Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-01-17
NEWS OF OUR SOLDIERS.

ginia, western Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia are in training. A total OF $500
candidates for commissions are attend
ing the two schools. More than 1000
men from all parts Of the United States
are pupils in the school for officers in
the engineer corps. The other school
is for line officers, and many non-com-
missioned officers from the West Vir-
GINA quotas OF the National Army are
taking the courses OF instruction for the
purpose Of qualifying for commissions.
The engineers training camp is the
only one Of its kind in the country.
Plans for two such camps, one at Camp
Lee and the other in the west, were
abandoned, and all the candidates were
sent to Camp Lee The attendance OF
non-commissioned officers at the train
ing school will cause a number OF va
cancies in the West Virginia units, and
promotions Of privates to sergeants and
corporals are expected TO be announced
soon.
| The selective service law has hit the
Advocate office an av full blow. All three
OF the young men employed in the office
have been caught in the draft net. Glen
c. Fleming, printer and press feeder, and
John w. Gore, job printer. have already
been placed in Class |, while Brown L.
Rlsser, our machine operator, is safe
bet for position in the same class, as he
made no claim 10 exemption, although his
classification has not as yet been made.
With these three men in France, or on
the way there, the remainder Of the work
ing force, that means "us," will have 10
take an enforced vacation. Is there
farmer anywhere in the county in need OF
an orphan for adoption until this cruel
war is over ?-ChdrieS Town Advocate.
William Vance, OF Star Tannery, Va
went 10 Winchester the other day aud ap
peared before the legal advisory boari to
claim exemption on the ground that he
was married "How long have you been
married?" quered member OF the
board" About half an hour" replied
the registrant Vance explained that ne
lived 20 miles from town, and he had
concluded TO "kill two birds with one
stone" so he brough; his grI-MlSS Dora
Orndorff-aIong, and they were married
just 80 minutes before he appeared with
his exemption claim. He was placed in
Class |.
The quota OF soldiers to be furnished
by Jefferson county under the next Call
is l36 men. This number, however, will
be reduced 10 the extent that volunteers
have enlisted without waiting TO be drafted.
Just how many this will be cannot be
known until the War Department tabu
lates the figures, but it will probably be
IN the neighborhood OF 100 men There
are 500 single men subject 10 draft IN the
county, though we do moi know how
many OF these will be exempted. The
next call will probably be made about
March LIST.
Every West Virginia soldier at Camp
Lee, Virginia, has been supplied with
sweaters, according TO message received
by Governor John J. Cornwell from
General Heiner, in charge Of the brigade.
A few weeks ago there was shortage OF
sweaters at Camp Lee, and steps were
taken by officials to alleviate conditions.
Through the efforts OF the Red Cross and
the women'S clubs of West Virginia a
sufficient supply of sweaters were hurried
to the camp, and every man has now
been supplied.
Harold S. Butler, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
]. D. Butler, OF Charles Town. who has
been in an Army training camp at Camp
Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, has
oeen selected with six others from his
company 10 enter the officers training
camp in the same cantonment. The
school for officers will continue for about
fifteen weeks, ending the latter part OF
April, when those who can stand the
test will be given officers commissions.
The Southern Methodist Sunday school
has put up service flag with six stars IN
it, the boys who have gone to The 'front.'
being Grover Maddox, Ira Lowe, Ernest
and Homer Hamrick, William Selvey and
Roy Bell. The Lutheran Sunday school
has three stars in lis flag, honorng Kay
mond Miller, Charles Woman and VIM.
b Snyder
Daniel and Woodford Boyd, sons OF
Mrs. c. w. l. Boyd, OF Federal Hill farm,
this county. have enlisted in the govern
ment service, both OF them volunteering
in the aviation corps. Daniel went ilrSt
TO Columbus barracks at Columbus, Ohio,
and Woodford went directly to the Kelly
Field for aviators al San Antonio. Texas.
Five young Berkeley county men
volunteered for service in the signal corps
OF the Army on Moncay-Garnett Small
and Earl Wolford went to Vancouver
Barracks and Joseph Haas, Flick Weston
haver and Charles Nicodemus were sent
TO Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Robert G. Sigler, former Shep-
herdstown boy, is now with the Fourth
Company Of the Coast Artillery at Fort
Washington, and is daily expecting or
ders to proceed to France. He has the
rank OF sergeant.
DR.. A. H. s. Rouss. son OF Captain
Mltor Rouss, Of Kabletown district, has
been appointed lieutenant in The Army
Medical Corps, and left last week tor
duty at Newport News, Va.
Marcus r. Dodd, son OF S. L. Dodd, OF
Berkeley county, graduate OF Shepherd
College, is with the American forces IN
France.
THE Woman God Forgot" Monday.