Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1918 — WET THE COAL. [ARTICLE]

WET THE COAL.

For these coal-shortage days, here’s a tip on coal efficiency from the miners’ wives: Moisten the coal before you v put it on the fire. Wet coal is put in . nearly every kitchen stove ’ in a miners’ village these zerp nights. When the house-, wives come down in thF morning there’s a bright, warm fire blazing. “We get more efficiency out of wet coal,” they say, and their husbands, who know the way* of coal, agree.