Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-01-09
Notes Of Our Soldiers.

Notes of Our Soldiers.
CORPORAL Ira T. Lowe. OF Shepherds
n has written an interesting a ,sus'
. low, France to his sister IN ms we
i ao,ad december nth, from VIII"
take take the following extracts Il
-, well and getting along lovely.
have had good time mere o Ma,n Il
The name Of this place IS 81; . Ma the
was great summer resort oei .eote,
war and | guess il VIII DC d I;te
n We ,fter the war is cleaned up; ! W Wn
!. sne hut there is spot in Yves, w
n;r;a that like better than any pla.e
snms seen over here. | hope tnaI
vii, not be long before we get ilioyeu
WI WI, hut we can never tell how long
o ':,, ~ o I thing our battalion stano
VIII a ~. Good show in that line. Inc
est hattle | was in was SeptenloeI
ooth, when the Second Army Corps
hrote the Hindenburg line DetWeeI
Cs u and St. Quentin. we leo
them over with our tanks. we 30!
direct hit on our tank that morning
Nth a So she'll, but luckily we all es-
coned without being hurt. Something
saped our old noodles that morning
Jon;t know what it was. | nope som
dou n he able to tell you all about
! have a belt that got of Jerry,
and 7 have it full of hot badges ana
buttons of the Allied soldiers. II Is
some swell belt and ! could get any
nr;ce | wanted for it. but don't care to
sell it. am going to try to pring II
home for souvenir. They say we
will be able to keep our gas masks and
tin Lizzie tin helmets). ! hope we do
for they will make fine souvenirs.
CORPORAL Lowe is son of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. ]. Lowe, of this place, and is
member of Company B, 30lst Heavy
Battalion U. S. Tank Corps.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey H. Hendricks
have received letters within the past
few days from their two sons, John and
Garland, who are with the American
ARMY in France. Garland is with the
army of occupation in Luxembourg, and
is likely to be kept there some time.
John is near Paris. and writes cheer
fully that although he has not been paid
off for months he is not yet broke. He
admits that he is bent little, as at the
time of writing he had only lS cents
between him and complete bankruptcy.
Both of the boys are in good spirits. arc
enjoy the best of health, and ask to be
remembered to their friends back home
Harry Hollda has sold his farm OF
1887 acres at Scrabble to George +.
Turner. The price agreed on is So
500 Mr.. Hollida to retain the wheat
crop. Phineas Rush, Mr.. Turner's SON.
in-law, will move on the place mex
spring. David Hensell is the tenan
on the farm at present.
,,o,, the Jefferson county boy boy:
from the Charles low ah,u discharge,
who have been honorary od home home are
s %n the army and returheu Charles
1 IOhn W. Gore, Ben Shugar1, ,,S S and
E 9S Oscar Hooe, George waiN'u moh
;eutenant Adrian Wynko9so Dorr the
$780, ponnee was also released from ,'nd
snruce production division; I hu
HpnS 9o of the Shenandoah Junction
nnaiohhorhood, was released and go'
home for Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. ONO KretLer, OF brioge,
MORT. opposite ShepaerasioWn' WIZ nov
heen anxious about their son marry
who had not been heard from IN long
time received a letter from him last
week. in which he said he was sale
va veil He had been in the thick OF
the fighting in the last month OF the
war but escaped unhurts speaking
Of cooties-well, he hoped to be TIC OF
them by Christmas.
Norman Louden, one of the soldier
bows from the Moler's neignDornoou'
came all the way from Fort Sill, Okla
homa. to spend Christmas with MS
home folks. He could only get a hve-
day furlough, and though II toot IA"
two DAYS to come and two Gays " ~
turn, he was just bound to nave aaS
at home.
Private Clarence G. Grove OF mar.
per's Ferry, was killed in action ~
France on October 18th. He was son
If M. F. Grove and was a member OF
Company |, l25th Infantry. A prothe
George Grove, is in France with the
army.
Lieutenant Colonel John P. Lucas, OF
the Regular Army, is at his home in
this county on three months furlough
He was severely wounded while fight
ing in France last year and has since
been in this country.
Robert Reinhart and Charles Spring
er, two soldier boys from the Molcr's |
Cross Roads neighborhood, have been
honorably discharged from the Army
The former was at Camp Meade and the
latter at Camp Lee.
Davis Humrickhouse, one Of the |
Shepherdstown men who was in the ar
my at Camp Lee, has been honorably |
discharged from the service and was
at his home here the past week.
Robert D. Harmon, a former student
at Shepherd College, who was men,
Der of the S. A. T. G. at the West Vir-
ginia University, was in town for few |
days during the holidays.