Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1916 — Fire Prevention Program Next Monday Evening. [ARTICLE]

Fire Prevention Program Next Monday Evening.

Next . Monday evening, October 9, will be the forty-fifth anniversary of the great Chicago fire, caused by Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lamp and starting a conflagration which ended in practically the complete destruction of the city. Throughout •the United States Monday will be known as Fire Prevention Day, and fitting ceremonies will be held. Fire Chief Montgomery, head of the local fire laddies, with Superintendent Dean of the Rensselaer public schools, has arranged a small program for Rensselaer people this day starting at 7 o’clock in the evening, when the local fire company will make an exhibition run from the public square to the school house. The run will be made promptly at 7 o’clock. After the fire run th?re will be addresses made by E. P. Honan, Moses Leopold, Chief Montgomery and others" at the school house auditorium, to which the general public is invited. The purpose of this meeting will be to instill into the minds of the younger generation the hazard of fire and the loss that accrues each year from fire and to teach them how to reduce" the enormous fire loss each year.