The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-25
BUSINESS STOPS TO
SAVE COIL h ZERO
WEATHER AND SNOW
NO DISPOSITION TO EvADE FUEL
CONSERVATION ORDER OF MA
TiONAL ADMINISTRATOR.
RURAL NAIL CARR. RS START
People Spend Day ShoveIing Snow
and Gathering Fuel-Snow Was II
Inches Deep, Thermometer Down
70 Seven Below Zero Last Nieht,

With eleven inches of snow on the
ground and the thermometer register.
Ing Two below zero at eight O'Clock
Monday was as quiet and peace
rui as II it was Sunday. Only the
drug stores, restaurants and such
places as were permitted by the fuel
conservation order opened their
doors. Business men throughout the
city made most commendable effort
to comply with the order to the letter
and most of the workers Of the city
were enjoying an unasked and an un.
desired holiday.
The employees Of many of the bust.
ness houses spent the first hours of
the morning shoveling the great mass
OF snow from their sidewalks, while
others were engaged In hauling wood,
coal and gathering fuel In other ways.
Mrs. Joe w. Fleming of Ashwood,
cooperative government climatolog-
ical observer. reported this morning
that at one time last night the tenn.
perature was seven degrees below
zero and that at o'clock 1t had risen
to only two below. She said that the
snow that fell Saturday and Saturday
night was II inches on top of the
coat OF Ice that was already on the
ground. This made the tenth percep-
tible snow Of this winter that has been
counted by Mrs. Fleming. There have
been numerous other traces" of snow
that were not counted.
The fuel situation was somewhat
improved today, eight cars having
been received here Saturday for COM
mercial and domestic uses. With
what was left over from Saturday the
day started with five cars of coal in
the yards of the dealers and one other
car consigned to a mill available for
domestic use if needed
1t Is believed, of course. that the
closing of business houses Monday,
which is general throughout the coun-
ty, will reduce the consumption of
coal to such an extent that nothing
less than another extreme emergency
will bring about the conditions that
existed last week. Fuel Administra-
tor w, F. Anderson reported this
morning that the business men in all
sections Of the county, 80 far as he
could ascertain, had closed their
doors in compliance with the national
fuel conservation order
Chief of Police Tom Mclean spent
all day Sunday distributing coal to
the poor and directing the relief work.
He found much suffering, but thanks
to the liberality of the people of Co
lumbia and the receipt of a car of
coal for charity purposes the situation
was kept well in hand.
Not since the big snow of March
1892, has there been such a precipita.
ton as that which fell Saturday and
Saturday night 1t was from 10 to II
inches on level ground, but where 1t
had drifted 1t was from one to four
feet deep and many of the country
roads were impossible.
Notwithstanding the low tempera-
ture and the heavy snow the rural
mail carriers started on their routes
Monday morninE with instructions
from Mrs. f. W. Carmack, postmaster,
to do the best they could. She com.
mented them for their courage in
undertaking the trip, but insisted that
they take no risks. The carriers felt
that they owed it to the patrons o.
their routes to deliver the mail II /
possible and va''a ntly set ont on the
hazardous and ii.!i ,u!t journeys.