Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — BAD FIRE NEAR KENTLAND. [ARTICLE]

BAD FIRE NEAR KENTLAND.

Large Barn, Eleven Head of Horses and Threshing Outfit Destroyed. A large barn that had just been filled with hay and grain was destroyed on the J. K. Morrison farm occupied by George Long, west of Kentland Monday night at 9 o’clock. Eleven head of horses, a threshing outfit, all the wagons, tools, etc., were destroyed. There was but sl,000 insurance on the barn and contents, but a subscription paper circulated among the charitable of the neighborhood to assist the owner of the threshing outfit to purchase a new machine, raised over SSOO. The fire was discovered too late to save the contents and it was a struggle for the volunteer fire fighters to save the house. The origin of the fire is unknown.