The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-08-13
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Fielding Rogers, came home from
/ Camp Zachary. Taylor, Saturday for
a furlough visit to relatives, return
ing to the camp yesterday.
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! DR.. j. T. Vansant received infor-
nation Saturday from his son, Sergt.-
Maj. Edgar Vansant, that he had
been given command of a squad of
eighty soldiers to be transferred from
Camp Jackson, near Columbia, s. c.,
to Camp Zachary Taylor. Sergt.-Ma-
jor Vansant is with the Tenth Bat
talon of the Field Artillery.
A card from one of the Bourbon
boys who left Paris some time ago
for Camp Zachary Taylor. says:
I'VE are en- route to Camp Sheridan,
Alabama. Darned sorry they did not
send us over the L. & N. so that we
could see the old home town again.
All feel fit to kill the Kaiser. Re-
CARDS to all from Bourbon county's
lighting twenty-one .draftees."
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Sergt. Robert Sims, formerly of
Paris, writes his step-mother, Mrs.
Rebecca Freeman Sims, of Paris,
that he has landed safely at a French
port. Sergt. Sims is a member of
Co. D., 32d U. s. Engineers. He
said all his company were in the best
of health and physically At to cope
with any other body of men in
Europe.
After spending four months in an
army hospital as the result of in
juries sustained from being kicked
by an army "mule," Corp. Vance
Huffman is improving to such an ex-
tent that he will soon be able to
stand the physical strain of a visit.
He writes to Paris friends from the
convalescent hospital at Camp Sher-
idan, Ala, that he hopes to come to
Paris very soon on furlough.
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Sherman R. Snapp, formerly of
Paris, who is an attache of the Head
quarters Company at Camp Lewis, in
Washington, where he is Interview
Clerk, writes to Paris relatives that
this is the coolest climate to be
called summer" he has ever expert
enced, and wants to know if 1t is hot
in Kentucky. Mr.. Snapp had high
colored time last week, his task be-
ing to assist in interviewing" $500
colored men. i-.rru
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To have three sons in the service
of Uncle Sam and to be proud of
leach one is the boast of Mrs. jamie
Steele, colored, of Paris. One of the
sons, Dan Steele, who was for many
years in the employ of Cahal Bros,
came in Sunday on a six-days' fur
Tough visit. He is now full-fiedged
seaman on the U. S. S. Kearsage, sta
toned on the Atlantic coast. An
other son, Will Stanley, is now in
France, and another is at Camp
Sherman, near Chillecothe. Ohio.
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1.-THE insists" have landed safely
at their destination, Vancouver Can
Torment, Vancouver, Washington, &C
cording to a postcard received by
THE NEWS Sunday from Ireland
"Bit" Davis. The card stated that
he and his companions in misery
has arrived safely at Vancouver af-
ter wonderful, hot, dry and dusty
trip across the continent. "Bit's"
first request was to have THE NEWS
sent to him regularly, thereby evinc-
ing discriminating taste in his Sc
lection of literature.
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In notifying THE NEWS of his
transfer from Co. D. to Co. l.. in the
aviation service at Great Lakes, 10.
Davis, Jr., of Paris, states that the
camp is veritable sea of activity,
with everybody getting into good
trim for hard work. Mr.. Davis
offers suffering Paris people the con-
ISOLATION of writing in regard to
weather that the weather there has
been fine, having had but two really
hot days. In the past few days the
weather has been cool, with a de-
lightfully cool breeze coming from
the lake. Mr.. Davis says, in conclu-
sion, eff those dandy Americans,
French, British, Australians, Cana
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ers continue to put the Brooches on
the run, we may soon be sent home,
so we can hear all the news at first |
hand" r
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Louis ]. Grosche, formerly Of
Paris, who is with the American
Expeditionary Force in France as a