The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-04-16
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MIS-. EIucSI I1dII1S, VI IulS CITY
received information yesterday to
the effect that her son, Ensign Har.
old Harris, who is stationed on board
the U. S. S. Panther" somewhere
off the coast of France, had just been
promoted to the rank of warrant Off
GER, with pay of $4,000 a year. This
position ranks next to that of CON-
missioned officer. The Panther is a
mother ship" or supply ship for one
of Uncle Sans big battleships nov
doing naval duty overseas.
Cornelius Buddy James, of Paris,
who left Paris recently for his station
after a visit to his mother, Mrs. Mol
lie James, and family, has started on
his ship, The Covington, on the
fourth trip overseas. The Covington
is one of fleet of nine transports
carrying 5000 troops each to France
These transports are guarded by a
convoy of battleships, torpedo boats
and destroyers.
Private Lawrence H. Hill return
ed Sunday morning to Camp Shelby,
at Hattiesburg, Miss, after visit
to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
M. Hill, in this city. Sergt. Newsum
Keller, who is in the same company
in the Signal Corps with Private
Hill, will probably return to Camp
Shelby tomorrow. Sergt. Keller
has applied for an extension of his
furlough, on account of his recent
illness.
been spending a furlough visit in this
city with his pearents. Mr.. and Mrs.
M. j. LAWN, returned Saturday &c
Camp Sherman, near Chillecothe
Ohio, to rejoin his regiment. Lieut..
LAWN was one of the stars on the
Paris High School athletic team.
and makes a fine-looking soldier.
John M. Stuart, Owen Gibson.
Willis Jacoby and Sello Wollstein,
all of Paris, presented themselves
Friday to the Bourbon County Board
of Exemption as volunteers from
Bourbon county in the call for selec
tives in the auto-mechanical class,
and were accepted. They were
sent to Indianapolis yesterday.
where they are to report for service.
They will receive two months train
ing in their duties. At the expira-
ton of that time they will probably
be transferred to France for duty on
the firing lines. On Sunday after
noon Mr.. Wollstein was given the
Second and Third degree by the
members of Rathbone Lodge, K. OF
p, he having previously taken the
rank of Page. The initiation cere-
monies were held at the lodge room
in the Wilson building at Main and
Third streets, in the presence OF a
large audience.
Baldwin Woods, who is a member
of the DR.. Barrow Base Hospital Unit
No. 40, at Camp Zachary Taylor,
was a guest of his mother, Mrs. JACK
Woods, and family, on Eighth street,
Saturday and Sunday.
c.. O. Hinton, of Paris, who is en-
gagged in army Y. M. G. A. work at
Camp Zachary Taylor, and at the
artillery practice range at West
Point, KY, is spending a few days
with his family in this city.
Sergt. Richard P. C'Rick")
Thomas, formerly of Paris, who il
now stationed at Camp Shelby, Hat
tiesburg, Miss, as member of the
infantry service, has returned to the
camp after a visit to relatives in Mt.
Sterling.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Hutchcraft, OF
Paris, received cablegram last week
from their son, Lieut.. Reuben e.
Hutchcraft, Jr., containing merely
the one word, well" Lieut. Hutch
craft went into the trenches in
France with his regiment on Feb
ruary %. Nothing further has been
heard from him since he cabled his
parents.
James Cain, of Paris, who is a
member of the American Expeditions
airy forces now in France, wrote his
parents in March that he was well
and hearty, and told Of the pres
ents he would bring back from
France to 1.-The kids" when he re-
turned. Nothing further has been
heard from him.
Corporal T. e. Shannon, OF Paris
who has been stationed at Camp Nc
Arthur, near Waco, Texas. has been
transferred to Fort Omaha. Nebra =
ka. Corporal Shannon entered the
aviation service at Camp Zachary
Taylor shortly after arriving there
with the Bourbon county contingent.
Mr.. JOS. j. sGrosche, Master OF
Trains for this division of the L. &
NJ, received letter from his brother,
Mr.. Leo Grosche, telling Of his safe
arrival in France, as member OF the
u. S. Army Railway Signal Corps.
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