The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-25
EXPLANATION OF
MONDAY CLOSING
ORDER N STATE
COLUMBIA AND MT. PLEASANT
BUSINESS MEN READY TO CON-
PLY WITH REGULATIONS.
Only HiCtSl1lts PAINTED
SOFT Drinks, Cigars and Other Non
Essentials Under Ean-Food Factor.
les Permitted to Cperate-Defini-
ton OF Fuel.

les Permitted to Cperate-UeTin'-
ton Of Fuel.
With the business men and manu-
tacturers Of Columbia, Mt. Pleasant
and all sections OF Naury county striv.
ng to comply with every detail OF
he drastic fuel conservation order OF
he federal fuel administrator, little
difficulty in settling down to = com.
)iete understanding Of the order is
expected by County Administrator
Anderson.
State administrator Nyer has issued
statements explanatory OF the order
showing that fuel includes anything
hat will burn other than natural
las. Power derived from water may
% used.
Although garages were not closed
during the five-day period but they
will not be permitted to use fuel on
Mondays.
No heat will be allowed In any
building on Mondays subject to the
closing orders other than 10 degrees
necessary to prevent freezing Of
water pipes.
Drug stores can operate all day
Mondays, but only for the purpose OF
dispensing drugs and surgical dress
ings. No soft drinks, cigars or sim.
liar non-essent!als can be sold.
Office buildings ON Mondays can
furnish heat only to the following Of
fees: Those occupied by physicians,
dentists, officers or employees of the
United States government, postof
fices, handlers OF coal or other fuel,
banks, telephone or telegraph compan.
les, state or county officials. The
halls Of the buildings cannot be heat,
ed.
Where these buildings get power to
operate their elevators from individ
ual steam plants. they will be allowed
to run only a sufficient number Of
elevators to take care of the people
N the building entitled to fuel.
Church, school, bakeries and food
manufacturing and storing plants viii
DO entitled to fuel. Retail food hand
ling concerns may open until noon
Mondays.
Hotels may use fuel only so far az
is necessary for heating the sleeping
rooms and for cooking No barber
shops or other stores or businesses in
the hotel building can be heated.
DR.. H. A. Morgan. federal food id.
ministrator for Tennessee, yesterday
evening received the following tele
gram wro United States Food Admin
istrator Hoover relative to the appli
cation Of the fuel order to the food
handling industries:
"You are hereby authorized to give
q liberal Interpretation to Garfields
coal order in respect to all food trades
and industries pertaining therto, such
as elevators, potato and vegetable
warehouses. cold storage, all forms of
grain storage, grain and feed mills,
cereal products, manufacturers, bsk-
ers, Gamers, driers, milk dealers
creameries, condensers, and all other
milk products manufacturers, packing
and slaughter houses ice and refrig-
erator dealers, sugar manufacturers.
commission. wholesale and retail
trade, and in fact every sort Of food
handling, preserving, manufacturing
and distributing agencies. Beyond
this | repeat our instructions of yes
terday.
You are authorized to exempt from
the order all industries whose con-
tinuous operation is necessary in or.
der to preserve the uninterrupted con.
duct Of all direct food trades and In
dustries. Indirect industries include
sach items as manufacturers OF baks,
binder twine, ammonia and fsl till.
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