The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-22
; IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR
COUNTRY.


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M1llard Hornback, formerly of
Paris, writes to Paris friends that he
mas arrived safely overseas as a mem
Der OF the American Expeditionary
Force. :.
reports from Lieut.. Raymen Jones.
of North Middletown, stationed AFT
Camp Meade. Md, and Private Carl
ton Jones, also of North Middletown.
at Camp Taylor, state that they are
convalescing from recent attacks of
the Spanish influenza.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. J. LAWN, of Paris.
received letter from their son Law
renee LAWN, at Camp Gordon. near
Atlanta, Ca, stating that he had
been promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant. He has been regimental
bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon.
for several months.
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Miss Mary Fithian Hutchcraft. of
Paris, who enlisted sometime ago in
the canteen service of the Y. w. c..
A. and United War Workers, has re-
ceived orders from Cleveland to re-
port to the headquarters at New York
within ten days. She expects to leave
Immediately for duty overseas.
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Private Emmett Fry, formerly of
Kiserton, this county, writes his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Fry, that
he had made the overseas trip in
safety and was then at a European
port. Fry is a member of Company
c., 149th Infantry, American Expe-
dictionary Forces.
Sergt. Y. H. Harrison, formerly of
Paris, has arrived safely in France,
according to messages recently re-
received by friends in Paris. Sergt.
Harrison is a member of the 326th
Field Artillery, American Expedi-
tionaryf A Paris friend upon hear
ing of Sergt. Harrison's arrival "over
there" remarked: IF we had an army
of men as tall and as intelligent as
Harrison, we could soon win the
war. The Boches will wonder, is,
that a sample of what America can,
producer"
A letter from Henry Tucker, for
merly of Paris, to his mother, Mrs.
Lucie Turney Tucker, in Cincinnati.
states that somewhere in France
he had the pleasure of meeting sew
eral Paris boys, one of the Link
boys, Paul Brannon and Clarence
Slicer. He stated that Frank A3R1q
gins was at the same place, but much
to his regret he missed seeing him.
Tucker stated that when all these
boys got together it was like q real
Kentucky home coming |
affair. He said the boys were in |
health.
The Cincinnati Times-Star in a re- |
cent issue published an intensely in
teresting letter, written from the |
French-German battlefront by Lieut.. |
Woodall, recently of Gov
ington. The article is mainly de-
scriptive of the stirring and thrilling
scenes when the Allies artillers went /
into action at the battle of Scissors,
and the part played by the American
gunners in our first great battle"
Lieut.. Woodall Is the only son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Woodall, of Coving-
ton. His mother was Miss Tillie
Brent, of Paris, the youngest sister of |
Mrs. Belle Brent Alexander, of Paris.
His father died about three years ago.
Lieut.. Woodall volunteered at the be-
ginning of the present world-war,
and was sent to the Officers Reserve
Training Corps, at Fl. Oglethorpe,
Ca, and later to Camp Robinson,
near Sparta, Wisconsin. He was as
signed to the Seventh Field Artil-
lery, LIST Division, American e. F.,
with the rank of First Lieutenant.
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= Coulthard Fitts, former Partisan,
is visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark Fritts, in Lexington. Mr..
Fritts is in the U. s. service, being
stationed at Rochester, New York, in
the aerial photography branch of
the service. He is graduate of
Georgetown College, and formerly in
structor in physics in the Urbana,
ILL.,, High School. Mr. Fritts is the
of an improved high altitude
ems used in taking photographs
from aeroplanes and has been assign
I'd to the Eastman Kodak Co.'s plant >
IN Rochester to superintend the man
lfacture of the lenses.
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Thornton Connell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John J. Connell, and Hiram
Adair, member of the Students Army
Training Corps at the University of
kentucky, were sent Saturday night
% the Machine Gun Officers Training
school at Camp Hancock, near Au-
5usta, Georgia. Mr.. Connell was for
nerly student of the School of Jour-
lalism at the University of Kentucky
Ind for some time was a reporter on
he Lexington Herald, and Managing
editor of the Kentucky Kernel, the
,fficial publication of the University
If Kentucky. Connell and Adair
rave the making of good soldiers, and
We predict they will soon find promo
ion from the ranks.
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