The new city commission met Monday evening at the city hall with the mayor and all comm. except H.C. Jones present. The most important matter taken up by the commission was the subject of purchasing a fire truck suitable to the needs of the city of Marion. Continue reading
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The grocery store of John Griffith at 307 S. Monroe, was destroyed by fire at noon Wed.
(Extracted from the Marion Daily Republican and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us/ )
A fire at 4 o’clock Sat. morning destroyed the tailor shop of Frank Norman in the rear of the Ford and Graves Barber shop on N. Market. Continue reading
Marion Fire Dept 1916 Engine
Marion’s twenty horse power fire truck purchased from the International Harvester Company could hardly ascend the hill from the fire barn to the square this morning when summoned to a fire in the rear of the Nance Store on West Main Street. Continue reading
February 12, 1916: About eleven o’clock last night, Fire Chief Harry Cash was again summoned to the bank building to extinguish a blaze that had started among the ruins of the burned structure. The blaze was not a serious one, but had been smoldering all day and had just broken into flames again. Continue reading