Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — TWO NEAR-FIRES CAUSE ALARMS [ARTICLE]

TWO NEAR-FIRES CAUSE ALARMS

Unnecessary to Have Called Department for One But Other Had a Bad Start. Two alarms of fire, one Monday evening and the other this Tuesday morning, caused the usual amount of general uneasiness. The first was sent in when an overheated stove in Ernest Ramey’s house in the northwest part of town set fire to the lace curtains. Ernest heard his wife cry out and he did the hero stunt by pitching the offending stove out of the house and smothering the curtains out. Some one sent in the alarm, w r hich was not necessary. The fire engine did not turn out, word that the fire was under control having reached the central office almost as soon as the alarm. Several members of the company were on hand, including the always ready Morris Moloney. This Tuesday morning shortly before 10 o’clock the Robert Michal property, occupied by the family of J. West, corner of Cullen and Rutsen streets, was discovered on fire bygone of the West children. The alarm brought the department out in a hurry. Again Morris Moloney was About the first one on the scene. He was in town in a buggy and hauled Harve Robinson and Carl Wood and a couple of chemical extinguishers to the scene of the fire. The flames had eaten a hole through the kitchen roof and in a short time would have caused lots of trouble. The chemicals soon subdued the fire. The hole that burned through the roof was large enough to let a man crawl through.