The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-05-10
. IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR
' COUNTRY.

Sergt. Willis Jacoby has returned
to the Vocational Training School
at Indianapolis, Ind, after a visit
to friends and relatives in this city
and county. Sergt. Jacoby reports
the Bourbon county delegation as
being in fine spirits and doing we'll.
Three more colored recruits, Sher-
man Strother, Clay Brown and Ju.
MUS Simpson, all of Paris, were sent
to FIT. Thomas this week by Recruit
ing Officer Sharp, who is doing good
work here. The men will join the
Quartermaster's Department as steve
dOres.
Among the enlistments in the ma
val service at the Lexington re-
cruiting station this week were JUS
tin Mccarthy, formerly of Paris, who
goes in the Naval Reserve Corps,
and JOS. A. Jones, of North Middle
town, who will be assigned to the
marines.
Four colored men from North Mid
dletown, Stanley j. Evans, Robert d.
Ransom, Robert B. Carter and Chas.
Downing, were accepted Wednesday
at the Lexington recruiting station
for army service. They will be as
signed to the Quartermaster's depart
ment as Stevedores in one of the army
cantOnmentS.
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Mrs Mozelle Huddleson and
daughter, Miss Madeline HuddlesOn,
Miss Vella Mastin and Mr.. Rankin
Mastin and Mr.. William Mastin, of
this city, have returned from a visit
to Allen HuddleStOn, at Camp Zach
airy Taylor, at Louisville. They re-
port the Bourbon county boys" as
being as busy as bees" and as "hap-
py as larkS."
Noel Stivers, formerly of Paris,
was here several days this week from
Camp Sherman, near Chillecothe, o.,
on furlough visit. Stivers is very
much pleased with the service and
says it has made a man of him. He
was a member of the squad called
''trouble-shooters," whose duties were
to look up deserters and slackers and
to guard prisoners in camp. He re-
turned to the camp Tuesday night.
saas
Long troop trains bearing hun
dreds of Uncle Sans khahi-clad men,
continue to pass through Paris, head
ed for some Southern camp. Tues
day night a train carrying twenty
coach loads of these doughty warri-
70 h a
train was here but a short time,
while receiving orders. The men
remained in their coaches.
THE NEWS acknowledges receipt
of Observation-Disclosures folding
postcard from Corporal Teddy Shan
non, formerly of Paris. Corporal
Shannon is now stationed at FIT. Oma-
ha, Neb, as a member of theAviation
Corps of the army The souvenir
postcard contains number of inter-
esting views of Omaha, 1.-THE Gate
City" together with a large batch
of statistics and interesting details
concerning the business growth of
the city.
County Clerk Pearce Patton re-
ceived a letter from Homer Nutter,
colored, who recently left Paris in
company with seventeen colored men
for Camp Zachary Taylor. Nutter
stated in the letter that he had been
made corporal, and that he had also
been appointed stenographer for his
superior officer, Lieut.. Lewis. Alonzo
Brown, another member of the dele
CATION, had also been made, Cor
poral The men from Bourbon have
been incorporated in the First Provis-
ional Regiment of colored troops, as
members of Company F. Nutter stat
ed that Lieut.. Lewis paid quite a
compliment to the Bourbon county
colored soldiers.
Mrs. S. M. Turpin, of Paris, re-
ceived this week three large shrapnel
shells from her relative, Albert
Wachs, of Paris, who is a member of
the Field Artillery, now engaged in
target practice at West Point, KY.
Wachs enlisted in the service in Sep
TENDER. The shells which were dug
from the ground on the range are
death-dealing instru-
ments. They are so constructed as
to hold about a quart of shrapnel.
The shell upon striking it's target,
sending death and destruc-.
ton to everything within reach.
Wachs said the Kentucky boys at the
camp are all ready and anxious to go
to France, and only awaited the COM
mand.
Mr.. Ernest Kiser, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Kiser, Of near Kiserton,
is a member of the same firing squad
in which Wachs is serving. He sent
home one large shell and two smaller
ones of the same kind Wachs sent to
Mrs. Turpin. If these Bourbon boys
get the range on the Boches with !
those field guns they are making |
such excellent records with, there
will be many funeral Somewhere !
near Germany"
Mrs. Mollie James, of Paris, has re-
ceived interesting letters from her |
sons, Sergt: Lawrence James, who is
in fhp Sprvice nj Gamn ROwio TayaS |