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Show 40 YEARS AGO . . . From the Files .... DELTA'S FIRST FIRE Contents Entirely Consumed Contens Entirely Consumed Between 7 and 8 o'clock last Thursday morning (Jan. 4, 1912) the large frame store of S. W. Kc-cles Kc-cles & Son on Clark Street went up in flames, nothing being saved but Mrs. Eccles' sewing machine. (This was a long article, and told of how the fire was caused by a coal stove that exploded.. The family were cut off upstairs and had to get out through a window at back and over the kitchen kit-chen roof.) The family was not even able to save any wearing aparell and wprp pynnspd to the stineiner mor- ning air in their night clothes. Both Mr. and Mrs. Eccles had their bare feet frost bitten on the snowy and freezing ground. The family was at once taken to the hospitable hospit-able home of Mrs. N. S. Bishop, where their needs were taken care of. DELTA The cold weather of the past few weeks has made a big demand for coal, and N. S. Bishop has disposed dis-posed of four car loads in the past two weeks. It .takes only about 2 days for a car load to be cleaned out, and if you delay getting your supply when a car comes in you are likely to go without. Mr. Bishop Bish-op has several more cars on the way, and a good many, including the editor are anxiously awaiting it. Although the new depot is not quite completed inside , Agent Hawes has moved in and he feels as proud as if someone had given him a bungalow. The Chronicle has added a tele-I tele-I phone to its equipment and when . you want the editor ring two short and two long calls. This makes twenty-seven subscribers oh the Delta exchange. ' OASIS . Cold!. Well, I guess At ; is,: the coldest weather in many-year., The , weather bureau estimates: the temperature tem-perature down to IS below zero. That is going some. A number of people arc putting up ice for summer use. It looks as though it would be plentiful 'next summer. DriAi feaby!kba.yf!iwaso;bQrn)Lat) ,the; Jap foreman's last week, the first , Japanese,, orn jii0theri county. (.Dri j ."pamronin attendance,. 7;,n ., OAK CITY bs .; f v?, puring he pas w(eek.Yerybpay has been busily engaged In puttirig' :up"rlce.'; Approkiratejy; ' 300 :'tons oi ice has. been put up.: Without a doubt the people's intentions are good arid- ought to keep cool riext 'surrim'erP mi uoo vuvifr.b "o gr.: As a result of the rabbltowai last Wednesday 735 rabbits lost their lives. Arthur Talbot was the champion, killing 62 rabbits. .ColUs Lyman's sideVbeat jEwing - Jacob-son's Jacob-son's by 148 rabbits as : a,: result the losers giving1 the winners a big dance Friday night.' 7 |
