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Shepherdstown Register

Location

Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Nov 21, 1918

Page

3

Shepherdstown News from the War Era November 21 1918

The Shepherdstown Register reports a busy week with Thanksgiving nearing, local wartime notes and home front updates. Mentions of influenza spread, supply stocks at Owens drug store, coal prices, and volunteers serving in camps. Local families, medical news, and shop announcements fill the page with community life during World War I.

Iwans Whider Corporation Cooley's Shepherdstown Lemon & Son Hodges Shepherdsond Kearneysville Cumberland Licklider Corpora

Thanksgiving Services and Community News in Shepherdstown

Local items report Union Thanksgiving services at Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church at 11 am with Rev. Flickinger preaching and a sick and poor offering. Updates include housing moves, extended Christmas box deadlines, Red Cross coupon availability, a high profile wartime marriage, military transfers, and local business changes. Community notices cover church services, Food Administration flour guidance, wartime relief appeals, and a long obituary list from Sharpsburg to Martinsburg.

Union Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church S. L. Flickinger Wm. C. Myers Prospect Avenue J. S. Myers Myers Red Cross Henry S. Baker Washington Shepherdstown Josephine W. Baker Eugene R. Whitmore U.S. Army Medical Corps Wisconsin Washington City Robert M. Knott Ordnance Army Camp Meade Camp Hancock Augusta Georgi South Episcopal Church Sheltering Arms Hospital Trinity Church Dulfidas Bethesda Avilla Charles Ghiselin Marvin Charles Town Epworth League Sharpsburg Virginia Synod of the Presbyterian Church Harrisonburg Presbyterian Church Providence Kearneysville

Automobiles Cause Multiple Accidents Reported

The Advocate recounts several crashes in Charles Town and nearby areas including W. H. Baldwin with a broken arm after a Ford crank kick, Thos. E. Howell’s Ford rollover near Eagle Station with no injuries, James Potts’ Ford runabout looping and wrecking in a corn field, and Norman Clabaugh’s uninjured but damaged car striking a tree on Shepherdstown pike. Also advertised is a 3 hp gasoline engine for sale from Icklider Corporation.

Advocate W. H. Baldwin Ford Charles Town Henry Ford Michigan Chas. C. Henkle Eagle Station Thos. E. Howell Howell Mr. Howell James Potts Bakerton Potts Norman Clabaugh Shepherdstown Pike Charles Ronemous Clabaugh

Thanksgiving Proclamation and War's End Reflections

President Wilson designates November 28 as Thanksgiving and prayer day praising peace and a new path for global harmony. The note lauds Allied victory, moral purpose, and divine guidance as citizens unite in gratitude and duty. Local notices mention hospital service volunteers and community fundraising for war relief, with updates on demobilization and local officials elected in Jefferson county.

Wilson Woodrow Wilson United States of America United States District of Columbia Robert Lansing

Aged Lady Ends Life in Martinsburg

Despondent over ill health and loneliness Miss Nannie V Brown aged about 41 of Martinsburg hanged herself last Wednesday night or early Thursday. Neighbors noticed no unusual activity and a search began when cousin Mrs Bessie Snyder could not locate her. S T Brown and son Howard found her in an outhouse. Daughter of late Joseph and Sarah Catrow Brown, she lived alone and recently spoke of making her home with a relative. She leaves a sister Mrs Sarah Pitzer of Weston.

Nannie V Brown Martinsburg Bessie Snyder Miss Brown S. T. Brown Arden Howard Theate Joseph Sarah Catrow Brown Sarah Pitzer Weston

West Virginia Budget Amendment Ratified Despite Light Vote

Houston Goff Young secretary of state reports canvass from scattered precincts shows the budget amendment to the West Virginia constitution has been ratified with a light vote against it. The amendment directs the state board of public works to prepare the budget for the legislature and was urged by Governor Cornwell after the last special session.

Houston Goff Young West Virginia Cornwell State Board of Public Works

In Memoriam and War Debt Figures

Obituary notes the death of Seymour Cloud at Camprant Illinois on September 20 1918 aged 29 buried Elwood Cemetery Shepherdstown with a poem from a friend. The article also cites a war cost estimate of 200 billion dollars and Germanys debt of 359 trillion dollars and mentions changes to a shoe price schedule and conservation features in the industry.

Camp Rant Illinois Seymour Cloud Ella Cloud M. E. Church Waynesville Elwwood Shepherdstown

A Pleasant Letter From the South War Day in Charleston

A November 1918 letter from Charleston describes celebrations as Germany signs the armistice. Sailors in blue uniforms march into town from nearby camps, with scenes at K of C and M C A huts. The writer notes home losses, war work centers, and hope for safe return. Also mentions a social dinner in Church Street and officials' casualty estimates.

Charleston S. C Srycer Allied War Works Fund Llness Germany Navy Yard U Trothers France Phillips Admiral Beatty Reed Bill Snyder

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