Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — FORMER LOCAL BOY SEEING MUCH OF OLD WORLD [ARTICLE]

FORMER LOCAL BOY SEEING MUCH OF OLD WORLD

'The following letter is from a former Rensselaer boy, Robert C. Johnson, son of R. P. Johnson, and a grandson of Mrs. E. L. Clark of this city: Frier, Germany, April 23, 1919. Dear Mother: I have been moving so much that I have not had the time to write. At the present time I am in Germany. Tomorrow I leave for a tour of all the battlefields, from Belgium down through Francg, taking in the British, American and French fronts. I am driving a Cadillac limousine for Col. Halstead, who is an instructor in an army school here. The motor section left Bar sur Aube on the 21st for the coast. Someone had to come with the colonel and I decided to go. I wanted to go home and see you and the rest but felt if I did I would have to settle down, so if I am going to see any of the world I will have to see it while I am young, so I told them I would go. It will only be three or four months longer. Coming up here we went to Metz and fro mthere we traveled through the kingdom of Luxemburg, which is a neutral coßtfry. We traveled straight across the center •of it. Well, will close now. Will write and tell you all about the trip to the front. With love, ROBERT.