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Show The work of our volunteer firemen in Pingham is worthy of special mention from time to time and the rapidity with which ! they have quenched the flames which have started to destroy property here is seldom equalled by the various paid fire fighters! in other cities of the state. Our boys do this work without compensation, com-pensation, and yet they perform it more readily than many of the firemen who are under a salary throughout the year. Many other j towns have more expensive fire apparatus than has Bingham, but! nevertheless few succeed in stopping the flames as quickly as the local firemen. In fact the short time in which our local firemen have reached the scene of the fire has done much toward reducing the rate of fire insurance in this camp. The rate is still too high, ' but this is no fault of our local firemen. |