The Bourbon news., 1918-10-08
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IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR
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Thomas James Hutchens, of Paris,
a member of the American Expedi-
tionary Force, has arrived safely
overseas. according to a card received
by his father, Mr.. w. J. Hutchens, Of
near Paris.
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Mr.. s. r. Hudnell, of Co. B., at
Camp Buell., has been commissioned
as instructor of the Mechanic De-
partment. His brother, Mr.. William
Hudnall, of 326 F. A., Camp Zachary
Taylor, has been transferred to Camp
Knox, West Point, Ky.
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Corp. Charles Dickerson came
home Sunday on a seven-days' fur
Tough, to visit his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. B.. Dickerson. Corporal
Dickerson is stationed at the Aber-
deem Proving Grounds, in Maryland,
in the Engineer Corps of the con-
struction department.
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Advices from Camp Merritt, in
New Jersey, to relatives in this
county, Saturday, were to the effect
that Private S. o. Buchanan, a MEM
Der of the Kentucky contingent
there, was confined to the hospital
with an attack of influenza.
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Nimrod Crump came in Saturday
from the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station, for a short furlough visit to
Evans came in from Camp Zachary
Taylor, Saturday for a visit to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. B. Evans, at
Centerville.
Miss Alma Duke Jones, of Millers-
burg, who went to Washington, D.
c., some time ago to engage in war
work, is ill in one of the Washington
hospitals suffering from an attack of
Spanish influenza, according to ad-
vices received by her relatives in
Millersburg.
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A long distance telephone message
was received in Paris yesterday by
Mr.. Max Metzger, from the hospital
authorities at Ft. Benjamin, Harrison
stating that his son, Mr.. ,Florian
Metzger, was seriously i'll there.
Metzger is a member of the Engineer
Corps stationed at FIT. Benz. Harrison.
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Edward Woods, formerly mem
Der of the Paris fire department, and
later mail carrier from the Paris
postoffice, came in Saturday from
Camp Shelby, at Hattiesburg, Miss,
where he has been stationed. Mr..
Woods will be here for seven days.
He is now Company Clerk in his COM
mand at Camp Shelby, and is greatly
pleased with the service.
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The urgent call for nurses to as
sist in handling the influenza cases at
Camp Taylor found one Paris woman
ready and willing to give her time
and attention to the work. Mrs.
Swiney Ray, who accompanied Mrs.
Candace Smith to Camp Taylor to
help nurse young Chas. Adair. volun-
teered her services as a nurse and
was gladly and gratefully accepted.
Mrs. Ray seeing the lack of nurses
and an opportunity to do good, re-
mained at the camp.
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Pneumonia and Spanish influenza
in the army camps are claiming their
share of victims in the ranks of Beur-
bon county boys. Quite a number
have been reported from Camp Zach
airy Taylor as being Frustrated with
one or the other of these diseases.
Visitors at Camp Taylor say that the
cloud of dust that hangs in the air
all the time is largely responsible for
the bronchial troubles that have ap-
peared among the boys.
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A telegram was received here Sat
urday by relatives from Mr.. George
Glenn, formerly with the A. ]. Win
ters Co., stating that he was in the
Base Hospital at Camp Meade, Md,
suffering from an attack of Spanish
influenza. The telegram further
stated that over six hundred men in
his regiment had the same disease.
The Cardinal at Baltimore has order
ed out all Catholic Sisters and nurses
to help attend the sick at Camp
Meade. . -.... .s,
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DIR. A. H. Keller, City Health OFF,
Ger, and one of the best-known and
most popular of the medical frater-
nifty in Paris, left yesterday morning
for Nitro, West Va, in response to a
telegram from the War Department,
at Washington, ordering him to re-
port there for duty. DR.. Keller ap-
piled some time ago for place in the
Medical Corps, and had been expect
ing the call. Nitro is anew muni-
tion manufacturing town in West
Virginia, where several thousand
men are employed With DR." Keller