Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-08-15
Notes of Our Soldiers.

Mrs. Wilmer Schell, of this place
has received letter from her son, Rob
ert Schell, who is member of Com
pany L, 4th Battalion, 35th Engineers
now at Bordeaux, France. He says:
81 was glad to have your letter, re-
ceived few days ago, for it was the
first letter | had gotten from the good
| old States. know that there is lot
of mail somewhere in France for me
but my address is changed so often
guess il gets mixed up. reckon
will get it some time. We had big
parade on July 4th and again on the
18th. | think We will all be home by
next spring, and we will have good
time then. When we do come home
the world will be free and the Germans
will remember the red, white and blue.
Love to all the folks"
Eleven members of the 1918 class.
net waiting to be selected and sent to
camp, have already volunteered. The
Navy seems to be the preferred branch
of the service for them, as seven OF the
eleven have signed up for it. Mar
shall Clarence Moler has enlisted in
the Marines. Three will take chances
in the Army and are already at Camp
Meade. Henry Clay Knight, John
Arthur Roberts and Arthur Boreman
Roberts are volunteers in the Army.
The Navy boys are Norval R. Davis, M.
Michael Wire, David Folk, James Cur
tbs Simpson, Harry Leonard Brown,
Emmert J. O'Bryan, Charles Lee Sager.
Norval Davi. has joined the aviation
branch of the naval service.
Charles Robert Keplinger, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Keplinger, of this
place, spent Sunday here with his pa
rents, and on Tuesday left for Camp
Hancock, Georgia, where he will be as
signed to active duty in the ordnance
department of the Army. He has been
in Morgantown, this State, for the past
eight weeks, where he attended train
ing school, and passed his examina-
ton as a firSt-class mechanic, qualify
ing as an automobile expert. He looks
firstrate, and was greatly pleased with
his experience thus far in Uncle Sans
service.
Registration on Saturday, August "a,
of all those who have reached the age
of Fl since the second registration June
5, was ordered yesterday by Provost
Marshal General Crowder, under a
proclamation by the President. The
purpose is to add quickly to the almost
exhausted Class |, to meet draft calls IN
September. About 10000 young men
will register, and most will qualify tor
Glass /, and will join the army probably
within a month after registration.
Among the "killed in action" report
ed in last weeks casualty list was
Charles Mccormick, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Mccormick. Mr.. Nc
Cormick, ST., is a nephew OF the late
Marshall Mccormick, of Clarke coun..
ty, and Mrs. Mccormick is a niece OF
Rev. ]. w. Ware, of Shepherdstown.
The parents, who have been living IN
Cuba for the past year, were in Clarke
county when the distressing news OF
the death of their only child reached
them.
Five colored men leave Jefferson
county today for duty at the Negro
Agricultural and Technical College at
Greensboro, North Carolina, where they
will take special training for war work.
Those who 90 are Frank Robinson, OF
Shepherdstown, Hull Bert Gillison,
lanes Hugh T. Fox, Forrest Griffith
Johnson, and John VIM. G. Mailman.
George Minor, son of Abe Minor, OF
this place, goes to the school from Mar
tinsbarg today.
Karl Ellsworth Hill, of Shepherds
town, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Hill,
and Charles Creighton Tabb, of the
Leetown neighborhood, 1. son OF Z.
Holmes Tabb, leave today for Morgan
town, where they will attend the train
ing school at the West Virginia Uni.
versity to fit themselves for special
army service.
Lieutenant Withrow Legge, formerly
of Shepherdstown, is now with the
American forces in France. He went
over in June, being one OF 400 men
selected from about 5000 artillerymen
to take three or four months training
over there and then come back as in
structors in camps in the United States.
Charles N. Jones, of this vicinity, who
had enlisted in the Navy, has been re-
iected and has returned to his home at
Billmyer's Mill. An injured knee pre-
vented him from being accepted for the
service.
Norman Brown, one of the colored
men from this place who had gone with
the recruits to Michigan, has been sent
back home, having been rejected on ac-
count of physical disability.
Yesterday Jas. S. Rightstine received
a card stating that his son, William
Rightstine, had arrived safely overseas
He had been in the training school in
Richmond before he sailed.
General Crowder has issued a call
for 100000 white drafted men to en-
train between August 10th and oOth,
and West Virginia will have TO furnish
1900 of this number.