Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1917 — COAL ORDERS FOR THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

COAL ORDERS FOR THE WEEK

REQUESTS FROM COUNTIES IN INDIANA TOTAL 556 CARS. County fuel administrators in Indiana today sent orders for 556 cars of coal to the office of Evans Woollen, state fuel administrator, and all communities have not yet been heard from as to their weekly fuel needs. Allen county led the list with a request for 117 cars. Other counties asking large shipment were Howard, thirty-nine cars; Johnson, twenty-two; Madison, twenty-eight; Grant, - twenty-eight, and Randolph, fifteen. The weekly needs as shown by the early orders are about fifty ears in excess of the orders placed with the state fuel administration ' last week. Fuel conservation in the industrial plants of Indianapolis will be discussed Tuesday evening at a conference at 8 o’clock in the office of the fuel administration in the Federal building. Mr. Woollen has invited the following men to attend the conference: F. M. Ayres, Frank Duffy, Hugh H. Harrison, C. C. Perry, William 1 A. Pickens, H. C. Atkins, W. J. • Griffith, F. N. Smith, J. E. Smith, E. W. Stout, Dr. Henry Jameson, Joseph E. Bell, Charles W. Jewett and E. I. Lewis. George E. Stewart, of Indianapolis, who volunteered his services to the fuel administration, has become chief clerk of the ofl’ce force ’ aporte county, the only county in the state in which no administrator has been appointed, has sent in ' recommendations for George O. Redpath. The coufity council of defense, the Rotary club, and the Chamber of Commerce for Laporte, and the Industrial Association for Michigan City have joined in the recommendation. Mr. Redpath lives in Michigan City. We are prepared to take ere of your wants for your Thanksgiving dinner, in fruits and vegetables. Fancy eating and oookim? apples, oranges, bananas, ranberries, elcery, cabbage, lettuce, dates, figs, citrim and new nuts of all kinds. Open until 10 a. m. Thanksgiving morning. JOHN EGER u