Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1906 — FIREMEN MADE A RUN. [ARTICLE]

FIREMEN MADE A RUN.

The'first genuine fire akarm-sinee tlhe new company and the -new hose wagon have beeu in action, oecured about six o’clock, Friday evening. FfreCLief Montgomery is aot in 'tewh. and brace Hardy,- owner aiuF driver of the city fire team, was iu his residence rooms, ever the engine konse. taking a bath tit the time, an indulgence wfkieh can . be excused itrSiim this time, on ac «©uut of his youth au4 promise uot to let it happen again. He got doten into the engine bouaeiin good time in -spite-of these embarrassing conditions, though aa inventory of his-articles of apparnei would have shown many’deficießces (from the usual number. The team was hitch •ed on and the start oracle in e xeel - leut time, as was also the 'run out to the -scene-© f the alarm, which was Erastsss Peacock's house, out aaeartbe west limits of town. ' M-r. and Mrs. Pe&eock and the -older boy were all away from home and the younger boy was trying to start a tire in the stove, using coal oil, and bad some of the oil in a dish. The oil got on fire and rau over the stove and down to the floor and upon some chairs, starting quite a blaze. Win. Washburn, the nearest neighbor, soon arrived and had the fire out before the fire company arrived. X© material damage was done.