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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28

County Judge C. A. Mcmillan made
a good appointment Wednesday
when he notified Mr.. Harry o. James,
of the Paris Billiard Co., that he
would from now on fill the position
of County Oil and Gasoline Inspec-
tor. Mr.. James accepted the trust
and was sworn into office at nine
O'Clock that morning.
The position pays about $1,000
per year, the term of Office running
four years. Mr.. James succeeds
Mr.. B. ]. Brannon, of the firm of
Bradley & Brannon, who has held
the position by appointment under
the administration Of former County
Judge Denis Dundon, Judge McMil-
lan's predecessor.
Mr.. James appointment will meet
with universal approval, especially
among the good Democrats of the
county. He has been one of the
most faithful and tireless workers in
the Democratic ranks, and has never
lost an opportunity of doing all in
his power for the Democratic candi-
dates, whether in city, county, State
or National elections.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
DANCES GALORE.

There will be no dearth of dancing
events to round out the hours for So
ciety in this section during tho holt
days.
At the Masonic Temple in Paris
tonight the annual Christmas dance
to be promoted by Ireland "Bit"
Davis and Blair Warden, will start
the ball to rolling. Music will be
furnished by the Garrett Saxophone
Orchestra and the dancers will have
from 900 p. m. to 500 a. m. in
which to glide through the mazes.
On Tuesday night, January 1, the
New Years Dance, which has be-
come a fixed holiday feature, will be
given at the Masonic Temple. The
famous Vito Novelty Orchestra, of
Nashville, has been engaged for this
occasion, and from 900 to 800 the
dancers will have 1.-The greatest fun
ever" Mr.. John M. Stuart, of Paris,
is promoting the dance, which will
be subscription affair, the proceeds
to be given to the Soldiers Tobacco
Fund.
On the following night. Wednes-
day, January 2. the Millersburg
Dancing Club will give their annual
New Years Dance at the Odd Eel
lows Hall, in that city. The Smith
Saxophone Orchestra will furnish
music from 800 to 800. These
dances have always been pleasurable
events, and Millersburg society boys
may be relied upon to have this
dance UP to the usual high standard.
Several private dances will be held
at different homes throughout the
nity and county. and the glad spirit
of the Christmas time and the New
Year will spread all over.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
ARMY DESERTERS RETURNED TO
FIT. THOMAS.

Chief of Police Fred Link returned
Wednesday night from FIT. Thomas,
the U. S. military reservation near
Newport, where he turned over to
the U. S. Army authorities Cecil
Names and Dock Wunegardner,
whom he arrasted here on suspicion
of being deserters from an army
camp.
While at the Tenth street passen =
ger station of the L. e NJ, Chief
Links attention was attracted to the
suspicious actions of two young men,
who had just alighted from a south
bound freight train. They were
taken in charge by the Chief, whose
questioning drew from them the adj
mission that they had left their
quarters at Camp Shelby, near Hat
tiesburg, Miss, without permission,
to spend the holidays at their homes
near Cynthiana, intending to return
to the camp.
The men were turned over to the
authorities at Fl. Thomas and their
records looked up. They will be sent
back to Camp Shelby nuder guard.
Army deserters from Southern
camps should give Paris a wide
berth. Paris being on the through
route from the South the police will
naturally be on the lookout for SOL
diers who are absent from camp
without leave, and will certainly
take them in on suspicion.
When the men were searched they
had no money and stated that they
had made their way from the camp
on freight trains, and had been
we'll treated all the way. They
said they were members of the
149th Infantry, at Camp Shelby, at
Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
BIG STARS IN "THE TENDER.
FOOT" TOMORROW.

To what lengths a woman will go
for the man she loves, although she
knows he is promised to another, is
strikingly shown in 1.-THE Tender
foot" the Greater Vitagraph Blue
Ribbon Feature, which will be the
attraction at the Alamo Theatre and
Paris Grand tomorrow. In this
second of the famous Wolfville tales
by Alfred Henry Lewis, to be pict-
urized by Greater Vitagraph, the
Tenderfoot, to protect the name of
the Western girl who uses his love
as a plaything, must fight the worst
man in Wolfville or be branded a
coward
The Western girl to save him from
certain death processes affection for
the bad-man, plies him with liquor
and loads his pistol with harmless
cartridges. Knowing nothing of this
and his fiancee having fed the town
the Tenderfoot meets his adversary
in Wolfville's saloon and after an
exchange of shots drives him from
town. And then, no longer a Ten
derfoot, he learns what the Western
girl has done and they are married.
Two Vitagraph stars of adventure
in "The Fighting Trail" and Dead
Shot Baker," William Duncan and
Carol Holloway, are cast in the lead
ing roles, supported by Florence
Dye, Joe Rryan, Walter L. Rodgers,
Charles Wheelock, Hattie Buskirk
and Fred Forester.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28

Acting under instructions receiv-
ed from the United States Fuel Ad-
ministration, the Fuel Committee of
Bourbon County issues the following
order effective at once:
All signs of every kind, including
merchants signs, theatre signs, also
display lighting on buildings and
elsewhere, hotel signs and advertis-
ing signs are ordered discontinued
completely on Thursday and Sunday
nights of each week. On these same
nights stores not open for business
must not show inside lights more
than necessary for safety and extra
bright lighting for white way effect
must be reduced on Thursday and
Sunday nights, giving only so much
lighting as is necessary for safety.
These nights are called 'Lightless
Nights"
Householders are urged to observe
these nights with as few lights in
homes as possible.
Please understand that the spirit
of this order is that on Thursday and
Sunday nights there shall be no
more outdoor lighting than is abso-
lutely necessary for safety of streets,
passages and dangerous spots.
This ruling is counted on not only
to effect substantial saving of coal,
but to provide startling visual evil
dence that the United States is en-
1o ood In the conduct of the greatest
of world wars.
This cancels previous orders given
i'm regard to illuminated signs.
J. II. THOMPSON, Chairman.
w. o. HINTON, Secretary.
December q. 1917.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
IMPORTANT! DON'T FAIL 10
READ THIS!

1t will require small army Of
men to take the income tax returns
of persons subject to the new law.
Collector of Internal Revenue Haly
yesterday announced that seven ON
GERS will start from his headquarters
no January and on January every
one of them will be on the job in the
county assigned him, to meet the
people and help them make out their
income tax returns The officer as
signed to this county is due to arrive
here on January IA and to remain
until January 26, 1918, both dates
inclusive. He will have his office in
Paris in the court house, where he
may be found every day of the dates
stated.
1T will be we'll for every unmarri-
ed person whose net income, for 1917
is 81, 900 or over, and every marri-
ed person living with wife or hus-
band whose net income for 1917 Is
$4,000 or over, to call on the income
tax man and learn whether or not
they have to pay any tax" Collector
Haly said. ''The person subject to
tax who doesn't make return in the
time prescribed is going to regret 1t.
The Government will get after all
income tax slackers.
There's hardly a business man.
merchant or professional man who
won't have to make return of in
come. Farmers, as a class, will have
to pay the tax. The safe thing to
do is for every person who had a
total income of 1000 or $4,000, as
the case may be. and who is not sure
about what deductions the law al
lows him, to play 1T safe by calling
on the income tax man.
1.-THE man in the field will have
forms for everybody and persons who
expect to call on him need not
trouble themselves to write to my
Office for forms"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
THE KAISER BARELY ESCAPES
DEATH; SUCH ROTTEN LUCK!

A dispatch to the daily papers
yesterday contained the following:
GENEVA, Dec 27.-The Ger
man Emperor, returning with his
staff from the Verdun front, had a
narrow escape during the reprisal
raid of British air squadron on
Mannheim Christmas Eve, according
to a dispatch from Basel.
"Only an hour earlier the EN-
peror's special train left the station,
which was partly destroyed by sew
eral bombs A section of the tracks
was torn up, cutting communication
north.
I'm fact, the Emperor's train was
last to leave Mannheim, and no
trains arrived at Basel Wednesday
from that city. Two bombs fell on
the palace and one on the suspen-
sion bridge across the Neckar River,
both structures being badly dam
aged"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
THE TOBACCO MARKETS

The Bourbon Tobacco Warehouse
Company sold at their sale yester-
day 1880 pounds of tobacco for a
total of s3,496.10, an average OF
s25.S3. The quality Of the offer
ing was very poor and grade prices
were stronger than on the closing
sale before the holidays.
A few of the best crop averages
were as follows:
T. Hutson, 2,745 pounds; aver
age s26.80.
Wyatt & Lowe, 1855 pounds; av-
erage s27.10.
Martin & Lawson, 1850 pounds;
average $29.31.
The next sale will be held at the
house to-day.
At the Independent House $500
mounds were sold for an average OF
s27.2O. The market was much
stronger at this house than at the
closing sale before the holidays.
Only two crops were sold at this
sale, the receipts being light. This
house will also have sale to-day.
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
BUSINESS coon AT LOCAL POST
OFFICE.

Postmaster J. Walter Panye re-
ports the volume of Christmas bust
ness at the local office as being larger
than that of last year. The receipts
were, of course, larger, owing to in
creased postage demanded by the
war tax provisions.
The money order, and registry de-
partment did an unusually large
business. The incoming and outgo-
ing mails were full of Christmas
packages, and all departments had
all they could do to handle the bus
mess.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
NEW WAR FLOUR Is BEING
GROUND BY MILLS.

With the exception of the stocks
on hand at present there will be no
more high-grade patent flour on the
Paris market for the period of the
war. The Paris Milling Co., and E.
F. Spears & Sons have received in
structions from the Government
and began Wednesday manufactur-
ing -four under the new regulations.
These regulations were formulat-
ed by the milling division of the
Food Administration. They are
designed to save 100000 bushels
of wheat in the present crop year.
Under these regulations. which pro-
vide for the use of "A per cent. of
of the wheat berry instead of but
SO per cent, two grades OF, flour will
be eliminated, and the output will
be listed as war flour of the first
and second grades.
The change has resulted in a sharp
decline in bran prices and a drop
in the prices of other by-products
also is expected. The Paris Milling
20. stated yesterday that they had
Specifically been making war -four
for some time, knowing the Govern
ment action would be taken.
Several milling companies were
compelled to suspend operations tenn
porarly because of lack Of proper
equipment for grinding the new
flour.
Members of the food administra-
ton milling division said that be-
cause of the large supply of flour
now on the market, it would be
some time before war flour reached
the consumer.
The new flour, having large
proportion of bran, will resemble
very closely the Graham -four or
whole wheat -four used in bread
making, and will be every bit as
wholesome and NUTRITIOUS.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CON
troll OF RAILROADS TO-DAY

Government possession and opera
ton of the nations railroads for the
war has been proclaimed by Presi-
dent Wilson, to become effective at
noon to-day, December %. VIM. G.
McAdoo, retaining his place in the
cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury,
Is placed in charge as director-gen-
eral of railroads.
Every railroad engaged in general
transportation with its appurtances,
including steamship lines, is taken
over and all systems will be operated
as one under the Girector-general.
In a statement accompanying his
proclamation, the President an
nounced that as soon as Congress re-
assemblies he will recommend legis-
Iation, guaranteeing pre-war earn
ings and maintenance of railroad
properties in good repair.
Government backing will be given
Gates, that a ready market may be
found.
The Presidents move, although
forecast for weeks, came at this
time as a great surprise to nearly
everybody in Washington, including
railroad officials. 1t had been gen.
orally believed he would await the
reassembling of Congress before TAX
ing any step. He acted through
Secretary of War Baker under au-
thority conferred in the army appro-
priation act.
Direct management of the roads
will remain in the hands of rail-
road officials and the railroads war
board, comprised of five railroad
heads, will continue to direct actual
operations under Secretary Nc
Adoo's general supervision.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
IN THE SERVICE.

DR.. J. Milton Stern, lately of Paris,
and now stationed at FIT. Oglethrope,
in Georgia, as member of the Army
Medical Reserve Corps, has received
his commission as First Lieutenant
in the service. This is in the nature
Of a promotion, DR.. Stern having en-
tered the service as an officer in the
lower grade. He is capable and
experienced oculist and will be in
charge of the examination of re-
cruits at FIT. Oglethrope
Mr.. Lee Masterson, formerly en-
ployed in the automobile business in
Paris and Lexington, left yesterday
for the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station, at Great Lakes, ILL.,, where
he will enter the mechanical SER
vice in the aviation section of the
United States Flying Corps.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
WARNING TO HUNTERS.

Acting under instructions from
the State Game and Fish Commits
sion, Special Deputy Game Warden
Bush Bishop has issued aswarning
to hunters. The season on rabbits
closes on Dec. 81, and on quail on
January 1. The open season for
squirrels closed on Dec. q.
Under the laws of the State 1t
will be unlawful for hunters to kin
or pursue with intent to kill rabbits,
quail or squirrels. Many hunters
have not troubled themselves to
keep informed on these dates, 50
Warden Bishop asks THE NEWS to
give publicity as warning to hunt
ers who may become involved in Sc
rious trouble by failing to observe
the game laws.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
STATE COMMISSIONER TO HEAR
WRECK EVIDENCE JAN. 10.

The State Railroad Commission
has set January 10, 1918, as 1.-THE
date for hearing the evidence of the
train crews of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, which
were in the collision at Shepherds
vile in regard to the wreck. The
hearing will be held in Louisville at
the Seelbach Hotel. The order for
the hearing was entered following
report of the company to the COM
mission of the collision.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
RED CROSS MANAGERS TO WIND
UP AFFAIRS.

All campaign workers who partic-
ipated in the recent drive for men,
bership in the Red Cross Chapter of
Bourbon county, are requested to
bring in their reports and all those
who pledged membership over the
telephone, are asked to come in per-
son and pay their membership fees
or mail checks to Mrs. Frank P.
Kiser, at Paris.
The managers of the campaign
will be at the Red Cross headquar-
tiers in the Bourbon-Agricultural
Bank building, at the corner of Main
and Broadway all day to-day, for
the purpose of settling up affairs
pertaining to the drive.
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
BOURBON IS NO PLACE FOR THE
SHIRKER.

''This is no place for a shirker,"
remarked one of the bravest of the
many women who gave their time
and influence to promoting the work
of the Red Cross in this city and
county in the recent campaign. Her
remark was addressed to a Sinking
young fellow in a crowd of men who
had tried to dodge her, and escape
doing his part in the campaign
Bourbon county has done it's as
signed part in the Liberty Loan, the
Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. work,
and has sent her sons freely to the
army environments in response to the
call to arms. Yet, in spite of all
this there are many in our midst
who do not seem to realize the seri-
BUSINESS of the war or the necessity
of backing President Wilson to the
last man and the last dollar.
Slackers and shirkers are not alone
confined to men who endeavOr to
dodge military service, and, improb-
able as it may sound, when Bour-
bon county's proud past is recalled,
we have some of these people here.
Every man or woman who fails to
do his or her part, however small, In
helping Uncle Sam by word or deed.
is as much of a Stacker or a shirker,
as the one who evades the military
draft.
Men who put up one or even ten
dollars imagine they are eQualizing
the burden with the mothers who
have given their boys to the service,
or with the boys who are freely
offering their lives in defense Of
their country. A poor estimate II
thus placed on the youth of Amer
lea. And people who are asked to
assist in certain work and endeavor
to evade their service by thrusting
the task upon another on any pre-
text come under the head Of slack
ers and shirkers.
The young man who was thus
made the target of woman's sc0rn
tried to brave it out, but the sympa-
thy of his associates was very plain
ly with the Red Cross worker, and
after turning over his contribution
he hurriedly left the vicinity, con-
WINGED that This is no place for q
shirker or a Stacker"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
HAVE. A SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
HAVE CASH NEXT CHRISTMAS

Our new Christmas Savings Club
has started. Be one of our many
happy holders of a Christmas Saw
ings check next Christmas. We
mailed out over $4,000 worth of
these checks this week. Be one to
receive a check next year. Start
with us to-day.
BOURBON-AGRI BANK
p TRUST co. Gt)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
PLOT TO POISON RED CROSS
BANDAGES FRUSTRATED

A plot to poison Red Cross band
ages and spread wholesale death
among the soldiers of America and
her allies has been exposed and frus-
trated at Cleveland, o.
Revelations of the conspiracy were
made when it become known that
Department of Justice agents were
hunting perpetrators OF the deeo.
Three thousand, four hundred sur
gical dressings, rolled by patrlotie
women in Toledo, were infected Win
a mysterious greenish poison whlle
in transit between Toledo and CleVe-
land. nm
Immediately every one of the 3,4OO
bandages was burned. They We're
destroyed secretly in the rear OF the
Red Cross warehouses here.
Every effort was made to keep the
matter secret, and it was successlui
for a while. Officials OF the lake
division of the Red Cross refused 70
discuss the poisoned bandages, put
fine authoritive information was oD-
tanned that the bandages had peen
DESTROYED and that government
agents. aided by slender clews, were
irving to solve the mystery.
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The poisoned bandages were part
of the periodical shipments received
at the local headquarters of the lake
division from Red Gross headquarters
in other cities in the DIVISION which
comprise Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky.
The box of bandages arrived al
Cleveland from the Toledo chaptel
last week, and was taken TO the
warehouse. While women were ex-
aiming the huge quantity OF surgl-
cal dressings as to specifications, q
dark greenish substance was noticeo
on one of them. investigation show
ed that ALI of the bandages in the
boxes had been treated with poison:
All the bandages made by the Red
Cross workers of Central Kentucky
were sent to the Cleveland head
quarters, including those made by
the Bourbon County Chapter.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
NOTICE TO REGISTRANTS.

Inc IOllOW1nS nOt1ce TO regis
trants under the selective draft law
was posted in the Court House yes
terday, following similar ones post
ed from day to day at the same place
by the Bourbon County Board of Elk
emption:
Notice To Registrars Under the
Jurisdiction of this Local Board
whose order numbers are between
81 and SS8, inclusive:
There has been mailed to Won
this day QUESTIONABLE, which you
are requested by law to execute and
return within seven days from date.
Failure to do so constitutes a
misedeanor, punishable by not to ex-
coed one years imprisonment, and
such failure may also deprive you of
valuable rights and result in your
immediate induction into military
service and trial by court martial"
The notice is signed by County
Clerk Pearce Patton as member of
the Board
The following is list of regis,
trants to whom questionaires hat
been sent, and returned on ACCOUNT
of their postoffice address not being
ascertained:
Harvey Lee Mullikin.
William Small.
Clarence Washington.
Charles Body.
Raymond Meyers. ~
George Lewis Payne.
Henry Ross.
JohnAGray.
William Thomas Jolley.
Adam Dudley.
Leo. w. Mckinney,
Laurie Buckhalter
William Henry Wilson.
Edward Douglas Kellis. --
George Darlington Letton.
William Henry Johnson,
George D. Beasley.
Elmer Bruce Gross.
Julius Talbot.
Jesse Herman Cooper.
Frank Screetch.
Omer Mers.
Tom Reid.
Curn Lyons.
Albert Monrone Holloway.
Beve Wilson.
Frank Yearsley.
Ollie Roe.
James Irvine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
NEW SERIES OF CHRISTMAS
SAVING CLUB STARTS

Our new series of Christmas Saw
'ngs Accounts starts this week. Start
YOURS to-day and have some cash to
spend next Christmas
PEOPLES DEPOSIT BANK &
TRUST COMPANY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-12-28
NEW SERIES OF CHRISTMAS
SAVINGS CLUB NOW READY

Be one Of the happy holders of a
Christmas Savings Check next
Christmas Start with us to-day
in our new series. You can start
with 5 cents or $500 and have q
nice check coming NEXT Christmas.
FARMERS & TRADERS BANK
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NEW, OIL INSPECTOR.

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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-08-03

There is always a place for the
stable and lot manure on the farm.
The pastures need it as we'll as the
crops. and if il is not convenient to
haul it out to the fields for a crop.
broadcast it over the pasture. The
pastures, to be at their best. need
fertilizers as we'll as crops. Farm
ers who have but a small pasture
can well afford to use liberal ap-
plicatons of manure on them, and
so make the pastures produce more
grazing. In this way less grain will
be needed TO make the COWS give a
steady flow of milk.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-08-03
CREAM SEPARATOR PAYS FOR
ITSELF.

In the August Farm and Fireside,
q writer says:
Nowadays it seems foolish to
think Of separating the milk and
cream by the old-fashioned method
of shallow-pan setting. BY this l
mean putting the milk in pans about
four inches deep and letting stand
until cold, then skimming the cream
that collects on the top. While nice
butter can sometimes be made from
the cream obtained by such methods,
considering the loss of time and but
terfat, the modern cream separator
soon pays for itself.
"If one reckons the value Of a
cream separator at just its worth in
saving time. which is surely five
cents a day, that would amount in a
year to $1S.25. At that rate, in two
or three years the separator will
have earned it's cost. And such fig
uring does not consider the saving in
butterfat. So It can be seen that II
one plans to make much butter a
separator is necessity"