The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-11-01

90 >><> 1899 80
. IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR .
COUNTRY.
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Corporal Edward Lee and Mrs. Lee,
who have been visiting Paris rela-
tives for several days, left Tuesday
for Camp Knox, where Corp. Lee is
now stationed.
Mr.. Earl Hume Ferguson, of
Georgetown, formerly of Bourbon
county, has been accepted by the Y.
M. C. A. as an auto truck driver, and
will leave for France as soon as he is
called.
Draft calls for registrants who
have passed their thirty-seventh
birthdays, are expected to begin
about March 1, according to informa-
ton given out yesterday from the
District Draft Board at Lexington.
DR.. and Mrs. Jas. A. Vansant, of
Mt. Sterling, have received a letter
from their son, Lieut. Thoss Vansant,
stating that he had arrived safely
| in France. Lieut.. Vansant is a
nephew of DR.. ]. T. Vansant, Of
Paris.
According to messages received
here by relatives of several Bourbon
county boys at Camp Meade, Md, the
influenza situation there greatly
| improved. Private George Glenn, Of
Paris, who has been i'll for sometime
with the disease, has fully recovered.
Several others who contracted the
influenza are on the road to recovery.
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Relatives in Paris have received
messages from Private Martin s.
Glenn, formerly of Paris, stating
that he had landed safely overseas,
and was now in active service ON the
battlefront. Mr.. Glenn's brother.
Mr.. George Glenn, of Paris, is also
in the service. They are brothers of
John and Joe Glenn, Of this city.
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Mrs. C. P. Bales, of Paris, received
a letter from her brother, George
tStone, stating that he had been trans
ferred from the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station, where he had been
in training six months, to a sea-go-
ing vessel stationed off the coast Of
Massachusetts,. He said further that
he had been promoted from fireman
to assistant engineer.
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When you write to your soldier
toverseas,. be cheerful above all else.
Write as though he were in the next
town on a business trip. Tell him
how the house and garden look, the
small town happenings Of cheerful in
terest, the talk of the neighbors, and
who has been the latest one to enlist,
in fact, everything that will cheer
him. Don't tell him Of your troub-
les-he has plenty of his own. Be
cheerful
| Mr.. and Mrs. F. S. Elder received
a letter Wednesday from their son,
Thomas Elder, stating that he had ar
rived safely in France. He stated
that all the Bourbon county boys
were WE'LL They were stationed a
few miles from the battle front from
which they could see the flash Of the
American artillery, which lit up the
skies like a Fourth of July celebIa-
ton. The roar Of the big guns
could be plainly heard in their camp.
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One hundred skilled and unskilled
laborers, half of them ngroes, this
weeks recruits in the labor drive OF
1.-THE U. S. Employment Service, left in
a special car on the L. & N. railroad
from Lexington, Tuesday, for Camp
Knox, Stithton, KY. Recent reports
from the government construction
4 work at Camp Knox are that the
building and concreting now under
way there will in all probability be
completed by December: This is due
to the hearty response of the laborer!
lof the State, who are volunteering
! their services in the United States
Labor Army at Camp Knox, officials
there say. ...-...... ~
The Louisville Evening Post print!
: a half-tone picture of Irwin A. Bur
A ton, of Louisville, who is now IL
France as a member of the Quarter
masters Corps. Burton is the young
est brother of Mr.. Frank Burton
!, of Ahearn & Burton, of Paris. Be
: fore enlisting in the army he wa
employed in the big plant of John
] Morton & Co., in Louisville, wher
!: he had charge of the department il
\ which the Louisville & Nashvill
y railroad tariff sheets and other com
!: plicated tabulated forms were com
Il posed and printed. He was h1ghl
|. regarded by the John P. Morton &C
|: and was guaranteed his old positio
h when he returned from France
y Burton is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
!:lM. Burton, of Louisville, and ha
N been in France since March. s..,..
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: Pursuant to instructions from tn
HIWar Department there will be open
III ed on December 1 at Camp Fremon
!: California, an Infantry Omcer'