Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Small Blaze in Nowels House. [ARTICLE]

Small Blaze in Nowels House.

By some one carelessly throwing a burning cigar into a pile of shavings in the vacant room of the Nowels Block formerly occupied by the drug stock of F. B. Meyer, a fire was'.started which no doubt would havelproved serious had the discovery been'ddayed 15 minutes longer. - It had already burned s portion of the floor and was rapidly burning thru the wall into Wildberg’s clothing store when the smoke attracted the attention of workmen in the upstair rooms who were able to extinguish it without the aid of the fire department.