Show PRICE FIRE department DEPA Lr aMMENT small but enthusiastic crowd meet in news office and form Organ organization kation ROBT me aune IS CHIEF cliff most patriotic movement Move meat held la in pwe for some time past robt mckune manager 0 of f the mckune forwarding company called an n assemble meeting to order in the office of the carbon darbon county new even evening evenna ng he also gave a splendid edid talk of the great need of an efficient fire department for the city of price which was to the effect that a the la is nothing more needful at this time than an organized force to fight fire and gave hint hints on the needed equipment including a system of determining where the fire is and the nearest plug to the fire he suggested that the be numbered that every member of the department knew where the plugs are and the easiest and quickest way to reach raa plugs joe barton made along the line of pf apparatus and organization saying that the town has enough hose when properly used to finch any bouse house in town john kay suggested BUg a well organized and trained lot of young men man who would always be near to take charge of the hose cart in care cate of fire J W hague gave a talk on giving entertainments for the purpose of calving money and keeping up an interest N E geymont offered the service of his firm in securing curing ae all needed equipment at cost and suggested that a committee of three be appointed to canvass the town for fuda it wai was suggests td by b the chair that there be a forma formal organization per fectea and me mr seamount Sey mount nominated robt M mckune seconded by mr tev ten ant and the ays elected electea mckune the chial of the pasico fira fire department mr barton says he has a fire alarm about ready it is an old circular haw saw and nd that a or two on it will make sound enough to be keara heard in any part of town it wll be sta stationed tinned at the fire depart department meAt headquarters in the rear of the coop cop co op p store near the telephone office and ft it will be the duty of the operator to bound the fire alam the minute it Is found that anyone telephones a fire mr barton suggested an ordinance forbidding th thui copening opening ot of faucet faucets or the permit permitting tint of water to be used at all during a fue and that water should not be permitted to escape from hydrants after a certain pertain hour in the evening binca sine the flow of water has a tendency to weaken the force should a fire occur other members of the new fire company took part in the discussion of the means and wa ways ys of the comak company ay iy being of the moat value to the town it was discovered that the town has seven fire lire plugs feet of hose and three reels including tho the railroad reel it was suggested that the fire department part ment secure a lot of buckets and havi them in readiness for any emergency gency it we wa di dl t jad before tw cle meeting adjourned thit the elected for the evening abild hold office only until another meeting could be held where a representative number of citizens could d be had and deeded de ded to hold a meeting in I 1 the town hall the following evening thursday june 30 the meeting at town hall last evening consisted of a statement by robt mckune of what had been done on the previous evening suggestions were asked for end and mayor W F FOI olson aon suggested that robt mckugo be elected chief of theorice the price volunteer fire department part ment and the motion carried J W hague then made a motion to confirm all the officer officers elected selected on wednesday evening motion carried thia this gave to the city of price a regularly organized ted volunteer ore depart departs ment with the following officers root hemre macku Mc Ku chief joe barton assistant nesie chief N a seamount Say Sey maunt mount treasurer I 1 V V to bemant anant secretary 14 E seamount Sey mount and J W hague and they to choose another is the nuance finance committee henry keelly esthe membership com cittee the boys will meet at the town ball heal saturday evening and receive their appointments point ments the several captains will select from the names of the parties enrolled as bemben pem nem ben bers their assistants in their thir fire district the chief and captains cap taina will give instruction st At in n fire fighting during the meeting the boys are promised support from the city council and turn business men and properly property owners in everything which will make more secure the property in the city from possible fire the boys are all and will rill give price the best fire department of its kind 1 in the state and we will feel mora safe as property dro perty owners that we may buld with some degree of certain ity that we have good fire are protection the names of the members of the price volunteer fire department are aber leo leonard ras frandsen june bryner joe lloyd lt W miller royal Fr frandeen adsen harry bryner harry brown robt mckune J joe 08 barton N X E geymont Sey mont 1 W hague chas johnston L C ewing paul glen Ball ballinger irger edwin frye fry claud empey V R whitmore harvey thomas frank owens J H mcdonald M harmon H C smith attorney achs belly jess oss barlow wm urea ursa ser hirry harry owens henry shelly dm clin palmer john koy Ky win Wro robb ch chas a S greenwood 9 C miles C W ti ting na ley V V tennant |