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VOLUMEJXXXVII
PARIS, BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, JULY 26f 1918
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WJLD RUMORS.
Every few days some wild
-garpevine story reaches Paris
-via Louisville that the Crown
Prince and 100,000 or more
Germans have been captured,
etc., etc. When THE BOURBON
UEWS hears these stories we
immediately trace them down,
and if there is any foundation
for the story, we post it in
, "Bulletin" form in our window.
If anything sensational happens
we have arrangements to re
ceive it from reliable sources
and we post it. If you don't see
it in "Bulletin" form on our
window you can take it with a
pinch of salt and bet the re
port is not true.
THE EDITOR.
SUBMABINES SINK U. S. TRANS
PORT, "THE JUSTICIA."
The giant White Star liner Jus
ticia has been torpedoed and sunk off
the coast of Ireland. It is believed
no loss of life occurred.
The Justicia was formerly the
Dutch steamer Statendam, which was
taken over by the British Govern
ment on the stocks at Belfast when
she was nearing completion. She was
.a vessel of 32,234 tons gross.
No passengers were lost and only
ten of the crew were killed.
The first torpedo struck the engine
room and the ship then stopped. Sev
eral other torpedoes were fired, but
only two of the missiles were effec
tive. Four hundred of the crew of the
torpedoed liner have been landed.
They report that the liner was sunk
after a twenty-four-hour fight with
submarines.
The story of the fight between
the German submarine and the Jus
ticia, if it could be told, would make
one of the finest stories in the an
nals of anti-submarine warfare.
All those on the Gloucester fishing
schooner Robert and Richard, sunk
by a German submarine off the Maine
coast Monday "have been accounted
for. There were twenty-three per
sons on the vessel. Three men were
landed at Kennebunkport and eleven
at Gloucester. Four more were
"brought to Portland, Me., and four
men and a boy were picked up at
ea and taken to Boston.
All but eight of the fifty-nine men
reported missing after the sinking of
the armed cruiser San Diego off
Fire Island, N. Y., last Friday, have
Ijeen accounted for, said an an
nouncement by the Navy Depart
ment. Further reports are expected
to reduce this number and officials
hope that the only fatalities will be
the three men killed by the explo
sion. Oswald Kunhardt, formerly Ger
man and Austrian Consul in Boston,
Mass. was arrested Wednesday as an
enemy alien at his home in Manches
ter and taken to Boston.
Federal officers refused to confirm
or deny a report that the arrest was
connected with submarine activity
off the coast. If was admitted, how
ever, that information in the posses
sion of the officials indicated that
tke arrest was of more than ordinary
importance.
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XJ0UNTY SCHOOL BOARDS REACH
AN AGREEMENT
During the coming school year
the inter-county school at Plum
Lick will be under the direction of
the Bourbon County Board of Educa
tion. This was agreed upon at a
recent conference of the Boards of
Education of Montgomery and Bour
bon counties. The school is on the
border line between the two counties,
and the attendance has been compos
ed of pupils from both counties, the
total enrollment being sixty-three.
No teacher has yet been selected for
the new school term beginning in
September.
Superintendent of County Schools
J. B. Caywood has received and ac
cepted the resignation of Miss Lula
Graham, who was recently elected, as
teacher for the Mcllvain school, near
Paris. This now leaves places for
six teachers to be.filled by the County
Board of Education.
JUSTV ARRIVED.
A carload of Pwapier's Pig Meal,
the best feed ever fed young hogs.
(26-2t) W. C. DODSON.
P0RMEE PAEIS WOMAK SUES
FOB, DIVORCE.
Suit for divorce was filed in the
Payette Circuit Court at Lexington,!
Tuesday, by Mrs. Naunearle Merimee
-against her husband, Mr. William T.
Merimee, of Paris, whom she charges
with abandonment. r She asks for the
custody and allotmenfcfor the support
of four children, the fifth, Fred Mer
imee, being of Age, and able to sup
port himself. Mr. Meripiee i$ em
ployed in the train dispatchers' 'ofice
of he 'Louisville k. Nashville at this
joint. A.-BXiThompoa or juexmg
ton, Ms attorney- for the jplalti
DEATH SUMMONS COMES SUD
DENLY TO ERANK JACOBS.
Death came suddenly yesterday
morning to Mr. Frank Jacobs, a
well-known resident of this city,
while at work at his trade as baker
at the bakery attached to the res
taurant of Ahearn & Burton, at the
corner of Pleasant and Tenth streets.
Mr. Jacobs had been in his appar
ently usual good health, and "had
been at work all the night before
his death, helping the head baker,
Mike Bidder, with his work. He had
not been complaining, and had been
joking and laughing with his assist
ant, Teddy Templin, to whom he had
remarked that life seemed pretty good
to him at all times. Leaving the
bakery for a short time he went into
the restaurant, where he exchanged
cheery words with Mr. Charles Mc
Kee, the night clerk, and then re
turned to the bakery. A few mo
ments after returning, one of the
colored cooks ran into the restaurant
with the remark that Mr. Jacobs
seemed to be very sick. Mr. McKee
and several others went into the
bakery and found Mr. Jacobs lying
across a box, seemingly in a stupor
and breathing heavily. Mr. Frank
Burton and Mr. Thos. Ahearn, propri
etors of the restaurant, and a physi
cian were hastily summoned, but the
partly unconscious man expired be
fore the physician could render as
sistance. Coroner Rudolph Davis was sum
moned, and after viewing the body
and taking the testimony of those in
the house at the time of Mr. Jacobs'
death, deemed a formal inquest un
necessary, the physician stating death
to have been causedby apoplexy.
The body was removed to his home on
Pleasant street, and prepared for bur
ial. Mr. Jacobs came to Paris from St.
Louis many years ago. He was in
the employ for several years of Mr.
George Rossenfoss in the bakery and
restaurant business, and was later in
the employ of the late Mr. John A.
Schwartz, in the building now occu
pied by the David Feld shoe store.
About a year ago" he went into busi
ness for himself at the corner of High
and Eighth streets, disposing of the
business a few weeks ago. Since then
he had been in the employ of Ahearn
& Burton. He was married several
years ago to Miss Margaret Woods, of
"Paris, who survives.
Besides his widow, Mr. Jacobs is
survived by one brother, Mr. Albert
Jacobs, and three sisters, Mrs. An
drew Snyder and "Misses Mary and
Lena Jacobs, all of Areola, Illinois.
The funeral arrangements had not
been completed last night, pending
the receipt of messages from these
relatives, who are expected here to
morrow. Pa wa
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF LIBERTY
LOAN BONDS.
The Government is now prepared
to exchange United States 44 Lib
erty Loan Bonds for all 4 Liberty
bonds, and, as the privilege of mak
ing such change expires on Novem
ber 9 th, and the 4's are not thereaf
ter convertible into any subesquent
issue, and as the 44 bonds will prob
ably sell about three points higher
than the unconverted 4 bonds, it is
important that all holders of 4
United States Liberty Bonds make
the exchange.
If you want your 4 Bonds con
verted, please bring them to us, or
notify us, and we will have them
converted for you without any
charsre.
BOURBON AGRICULTURAL BANK
& TRUST CO.
FARMERS & TRADERS BANK.
PEOPLES DEPOSIT BANK & TRUST
CO.
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THRESHEBMAN, NOTICE!
Reports of all threshing done in
the month of July must be in the
office of the Bourbon County Food
Administrator, Mr. Lawrence Mitch
ell, at North Middletown, not later
than the second xday of August. Mr.
L. S. Robbins, County Agent, will
have to compile these reports on the
third day of August, and the reports
for the State must be in Washington
by the sixth day of August. Thresh
ermen will aid very materially in
the dispatch of this wgrk if they will
get their reports in the first day of
August.
CARPENTER INJURED.
When the frame work of a tobacco
barn on which he was working near
Paris collapsed several days ago, Wm.
Younger, a carpenter, was caught- be
neath the falling timbers, sustaining
serious injuries to his back and side.
Since then both lower limbs have be
come affected by paralysis, and Tie is
in almost a helpless condition.
Younper has a family of several
children, and resides at 1713 Cy
press street'. "lie is in meed of imme
diate financial help, his condition be
ing such as to preclude helping him
self. 'Here is a genuine case where
relief conld oe afforded by some of
the charitjcbly-inclined people of this
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COUNCIL PEOCEEDHfGS
The regular meeting of the City
Council convened last night with a
full membership present Very little
business of importance was transact
ed. Among those worthy of mention
are: City Health Officer's salary
was fixed at $400.00 per annum,
payable quarterly.
The Water .Committee asked for ex
tention, of time and same was grant
ed them to act on the question of
the proposed new mill dam. Mr.
Merringer stated that the committee
proposed to engage additional legal
counsel and find out exactly the
rights of the Paris Milling Company
with' reference to the control of the
waters of Stoner Creek.
It was ordered that a committee
confer with the Health Board and
have them agree on and enforce a
law covering the quarantine and
placarding houses wherein there was
contagious diseases, including whoop
ing cough, etc.
FRAUDS IN RAINCOATS FOR SOL
DIERS EXPOSED.
Extensive frauds in rubber rain
coats for soldiers in France have
been disclosed by the Department of
Justice following investigations into
army contracts. Seventeen officers
and employes of fifteen manufactur
ing concerns in New York and Brook
lyn have been arrested on charges of
bribery, fraud and conspiracy. Army
officers of the Quartermaster's Corps
involved in the fraud are under sur
veillance. DON'T WRITE ON BOTH SIDES 0E
THE PAPER.
THE NEWS has frequently re
quested contributors to its columns to
write on one side only of the paper
they use. This is an established cus
tom in all newspaper offices. Impor
tant communications may be some
times ruined by the non-observance
of this rule. Don't write on both
sides of the paper. It causes annoy
ance, trouble and inconvenience. The
busy linotype operator vhasn't time in
the rush hours to search all through
a mass of paper to get the connection
for the last word of a sentence at
the bottom of a page, only to find
that it is on the other side of the
sheet. Don't write on both sides of
the paper, please!
Prospective imports in the Belgian
Congo will be required to obtain the
approval of the government of Bel
gian Congo for all orders.
Palm Beach and
Kool Rloth Suits
For Summer Wear,, the Real,
" Genuine Palm Beach Cloth
ya The kind that is cool and serviceable and comfortable, not
the cotton shoddy kind that draws up and wears out before
the season is over. We sell only one kind, and that- is the
best. All colors, solid and fancy mixtures.
$13.50 to $20.00
a: Kool Kloth
A light summer cloth with a
K Beach garments, but very serviceable and comfortable.
$12.50
Manhattan and Wilson Bros'. Silk
Shirts, $5.00 td $10.00 -
:: Many fancy and stylish patterns, solid colors and fancy
Straw Hats
MITCHELL & BLAKEMORE
Ncttleton Shoes
Dr. ; Rd't Guihion Sole Sho .
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GREAT JiAKES BAND TO BE HERE
TO-DAY.
All Paris and as many of the people
from outside the city and county as
can make their arrangements to do
so, will be here to-day to greet and?
hear the splendid band of the Great
Lake Naval Training Station, which
win be here this afternoon, under
th leadership of Bandmaster Smith.
There will be music in the air, and
it's .all free, which will, of course, be
a determining factor in the presence
of many people.
The band, composed of thirty-eight
skilled musicians, is scheduled to ar
rive in Paris via the interurban from
Lexington at 3:20 this afternoon.
They will be met at the interurban
station by a big reception committee.
The hand will form in parade forma
tion5, and accompanied by the .recep
tion committee, and a detail of the
Paris police force, will march over
the following line of march: Start
ing from Fifth and Main; south on
Main to Tenth; turning, coming
north on Main to court house, where
the parade will disband. The band,
with the reception committee, will be
guests of the city of Paris at supper
at the Crosdale House at 6:30 p. m.
At 8:00 p. m. the band will give a
concert lasting two hours, on the
plaza steps in front of the court
house. The program, as decided upon
by Bandmaster Smith, will be one of
the best he has given on the trip. It
will embrace popular and classical
selections, and patriotic airs, and will
be a rare musical treat. Everybody
is asked to turn out and give the
band a royal patriotic -welcome, and
make them feel that their trip has
not been in vain. No collection or
contribution asked for or taken up.
Councilman John Merringer, chair
man of the Police Committtee of the
Paris City Council, and all the police
force, assisted by several chauffeurs,
will enforce the ordinance prohibit
ing the parking of automobiles on
Main street this afternoon, especially
between tWee and four o'clock. All
cars found parked on Main street
will be "arrested" and the owner of
same will be invited to call on Police
Judge Ernest Martin on Saturday
morning, and explain why they
thought themselves stronger than the
law.
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HAIL INSURANCE.
Insure your tobacco
against hail. We rep
resent reliable,
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I IN THE SERVICE OF 'I'HMIK.
C0UUTEY.
Fifty thousand negro registrants
qualified for general military ser
vice, were called To the colors Wed
nesday. They will entrain between
August 1 and 5, and come from forty
one States.
Mrs. Nellie Honey Turner, for
merly of Paris, wrote to her sister,
Mrs. Thomas Arkle, in this city, a
few days ago, announcing her safe
arrival at a French port with the
Dr. Barrow Base Hospital Unit No.
40. The unit is now safely housed
in confortable quarters in France,
and will soon be assigned to active
duty.
After an intensive course of train
ing in special duty at Ft. Sheridan,
111., Mr. Landen Templin, of Paris,
has received a merited promotion.
Mr. Templin has been made Battalion
Commander of Co. I, stationed at
j Camp Dewey, at the Great Lakes Na
val Training Station. He is also an
ensign in the mechanical and engi
neering department in the service.
v Mrs. Mollie James is in receipt of
a letter from her son, Cornelius
(Buddy) James, stating that at the
time the letter was written lie was
in France, with no immediate pros
pect of getting back to America. He
stated that no furloughs were being
given, and that it was not unlikely
that he would be in France for some
time, possibly for a year.
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Mr. Carl Nippert, who has been
a guest of his mother, Mrs. Geo Nip
pert, in this city, for several days,
has returned to Cincinnati, where he
has enlisted in the United States
Navy. Mr. Nippert is a nephew of
Mr. Phil Nippert, of Paris. He would
not be satisfied with remaining out
of the service, and said lie intended
to be be a Kaiser-getter-and-a-Hiin-destroyer
just as soon as he could
get into action.
Mr. J. T. Sweeney, who has for
several years been in the employ of
Mrs. Thompson Tarr as chauffeur,
will report at the Mechanical Train-
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onx August 15. Mr. Sweeney is an
expert auto mechanic and driver.
He ' enlisted in the service recently
for special service. This is the same
school from which four Bourbon
boys were recently transferred to a
Southern cantonment after four
months' special, training.
Capt. H. N. Royden, Commanding
Officer of the Central Officers' Train
ing Camp, has approved the appli
cation of Mr. Charles Spears, of Paris,
and recommended his admission to
the ranks of student officers at the
camp. Mr. Spears will be assigned
to duty at Camp Gordon, in Georgia.
His brother, Mr. Edward Spears, is
now in the service as a member ot
the Bourbon county contingent re
cently transferred from Ft. Thomas
to Camp Meade, in Maryland.
a
Private Edward J. Woods, of Paris,
who left sometime ago with the
Bourbon count7 boys for Camp
Meade, Maryland, writes his father,
Mr.M. L. Woods, in this city, that
he is pleased with camp life as far
as it has gone, and that Uncle Sam
is certainly a good provider. He
states that all the boys are acquir
ing . the military bearing and that
they are taking to camp life as nat
urally as if they had long been used
to it.
Mr. James T. Templin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. T. Templin, of Paris, has
volunteered for service in the U. S.
navy. Mr. Templin was accepted at
the Lexington recruiting station and
assigned as apprentice seaman. Mr.
Templin has been in Dayton, O., for
some time engaged in war munitions
work, ind was for a time an inspec
tor at the naval aeroplane station
near Dayton. Mr. Templin makes
the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Templin-who
has. volunteered for service
in the navy.
. Dr. J. T. Brown left for Camp
Greene, near Charlotte, N. C, imme
diately after- the wedding of his
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Brown to
Rev. John Jay Rice,. Monday after
noon. Dr. Brown is. now "Captain
Brown," and will be stationed at
Camp Greene as a'mfember of the
Medical Corps df the army service-.
In 'his uniform of khaki cloth he
made a strikingly handsome figure,
and was complimented by hosts of
admiring friends upon his soldierly
appearance. -
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Troop trains bearing soldiers for
Southern camps have been passing
through Paris forseveral days. One
day this week one train of eleven
coaches filled with enlisted mn was
W followed shortly after by anpiner oi
1dW; MiAa -Tbe order was. varied
X somewhat Wednesiay mornins, when
lithe faaktrain for. Cincinnati h$ aY-
B5ieral coacnear auacnea nuea witu yi-
TWENTY-TWO C0I0XED DI1I-
TEES TO LEAVE MONDAY.'
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Twenty-three colored men frsi
Paris and Bourbon county called to
the colors under the provisions df tka
army draft law, will leave Paria o
next Monday morning, July 29, for v
Camp Zachary Taylor, where, ther
will report for service as members o
Uncle Sam's great army.
The men will report to the Bowr
bon County Exemption. Board "om
Sunday afternoon, when they will re
Qeive their final instructions. Tk
usual social formalities will-b ob
served, and oh Monday the men will
entrain at t,he L. ft N. Tenth stri
passenger station ;for transportatiMi
to the .camp.
The Exemption Board, has beem
busily engaged several days in tte
examination of the men. A total 6t
forty-two were examined, ,ut o
which number will be selected tkm
twenty-two draftees and three-substitutes,
to leave Monday.
CHANGE OP DATE.
JThe public sale of furniture, etc.,
of the Business Men's Club, preri
ously advertised for -Saturday, July
27, has been, changed to Saturday,
August 3. The change of .date was
made so as not to conflict witk otker
arrangements. This will be a good
opportunity for some one tojjet bargains-
in first class furniture.
diers going to some camp in tie
North. It is presumed that, they
were destined for transfer to tfce
East. No information was given out
by any of the men as te their desti
nation. They all appeared to be ia
the best of spirits, and anxious to
get over and do their bit toward sup
pressing or annihilating the Boches.
Advices received by Major Rhodes,
at Frankfort, from,. Provost Marsaal
General Crowder shows changes In
physical qualifications for meiuuiider
the selective service. The mininiu. ,
height is reduced from 6 to 5
inches and the minimum weight
from 124 to 110 pounds.
Mrs. Thomas Taul received a post
card Wednesday from her daughter,
MissMary KStone ajnembexjp' th?
nursing staff of the Dr. Barrow Base
Hospital Unit No. 40, announcing
her safe arrival in France. The card
bore no message . other than the
formal announcement of her arrival.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Lavin received
a letter Wednesday from their son,
Lieut. Lawrence Lavin, stating that
he had received orders to secure his
overseas outfit, from which he judged
he would soon be transferred to
France. Lieut. Lavin is stationed at
Camp Gordon, Georgia, where he ia
bayonet instructor for a class of 2,-
500 soldiers.
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Corp. John Stuart writes from, the
Raritan Training Camp at Metuchen,
New Jersey:
"Don't forget to send THE NEWS
to my new address. Don't want to
miss it. Great place here. Tkey
have a big barbed wire fence rall
around the camp, so no one can get
in and hurt us. I'm coming home
this fall when the war is over."
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Mr., Ira Thompson, who has been?
in Paris several weeks as a guest of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L D.
Thompson, Sr., will leave to-day for
Annapolis, Maryland, to resume-his
duties at the Annapoli3 Naval Acad
emy. Mr. Thompson is stationed at
the rifle range near the Naval
Academy, as a member of the sharp
shooters' brigade of the naval ser
vice. Mrs. W. B. Thomas, of near
Hutchison, has received a letter from
her son, Mr. Wm. Kenney Thomas,
who is in the aviation training course
at Cornell University, in New -York.
He is taking a three months' course,
and writes that he is. progressing
finely. The letter enclosed a good
snap shot of Mr. Thomas, which
made the letter of additional inter
est to his mother. '
If you have interesting news df
your soldier or sailor friend, relative
or sweetheart, tell THE NEWS mam
of call 124 either phone. "The "In
the Service" column is proving one
of the most interesting departments
of the paper. Help THE NEWff to
get news of the boys so that the boys
in camp may know what is going oi.
Your assistance will be -greatly ap
preciated. Mrs. Louis Hershel Humble r.
ceived a letter a- few days, age frosk
her husband, announcing kistaafa
arrival on French soil Mr. JHumW
was sent from Paris to a Soutkent
army cantonment, where, he was im
the forestry service,, butwas lattc
transferred to New York, whera k
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