Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-03-07
News From Our Soldier Boys.

news FrOm Ouf SOlQleT Dogs.
The editor of the Register went up to
New York last Friday to see his son,
VIM. B. Snyder, then in Camp Merritt,
N. j., fifteen miles from New York City.
We found him looking a BIT thin from
hard work and attention to many eX-
acting duties, but he was bronzed and
hearty looking and said that he never
felt better in his life. He was proud
that he had risen in so short time to
be top sergeant, without pulp or in
Huence from outside, and is in high
hopes that he will soon win commits
sion, now just one step ahead. He was
in entirely good spirits and fully de-
termined to do his duty in eyeryrespect.
He was rejoiced to know that his let
tiers have proved so acceptable to the
readers of the Register and says that
he will write as often as he can and as
much as the censor will allow. He
asked US TO give his love TO all his
friends back home. II is likely that he
is now on the high seas on his way TO
France. When we saw him on Friday
his regiment was ready TO move at an
hours notice, and the rumor about the
camp was that it would embark at New
York Saturday at midnight No word
has been received from him dated later
than Saturday, and We have no doubt
but that he is on his way "over there. "
May God be with him and the other gal
LIANT fellows who are so cheerfully and
willingly offering themselves upon
their country's altar. Wills address
is Sergeant VIM. B. Snyder, Second
Company, Second Regiment, Motor
Mechanics, American EXpeditionary
Forces, via New York. The most in
teresting letter that he has yet written
may be found in the Register this week.
-Four Jefferson county boys have en-
listed IN the University OF Virginia Base
Hospital No Al at Charlottesville, Va,
and card from one OF them, Shirley
Nichols, 10 The Register, the first OF the
week said that they are now on their way
TO Camp Seviere at Greenville, n. {
The county men in the unit are joseph
Walton Morrow, Daniel Shirley Nichols,
and Russell M. Sexton, all OF Harper'S
Ferry, and Geo. A. Coyle OF Summit
Point, whose home at present is in Mar
inSburg. The Virginia unit consists OF
100 nurses, $50 men clerks, orderlleS
assistants, drivers, mechanics, machin-
lists, cooks, carpenters. ETC.. "A doctors,
quanermaSter. cCmmand4nt and
CHAPLAIN, Rev. Beverly D. Tucker. rec
tor Of ST Paul'S Church, al the Univer-
sity OF Virginia. Thirty OF the nurses are
already in active service atvariouS camps
and all the doctors are receiving special
training, treating wounds OF all kinds,
praciicing in gas defense, and applying
The Carroll method of treating wounds.
Many OF them have had military expe
rience in officers training camps. Equip
ment OF The University unit of the value
Of $4,000 has already been stored at
Newpor; News, waiting orders to be
shipped 10 France.
Miss Mary Shipley, OF this place, has
received letter from her brother, Cor
poral r. d Shipley, who is now with
the American Amy in France. He writes
a bright and cheerful letter ard says:
Everybody over here Is feeling fine and
in the best Of health" He says that The
mails are slow and uncertain, however
"Elkns and have been separated. and
| certainly did hate TO see him leave me.
France, or the part OF it that have seen,
is very beautiful country. am getting
larger-l now weigh 1855 pounds. am
going 10 have some pictures taken and
send YOU some Of them. hope that
EIkinS and will miss all the tough luck
and get back home safely, for certainly
do want TO see all OF our family and friends
But don't look for me back until the
Stars and Stripes are floating over Ger
many-then probably will see you all
soon " My address is Corporal r d
Ordnance Detachment. First Di-
vision Ammunition Train, A. E F.,
France.
The two men still needed 10 fill Jeiier-
son county's quota for the first call OF the
draft were sent from Charles Town on
Tuesday, thus completing the first as
signment OF 1876 men for the National
Army The two men referred TO are
Hugh Sagler Moler, OF the Bakerton
neighborhood, and Harry Feagans OF
Wheatand they were sent 10 Camp
GreenIeaf al Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
William Wallace Gallaher, formerly
OF OHdIlSS lOWu, VIII SllIlStSN III
Pennsylvania Hospital Unit last fall,
arrived at French port on January 10.
In a letter received from him by his
sister, Mrs. Arthur Davenport, few
days ago, he said he would leave on
300-miIe march to the interior ofFrance
to be near the fighting line within a
day or two.-Advocate.
Frank Thomas Hammond, of Berke-
ley county, was among the contingent
of soldiers from Berkeley county who
left on Tuesday for Camp Creenleaf at
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for military
service. Seventeen men we're in the
party, which is the last of Berkeley
county's first call of the draft.
Lieut.. George M. Beltzhoover, Jr., is
home from Fort Funston, Kansas, on
sick leave for a few days, having un-
dergone a severe operation.-Charles
Town Spirit.