The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-05-17
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Prof. Clark White, former member
of the Paris High School faculty in
this city, who has been a guest of
friends here for several days, left
Wednesday for New York, where he
will report for service in the army.
According to information received
here Wednesday, Mr.. Miller Ber-
naugh, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James D.
Bernaugh, formerly of Paris, has
been promoted to the rank of SER
geant in the aviation service at
Camp Green, North Carolina.
Harmon Turner, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Turner, of near Paris,
left Wednesday night for the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station, to re-
port for service. Mr.. Turner enlist
ed in the service some time ago at
the Louisville recruiting station.
Among the enlistments in the avia-
ton service at the Louisville re-
cruiting station Wednesday were
Charles Landen Templin and James
Stuart Wallingford, both of Paris.
The young men applied at Lexing-
ton some time ago and were accept
ed, the final enlistment papers being
signed at Louisville.
Mr.. H. Earl Dickerson, a former
Paris boy, who was ordered to re-
port to the War Department at
Washington, D. c., month ago for
special service, has been made assist
ant secretary to Capt. A. F. Hubbard,
of the Small Arms Section Procure
ment Division of the Ordnance De-
partment at Washington.
John Hennessey and Pink Peddi-
cord, of Paris, have offered their
services to their country for duty as
railroad firemen in France, where
the United States is assisting in new
railroad construction and operating
trains for the allies. They are now
on waiting orders which may come
to them at any time.
Mr.. JOS. @. Frakes, formerly of
Paris, is a guest of his mother, Mrs.
Carrie F. Stone, and other relatives
in Paris. Mr.. Frakes Is now mana
ger of large retail shoe house in
Cleveland, Ohio. He is a registrant
from Bourbon county in the special
service class, and will remain here
until he receives an official DISPOSE
ton of his place in the quota from
Bourbon county. ~
Mr.. Sherman Snapp, formerly of
Paris, who had his registration trans
ferred from the Bourbon county draft
to California, has, received notice to
report at Fresno, Cali, 3, on or before
May rs, with the quote from that
section for army service Mr.. Snapp
has been on the Pacific coast for sew
eral years as manager of a crew of
solicitors for the Royal Baking
Powder Co. He is son of Mrs.
Alice Snapp, of Paris.
Rev. r. Quarles, well-known col
ored minister of Paris, who is now
conducting a meeting in Louisville,
received letter from Nova Scotia, B.
c., signed Darlington" asking
him to come there and help the
writer in war work among colored
poole. The writer stated he had
plenty of money and wanted to help
the Allies in the war, and that Rev
Quarles had been recommended to
him as a worker among the colored
people of America.
Lieut.. c. c. Dawes, formerly of the
Paris High School and the Bourbon
! County Y. M. c. A., who is stationed
at Camp Zachary Taylor, recently
took detail of Camp Taylor soldier!
to Des Moines, Iowa, where they stag
ed a boxing and wrestling tourna
ment. The exhibition netted tn,
sum of $1,000 for the war fund a
Camp Taylor. Lieut.. Dawes wa.
coach of the P. H. S. football anC
basketball teams during the season O
1861, and made an enviable rec
ord at athletic director.
Mr.. John Harris Clay has arrived
at the home of his mother, Mrs. C. M
| Clay, at "Auvergne," near Paris, OF
a ten-days' leave of absence. Mr.
| Clay, who is stationed at Ions
Branch Camp, near Toronto, Can
ada, as member of the Royal Fly
ing Corps in the aviation service, il
recuperating from a recent attack OF
measles. Another son, Mr.. Cassius NJ
| Clay, who is in the U. S. Army ser.
vice, has been transferred from
Camp Zachary Taylor to the 18TH
Battalion of the Artillery Replace
ment Depot service at Camp Jackson
near Columbia, s. C. =:
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Mr.; and Mrs. Percy Adair, Of
near Paris, have received a letter
from their son, Allan: Adair, who Il
now a member Of the American .Expe.
dictionary Force in France. Youne
Adair is Corporal In the service
being In Co. C.. 55I2th Engineers Bat.
talon, The. letter was written from
Somewhere In France" Corpora
Adafr stated that he was well. and
fnot a bit honiesick, and the fact thai
he was thousands OF miles away from