The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-04-30
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Saturday, when Mr.. Otis Johnson, OF
North Middletown, enlisted, being
assigned to the Navy Hospital Corps.
Mr.. Lawrence r. Jones, of North
MiddletOwn, who enlisted in the U.
S. army service from this county last
October, has been commissioned as
Second Lieutenant in the Field Ar
tillery, at Camp Zachary Taylor.
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The Government has established a
branch recruiting station in this city
for the army service. Capt. Roy
Sharp is in charge, with headquar-
tiers at the Windsor Hotel Recruits
for all branches of the army service
will be accepted.
Mr.. Harvey Allen Rogers, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rogers, who. was
summoned here last week to attend
the funeral and burial of his uncle,
Mr.. Harvey Rogers, returned Satur-
day to st. Paul, Mimi, to rejoin the
Aviation Signal Corps at the Mechan-
ical Training School.
Lieut.. Ben Frank, formerly of
Paris, is now in command of the
2S3rd squadron of the Aviation
Signal Corps, now stationed at the
Otay Mesa base at Rockwell Field,
the Government aviation station
near San Diego, Cali.
Lieut.. James Miller, of Millersburg,
who has been a guest of friends and
relatives in this county, left Sunday
to take up his army duties at Camp
Gordon, near Chamblee, Georgia. He
was accompanied by Lieut.. Henry Nj.
okillman, who had been visiting his
parents. in Lexington.
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Messages to friends and relatives
in this city yesterday from Vance
Huffman, who was kicked by an
army mule some time ago at Camp
Shelby, stated that his physicians
had given up hope of saving his life.
Complications affecting his stoma CHI
IN a serious manner had set in,
all the skill of the physi-
'ians. Previous to this hope had
been held out for his recovery. His
ather, Mr.. w. j. Huffman, is at his
bedside.
Mr.. George Edgar Vansant, son of
Nr. and Mrs. j. T. Vansant, of this
lily, has volunteered in the service,
md left Friday for FIT. Thomas, near
Newport, where he enlisted in the
field Artillery branch. His brother!
dr. John K. Vansant, is a member of |
he army aviation training school at |
ian Antonio, Texas.
Cards have been received here by |
riends of Lieut.. VIM. G.. Worthing-
on, of ClintOnville, who has been a |
member of the hospital corps at Ft. |
siley, Kansas, telling of his depart
Ire for France. Mrs. Worthington
nd children, who have been with |
i'm, have gone to Dayton, Tenn, to
eslde with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
:. A. Lewis.
Private Earl Fleming, who was
allied to his old home near Little /
lock, in this county, recently, by
he death of his mother, returned
aturday to his command at Camp
eV1er, in South Carolina. Private
'rown Buchanan, who was called to
last week by the death
t his cousin, Miss Pinkie Morrow,
eturned Saturday to Camp Zachary
'aylor.
Post cards received here Saturday
nd1cated that a large number of
bourbon county boys are now in
rance. The cards we're the regula-
ion ones issued by the army and
ANY and merely stated that the
ritter had arrived safely in France,
nth the writer's name appended.
ne of the cards was from Mr.. JOS.
lately of Paris, to his par
nts, Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Mitchell.
Mr.. Mike Atlas, formerly of Paris,
ow assistant ticket agent at the
MON Passenger Station in CinciA-
att, was a. visitor in Paris, Saturday
nd Sunday. Mr.. Atlas has been
rated in the service with a detach-
ent of draftees from Ohio. and
ill go to Fl. Thomas, near Newport,
- NNPih IL. Ills DTOIu0T, MT. Her
an Atlas, of She1byville, left yester-
ny with the Shelby county draftees
n the army cantonment at Camp 1
achary Taylor.
Private Shirley Dalzell, who has
zen at the home of his father. Mr..
1fton Dalzell, for several days, re- 4
lrned Saturday to the Aviation s
Camp near San Antonio, s
sxas. Private Dalzell was summon S
home to attend the funeral of his 5
other. Elgin Dalzell, who died in s
liladelphia in the service of. the S
lifted States. and whose body was s
ought here.
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Mr.. VIM. Evans, Of Pittsburg, KY,
rmerly a fireman on the Louisville
Nashville, and former resident
Paris, was a recent guest of
ends in Paris. Mr.. Evans has en- g.
ted in the U. s. Navy. His brother; s.
siie, is already in France, his di
other Charles in the u. S. Marines,
q another brother, John, is also a !.
lor, being on one of the U. S. :