The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-05-07
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dletOWn, has received word that her
brother, Mr.. Seth Bolts, had arrived
safely in France. 1t is thought that
Mr.. Walter Lowe, of North Middle
town, is also in France.
Mr.. John Estes, of near Paris, who
is in the radio service at Camp Perry,
after visit to friends and relatives
in this city and county, has gone to
Harvard College to take a course in
wireless telegraphy.
Horace Miller Clay, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank P. Clay, formerly of
Bourbon county, has been appointed
to a position in the service as time
inspector at a big munition plant at
Portsmouth, Va, overlooking Hamp-
ton Roads
Sergt. Newsum Keller has returned
to Camp Shelby, at Hattiesburg,
Miss, after visit to his parents, DR..
and Mrs. A. H. Keller, in this city.
Sergt. Keller is in Co. B., 18th
Battalion, U. S. Signal Corps, at the
Camp.
Prof. M. Clarke White, a former
member of the Paris High School fac
ulty, is visiting friends in this city
for a few days before leaving for
Camp Gordon, at Atlanta, Georgia,
where he will join the 331st Field
Artillery.
Lieut.. Raymer Jones, who has been
visiting his father, Mr.. VIM. Jones,
at North Middletown, has returned
to Camp Zachary Taylor. He is now
a Second Lieutenant in the service,
having recently received his commits
sion as such.
R. Davis Hutchcraft, of Paris, who
is now visiting his mother, Mrs. ].
Perry Hutchcraft, in this city, has
been notified that he is one of three
Kentuckians who have qualified for
commissions at the Third Officers
Training Camp at Camp Jackson,
South Carolina. He is eligible for
appointment as Second Lieutenant.
Mr.. John Moran, of Camp Zachary
Taylor, has returned to the camp
after a visit to relatives in this city
and county. Moran is member of
the DR.. Barrow Base Hospital Unit
No. 40. Douglas Clay, of Paris, who
is a member of the same organiza-
ton, is sucering from the effects of
an injury to one of his fingers. -
Recruiting officer Sharp, of the U.
Is army, who is stationed at the
Windsor Hotel, in this city, reports
the enlistment of four cOlored boys,
James o. Bedford, Vernon Hall,
Field A. Whaley and William Hall.
They were sent to FIT. Thomas, Fri
day, were they will be assigned to
the infantry service.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Sledd, Mr.. and
VIM. Redmon, Jr., and Mr.. Frank
Sledd were visitors recently at Camp
Zachary Taylor. They were guests
of Mr.. Herbert Sledd, of North Mid
dletown, who is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. F. Sledd. He is a member
of the DR.. Barrow Hospital Unit.
Mr.. C. Landon Templin, SON Of Mr..
and Mrs. T. T. Templin, of Paris,
and Mr.. ]. Stuart Wallingford, son
of Dr. J. S. Wallingford, of this city,
enlisted in the navy service Friday
at the Lexington recruiting station.
Wallingford and Templin were sem
iors in the College of Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering at State
University.
Mr.. Hershel Humble, of Somerset,
who married Miss Sarah Thompson,
of this city, has been transferred
from the service at FIT. Thomas, to
Camp Forrest, near Atlanta, Ga,
where he will be in the forestry SER
vice. Mr. Humble is an expert lum-
herman. During his absence Mrs.
Humble will be at the home of her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. /. D. Thompson,
on Duncan avenue.
Chas. Hallam Mahorney, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Mahorney, of near
Paris, received notice Saturday to
report for duty at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, near Chi
cago. Young Mahorney will leave
for Great Lakes to-day. He was &C
copied as a volunteer at the Louis
vile recruiting Office. He is a fine
specimen of physical manhood, being
nineteen years old, standing six
feet, two inches In his stocking feet,
and weighing ITS pounds.
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Prof. L. H. Barnes, of Mt. Sterling.
formerly a member Of the faculty of
the North Middletown Business and
Classical College, was in the Bour-
BON draft to go with the boys to Fl.
Thomas last Wednesday, but was ex-
cused by the Exemption Board in or
der that he might continue his
school duties, at Mt, Sterling. Mr..
Lee Grimes, also Of Mt. Sterling, a
former resident of Bourbon county,
was placed in another class for q
future draft. sv1 -,>..
The boys from Bourbon who went
to- Camp Zachary Taylor in the last
increment Of the draft call from the
county have forgotten any soreness
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