Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1916 — Monon Boy With Pershing On Villa Raid In Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Monon Boy With Pershing On Villa Raid In Mexico.

' Roy Ward, son of Mrs. Clara Ward, of Monon, is serving in the U. S. army under General Pershing and is now one of those who are really helping to catch Villa. He has written which The Monon News makes a long article. Roy expresses the feelihg, evidently general with the soldiers who have been in training along the border, that they will soon get to fight Villa. He writes in one letter as follows: “We expect to have trouble after our next camp and everybody is anxious to dig into them and one thing sure is that we are going to give them a good whipping. Of course, they will get some of us, but that is a soldier’s chance and everybody is willing to take his chance. We expect Villa to move in toward his old camping ground and when all the troops get together we will move right in on him. We have civilian guides with us who were raised in this country and they know it like a book and they say that is where Villa will head for. That is about 350 miles from the border the way we have to go.” In one of his letters Roy enthusiastically said: “Where we will go or how long it will take we do not know, but we will get Villa before we come back or whip the whole of Mexico.”