Fire discovered at 4:30 am Wed. in an apartment on the second floor of the W.T. Holland building on N. Market St. was extinguished by the quick work of firemen who confined it to two second floor rooms. Firemen were summoned to the apartment by a telephone call and when they arrived found windows in two rooms had been broken by the heat and flames were leaping through the open spaces giving the appearance that the whole building was afire. A few minutes stiff battle with dense smoke flames with the fire hose quelled the flames without damage to the roof or to the store rooms below. Inside the two rooms where the fire raged, however furniture and wood work was charred by the flames. No one was home at the time of the blaze, the origin of which was not determined by the firemen. Mr. and Mrs. Holland were said to be in Hot Springs, Ark. and in their absence the apartment had been occupied by Mrs. Holland’s son, Pat Kelley, who was also away at the time of the fire. Early arrival of the firemen and their prompt work in putting out the fire prevented what in all probability would have been a disastrous fire since the entire block would have been menaced had the fire continued.

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