NEWS: Blair County Soldiers, August 2, 1918, Blair County, PA

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SEVENTEEN MEN WILL GO TO SPARTANSBURG
Local Board No. 1 Selects Registrants to Enter Service at Camp Wadsworth

  The war department recently called upon Pennsylvania to furnish several 
thousand men for war training at Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, S. C.  Altoona 
has been asked to furnish thirty-three men, the West Side seventeen and the East 
Side sixteen.  They will leave the city on Thursday, August 8, at 5:05 o'clock.
  Local board No. 1 yesterday made its selection of men and sent out the 
induction calls to the boys who will enter the service.  The registrants chosen 
are:
Charles Bradley Campbell, 1613 Twelfth avenue.
Edmund Levan Zeek, 304 Lexington avenue.
Harry Francis Hetrick, 816 Chestnut avenue.
Maurice Levine, 1817 Fifteenth avenue.
Carl Melvin Grove, 916 Seventeenth street.
John R. Wood, 821 Bell avenue.
Edward Earl Berney, 1440 Thirteenth avenue.
Bernard Roy Sillinger, 1247 Fifth avenue, Akron, O.
Patrick Otto Conrad, 1211 Sixteenth street.
Saleem Shahabledin, 1908 Union avenue.
Henry Rice Steward, 1206 Seventeenth avenue.
Bernard Joshua Plunket, 129 Washington avenue.
Harry Alonza Lang, 308 Chestnut avenue.
George Fonner, 1501 Fourteenth street.
Francis Martin Weisel, 2015 Twentieth street.
  Alternates.
Charles Conrad Ray, 1423 Thirteenth avenue.
Admund E. Arbuckle, Marshall, Ill.
Leo Nunzio Di, 2009 1/2 Ninth avenue.
John E. Shaffer, 1410 Seventeenth avenue.
Joseph Hess, 1512 Nineteenth street.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 12


WILLIAM M. RHODES SERVING NATION AS YEOMAN IN U. S. NAVY

WILLIAM M. RHODES [photo]

  William M. Rhodes, better know as "Billy" to innumerable friends, is a yeoman 
in the Brooklyn navy yard and was enlisted February 11, 1918.  He is the son of 
Mr. and Mrs. M. Z. Rhodes, of 306 Willow avenue, and is a talented tenor 
vocalist and pianist.  He was recently home on a brief furlough and is loud in 
his praise of the service.  He has been touring various army and nave camps on 
Long Island and in New Jersey and New York state, singing to the jackies and the 
boys in khaki.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 12


NEWS OF SERVICE MEN AT HOME AND ABROAD
Lieut. Percy A. Bay, Former Hospital Interne (sic), Ordered to Sail to France

  Lieutenant Percy A. Bay, a former interne (sic) at the Altoona hospital, has 
received orders to sail to France, word to this effect reaching the city this 
week.
  Lieutenant Bay completed his interneship (sic) at the local institution June 
30 of this year and returned to his home at Jersey Shore to wait orders.  During 
the middle of the month he went to Philadelphia, where he took the state board 
examinations of registered doctors.  On July 3 he was ordered to active service 
and reported to the reserve medical officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, 
July 15.
  Following a week at the Georgia camp, he was appointed an instructor to the 
enlisted personnel of the sanitary corps at Fort Oglethorpe detention camp.  The 
company to which he is assigned left Chickamauga park, Ga., July 29, for 
Chattanooga, Tenn., and thence to Allentown, Pa.  Following the receipt of 
additional equipment, the company proceeded to Hoboken, J. J., for overseas.
  Dr. Bay is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania medical school with 
the class of 1917 and finished his training at the Altoona hospital.  He was 
commissioned as first lieutenant last June.  His many friends made during his 
sojourn in Altoona will be well pleased to hear of his advancement and his 
opportunity for active service.
  D. V. Cassidy, of 2129 Eighteenth street, has arrived overseas with company D, 
Sixty-sixth Engineers.  He enlisted several months ago and was trained in one of 
the southern training camps.
  James R. O'Connor, a member of the Third field artillery, has arrived safely 
in France.  He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Connor, of 721 Second avenue, 
Juniata.
  C. M. Gilliford, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Gilliford, of 1222 Sixteenth 
avenue, has been transferred from Hancock, Ga., to Washington, D. C., for duty 
in the ordnance department.  He took the State college course.
  Captain W. H. Slep, son of Ed. J. Slep, of 2545 Union avenue, has arrived in 
France, according to word received by his father yesterday.  He has seen service 
in several branches of the service and went to France in command of a munition 
train.  He was formerly with the Penn Central company.
  Richard S. Orange, a member of the coast artillery and stationed at Fort 
Hancock, Sandy Hook, L. I., is spending a short furlough with his sister, Mrs. 
F. H. English, of 113 East Sixth street.  He expects to sail overseas in a short 
time.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 12