shepherdstown until he
disappeared couple Of months ago,
has enlisted in the British army, having
recently sailed from New York. Mr..
Mays wife had brought suit against him
at Berkeley Springs for non-support,
whereupon he decided to take his
chances on the battle line.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. E. Athey, of
Keedysville, Md, formerly of this
neighborhood, have received cards from
their son, Archie Boyd Athey, announc-
ing his safe arrival in France. Boyd
is in the 29th Division, Co. B, ll5th
Infantry, American EXpedltoGary
FORCES. Co. B is made up of enlisted
men and is one of the best trained in
the army.
Jack Phillips, of this place, has re-
ceived word that his son, Jerry Phillips,
one of our Shepherdstown boys, has
arrived safely in France with the
American Army. Jerry is making
good, and has been promoted to be a
first sergeant He is an expert tele-
phone lineman and has been rendering
good service.
The editor of the Register has re-
ceived cards from a number of the JEFF
ferson county boys who went to Camp
Lee last week. Nearly all of them
were put in 18th Company, Sd Train
ing Battalion, l55th Depot Brigade.
Elmer Homer Kemp, from near Ka-
bletown, and Ernest Lee Hough, of Me-
chanicStown, who went to Camp Lee
in April with the county's quota of Sc
lected men, were discharged, having
failed TO pass the physical test.
Sergeant Paul Sylvester Meshley, OF
Camp Lee, Va, and Miss Ella Elizabeth
Martin, of Martinsburg, were married
at the Catholic rectory in the latter
place last Sunday afternoon b. Rev. W.
A. McKeefry.
Lawrence Ambrose, of Berkeley
Springs, formerly of this place, has
volunteered for army service, and will
90 to the training school az Richmond,
Va, on July 18th.