The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-08-16
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Mrs. j. T. Brown left Wednesday
for a visit to her husband, Capt. ].
T. Brown, at Camp Greene, near
Charlotte, South Carolina. Capt
Brown is stationed in the Base Hos
pital at Camp Greene, as a member
of the medical staff.
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Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Renick have
gone to Houston, Texas, to visit their
son, Mr.. Coleman Renick, who is
stationed in the army service at FIT.
Logan, near that place. Mr.. Renick
is a member of Co. F. 4th Field Ar
tillery, at FIT. Logan.
The Medical Advisory Board for
the Sixteenth Kentucky District, in
session at Lexington, Tuesday, pass
ed upon the cases of thirteen men
sent to them for examination. Five
were given their. discharges as be-
ing physically unfit, one of the num-
Der being JOS. B. Napier, of Paris.
Major Henry Rhodes, Chief of the
Selective Draft Service Department.
estimates that fully 100000 men
Will register in September under the
proposed eighteen to forty-fiye rule.
Preparations are now being made for
the registration. This will take a
large number of men from Paris
when the call is made.
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Three members of the Louisville
& Nashville transportation forces in
this city, Messrs. Charles w. Fifth
ian, Paul Kelly and Maurice Clarke.
put in their applications Wednesday
for admission to Uncle Sans service
In the department of railway engi-
neering and signal corps work.
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Mr.. R. L. Caywood, of this county.
who is stationed at Camp Sherman,
near Chillecothe, Ohio, as a member
Of Co. E., Quartermasters' Corps,
has been spending a seven-days' fur
Tough with friends and relatives in
this city and county. Mr.. Caywood
returned to Camp Sherman, Tues
day.
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Three colored men, William Bell
Johnson. Jesse Johnson and Louis
Thomas Hurley, left Paris, Wednes-
day morning for Pine Bluff, Arkan-
sas, where they will report for duty
at the Army Vocational Training
School. ALI three were members of
the Bourbon county drafted selects.
They will be given a course of me-
chanical training at the school.
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Mr.. Rene Clark, of Paris, who re-
Gently enlisted at the Cincinnati
naval recruiting station, received
official orders this week to report at
Great Lakes for active duty. Mr..
Clark will leave to-day for his sta
ton. He made the trip as far as
Cincinnati some time ago, but miss
ed connection with the train bearing
the other enlisted men to Great
Lakes.
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John M. Stuart, lately of Paris.
KY, and Indianapolis, Ind, writes
THE NEWS: Have been transfer
red again. This time am to go to
the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, in
Maryland. Will send my correct ad-
dress soon, so as not to miss THE
NEWS one issue. l am Of the opin-
lon that Sherman was no illusiOnist
when he made his famous remark,
WAR is hell"
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The six white draftees who were
called to the colors under a call
issued for Aug. Is, entrained at the
Louisville & Nashville Tenth street
passenger station yesterday morning
for Indianapolis. Ind, where they
will enter the Army Vocational
Training School. The six boys who
made the trip were John VIM. Bro
ply. James G. Sweeney, George
Rooney, Earl R. King, Harold Ewalt
and John Kenney Leach.
Due to the rush of applicants over
the present draft age>who sought to
enlist in the army and navy or get
into one of the Officers Training
Camps, the War Department has
issued orders that such applicants
are not to be taken at present. The
rush threatened to disrupt business
in many sections and was caused by
the announcement that the draft age
was about to be raised and lowered.
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Seven men were recommended
Tuesday by Capt. N. H. Royden, of
Lexington, State Examining Officer
for appointments to Southern Grain
ing camps in the Officers Reserve
Corps. The men were examined be-
fore the order came to Capt. Roy
den from the War Department, in
structing him to accept no more
volunteers. OF the number two were
from Paris, Mr.. Harry Jones, who
will be assigned to the infantry, and
Mr.. Benz. Woodford, Jr., to the ma
chine gun service, both at Camp
Gordon, Ga.
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Mrs. Hershel Humble has received
letters from her husband, who Is in