The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-05-21
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Lieut.. Webb Bratton, of the 46th
Infantry, U. S. A., stationed at Camp
Gordon, Ca, is here for few days
visit to his mother, Mrs. J. L. Bos-
ley, on the Bratton farm near North
Middletown.
The report made to officials of the
Y. M. c. A. at Camp Zachary Taylor
shows that 1890 letters were writ
ten in the Y. M. C. A. building at
the Camp by the soldier boys to their
mothers on Mothers Day.
Mr.. VIM. T. Woodford, promi-
nent attorney of Kansas City, Mo-, is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben WoodfOrd, ST., near Paris, before
reporting at Fort Funston, Kansas,
| for enlistment in the U. S. army
Sergeant Harry Barlow has return
ed to Camp Zachary Taylor, after
short visit to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. B. Barlow, of Tenth street.
Sergeant Barlow says all the Bour
| bon county boys in Camp Taylor are
! anxious to get overseas and have a
try at the Boches.
Frank A. Higgins, who is a mem
Der of the Bourbon county contin-
gent in the Field Artillery branch,
at Camp Zachary Taylor, is at the
| home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
leave. Mr.. Higgins has been suffer-
| some time.
post card from Ben Leach, of
Paris, who is now on the u S. s.
Illinois, stationed on the Atlantic
coast, says he is nicely situated and
likes navy life immensely. Leach
and Carl Mitchell, both of Paris,
were recently transferred from the
Newport News training station to
the Illinois.
| Miss Lucille Sprake, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucy
Sprake, and other relatives in this
city and county, has returned to Lou
isville. Miss Sprake is a graduate
nurse, and member of DR.. Abel Base
Hospital Unit, which will be ordered
| to France this summer. The unit
was recruited almost entirely from
Louisville doctors, enlisted men and
nurses.
| DR.. Graham Edgar, formerly of
Paris, has been sent from his posi-
| ton as head of the chemistry depart
ment at the University of Virginia
| to take up special war duties in the
department of chemistry at Wash
| ington. DR.. Edgar is a son OF the
late Col. George NJ. Edgar, and
brother of Mrs. ]. T. Vansant He
graduated at the University of Ken
lucky in 1907.
A letter was received by Charles
| A. Offutt, colored, residing near
Paris, from his grandson, Offutt
Spears, who is stationed at Camp
Zachary Taylor, in which he stated
/ that he had been promoted to the
| rank Of Second Sergeant, in Co. F,
Of the First Provisional Regiment
| (colored.) Spears stated that the
company now has three non-commis-
stoned officers from Bourbon county
A Mothers Day" letter written
by Mr.. Joe Letcher, formerly of
Paris, pays a beautiful tribute to
the mothers and womanhood of Amer
| lea in these times or stress and trial.
Mr.. Letcher wrote from Charlestown,
Mass, where he is stationed in the
Charlestown Navy Yard as a member
of the U. S. Marine Corps. Mr.
Letcher gave up a promising career
in the journalistic field for love of
country in order to get in the SER
vice.
At the services held at the North
MiddletOWn Christian church Sunday
golden star was placed on the SER
vice flag recently unfurled there
The star was placed on the flag in
honor of Private Elgin Dalzell,
whose death was the first one in the
ranks of the boys who went from
this county to answer their country's
call. Private Dalzell died in the hos
pital at Philadelphia, after an honor
able service in the Philadelphia Navy
Yard.
In the list of forty-five men who
have been summoned by the Fayette
County Drafting Board to appear be-
fore them on Thursday morning,
May %, for entrainment for Ft.
Thomas, are the names OF the follow
ing well-known in Paris as former
residents. Harry Gioyannoli Tingle,
grandson of the late A. ]. Lovely,
Jr.; John T. Dickey, son Of the late
John T. Dickey: Frank Lawrence
Mccarthy, son OF the late P. /. Nc
Carthy; Louis Margolis, for a long
time employed in Greek restaur-
ant in Paris: Frank L. Roche. son OF
Mrs. T. F. Roche; Fred Grant Erd,
manager. Of the Paris Grand Opera
House.
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