.: - r 1ft V rs "C1'- v h , v 5 ' ' kV" -' ). 'C "& :- :-V s V'i V Y. 'T - fc f,f ia TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919. A TIB BOTJBBOH 3fi5WS, JA1M, jqSltTOCKY A& V Ot t 6 A LETTERS FROM BOURBON COUNTY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS i i i i f i ! The following letter from France, written by Private Oliver Hazlerigg, of Paris, has been handef THE NEWS with a request for its publi cation. Before his induction into the service of Uncle Sam, Private Hazlerigg resided on High street be tween Twelfth and Thirteenth, and is well-known here. The letter follows: "Wormhaudt, France, Sunday Eve., "December 29, 1918." "Having -arrived on the Western front on August 3, 1918, known as AlsaceLoraine, we began our first work as ammunition slingers, and sling it we certainly did. I was a driver, so I did not sling any of it. Every truck had three men, driver, assistant driver and rear guard. We worked on the Lorajni front for about six weeks, encamped in a for est about three-quarters of a mile from a neat little town called Bac carat. This towr. had been shelled at one time during the war, but was not seriously damaged. "We went from there to the fa mous old Verdun battlefront. It must have been the most horrible of the whole war. We saw some ex citement there, many -dying and wounded Yankees, bad roads, muddy, slippery and hard to get trucks load ed with ammunition over them, working at nights to avoid sight of the enemy made it all the harder, because we couldn't see what we did. 2nd it was very dangerous at -times going along under heavy en lemy shell, fire and gas, and the "night hawks" "(enepiy aeroplanes) bombing our lines, machine guns "pingpinging" all the time, our boys lying here and there, heads mangled, legs off, bodies blown away, groan ing and dying, surely did )nake-it a scene of horror. "After a few weeks of this horrid' warfare and successful drive, we were ordered to the St, Mihiel sail eHt, where it was not so rushing on us. We only remaned there a short time, and then went to a town back from the lines called Foug, remain ing there over night and getting a Day-day. We then took our auto trucks and turned them in at Toul, mrt mi trained for the Flanders front in Belgium, riding a couple of days in. box cars, and arrived at a rail road and ration dump in No Man's Land, the latter part of October. As we were not drawing trucks any more, we had to hike to the front or -orr-A attacned to a truus. uwii been supplanted by the great whir ring bird, the aeroplane. "Since the, fairy prince, 'Uncle Sam,' has made it possible for many of uf to visft strange lands and stranger places, I, too, decided to visit 'Evergreen," near Baltimore, where our dear returned blind sol diers arer being helped to become the same .normal useful men they were before the scourge of war and pesti lence swept over the world. To de cide' is to act, and, shutting off the motor,jmy winged servant settled lightly and easily upon the grounds of Military Hospital No. 7. "I am at once in the midst of va rious recreational and reconstruc tional work. This is the hour for bowling, and hlmid laughter and this army, life takes the kinks out of fellow. ad if there is anything of Ithe 'sissy' in his make-up, he loses it after he has been through the mill in the army. I am glad I have had my share of the experience, and am sorry for the goody-goody boys who were too soft to get into the service. I would not take anything now for my experience. I am in the best of health and certainly' feeling very fine, and hope to . continue so all through the journey of life after I get out of the service. "I would like to send you a nice lot of souvenirs, as they are easy, to get, but moving from place to place so often, can't carry thetai with us lone enough. Such things as Ger man heljmets, bayonets, and other things. We have such a load of bag gage to carry with us that we could note-afford to burden ourselves with souvenirs. It's about all a fellow can do to carry his eighty-five pound army outfit and get along with it comfortably. I think the outfit we carry in this Engineers' Corps, must weigh at least 185 pounds for it feels, that way some time when I am out on the hike with the bunch. Still I am fat, weigh about 150 pounds, and have never had a sick day since the end, andI guess I had-better close. Hoping to hea'r ;frdn nil of you soon, and to get a chance soon to cpne back to the good old U. S. A!, I am, - "Lovingly, "to:: ::::."', "George M. Frakes, "Co. P., 5th Bn., 2 2d Engineers, "American E. F., France'." good-natured competition; two, en-j jyg Deen jn the service, so there is nothing for me to complain or, ex cept a touch of the 'I-want-to-come-home' fever once in a while. "Veil,' that candle is about burn ed out, and my paper is also close to tirely blind, are mailing 82, 84, 115 and 140 points. The man setting up the pins having two-thirds the sight of one eye. "Next are the Braills ooms, where men read as truly -and as quickly with a series of raised "dots as they formerly did "with the eye. The click of typewriters caused me to pause, and going inside, I find the boys answering their letters, business vas well as social, and without any mistaKes. as many as worus per pninute being written by the more advanced. "The class in book-binding is an advanced one, and many beautifully bound books are here displayed, the result of the work of the wholly blind. ' ."There is the piano-tuning room with the blind instructor; the man ual training room, the most popular room and the most needed of all work. Here are baskets, pink, blue, green, brown, and grey waSJe bas kets, flower baskets, work and scrap baskets, serving trays, jardinieres, hammocks, fringed, tassled and beau tifully, made. They will last a life time. Hand woven rugs, hand-caned chairs, settees and ottief furniture. And here our boys, blind, are at work upon these various articles, whistling, singing.joking and mak ing their way to tHe various parts of the room, to get their own materials and selecting the different v grades and numbers. "If there is a picture in your mind of 'poor blind boys," discon tented, weary and tired, get rid of it. -Truly, as Sir Arthur Pearson says, "W6 are not blind, but normal men who see through, tne nerves oi CATAERH CANNOT BE CUEED. with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat or the disease. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in fluenced by constitutional conditions, and in order to cure it you must take an internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mupous sur faces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of the best physicians in, this country for years. It is cojmposed of some of the best tonics known,combined with some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the in gredients in Hall's Catarrh Medicine is what produces such wonderful re sults in catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., '. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Fapnily Pills for constipa tion. (adv) NoTndigestion! Stomach Feels Fine! . No Acidity, Gas, Souring, Dyspepsia Belching gas, food souring in stomach, lumps of pain from indi gestion and all distress from, an upset stomach stops instantly, yes ! At once! No more stomach-headache. Neve? any indigestion pain. Pape's Diapepsin not only re lieves bad stomachs but it strength- c. weak stoimchs. bplendicli Costs little Any cirug btore. v CR VPS&TJ? WILL PUT YOU Tr-s WILL PUT YOU JLliapepSln ON YOUR FEET Personally we have traveled a hundred miles "West and fully as far East, but never yet have we encoun tered a man manicurist. Virtue is its own reward. The black sheep of the falnily generally insists upon having spring lamb. Speaking of economics, what Je your opinion of the striver who bankrupts himself to prove he'a rich? A woman is a conundrujm, and yet a man .never seems to want to give her up. v ? K V5 1bA f , for the remainder of the war. j the fingers instead of the nerves of tvo-ntr t' v j . i...v v.rt "We saw some nerce panics ueic, too The level country made it more onvenient for the Gertnan machine gunners to get a whack at us. The v boys had no trenches to crawl into. so it was open warfare most of the time The German machine gunners would just mow down the Yanks like weeds, but all the same the , drive continued, with Old Glory m the lead, and it still leads. ""We had hard work hauling am munition here, but finally the long- inb-vl for time came, wuc-u., . - trio ivp ' And so tnev ao ana so they want others to know that they do. "There is a class in English, where a real black-board is used, and as the instructor writes, he spells each letter aloud. As he reads 'Knoyl edege is Power," they see the picture mentally. The one command is 'See, See, See,' (never feel), get a picture. Itmay not be an absolutely accurate one, but it is his picture, it it something seen. - "As I listen I hear, 'we want none The Independent Tobacco, Warehouse Co. of Paris, Kentucky BREAKS WORLD RECORD inhday of November Germany sur- ?f this sympathy stuff . Tell evry rendered. The roaring, howiiub barking of the big guns, whistling shells gas bombs and machine gun bullets ceased, and from that on it seemed that every day was Sunday. Then we began already to think about coming back to America, but ire spent Thanksgiving Day at Wiels bekeTin Belgium, and Christmas Day in Wormhaudt, France. There was a rumor continually bobbing up afrout us going back home, then again we would Hear that we were destined to remain for possibly two years longer. What awful rumors Suigain such wide circulation! But wT think now that it will be juat a Sitter of time or transportation as STwlien we sail for the good old r We soldlThursday, February 13, 1919, a floor of 79,590 pounds of tobacco for 59,17U5t a floor average of $74.36. The baskeTs sold at from $22.50 to $150 per one hundred VT cLke Wells & Mitchell, of 2,325 pounds, sold by baskets as follows: 250 pounds at 76 cents, 235 pounds at 80 cents, 70 pounds at 83 cents, 210 pound, at 85 cents, 90 pounds at 85 cents 40 unds at at 85 cM00 pounds at 84 cents, 100 pounds at 83 cents, 190 pounds at 84 cents, 165 pounds at 89 , cents, 105 pounds at 84 cens, 105 pounds at 87 cents, 75 pounds at 81 cents, 245 pound, at 81 cents . and345'poundsat81 cents. Average, $82.44. Wewere on four different fronts during the three and one-half months o? acUve service, and were cited in zanders twice? We are entitled to a star for having been cited on five fronts Maj.-Gen. Farnswortn 'gve the Thirty-seventh Division Ignition Train W.the tTbravery shown by them in tne etc Whai il u w rVv v.bW vv VonlrPA mna -hiw on tne run- -"c "r . XUU.J""- .i J 7& it. tUlU i i flier. No body to cut it out. We are going to do things, and be men just as we ever were They dance and play and work and walk. Overhead is the blue of the sky, and the sun shining. Around are wonderful old trees and formal gardens, and lawns and flow ers And in the trees are birds and on the lake are snow-white swans. Blue-gowned, white aproned recon struction aides, scarlet-caped 'Red Cross nurses and strong, valiant pnen are here to teach the boys to forget the hate and horror or war, auu w romeinber the love and goodness of Godr and man; iwnen guiueu uj t as loving and kind. And as I Blowly and reflectively guide toy steps to: word my bird of passage, I utter a prayer of gratuitude for all the loye and goodness that is yet in the world and what it is meaning to these men who wiirgo out not the poor blind seller of shoe laces, the tin-cup beg ffer- but strong determined, useful, able-bodied men, 'Who arenot blind but who see through nerves of a dif ferent medium than the eye,-and I realize the truth of an oft repeated statement, 'Sight is not of the eye, but of the mind.:' ; A MODERN viSiU&iMuuxu. ft. all dead yet, either. med however great, "" "r .-, die with Uncle Sam any pm"- atXyoutSnutitLmat we want to see now "" -, real LOT K. HAZELRIGG." -Private Oliver K. Hazlerigg, SSffiS-lSffitf'S Inmbus ACUViuw, Dunkirk, a"o7tht official one of the pages a c rXrrill and order from Gen. Dm T. werri Chief of SUff. reSat!ons to the FarBBworth'a XSlSiit con 37th Division for its olu duct under fire. . iitfr from. The ioiujwt unnR tvuiA charming yoiwis r7 "f1lo re-educa-doing splendid work wJ tion and reBwr-.--,, tfEWS lOllOWUifi -- wm is pans wuuiau. tne re-eu of blind v - - ,; :. 'va rJ diere, IB W-our people frcpi a desire w "r' t help our what TJncte Sam is dgtaS to n p disabled soldiers. x - people, man, well-known W P v should her nne fh!S!S plume her identity under the ', Her of "A Modern Cmaereiw. ' message, splendidly told will .gg s the Properconcption of now -wards of H?iCleTTfirGeraoSpiUl acre of in the V. , S. Cwnenu uful No. 7, near, Baltimore, m a oe rf&ce call Roland Park. , The following letter was received ' j Arc oo Tnr Mrs. . Carrie '. a tew uoj'i3 fcjv "j - Stone, of Paris, from ner son, uuis M. (Tommie) Fraktss, who is in France with the American Expeditionary-Forces. The letter, which was written under date of January 17, follows: "Chambley, France, Jan. 17. "Dear Mother: Received ypur let ter to-day. January iy awaaJ,' fcainly glad to heaf from, the good otd U. S. A. again I am now right up n the German border, at Shambley. France. It .h on he St MihiePfront, and, like .all the rest of the towns around, it is all shot to Pieces. It looks like our next move SSfte to Gertnany. for it doesn't took like we will get back to the ifL., QfoP before the last of March or the nrst of April, or even later than that. . . .There is a lot to l"eJJErilra vet in readjustment work and that will, of course, re quire the presence of a large nujmber f? dot know whether you can read this letter or not, for the boys w bunkWes, are making so much Xc that I can hardly hear myself noise max "" . . tolt nf hnme arWiasrasKu-s . . a- o-nrt nr rjULibc. . mi' Other crops sold as follows: ,- . ' - . Pouds ,. ... ' .i. - - 1J95 Ardery & Brady- ,t 3 5 Thomason, Burris & Faulkner -- . - . 2080 Hutchcraft & Hill 2120 Wright & Hill . , 7I"""I --2,890 Kenney Whalen 3 655 Jones & Hatfield : r 7 II 3125 Mclntyre & Towey n . '-- " 2"" "2-775 ,Ardery& Gay..-- """ Il615 Qark,& Young i 735 Harding, Myers & Powers - "6,695 Rice & Johnson -1-- 7 5395 Will Stuart: , ---r 11395 Joff & Hinkson -.-- ' .- v- . 595 Wardjb Prather-1 " 2,610 Clay & Bramel - 7"" 109 Plutnraer, McQure & Jones 1 2 180 Wehher & WhJen 1 fT ""2 215 Boardman & Bridy ' - -- 1 III IIl6060 Young & Wagoner- - I"IIII 6340 Clay-cc Carterson l - 2 325 Clark, Wells & Mitchell ----------. """"IIT!""- Harding & Reynolds V --. - -- " 2,340 Ewalt & Kenton , -a 1 - j2050 Ward & Smith- j 7 " " "2215 Reynolds & Buzzard 3310 Mclntyre & Wagoner r 7 T". ' Price $78.13 78.32 72.02 77.93 79.08 73.33 74.27 80.25 61-81 75.23 78.27 62.83 74.72 65;48 77.53 79.21 1 71.11 61.34 71.74 78.66 82.44 66.99 81.75 78.53 80.36 4 66.-25 . t- -v. . .-- Company, of Paris, Ky., led the Paris market last year. It is. J dtblr mothers, their sisters, their j.-Uo.nita ft,Tia OI WUioc, A w..w SklTes me homesick, as it does dl the ?.r hSvs . .1 have-becotoe such a SSdenTcinialgner that when 1 ff home I couTd sleep tKe sleep o lSvafnnrr The Independent Tobacco Warehouse in the leap! now. There is a reason. We will more than double our floor soace for next season and invite Tobacco growers.in all countieS( to share our-success. V ' Independent tobacco Warehouse Company Paris, Kentucky K v v i - :L - - COL.' J. A. SQUIRES, auctioneer N , DAN W. PEED, Manager C.G. CLARK, President . . ... . k ; . - . ,. .. - .- u t VuJZ' 'tit w z.' u J- hi . I - wr "HMWl airnature, that the '(fWe Lwas aoius Jr .1 r ren v -v fc" i j ' ! ' ' v I - - -