Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1919 — LOCAL FREIGHT OFFICE MUST COLLECT STORAGE. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL FREIGHT OFFICE MUST COLLECT STORAGE.

A ruling of the government, o which stillhas control of the railroads, makes it imperative that station agents collect storage on all freight which is not removed from thedepot within forty-eight hours after its arrival. Upon the arrival of freight the station agent must notify by mail the consignee, who, whether he receives the notice or not, must within forty-eight hours remove the freight from the depot or a minimum charge of twenty-five cents will be collected. The rate is from two to three cents per hundred pounds per day and soon runs into a-good sized bill. It has not been the custqm of our agent, W. H. Beam, to make storage .charges on small shipments of freight, but under the order of the government he must now collect this-storage. Persons having shipments of freight arriving at the depot should look after the same promptly as there is no escape from the storage charge if the freight is not removed as indicated above.