Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-09-17
Two Jefferson County Boys Wounded.

fighting front. b. G. Sponseler, OF
Bolivar, who is in Company *, ST
Infantry, was wounded on the morning
of August ..... when a fragment OF
shell broke bone in his shoulder. He
wrote to his sister Mrs. Grace Little
ton assuring her that while the injury
is painful it will inconver once him
only for a short time. The other
wounded soldier is George Wilt, Of
Manning's Ferry, who was shot isaL2e
lett arm. The wound will prosM
unfit him for further military service
and he viii most likely be sent home.
George went from the couaty to Camp
lee last fall.
Mr.. j. Ed Burns has received a card
announcing that his son, Maj. j. Ed
Burns, of the Army Medical Depart
ment Base Hospital No. 50, had ar
rived safely overseas.
Some of the Jefferson County boys
who were in the Richmond Technical
Training Camp at Richmond, Va, have
been transferred to the Tank" Corps
at Gettysburg, among being Preston
Engle, VIM. McSherry, Glen Gardner,
and Roy Hoffmaster.
One Jefferson County soldier has
secured a strangle-hold on fame by his
brilliant record in France. Sergeant
Major John H. Quick, son of Constable
Langdon Quick, of Charles Town has
his exploits recorded by the pen Of
George Pattulo in the Saturday Even
ing Post.
This man Quick is a go-getter, %
writes Pattulo. IF he doesn't get
bumped off he will probably acquire
enough medals to stock a jeWelry
store, for that was not the only occa-
sion on which he distinguished himself.
Twice the brigade had to send out re-
placements to fill gaps in the ranks
and strengthen the garrison On June
eight several hundred of them set out
under command of Sergeant Major
Quick.
These replacement men were new
at the game. Many had received less
than two months training, but 1t had
to be done. Carrying extra cantecns,
draped with ammunition and rations and
rockets and other things needed in the
town, they followed their guide. Flares
were geing up constantly, making the
ground as light as day. Shells and
machine guns harassed them, but the
replacement men never wayered. They
reached Bouresches, and a few minutes
later were busily engaged in shooting
up the Hun. 1t was their first taste
of war, and many OF them went back
to the rear on stretchers within an
hour, but they had shown the stuff of
which Young America is made"
Hiking fourteen miles IN the fore
Il E. q II
afternoon, enable the soldiers of the
3l3th Infantry, to which Howard Sc
christ, former clerk in the Charles
Town postoffice belongs to have appe-
tltes for their meals in France.
Some of Towards observations are
related in letter to Mr. II. n Brad
ley. I'm all my travels" ne says, 81
haven't seen a building that looks as
though it was built within the past
ten years. The buildings are ali made
OF stone, cement, or some other NIX
ture of that sort and most OF them
have stone roofs. The yards are en-
closed by a large stone fence about
SIX feet high and have a big iron gate
at the entrance. One part of the
house is used as the barn, keeping the
horses, cows, grain, farming nipple
ments, and hay under the same roof
ing as the family. They are actually
the dirtiest people that l have ever
seen. You can tell every town that
the U. S. soldiers have been In.
These people have a funny way Of
farming. They raise about the same
grains as we do and have lots of al
falfa, oats, red top clover, COW beats.
but very little corn. They VIII make
a dozen different paintings in the same
field, two acres of wheat, then two
acres of barley, then two more Of
wheat, then two of red top, and so on.
Most OF the grain S Graded, and the
women do practically all of the work.
oxen are used great deal also"
Greetings, cablegrams and congrat-
ulatlons were received by General
Pershlng last week in honar of his
birthday.
Lieut.. Harry Bates formerly Of the
Mlddleway vicinity is with the Amer
lean engineers in France In d letter
a few days ago to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William G. Bates, he writes
that the allied armies have been NOV
ing forward with such speed that The
engineers are unable to rebuild The
railroad lines fast enough to keep up
with them. The railroads are needed
to supply the armies with ammunition
and hard tack
Granville A. Mock, a Charles Town
boy at Camp Lee has been promoted
TO the rank of sergeant, and has shown
so much aptitude at drilling that he
has been retained at the camp as an
instructor although successive drafts
OF men have been sent to France since
he went to camp April J..
William Blackford and Howard
Smallwood of the Bardane vicinity en-
barked for overseas service q few DAVIS
ago. Mr.. Blackford has been I'M train
ing with the engineering detachment
at Camp Shelby, Miss.
Harry n. Walker, J. William Kline.
Luther Snyder and Frank Grove. are
the county boys who have reached.
France, their arrival being announced
IN messages reaching their relatives
this week.
Prosecuting Attorney John IL. Por-
terileld who has been taking artillery
training at Camp Taylor XIV. has
been admitted to the officers training
camp there
Kenneth Engle who is in training at
Camp Macarthur, Waco, Texas. rs Oh a
iuriough of two weeks, enabling him
to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Engle, Jr. at Uvilla
Sept. 2, 1918.
Dear Captain:
will let you know I have arrived
at Camp Lee O. X. and l like 1t fine
at the present time This life is old
to me, have been q soldier before and
it is the life for me l would think
more of this life if they would send
me over the pond
Yours truly,
HUGH f. DAVIDSON.
Camp Lee, Va.
Capt H. C Getzendanner,
Charles Town w. Va.
Dear Capt:
Arrived Chillicothe this a. m. 500