Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1918 — To Make Ohio “Fireproof.” [ARTICLE]

To Make Ohio “Fireproof.”

“Ohio is going into a war winter as near fire and disease proof as human agency can devise,” said State Fire Marshal T. Alfred Fleming. “Thousands of letters were sent out from the office calling attention to T as Fire Accident Prevention day. Responses fairly swamped the office force. From schools, business organizations, municipal authorities, ministerial associations and wholesale and retail associations of all kinds came requests for fire prevention literature. “On the Sunday prior to November 2 sermons on fire and accident prevention were preached In every municipality in Ohio?’