| Show SMOKE ALARMS HOTEL RESIDENTS About 4 o'clock Christmas day occupants occupants occupants oc oc- of of the Bank Dank Hotel were alarmed by the presence of a heavy bl black ck smoke which filled tho the whole building Roomers and the dining lining room force began to scramble about to discover the whereabouts of tho the blaze gathering up rugs and running for water to smother the flames It was first thought that the fire was waa In Inthe Inthe Inthe the bank Mrs Mra Purd Purdy wife of or the hc proprietor however soon discovered that the tho smoke was coming from the front upstairs room used by Sheriff Sherif Lewis as an office Without waitIng waiting wait wait- Ing lil for assistance she burst through the tho door wrenching- wrenching the screws of ofa a holder of a n Yale lock from tho the wood work worle as she did so What she aho found round was the she rifts riffs oil oU stove blazing very high and smoking so so 80 It was WM Impossible to see across the room A lamp was also burning high and smoking badly ball The lamp was put out and aUl tho the stove tove taken out side The sherriff In answer to a call from home homo to como come comoto to Christmas dinner had bad left the stove tove and lamp burning and they had ad automatically burned higher rind higher Aside from the shock of tho the scare Icare and a thick smutty residue left leftin lefton in on the walls and ceiling of the upstairs up- up up- up stairs rooms there was no o hurt |
