Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1909 — Almost Had a Bad Fire Last Saturday Night. [ARTICLE]

Almost Had a Bad Fire Last Saturday Night.

The prompt discovery of a small fire Saturday evening is all that averted a serious conflagration. It occurred at the Wright furniture store at about 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Wright was sitting in the store, and happened to glance up at the side wall.and see one of his large rugs which hung there, partly enveloped in' smoke. He lost no time in investigating the matter, while some one turned in a fire alarm. A dash from a chemical engine put the fire out and then the cause was plainly discernable. When the room was papered, the paper was hung over a flpe hole without a thimble being placed tn the hole. Louis Gen ires, the fruit man, who occupies the room to the east, built a Are In his stove during the cool days last week and It finally burned the paper and Ignited the rug. Had it happened at night, there Is no telling how disastrous the fire would have been. As It was there was no.loss aside from a hole burned through the rug, and some stain of the wallpaper.