Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — ARE PREPARING FOR WINTER [ARTICLE]

ARE PREPARING FOR WINTER

(Ohl King Ooalelgnored By Parochial School. Some twenty or twenty-five mem-' bers of St. Augustine’s church gave old “King Coal’’ another kick in ' the slats Wednesday by going out to the Kanne grove, just at the west edge of town, and cutting about thirty loads of wood and hauling it in for heating the parochial school building this winter. The wood is from the tops of trees cut down by Mr. Kanne last winter, the bodies of which were sawed into bridge lumber. Probably a hundred loads of wood or more has been or ’will be hauled from this grove, which will help out the fuel situation in Rensselaer quite a bit the coming winter. The action of tfie fuel administrators in urging people to put in their winter’s supply of fuel early has bad a good effect, and it is scfacely probable that we will have any serious shortage of fuel the coming winter, or at least pothing like the conditions we had last winter, which was brought about largely by the snow blockade on the railroads. It is also probable that the hard coal supply will be much better than anticipated earlier in the season, because of so many people laying in their supply earlier than usual