Fire discovered in the West Side Shoe Repair Shop shortly after six o’clock Monday night was extinguished without serious damage after it had given threat of spreading to other rooms in the block. The blaze originated near a chimney which has openings both into the shoe shop and into a store room of the B.F.J. Furniture store adjacent on the east. It appeared to have started in the partition between the two rooms or in the attic just above it. The actual fire damage was confined to a hole in the partition and in the ceiling near the chimney. Harry Cooper, newspaper agent discovered the blaze and ran the two blocks to the fire station to report it. When firemen arrived the building was full of smoke. The source of the blaze was discovered in a short time, however and the fire extinguished. As some of the smoke began pouring into the store room of the furniture store, C.E. Monroe who operates the tailor shop next door began carrying his stock of suit materials and customers suits. The precaution was unnecessary however. The main store of the B.F.J. Furniture Co. was not entered by smoke as that section of the store is in a building separated from the store room by the tailor shop and a fire wall.

(Extracted from local newspapers and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us )