Show BURNED TO THE GROUND centreville Cen en treville coop reduced to ashes early sunday morning loss insurance the Cent eville coop co op storo building t 10 with its con outs utterly destroyed by 0 lire o at at it i very early hour sunday morning tho the loss of tile tho wild build ing a and the go goods 0 ds is estimated at between and there 1 hore was insurance on oil arfe goods und and 1000 on all thu au buildings 1 1 T the lie acco accounts lints of the business transacted from the first of the month to to tile the time of the fire also went up lu in smoke as the firm used one one of McCask ys registers which W filch is too large 0 1 to admit of being put in the safe they r made a practice of putting u eting the balances blanc qs of the several accounts t irto into a ledger at the end of each month which ledger was pretty well intact when it was taken fiigon atit of the sate safe after the ahe tire fire there was an unusually large amount of business done don 1 e the first of W this in month anth as a good many of o f thola the farmers brought in grain on account in the mccasky system system the balance due the customer or merch merchant ant is always shown with each transaction and the customer is given a bill with t the goods or when he pays grain cash or anything on account so the following monday morning the proprietors prie tors called at the homes wpc p cheji customers and in almost W every ie ca able to findal find their hf e if last statement so they will not lose e much from their book counts ahe the buildings were rustic with the ilia exception of tile the granary which stood at the rear and wa of iStone no nio goods or i anything be saved the heat anva waid 5 so int onse that it crumbled the stone in the wall of the granary 1 1 glass gass fruit jars mr campbell was the loser of ixil sixty bushels of grain which ho he had le left their saturday night cl f for J or safe k keeping cepin the firm had received their tall stock of good and had a good d deal ea of leour hour to supply the fall trade the granary contained considerable grain ai it is thought the fire must lust 11 have ave started a little before bedfor c 2 elock 6 inthe in the morning but no one has hag the slightest idea 0 of f its origin mrs F frank rank smith was the birst one bile to see it and herdius her husband at once called henry cleveland and his father who wore were the fir first st ou on the ground they found the north side of the building gall all in flames soon the south half of the store roof fell in the rafters on the north side which held them in place having given away then the fire be gan ta W ooze out through tho cracks inthe in the rustic on oil the south walland wall and shortly after it ft fell iu too then tho the west half of tin granary roof fell in followed b the east half their falling in side of the tall stone stoa e walls main thing that tha t kept daviu horsleys Hor residence which r only a few feet away from got goi tin ting 0 on fire it was foit fortunate that therk then was rio no wind as there wert wei houses close to the store on thre sides and although ra a large m crowt had gathered it would have bew impossible to prevent the fir from spreading as there was n donough rh water to do anything witti with the J J T cherry would avoult surely lra have y ve gone as it wa not much more inore than fifty feet from a hay shed that belonged to the store that was burned the store was in ashes by 3 an hour af after ter the tha fire had been discovered ben br brown own turned out the electric lights and closed the store about a quarter to nine saturday night and wont went to choir practice tico his fits partner carlos carlds smith had boon to the city that day and brought up a load of goods tile the ff fire ro a of schei com pany pady with w which the they y were insured are in baho and Arl arizona zoua so 0 they have not yot yet been around to miko make a settlement and until they do it will bo be ain possible impossible for the proprietors to decide just they will do they have a number of propositions offered them mr streeper oper has offered them his store in the north end of centreville Cen treville and then they have a two years lease on 0 L smiths store tile the wholesale houses with which they have been dealing offer to stock them up a again ain the property belonged to ben ban brown and ana carlos smith who had purchased the same saine from stanley parrish ando L smith tho the buildings were ored erected teI in about 1870 about 1890 the late joel parrish came in possession of tho the store and run it up to a few years before his death when some of his sons f took ook charge chang 0 of it it prospered one year the store paid a thirty I 1 four percent per cent dividend burglars entered tho the store upon ona a number of different occasions but never mover got much money the old cafe which ch went ili this ore was blown up three 0 or four times |