Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — W. B. Austin Favors War. [ARTICLE]

W. B. Austin Favors War.

Attorney W. B. Austin, who for a number of years was a resident of this city but who is now a very prominent business man in Chicago, was here Saturday. Mr. Austin says we cannot with honor keep out of war with Germany. He says there ia a wonderful wave of sentiment in Chicago in favor of immediately declaring war upon the Kaiser. While here Mr. Austin visited the Jasper county hospital and was delighted with ft. Mr. Austin was one of the donors of furniture for that institution. He left Saturday afternoon for Lafayette, where he will visit with the parents of Mrs. Austin, Hon. and Mrs. Edwin P. Hammond.