The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-08-02

did not try. As I understand 1t, 7
will leave here about August 25th, I
think, for Governors Island, in the
Eastern Department for examina-
ton. I hope the next time you see
me will be wearing the bars on my
shoulder straps. My present address
is Co. D., 18th Battalion. Pigeon
Point, Wilmington, Delaware"
800
Mr.. Edwin A. Woods left Fort
Thomas, Wednesday night, for Hat
tiesburg, Miss, and will be station
ed in the Quartermanster's Depart
ment for special service at that place.
Mrs. Woods was the guest Of Mr..
Woods, Sunday, at Fort Thomas.
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Mr.. Ernest Kiser, of near Paris.
has been promoted to the position Of
Chief Mechanic of Co. A., 326th Ar
tillery, at the practice grounds at
West Point, KY. He will receive the
pay of Sergeant.
49,
Lieut.. Martin Doyle, formerly of
Paris, who is now stationed ON the
United States Coast Guard ship the
Penrose, at Pensacola, Fla, has been
promoted from Second Lieutenant to
First Lieutenant, which is equivalent
to Captaincy during the war He
has served eleven years in the navy,
and is preparing for a trip overseas.
Lieut.. Doyle is a son Of the late Mr..
John Doyle, of Paris, and brother
of Mr.. George Doyle and Miss Win
nifred Doyle, both of this city.
49,
DR.. David Barrow, who is in France
at the head of the Base Hospital
Unit he organized last summer, has
been promoted from Major to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The pro-
motion was announced in a recent
issue Of the Army and Navy Jour-
nal. In order to give DR.. Barrow SUI
preme command of the Unit 1t was
necessary to raise him to the rank Of
Lieutenant-Colonel. There have been
very few cases where a reserve ply
stefan has received such a commits
sion.
Ireland "Bit' Davis, who left here
Monday afternoon with five other
Bourbon boys for Vancouver Bar
racks, in Washington, writes THE
NEWS a postcard message from Clin-
ton, Iowa, as follows: About
twelve cars of we insists left Chi
cago this a. m. (July 3D. Some
troop train and really good meals we
are getting. S. F.sS. G. Csc far SO
good.) Tell Pearce Patton we still
have the Holidays candy, and that
Capt. Mitchell is some chauffeur.
Regards to all from the six jolly
insists
Mrs. Mollie James, of this city.
has received a letter from her son,
Mr.. Cornelius Buddy James, stat
ing that he is to be transferred to a
French war vessel for active duty
soon. Young James was member
of the gun crew of the u. s. trans
transport, the Covington, which was
recently sunk by a German sub
marine. He wrote to his mother a
few days ago from France, stating
that he was there with no immediate
prospect of being placed on active
duty, but the new assignment came
later on to relieve him.
49, -
Rene Clark and Robert Burnett,
both of Paris, have enlisted in the
naval service as apprentice seamer,
and will leave next Monday for the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
where they will go into active train
ing. Both were accepted at the Gin
cinnati Naval Recruiting Station last
week, and ordered to report at Great
Lakes, ILL.,, on August S. They are
excellent young men Of fine charac-
ter, such as Uncle Sam makes good
sailors out of, and eventually. capa-
BILE officers. Here's wishing you both
good luck.
49,
Mr.. Hiram Roseberry,. of Paris,
who is stationed at Camp Zachary
Taylor as a member of the Bourbon
county contingent in the service, has
returned to his army duties there, af-
ter a visit to his father, Mr.. John
Roseberry, and his sister. Miss Caro-
Ign Roseberry, near Paris. Like the
other patriotic Paris and Bourbon.
county boys, now that they are in
Uncle Sans service, Mr.. Roseberry
wants to get over yonder and do his
bit with a gun and bayonet in :
teaching the Huns the science OF
warfare.
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Mr.. James W.. Thompson. IT., OF