Those who went early to Sunday School at the Warder Street Baptist Church yesterday morning found an unusually warm welcome for just about Sunday School time the house of worship was filled with blinding smoke that drove old and young into the streets. The prompt arrival of the fire department boys and their efficient work confined the blaze to the newly decorated kitchen. New cabinets that had been made and installed during the summer months to care for the new dishes and silverware were ruined as well as the ceiling installed the past summer was all that saved the building from what might have been a very destructive fire. Damage is estimated at from $200 to $300 as no harm was done the main auditorium outside of smoke. The children’s division gathered in the auditorium and a brief session of Sunday School was held and a service of Thanksgiving followed with a brief message by the pastor. In speaking of the fire, pastor Pearce voiced his high appreciation of the firemen who arrived so promptly and extinguished the blaze without doing damage to the main auditorium and withholding use of water or ax upstairs when it was thought necessary in locating the blaze.

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