Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1912 — Fire Came Almost Destroying Country Residence Saturday. [ARTICLE]

Fire Came Almost Destroying Country Residence Saturday.

Saturday evening the farm residence of Alton Grant, one mile west of town, came almost being destroyed by fire. Lace curtains caught fire from a lamp in the hands of Mr. Grant’s daughter. He was attracted by his daughter’s eall for help and succeeded in putting out the flames although he burned his hands quite a little. The damage that resulted is estimated at $25. Miss Carrie Dickenson, who was called here from Oneida. N. Y., to attend the funeral of her brother, Elmer Dickenson, who met death at Belle Plaine, lowa, will go to Remington tomorrow to visit J. W. Burlings and family and will go from there to Logansport to visit her sister, Mrs. Mae Farmer, and from there to her father’s home in New York. Her brother’s 'trunk was received from Hudson, lowa. It contained among other things deposit slips totaling S7OO on the First National Bank at Great Falls, Mont, where he formerly worked. It is not known for certain whether the money is still deposited there but it is believed that it is. The deposit slips were sent to the young man’s father, Reuben Dickenson, at Oneida, N. Y , and he will investigate. No further particulars of Elmer’s death were learned.