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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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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Cooley
Landon Hoffman
Camp Ae
Licktider Corporation
Syittming
Bath
J. B. Triplets
Francis W
Adams
D. P
Owens’ Drug Store
Bready
Whitlock
Bart Hill
Motor Transport Corps
Amp Jesip
Atlanta
Eest
Owensuk
Victor Supplies
Vera Carder
Hampsure County
W. Vit
Main Street
Owens
Hendacks Byers
Willoughby Lemen
Camp Lee
Owens” Drug Store
H. H. Hendricks
Tuan
John W. Hendricks
Schumacher
Wy N
Keedysville
GS. Musser
Mildred J. Price
Caskey Baking Company
Hagerstown
Willian Craighill
J. Strider Moler
Washington and
Church Streets
M. Reynolds Moler
Wm. ] Moler
Pike
Strider Moler
Shephedstown
Register
John F. Flanagan
Baltimore
A. R. Selby
Meara
C. N. Whiting
C.N. Whiting Company
Kiting
Maryland
Mt. Church
Mt Wesley
N. O. Sowers
Childrens’ Home Society of
West Virgina
Childrens
Mr. Sowers
Washington Street
W. Va
Alder Thomas
F. W. Thomas
Martinsburgh
Messrs
J. D. Muldoon
C. D Wysong
Keyser
Shepherd College
United States Supreme Court
Charles Frazer
Mineral County
Supreme Court
West Virginia State Education Association
Wheeling
Stat
Shawkey
Robert L. VanMetre
G. B. VanMetre
Berkeley
James W. Clendenning
Middleway
Mollie N. Riley
Henry League
Gassaway
Braxtor
R. William Riley
Prince William County
Clendenning
Food Administration
Robert Gibson
Amanda Titus
Virginia Harrison
Julia Reinhart
Walter Reed Hospital
June C. Locke
Locke
Katherine P. Adams
Mountain View Cemetery
Hunter J. Miller
Duffields
Dufields
Undi
Miller
Rappahannock County
Currie
W. Edward Miller
U.S. Naval Academy At
Annapolis
John van Doren Bedinger
U.S. Army
England
E. W. Bedinger
Anchorage
Kentucky
Princeton University
Louisville
Medical Corps of the Army
Misse Maria V
Catherine C
Olivia M Bedinger
Henry G Bedinger
Harry E. Whittington
Joseph Whittington
Shenandoah Junction
J. D. Matthews
Key
R.oy Scmumaker
Lela May
James Prather
King’s Daughters Hospital
Deach
Annie Childs
William Chilis
Summit Point
David Childs
Katie Colston
Chas. J. Shaull
Wi. G. Bates
Wm. &. Out
Alexander Baird
Botts Greys
Charles T.lindsay
Campbell Tabb
Newport News
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Mary Elizabeth Chilton
Wm. E. Chilton
H. B. Thompson
G. W. Mace
Asaimobile Breas
Icklider Corporation
Lorraine
Florence Murphy
Claymont Court
New York
Jefferson County
E. L. Goldsborough
Violet Dandridge
Pittsburg
H. N. Pendleton
S.L. Flickinger
James P. Staley
Middletown
Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church
Turner W. Maddox
Julian Glasscock
Billy Reinhart
Wm. G. Rothe
E. B
C. N. Whiting Milling Company
Grand Lodge of Masons
W. S. Watts
C. S. Miller
Europe
Edward N Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Shipping Board
War Department
Baker
United War Work
W. P. Licklider
United War Works Fund
E. E. Gooke
Shepherd Grade
Moler
Martinsburg Road
Kearneysville Pike
Ridge Road
Dutfelds
Teaceres
Central
Central West
West End
East End
Ira M. Derr
Letr
Ethan
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
Virginia
Hansford
Derr
Iran
Mise Gene Simms
Montgomery
Spartanburg
S.C
Kabletown
G. A. Davis
J. E. Willingham
Geo. W. Thompson
Mason Marshall
Robert Shipley
Harper's Ferry
C. D. White
Boards of Education
J. D. McGarry
B. E B. Beavers
Jas. M. Myers
Church Street
A.C Lampe
Washington, D. C
Charles Koppe
Los Angeles
Cal
Misa Anne Koppe
Lampe
C.D. Carter
W. C. Bowman
Paul
Isabelle
Bowman
H.C. Marten
Ellen Welsham
Katie Arthur
Bina Gris
J. Ho Trout
Oldsmobile
Chalmers
National Highway Garage
W. Washington Street
the Model Bakery
Opera House
U. S
America’s
Division of Films
Committee of Public Information
George Creel
Uncle Sam
America
Kaiser
Cll
Sam
Pershing
U.S Transport
Naval
Eaceniasneery
U. S, Navy
Siena Corps
Upan Kew
Cannan
U. 8
C. A
Mme. Petrova
Destiny
Alice Brady
Carlylewell Martel Ontrich