Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Hardware and Implement Business at Lee Bunted. [ARTICLE]

Hardware and Implement Business at Lee Bunted.

Fire Friday afternoon destroyed the building and much of the stock of Ray Stiers’ hardware and implement store at Lee. The building caught fire, it is thought, from the flue, at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Some of the stock was saved but the greater part of it was bunted. Mr. Stiers bought the store some tim6 ago from Alton Clark. It is understood that the stock was insured for SI,OOO and the building for S9OO, but that this will not nearly cover the loss.