Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1912 — CARELESSNESS WAS CAUSE OF NEAR-FIRE [ARTICLE]

CARELESSNESS WAS CAUSE OF NEAR-FIRE

Paperhaager Had Left Paper Over Flutj* Holes at Monnett Home —Department Was Called. The alarm of fire was sounded Friday evening a little befooe 6 o’clock and the fire department made a good run to the Monnett Home and Watts iePeyster School for Girls. The trouble proved not to be serious, a hit of good fortune that was occasioned by its early discovery. Tlife paperhanger had papered over the flue holes in the house and thoughtlessly had not removed the paper and replaced the thimbles in the flues. The home formerly been heated with stoves but now a .heating plant is used and it was fired up to a good heat Friday and the paper over one of the flues caught fire. The blazing paper fell to a bed hi one of the upstairs rooms. Had it not been discovered at once or had it occurred at night serious consequences would have ensued. This near-bad accident should serve as a warning -to all paperlwngers to never leave a house with paper pasted over an exposed Hue hole. This is a good season of the year to use the classified columns in The Republican. Advertise whatever you have "for sale. You will thus find a, buyer with the cash. The jiffy curtains are a feature of the R-C-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public.