The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-09-06
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Privates David Elan and Harry
p; Farnowe, of Camp Buell., at Licking
ton, were recent visitors in Paris, as
guests of friends.
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Mr.. John Harris Clay, who has
been in training at military camp
in Toronto, Canada, is at home for a
weeks visit to his mother, Mrs. C..
M. Clay.
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"A card from Corp. John NJ. Stu
art orders his paper changed from
the Aberdeen Proving Ground in
Maryland, to $50 Green street, Hayre
de Grace, Maryland.
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Mrs. Robert Hinton and son. of
Georgetown, left yesterday for Hous-
| ton, Texas, to spend the winter with
her parents. Prof. Hinton and his
brither, Mr.. G. D. Hinton, the latter
of Paris, are in France doing Y. M.
c. A. war work.
Emmett Curtis, VIM. Taylor and
|! Allmut Ashcraft, of Paris, will leave
this afternoon for Camp Wheeler,
near Macon, Georgia, where they will
be assigned for special service in the
army. The men were selected by
the Bourbon County Draft Board un-
| der a special call for this character
/ of service.
While in Louisville attending the
meeting of the State Medical Society,
Drs. George L. Rankin, of Shawhan,
and Elmer Swetnam, of Centerville,
| filed their application for appoint
ments to positions in the Medical
Corps of the United States Army.
Two Paris physicians, Drs. j. T.
branch of the service.
If you have interesting news Of
your soldier boy in France, or in any
of the army cantonments or naval
training stations in this country,
THE NEWS would like to have 1t
for publication. We hnd I'm The
Service" department very pleasing
one and your contribution. to 1t will
be the means of giving the news to
hundreds of others.
A service flag of nineteen stars
was dedicated Sunday night at the
Riddles Mills Christian church in
honor of the Bible School boys from
that vicinity who are in the army
service. The flag was unfurled by
the pastor, Rev. M. Cummings. An
appropriate program of addresses and
exercises followed the dedication.
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Capt. Clay Judson, a grandson of
the late Mr.. Sidney Clay, ST., of
Bourbon county, is now stationed on
special duty near Paris, France. He
was commissioned lieutenant at
Camp Sherman, near Chillecothe, o.,
in the first Officers Training School,
and just before starting for France,
was promoted to Captain. He is
graduate of Harvard University and
was studying law at the outbreak of
the war.
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The FIT. Worth Texas, Star-Tele-
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E. Curtis, of 1886 West Seventh
street, has just neeb notified that her
husband, Sergeant-Major VIM. E.
Curtis, has arrived safely overseas.
He is with the 143d Infantry"
The telegram prints coup por-
trait halftone picture of the officers
of the 143d, in which Sergeant-Major |
Curtis occupies prominent place.
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Voluntary enlistments for the army,
except as authorized by acts of Con-
greSs in certain cases, have been or
dered discontinued by General March,
Chief of Staff, and all recruiting sta
tons will be closed as speedily as |
practicable. The enlisted men serv- |
ing at such stations will be sent to |
the nearest recruit depot to be phys |
ically examined and their qualifica- |
ton records made out with a view to |
their assignment to appropriate |
duty"
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DR.. H. M. Hamilton, who volun-
teered for service in the Veterinary
Corps of the U. S. Army, will return
to Paris about Sept. Is, to resume |
his practice. DR.. Hamilton, upon ex-
animation by the Army Surgeon
Board was given an honorable dis
charge as physically disqualified be-
cause of minor defect. He ap-
pealed the case to Washington, but
the lower Boards decision was sus-
tanned. DR.. Hamilton will visit rel
atives in Indiana before returning
TO Paris.
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DR.. James A. Orr, of Paris, now
as Captain in the Medical
Corps of the army service, writes to
Paris relatives that he has been or
1ered overseas with regiment of
railroad operating engineers. There
are eleven doctors with the regiment,
which is an unusually large one, but
ne is the only surgeon in "the out
it." Capt. Orr's letter was also
of scenes and incidents
occurring. when making the trip
rom Fl Benz. Harrison to Camp