The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-24
: IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR
= COUNTRY. 4

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! Privates Harry Brown, Strother
Wess, Garrett Evans and Dudley Da-
Wis, colored soldiers, have received
honorable discharge papers from
Camp Zachary Taylor, and have Ie-
turned to their homes near Paris.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Walton Nelson are
guests Of Mrs. Nelson's parents, MIR.
and T. p. Wadell, at Mi1lersburg, for
the holidays. Lieut.. Nelson is in the
service, stationed at Camp Gordon,
Georgia, in the officers training
camp.
Relatives have received inforrla-
| ton from the War Department that
Capt William Collins and Sergt.
Allie G. Detwiller, of North Middle
town, are on transport with re-
turning soldiers from France, due
soon at New York.
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Major Henry F. Rhodes, Chief of
the State Selective Service, had a
narrow escape from death in Frank
fort, when chauffeur ran him down
and severely wrenched his back
against the side of the garage. Had
not the Major leaped to the fender
he would have been crushed to death.
He will be confined to his bed for
several days. -
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Leo c. Brannon, formerly of Paris,
Who is in the naval service on boafd
the transport Susquehanna, is spend
ing furlough with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thos F. Brannon, former
Parisians, in Lexington. Leo has
been across four times on the Sis
quehanna, which locked Sunday,
Dec. Is, at Norfolk, Va, with many
wounded soldiers on board.
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Mr.. Thornton Cornell, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John J. Connell, of Paris,
student of the University of Ken
lucky, and a former member of the
has returned from Camp Hancock,
Ca Connell was in the Machine
Gun school at Camp Hancock, hav-
ing been sent there from the S. A. T.
C. unit at the University.
Capt. Robt. c. Jones, and Mrs.
|, Jones are now with the family of his
father, Mr.. VIM. S, Jones, at North
Middletown Capt. Jones has receiy.
ed his final discharge papers and is a
, iprivate citizen again. He spent sey-
!. eral weeks on the battlefront in
France, but was detached from bis
company, and sent back to Augusta
. Ca, where he was an instructor al
Camp Hancock. Capt. and Mrs
= Jones have been guests recently Of
Il relatives in Paris and Lexington.
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II With a service flag containing 24i
!. stars, nine of them in gold, it is be
!. lieyed that Pennsylvania College, a
NJ Lexington, has furnished more Off
!: GERS to the Great War than an!
NJ other college in the South, and like
III wise probably leads in the number o
!: lives given to the service. One of tn
m gold stars represents Capt. Reuben B
III Hutchcraft, of Paris, who was
!. graduate of the institution, and VIII
m delivered lectures in the Law Schoo
III several terms before he went into tn
I: army.
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III Kentucky soldiers from Danville
!: Winchester, Lexington, Eminence
III Ashland, Beattyville, darlington t.n'
VI other parts of the State are men
!: toned in a peculiarly human and in
VI teresting letter from France re
~ ceived by the Courier-Journal from
}; Corporal Pete Hambrick, of Compan,
III I, seth Regiment of Infantry, who's
!. home is near Winchester.
\: Corporal Hambrick, who believe
XII he was the first Kentuckian from
!: his part Of the State to reach the bat
m tie line, has been gassed and wound
HI ed by shrapnel.
m The boys are coming back! /
vi the past few days there have bee
:: several of khaki-clad men from tn
III environments. Among recent arrival
I'LL are John "Dugan" Hennessey. frcr
:: Fort Douglass, near Salt Lake City
III Utah; Second Lieut. Hiram T. Rose
III berry, from TT. Still, in Oklahoma
): Blair Warden and Charles Mccarthy
MI from Camp Zachary Taylor; Thorn
:: ton Connell and Hiram Adair, fror
TN Camp Hancock, Georgia; Carrot
III Evans and Lloyd Williams, coloret
:: both of North Middletown, who hav
III been at Camp Zachary Taylor.
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:: Mrs. Mollie James, Of Paris, II
III ceived a letter yesterday from he
~, son, Cornelius (Buddie) James, writ
M ten from Brest, France, stating tia
III they were packing their kits in the
w old war bags preparatory for return
m ing to the United States. Buddi
iii stated that their ship had been o
!: patrol duty along the French coa'
nm for some time, and now that the We
III was over they would get a chance
:: come back home. The sailors will +
nm given a thirty-days' furlough o
iii their arrival in New York. Buddi
4: stated that he was in the best
nm health and that the home comm
Iii idea appealed strongly to him.
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Among the new arrivals OF me
iii uuho have heen in the service FL