The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-08-19
VOLUME XxxVlII
ARTILLERY DETACHMENT VISITS
PARIS ON RECRUITING
SERVICE

In charge of Capt. John Townsend,
,Jr., a detachment of six officers and
fifty men, with their full artillery
eouipment, arrived in Paris, Satur-
day afternoon, to remain three days
ON a recruiting expedition. The de-
tachment has been making a tour of
the Central Kentucky counties on
the same mission, and has been very
successful in securing enlistments for
their branch of the service.
The men, under command of their
officers, marched to the county rock
quarry, in East Paris, where they
pitched their tents for the three-days'
stay. They were unable to give pro-
gram Of exercises on Saturday after
noon on account of the rain, which
made the ground sloppy and unfit for
the purpose. On Sunday afternoon,
in the presence of a large crowd of
visitors the men gave an exhibition
of artillery maneuvers and drills, to-
gether with handling and firing the
Is millimeter guns, two of which
guns were loaded and fired with pre-
cision, affording the visitors a good
idea of what their work must have
been in action.
The guns were parked on the court
house square yesterday in charge of a
detail who showed their workings to
large numbers of visitors throughout
the day. They will remain there dur
ing the three days Of the detach-
ment's visit, where they will be open
for inspection at all times.
A delegation of twenty-five mem
bers of P. l. Mccarthy Council,
Knights Of Columbus, of this city Wis
tied the camp Sunday afternoon, and
presented the artillerymen with CT
garettes and chocolates, and on Sun
day night sent them ive-gallon
freezer of ice-cream. They also ex-
tended the men cordial invitation
to visit their club rooms, make them
selves at home and take advantage
of the club privileges.
The object of the detachments
visit here is to stimulate interest in
enlistments in the artillery branch of
the service, which is open to all
young men of good character who
possess the physical requirements.
As a special inducement for enlist
ment those who enlist in the service
from Paris will be taken over the
remaining recruiting route, which
includes Cynthiana, Carlisle, Mays
willie and other Northern Kentucky
town.
The members Of the detachment
gave another exhibition drill on the
camp grounds yesterday afternoon,
when they went through all the
maneuvers used in the regular war
fare ond put the guns through their
PAGES. A sham battle in which
twenty-five members to a side were
engaged, was also staged for the
benefit of the visitors to the camp.
Yesterday morning two members
of the artillery staged an interesting
bout with gloves that had not been
included in the regular program.
One of the men with a grievance
against another concluded to settle
the matter with boxing gloves. They
repaired to a convenient place for
the purpose, where, in the presence
of a number of spectators they put
UP a fine exhibition of the manly art.
The aggressor in the affair was the
sufferer to the extent Of getting a
good taste of the proves Of his ad-
versary and his skill and science with
the gloves, an exercise which is en-
couraged by Uncle Sam as means OF
physical development for the boys.