Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-03-14

day evening from WIN. Is. Snyder, So1
of the editor of the Register, lifts a
heavy weight from a fathers heart
And Bills many friends here and else.
where will rejoice with us that he has
escaped the perils of the deep and the
ambushed submarines Of the unspeak-
able Huns, and has set foot upon the
soil Of France to fight that the world
may be made safe for democracy.
Lieutenant Geo. M. Beltzhoover, Jr.,
who is in the National Army and sta
toned at Camp Funston, Fort Riley
Kansas, has been here the past week
TO spend a few days with his parents
He has a furlough of twenty-one days
to recuperate from an operation to
which he was recently subjected. He
had good deal of trouble with his
eyes, and it developed that nasal OBJ
struction was the cause of il. The
surgeons performed an operation, and
he was in the hospital for couple OF
weeks recovering from it. He has
been relieved to some extent, but il
may be that an additional operation
may be necessary before he can get en-
tirely rid of the trouble. Lieutenant
Beethoven has had some interesting
experiences since he has been in the
army, one of the most thrilling being
an all-night search, with the Their
mometer p below zero, for an army
officer who committed suicide after
robbing a bank and killing three or
four persons. He has lost some flesh
since he has been in the army, but feels
none the worse for that.
Vim. H. Selvey, who enlisted in the
aviation branch of the Army last De-
cember, and who most of the time
since then has been at Waco, Texas,
spent a three-days furlough with his
mother in Shepherdstown the past
week. He is looking well, and his
family and friends here were glad to
see him. He is now in a camp at
Garden City, Long Island, near New
York City, and it is expected that he
will soon be on his way across the seas
TO France. He is in the S40th Aero
Repair Squadron, and he likes this
branch of the service very well indeed,
and thinks that he is fortunate in hav-
ing enlisted when he did.
Bethany College is the first West
Virginia college to lose a man inactual
fighting in France. This was brought
home to Bethany folks when the one
gold star among the l36 blue ones
shone conspicuously at the dedication of
Bethany's service flag a few days ago.
Alexander Betterly is represented by
that gold star. He left school to
serve for his brother, who though hav-
ing a wife and child, had been called
for service. He was gassed by the
Huns.
CHARLES Woman, son ofRev. and Mrs.
| ID. WCrm n, who is in the aviation
section Of The Army, and who has betn
al Newport News, Va, tor the past
month or two, has Deen home this week
on bret ilTough. He is looking very
well indeed physically, is in the best OF
spirits, and is quite well satisfied with
his new life HIS frie ids were all glad
10 see him, and he appreciated the pilvi-
ege OF being home again. He expects
10 sail Tor France within very short
ume.
Stewart L. Wirgman, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Henry T. Wirgman, of Washing
ton, d. c., was recently graduated from
the u. S. A. Military School of Aero
nautics at Princeton University, Prince
ton, N. j. His squadron is now at the
aviation concentration camp, Dallas,
Texas, awaiting to be sent to a flying
field for further training. Mr. Wirg-
man was general inspector at the Ford
Motor Company in Washington prior to
his enlistment in the reserve corps.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Frazier, of this
place, have received a letter from their
son, Douglas Frazier, who is sailor
on the u. S. Cruiser DesMoines. He
was in EgypG the past year, but his
vessel is now in service on the Atlantic.
1t recently arrived at port in this
country, and he wrote home that he was
very busy, but we'll and comfortable.
Mr.. Frazier has been in the Navy six
years.
Among thirty West Virginans in train
ing at various environments who have
been chosen for officers training camps
is Roy A. Bell, son of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
V. Bell, of Shepherdstown. The an
nouncement has just been made by
Captain Breckenridge Jones, chief of
the department OF military census and
enrolment,
Lieutenant {. w. SlSIer, OF the IT, S
Army, who Tor several years has been
stationed at Fort Slocum, New York, has
been transferred 10 -Tuckahoe, New er-
Sey. Lieutenant SiSler is former Shep-
nerdstown boy who has been making
good as one OF Uncle Sans soldiers IN
times OF peace as well as IN war.
Rev. J. w. Quinton, the young Epis-
copal clergyman who has charge of the
church at Rippon and ST. Andrews
Mission on the east side of the Shen-
andoah river, in this county, will go
into the Y. NJ. C. A. war work. He will
leave in a week or two for Blue Ridge,
n. c., for course of training.
Hamilton Morrow, who has been in
the United States Navy for the past
year, recently on duty on the battle
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honorable discharge on account Of i'll
health. He is now with his brother,
Ruthven Morrow, near Shepherdstown.
1t is reported that within the next
two weeks large proportion of the
soldiers at Camp Meade, between Bal
timore and Washington, will be sent
across TO France. There are a number
of men from Shepherdstown and vi
cinity at Camp Meade.
Robert L. Bates, son f Mr.. and Mrs.
W q Bates, OF MlddleWay, has been
commissioned a nSt lieutenant in the
Army. lie is al present al Fort Ogle-
thorpe, in Georgia. His brother, Harry
II Bates. is also first lieutenant, located
IN Washington
Corporal Claude Flagg, of Berkeley
was home from Camp Meade
on furlough the past week, and spent
part of his time in Shepherdstown. He
thinks thar he will soon be on his way to
France.
Rev. Joseph E. Guy, of Waynesboro,
Pa, formerly pastor of the Reformed
Church of Shepherdstown, has given