Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1914 — Otterbein Stores Are Wrecked By Fire. [ARTICLE]

Otterbein Stores Are Wrecked By Fire.

■I, A destructive fire started at 3 o’clock this morning in the rear of “The Clincher,” a moving picture theatre at Otterbein, operated by Gath Shoemaker, who was married at Lafayette yesterday. The flames spread from the theatre to John Maxwell’s Jewelry store and to JL M. Chenoweth’s undertaking establishment. All these rooms are frame and one Story high. They are owned by William Walsh. The fire broke through the building on the south occupied by Joe Hirzel as a pool room and set fire to the brick building on the north occupied by John Templiri, furniture dealer. An effort was made to save the stock carried by Hie men chants, but most of it was burned. The origin of the fire is not known.