Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1906 — Lots of Ice And Mighty Nice. [ARTICLE]

Lots of Ice And Mighty Nice.

Rensselaer ice packers resumed their harvest Wednesday and today Saturday will see most of them finished up, their houses being filled with as fine a quality of from 7 to 10 inch ice as was ever put up in Rensselaer Cooney Keller, who expects to pay careful at' ution to the retail ice business mis summer, worked Wednesday and Thursday nights as well as tin- ast four days of the week and ha- put up about 1,200 tons. He h• t 30 men employed. Mdody & Roth put up about 150 tons, Eigle>bavh about 200 tons, and Strick’vl«n 175 tons. T. W. 11 us and F. W. Bedford, could not ©cure hands to help them at t 1 > < time and expect to put up th- r supply next week.