Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1916 — METAL ASH BARREL IS BEST [ARTICLE]

METAL ASH BARREL IS BEST

Always Danger in the Use of Wooden Receptacles to Hold the Accumu- - lated Rubbish. Hot ashes in a wooden barrel are almost certain to cause a disastrous fire sooner or later. The use of an empty flour or sugar barrel to keep ashes until the weekly visit of the ashman may seem an economy? but in the long run it is a costly mistake. In many places the fire regulations prohibit this sort of thing, but there are still instances where city and town authorities permit It. It is also unwise to use a wooden barrel for ordinary rubbish, for a spark in a barrel filled with paper, sweepings and housecleaning rubbißh means disaster. A careless maid or thoughtless child la apt to forget and put hot ashes in the rubbish barrel. For this reason metal ash barrels are the cheapest. Galvanized iron, made in corrugated form to insure strength, is the popular material. They will last a long time and will not go to pieces suddenly as will a wooden barrel.