Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — HERE’S ANOTHER COAL WARNING [ARTICLE]

HERE’S ANOTHER COAL WARNING

Indianapolis, Ind.,' May 15.—The Indiana public service comission baa issued a warning to everybody to lay in their coal for next winter right now. The commission says that those who delay or wait until later may not get coal. This warning applies not only to domestic consumers but to manufacturing industries, public utilities and every other consumer. - Persons whose bins are too small to hold all the coal they will need next winter are advised to enlarge their bins. Big consumers are advised to store coal at once. Indications are that the coal shortage next winter will be as great as last winter, and the commissioner says that industrial plants and public utilities who fail to store coal now will not be given any, preference in the shipment of coal from the mines next winter. Therefore some of them may be compelled to close down unless they buy in their coal now.