Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1916 — Gnats Cause Fire Alarm. [ARTICLE]

Gnats Cause Fire Alarm.

Janesville, Wls.—An alarm of the other evening brought two companies of the department to the First Congregational church. An excited individual “flagged” down the equipment and pointed to the steeple with ♦he information that the blaze was inside it Investigation showed a great dense swarm of gnats about the spire. This was the “smoke.”