The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-07-26
IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR
COUNTRY.
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Fifty thousand negro registrants
qualified for general military SER
vice, were called to the colors We'd
nesday. They will entrain between
August and 5, and come from forty
one States.
Mrs. Nellie Honey Turner, for
merly of Paris, wrote to her sister,
Mrs. Thomas Ankle, in this city,
few days ago, announcing her safe
arrival at French port with the
DR.. Barrow Base Hospital Unit No.
40. The unit is now safely housed
in comfortable quarters in France,
and will soon be assigned to active
duty.
After an intensive course Of train
ing in special duty at FIT. Sheridan,
ILL.,, Mr.. Landen Templin, of Paris,
has received merited promotion.
Mr.. Templin has been made Battalion
Commander of Co. I, stationed at
Camp Dewey, at the Great Lakes Ma
val Training Station. He is also an
ensign in the mechanical and engi-
neering department in the service.
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l. Mrs. ,Mollie James is in receipt of
a letter from her son, Cornelius
Buddy James, stating that at the
time the letter was written he was
in France, with no immediate pros
pect of getting back to America. He
4, stated that no furloughs were being
given, and that it was not unlikely
that he would be in France for some
time, possibly for a year.
! Mr.. Carl Nippert, who has been
a guest of his mother, Mrs. Geo Nip
pert, in this city, for several days,
has returned to Cincinnati, where he
has enlisted in the United States
Navy. Mr.. Nippert is a nephew Of
Mr.. Phil Nippert, of Paris. He would
not be satisfied with remaining out
of the service, and said he intended
to be be observation-disclosures
destroyer just as soon as he could
get into action.
Mr.. J. T. Sweeney, who has for
several years been in the employ OF
Mrs. Thompson Tarr as chauffeur,
will report at the Mechanical Train
| ing School of the United States Army
on August Is. Mr.. Sweeney is an
expert auto mechanic and driver.
He enlisted in the service recently
for special service. This is the same
school from which four Bourbon
boys were recently transferred to a
Southern cantonment after four
months special training.
Capt. H. N. Royden, Commanding
Officer of the Central Officers Train
ing Camp, has approved the appli-
cation of Mr. Charles Spears, of Paris,
and recommended his admission to
the ranks of student officers at the
camp. Mr.. Spears will be assigned
to duty at Camp Gordon, in Georgia
His brother, Mr. Edward Spears. is
now in the service as a member OF
the Bourbon county contingent re-
Gently transferred from FIT. Thomas
to Camp Meade, in Maryland.
Private Edward J. Woods, of Paris,
who left sometime ago with the
Bourbon county boys for Camp
Meade, Maryland, writes his father,
Mr.. M. l.. Woods, in this city, that
he is pleased with camp life as far
as it has gone, and that Uncle Sam
is certainly good provider. He
states that all the boys are acquir-
ing the military bearing and that
they are taking to camp life as nat
urally as if they had long been used
| to it.
Mr.. James T. Templin, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. T. T. Templin, of Paris, has
volunteered for service in the U. S.
navy. Mr.. Templin was accepted at
the Lexington recruiting station and
assigned as apprentice seaman. Mr..
Templin has been in Dayton, O., for
some time engaged in war munitions
work, and was for time an inspec-
tor at the naval aeroplane station
near Dayton. Mr.. Templin> makes
the third son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tenn
) pIin who has, volunteered for service
in the navy.
| DR.. T. Brown left for Camp
| Greene, near Charlotte, N. c., imme-
diately after. the wedding of his
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Brown to
Rev. John Jay Rice, Monday after
noon. DR.. Brown is. now Captain
Brown" and will be stationed at
iCamp Greene as member OF the
Medical Corps Of the army service.
In his uniform Of khaki cloth he
made strikingly handsome figure,
and was complimented by hosts OF
admiring friends upon his soldieriy
appearance.
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Troop trains bearing soldiers Tor
Southern camps have been passing
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