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Show ICE PLANT STRIKE RELEASES FUMES "Gosh, It Sure Do . Smell Sumpin Awful" Says the Ice Kid Early arrivers' upon the street in the vicinity of Jeffer- son Mercantile company's store Thursday morning had a fair sample of what the soldiers in war trenches have to overcome when their opponents start a "foul gas attack." People in the neighborhood were awak- ened about 4 o'clock by the air being so heavily charged with ammonia that they had vi- sions of a German raid. It was no trouble to locate the cause of the loud odor. You could "hear" it I for blocks. A telephone call aroused George Jefferson and informed him-that his ice plant had "blown up." Hurrying Hurry-ing down to the store, Mr. Jefferson found it impossible to reach the interior in-terior of the store owing to the overwhelming over-whelming odor of ammonia. When the rear of the place where die ice plant is located was finally reached it was found that the belt on the pump, which is supposed to run continuously con-tinuously day and night, had broken brok-en and the water had ceased to flow. The entire day was spent in getting things adjusted in the ice making department, and the nostril aceus- t.ome-1 to tne overcharged ozone. It would have been a grand chance for a demonstration of efficiency of the government's first aid car and the equipment, vlirch was here last wec-k ' giving instructions local miners. A |
