Fire at 9:30 pm Wed. destroyed the frame building across the highway from the U.S. Veterans Hospital known as Dixie Barbecue.The blaze was reported to the Marion Fire Dept. by persons living in the vicinity. The rear of the building was in flames when the firemen arrived. Unable to save the building because of the lack of water supply and because of the headway the flames had gained before they arrived, the firemen bent their efforts to the saving of houses and outbuildings nearby. Although the flames from the burning building menaced the nearby structures, the damage was confined to the one building. So far as firemen could determine, no one was in the building when it caught fire and the origin of the blaze was not learned.

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