Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — ECLIPSED RECORD MADE BY CHRISTIAN CHURCH CHOPPERS [ARTICLE]

ECLIPSED RECORD MADE BY CHRISTIAN CHURCH CHOPPERS

Rev. E. W. Strecker assembled the men members of his Methodist church flock Tuesday and took them to the Harvey Wood, Sr., farm six miles west of town, where they were given axes and instructed to see what they could do in the way of relieving the present fuel shortage and in replenishing the church’s fast dwindling supply of coal. The men responded surprisingly well, their day’s work showing twenty-five oads of fine wood, eight of which were brought to the city in the afternoon. The wood will be “buzzed some time the latter part of the present week, and will make a supply that will last during the remainder of winter. The record made by the choppers of the M. E. church exceeds by far that made by the Christain church wood cutters a few days ago. The members of Rev. W. T. Barbre’s congregation turned in but fifteen loads, and those under adverse conditions, due to the fact that no organized effort had been made to round up all of the wood choppers.