The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-18

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Mrs. Edward Turner received a
cablegram Wednesday from her son.
MI. Harlan Turner, announcing his
safe arrival overseas. e
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Private Hiram Adair, of this city.
Will report to Camp Buell., at Licking
ton, Friday. He will be one of the
seventy men from that camp who will
go into the service at once. Mr.. Adair
is son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Adair,
of near Paris.
Miss Merle Shumate, professional
nurse, of this city, has been summon
ed to Camp Zachary Taylor. where
she is now on special duty in the
Base Hospital. Miss Shumate is a
graduate of the Massie Memorial Hos
pltal School of Nursing, in this city.
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Corp. Sherman R. Snapp, who has
been at home on furlough visit to
his mother, Mrs Alice Snapp., and
FAMILY, on LillestOn avenue, has re-
turned TO Camp Lewis, Washington,
where he is Chief Clerk in the Per-
sonnet Office of the Headquarters De-
partment .-t-
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While assisting in some camp
work on Government contract with
the Brooks Lumber Co., at Mukilteo.
Wash, some days ago, jake Saloshin.
one of the six Bourbon insists" had
the misfortune to sustain a fractured
arm. The injured member was set,
and jake is enjoying sick leave
while the arm mends
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From private to Sergeant-Major
is the promotion accorded a former
Paris boy, Luther Collins, nephew of
Mr.. Horace M. Collins, Of Paris. Mr..
Collins was recently transferred to
Cincinnati, where he is stationed in
the United States Military Unit as
instructor in bayonet practice at the
Fremont Armory.
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Corporal Teddy Shannon, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tim Shannon, of Paris,
writes that he started on a trip over
seas, but that his ship was turned
back to an American port, after be-
ing out only one day, when three
cases of influenza developed. Teddy
has been in camp more than a year,
and is anxious to go to the front.
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Lieut.. Hiram Roseberry arrived
home yesterday from Camp Zachary
Taylor, and will leave tomorrow to
report for army duty at Camp Jack
son, in South Carolina. Regarding
the influenza situation at the camp
he said there are about TO-
900 cases in all, but that the disease
is now under control. He fortunately
to escape it.
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Mr.. Harlan Turner, of Paris, who
has been stationed in the naval ser
vice at the Philadelphia Naval Yard,
telegraphed his mother, Mrs. Edward
P. Turner yesterday that the COM
were scheduled to embark from an
Eastern port. They had been given
their overseas equipment, and were
awaiting the call to Board ship!"
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Leland Hudson Oliver, son of Mr.
James Oliver, and Thomas Letton,
son of Mr.. Reuben Letton, left Tues
day morning for Cincinnati, where
they will be given special mechanical
instructions in the Cincinnati Auto
Training School, preparatory to ser
vice in the U. 8. A. The two selects
were sent by the Bourbon County
Department.
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Relatives in this city have received
messages from Mr.. Earl Blake, lately
of Winchester, stating that he is now
a member of Company 3, 339th Infan-
try, stationed at Archangel, in Rus
sia According to his latest message
conveyed in letter, the Russian peo-
pie received the American soldiers
with the greatest enthusiasm and
tried in every way possible to make
their stay a pleasant one.
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Friends in Paris of former Capt.
Charles D. Winn, will be pleased to
learn that he has been promoted from
Lieut. Colonel to the rank of Colonel.
He is connected with the heavy field
artillery forces of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces in France. Col.
Winn, who is brother of Mrs. James
Mcclure, of Paris, was formerly in
| business here.
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Sailor boy" James M. Templin, of
Paris, writes his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. T. Templin, that he has been
transferred from Camp Perry to the
Administration Building at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
He stated that his health was ex-
cellent and that he had so far es-
capped the influenza. He was in Chi
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