Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — GLENN WISHARD NOW WITH FRENCH TROOPS [ARTICLE]

GLENN WISHARD NOW WITH FRENCH TROOPS

Former Rensselaer Boy Who Has Been in India Sent to Marseilles To Do Y. M. C. A. Work. % Rev. Glenn Wishard, son of Mrs. Jennie Wishard, of this city and who spent all of his life here prior to entering college, is now doing Y. M. C. A work with French soldiers near the city of Marseilles. In a letter written from India on April sth he told of his detail there for six months and he sailed from Colombo on April 28th and two weeks later was to reach Marseilles. Mrs. Wishard and their 9-month-old baby girl, Audrey, are spending the period of his absence in the mountains of India, near Landour, Mussoorie. Mrs. Wishard, in order to be alone with her little daughter, had discharged the Ayah, as the nurse servants are called, and his letter says that it is rather an unusual thing for European women to raise children without keeping an Ayah. Glenn is unable to tell much anout his work with the troops, but expected to be mainly with the Indian soldiers. He says that it was only the opportunity for doing a great service that prompted him to be away from his wife and baby for six months. He expressed some doubt as to his ability to tell much about his work even after he reached the French camps, owing to a rigid censorship over all that is written. He is not certain that his service will end ■ at the expiration of six months, but if jt does not then he plans to have his wife and baby join him 7 at Marseilles. He says that the work will probably continue even after the close of the war and remarks, “and no one knows when that will be.” He continues as follows: “One more thing, I should emphasize the fact that I shall be in tno dangler whatever. There is not the slightest chance of my getting anywhere near the line of battle. Our work will be in the base supply camps, miles and miles away from the fighting. I shall be safer there than in India, for I shall escape the hot weather and rains which are so hard on me. “The only objection I see, and that is a serious one, is that of being separated from Susie and baby. If I had stayed here I should have been separated from them for 4% months out of the six, but still I would have been able to go to them quickly if there had been need. Everything considered, it seems the path of duty and we shall trust that all works out well.