Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Sod House Heated by Steam. [ARTICLE]

Sod House Heated by Steam.

A steam heating plant in. a.aod house is one of the latest signs that the star of HVilhration is gradually wending its waySwestward. The home of Frank Gilh'THo, a farmer near the city of Bonesteel, 8* D., is now heated with a thoroughly modern plant, just Installed by an eastkrnl heating appliance manufacturer. Gillispie la well to do. and saya he has not had time to erect g brick home, but does not intend to-*o without the comforts of steam heat in his sevenleom sod ko'iss.