Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-01-23
THE CONSERVATION or FUEL.
Unusual Government Orders Carried
Out III Walhalla--Seneca Patriotic.

Out in Walhalla--SenecaP Patriotic. 3
Last Monday the stores Of Wall
'halla handling groceries and food
products Kept open till the noon hour
as usual closing at that hour in, con
formity with the orders Of Fuel Ad-t
ministrator GARFIELD, of the General
Government. Those stores not hands
ling either food products or drugs
remained closed all day. In those
stores in which food products and
drugs are handled, business was sus-
pended in other lines, the merchants
adhering to the order to the letter,
according to their interpretation OF
it. 81
One of the merchants of Seneca
who came to Walhalla Monday stated
that the Seneca merchants had as
body adhered to a policy Of closed
doors for the entire day, and at the
no when he left Seneca-10 O'Clock
a. m.--not store had opened a door,
and Seneca was as tightly closed as
OH Sundays.
The Walhalla Plant of the Victor.
Monaghan Cotton Mills Company,
plants affected by the orders banked
their fires Thursday night, keeping
only the fires necessary to maintain
the insurance protection intact and
to prevent injury by freezing. All
stores operated again Tuesday as
usual, and Will do so until next Mon
| day, when the fuel-saving orders for
closed Mondays until and including
March 25th, will again be effective.
The mills and manufacturing plants
resumed normal operations this
morning. Monday fire-banking will
be observed by them consistently
during the period fixed, or until, as
is possible, the fuel administration
| finds that conditions have so changed
| as to warrant resembling Of the or
ders.
The closing Of stores and manu-
featuring plants was carried out in
obedience to the following orders, is
sued Wednesday last and published
generally in the daily papers Of
Thursday:
Fuel Conserving Orders. I,
The United States Fuel Adminis-
traitor, acting under the authority of
an exc ecutiye}s ord Ter OF the President
s2f The gnttsd Y
traitor, In furtherance of the purposes
OF the act Of Congress therein re-
ferred to, approved August 1 O., 191 q,
and finding it essential effectively to
carry out the provisions of this act,
to make provision for q more ade-
quate supply Of fuel for railroads,
domestic consumers, public utilities,
and for other uses necessary to the
national security in certain parts of
the United States, hereby makes and
prescribes the following regulation.
Section Until further order of,
the United States Fuel Administra-
tor, all persons selling fuel in what
ever capacity shall, in filling their
contracts or orders now on hand, give
preference to necessary current re-
| quirements of: Railroads, domestic
consumers, hospitals, charitable in
stttutions, army and navy canton
ments, public utilities. by-product
plants supplying gas for household
use, telephone and telegraph plants,
shipping for bunker purposes, the
United States for strictly government
tai purposes (not including factories
or plants working on contracts for
the United States), manufacturers OF
perishable food or Of food for neces-
sary immediate consumption, and
municipal county or State govern
ments for necessary public uses. Any
tonnage remaining after the fore
going preferred shipments have been
made may be applied In filing any
other contracts or orders.
Section 2-On the following days,
| namely, January 18, 10, 90, 21 and
%, 1918, the State fuel administra-
| tors and their accredited representa-
tives In the various communities in
the territory in which regulation ap-
plies are hereby empowered and di-
| rected to divert such fuel as arrives
In such communities in carload lots
to meet the current requirements and
to provide an adequate and normal
supply Fer sdoh consumers of fuel
as are specified In Section 1 hereof.
Section 3-On the following days,
namely, January 1s, 10, 20, Fl and
%, 1918, and also on each and every
Monday, beginning January 28, 1918,
and continuing up to and Including
March %, 1918, no manufacturer or
manufacturing plant shall burn fuel
| or use power derived from fuel for
| any purpose, with the following ex-
ceptions:
(a) Plants which necessarily must
be continuously operated seven days
| each week to avoid serious injury to
the plant Itself or it's contents, may
use only such quantity of fuel as is
necessary to prevent such injury, to
the plant or it's contents.
(b) Manufacturers or plants man.
ufacturing perishable foods or foods
necessary for immediate consump-
tion.
(c) Manufacturers Of food not per-
ishable and not necessary for i1nme-
diate consumption may burn fuel to
the extent authorized by the fuel