Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1916 — Shingle Famine In Rensselaer Broken At Last. [ARTICLE]

Shingle Famine In Rensselaer Broken At Last.

For the past several weeks many building operations have been at a standstill —that is as far as the roofs of the said buildings were concerned, for all of the local lumber dealers have been without singles and it was not until this week that they received any. In the meantime, many of the new buildings in Rensselaer had to go without their shingles.