Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — MILROY FARMHOUSE BURNED [ARTICLE]

MILROY FARMHOUSE BURNED

Dwelling on Sol Guth Farm Totally Destroyed Thursday Afternoon. The large farmhouse on the Sol Gwth farm, some two miles south of Crockett, cemetery, was totally destroyed by fire at about 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon, together with practically every article of household effects of the tenant. Jay Fosdick. When first discovered the entire top of the house was ablaze, and it is supposed the fire caught from a defective flue. Mr. Fosdick and most of the men of the neighborhood were away to a sale and therefore there was no one there in time to save any of the contents to speak of. The house was worth at least $2,000, it is said, and was insured in G. H. McLain’s agency for sl,600. Mr. Fosdick had about S6OO insurance on his household effects, it is understood. The farm is owned hy Sol Guth of Washington, 111.