Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

TolograpMc Reports from Many Parts of tka Country SHMT OITS OF THE UNUSUAL The Last Cake of Ice In Hartford City, Ind., Was Sold to Families With Sickness—Loss to Merchants is Heavy.

Hartford City, Ind., July 10.— When the last 150-pound cake of ice in the storage houses here was split up and distributed in small pieces to families in which there was illness tonight, this city faced ice famine. For two days no ice has been sold generally in the residence districts and Saturday grocers, butchers, ice cream manufacturers, soda "fountain proprietors and saloon keepers pleaded in vain. There was no ice to be had and the dealers declared they had been met in other cities with' refusals to their applications shipments. ’• - Saloons served warm beer to those of their patrons that cared for it. Church socials were cancelled because ice cream had become fluid at the factories. Soda fountains ceased to fizz. Meat and other perishable food is regarded as a dead loss by doleful tradesmen.

Most serious was the condition of the sick in the lack of ice, and physicians said deaths within the next few days might be directly traced to the heat and the ice famine.