Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1909 — MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE. [ARTICLE]

MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.

The shrill screeching of the fire whistle Saturday evening at about 7 o’clock startled everyone in general, and it was with a great deal of relief that they learned that no damage in particular had been done before the fire was put out. A flue hole in W. J. Wright’s furniture store had been covered over with wall paper when the room was fixed up for him, and when Louis Genires, on the opposite side of the brick wall, started a fire in his stove this paper caught fire and communicated to Wright’s, burning a hole in a rug on the wall, burning a hole in the same. No further damage resulted.