Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-05-09
News From Our Soldier Boys.

Gently received several interesting let
tiers from their son, Corporal Homer II
Hamrick, who is now in France in the
ordnance department of the Army
He says that there has been great
deal Of rain and consequently plenty oil
mud, and that the French mud is the
worst for sticking qualities that he has
ever seen. He reports that he is in
good health, but he is pining, he says,
for big box Of Schoppert's chocolate
candies. He has not yet met any Of ouT
home boys over there, but ne is not
very far from Sergeant Robert Maddox
Homer says that he is kept very busy,
but has gained in flesh. He asks to be
remembered to all of his friends back
home, and admits that getting letters
from the u. S. A. is one of the soldiers
chief pleasures.
Mrs. Selvey has received message
from her son, Vim. H. Selvey, who is in
the 840th Aero Repair Squadron of the
Aviation Branch of the Army, that ne
has arrived safely in France. He had
been at Garden City, Long Island, for
the past month or two, and is now on
the other side with his command. Mr..
Selvey enlisted last December, at the
same time that VIM. B. Snyder went into
the service. Mrs. Selvey's sister, Miss
Lake Johnson, of Philadelphia, has al
so arrived in France. She is graduate
nurse from the University Of Pennsyl-
vania Hospital in Philadelphia, and is
connected with Base Hospital No. 20.
She sailed from Ellis Island about the
same time that Mr.. Selvey did.
DR.. A. L. Grub, of Berkeley Springs,
w. Va, who was a candidate for the
State Senate from this district two
years ago, died very suddenly at sea
while on his way to France on an Amer
lean transport. DR.. Grub enlisted in
the medical corps of the Army some
months ago, being given the rank of
captain, and about April lst sailed for
active service in France. The vessel
was near the other side when he be-
came i'll with acute heart trouble, which
caused his death in a brief time. The
body was embalmed and taken to France
and then sent back home. DR.. Grub,
who was 81 years old, is survived by
his wife and two sons.
Announcement has been made that
another draft of 233,742 men from the
several States of the Union will be call
ed for May 18th. They will be entrain-
ed in the fve-day period beginning on
the 18th, and will be assigned to camps
from which many thousands of men
have been drawn the past month for
service in France. West Virginia's
quota is 4,797 men, who will be sent to
Camp Lee. Jefferson county will fur
niSh Is men for this call, and Berkeley
will provide 95. About the middle of
June there will be call for ,626 color
ed men from West Virginia.
Samuel c. Williamson, one of Shep-
herdstown's fine young men, has en-
listed in the aviation section Of the
Army, and will report for duty on May
18th. He will go to the school for men
in this branch at Richmond, Va. Mr..
Williamson, who is a graduate Of Shep-
herd College, Glass of 1912, has been
teaching in the high school at Welch,
W. Va, the past year, but has heard the
call of his country and has resigned his
work there in order to enlist under pre-
sent advantageous conditions.
Stultz Boone, son of the late Col. w.
|. Boone, formerly of Shepherdstown,
and a brother of Mrs. Harrison Schley,
of this place, has been called in the
draft, and left a few days ago for an
army camp in one of the western
| States Mr.. Boone has been a sales
man for the American Type Founders
Company, with headquarters in Balti-
more, and is one of the best of men.
We shall expect to hear good accounts
of him, and hope that he may get one
| good whack at Kaiser Bill.
Henry J. Blackford, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Harry BIackford, OF Bardane, who
is in the Coast Artillery, was recently
transferred from Fort Moultrie, Charles
ION, S. G., 10 Fortress Monroe, Va, being
one Of the nineteen 20 take special train
| ing for officers at The latter place. Mr..
Blackford, who had been teaching al The
Citadel. school for young men at
Charleston, resigned 10 enter the Army
in February.
The War Department will lease 5000
additional acres of land for the use OF
the great military camp ground at Camp
Meade, Maryland, where a good many
West Virginia soldiers will be trained.
There are 1000 acres in the camp at
present, and the new lease will bring
the total up TO $4,000 acres.
Rev. John R. Jacobs, former pastor
of the Methodist Church of Woodstock,
and Rev. B. K. Hay, former pastor of
the Reformed Church in Mount Jack
son, Va, sailed last Thursday for
France, where they will be engaged in
Army Young Mems Christian Associa-
| ton work.
Word has been received here of the
safe arrival in France with the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces of Lieuten-
ant H. Baylor Reinhart He had been
at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va,
for several months past, but sailed some
weeks ago and has reached port safely.
Horace Graham McDermont, Of Idaho,