Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — WINTER SLIPPING AND NO ICE YET [ARTICLE]

WINTER SLIPPING AND NO ICE YET

Local Dealer May Install Manufacturing Plant il There is No Natural Supply. Prank G. Kresler, the fee dealer, ordered another ear load of factory ice today, it 'being needed by the butchers and restauranteurs. The temperature ds about 60 above zero and the weather is more like May than January. There is not a particle of frost in the ground and except for an excess of moisture farm lands could be plowed. The prospects of getting a supply of natural ice is poor, although good tee is frequently frozen in February. In case there is no cold weather and no ice to harvest it is quite probable that Mr. Kresler will install an ice manufacturing plant. There is a question about the practicability of an ice plant where the demand is no greater than it is in Rensselaer, but It will be a condition and not a theory that will confront Mr, Kresler if there is no natural tee. A plant installed would probably cost from $7.000 to $12,000. The expense of buying manufactured fee shipped in is so great and makes the price to the consumer so high that it will create a hardship to all ice users and will probably affect the prices of meat, butter, etc., while a Rensselaer confectioner remarked a few days ago that he would be compelled to raise the prices on soda water and cream products if the ghipped in artificial ice had to be used. It is probable that a plant here could supply some tee for other places and it might be developed into a big industry. In many places bottling works and tee cream factories are established in connection with the ice making plants.