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Show ODD FELLOWS' HALL BURNED-TOTAL LOSS TO REBUILD AT ONCE; - i The Odd Fellow's building burned burn-ed this morning at live o'clock, and is a total loss. Smoke was discovered coining out of the rear of the building on Main street, at about four-forty-tivo 'his morning, by 'he fireman on He witch engine. Milo Hardy, Harry Coon. si ml ''lair Nichols turned in the alarm, but it was some time before mov" help arrived and the hose was fro.-n so badly that it was some tit:'" before be-fore water could be ".' "n lire which in the meantime had a good I start. 1 There wa- no wind, but it was bit- tor cold the thermometer reris'.er-I reris'.er-I intr oovti belov- zero. This T.iai1'-! T.iai1'-! the work of the fire-f r-V, rP v. rv ''''-I ''''-I cult. Fire-Pgbting airatu- from tao railroad shops and doro v.-er- r--quis;tionod and with that a ' ! equipment, the fire va ei"on e.n-; e.n-; der control, but the building and nil the contents of the upper floor v a-; a-; a total loss. Mr. Wm. Brown who occurred M'- lower floor with a pool hall, saved 'part of his stock and equipment. The only thinsrs savd by the Oibr Fellows, were their chapter and tho'r books. ! The paraphanolia. hooks ami ! 'sV cp belonging to the Rehokah.- w re entirely destroyed, a- was 'bo r-nv rdevor piano belontr-nc to t'o, ei, -'t,:; treat. Other orders which he'd their meetings in the ball lo ;' everything. every-thing. The building was put up by the odd Fellows 12 years ago, at a inst of $S.imm) and only a little over : year ago, they celebrated the burning burn-ing of I lie mortgage, as a token of '.he hist indebtedness. Their furniture anil regalia was valti'-d at $3,5110. The total loss to building and contents is estimated at about $14,501). divided as follows: I.os of building $8,0i0; Wm. Brown, los- to Pool Hall $15un; Rein Re-in kah lodge. $ 900; Odd Fellows furnishings fur-nishings etc. $3500; other lodges $ i', '1 0 . Everything was moved out of the Gillins apartment house on the second sec-ond floor of the Boyter building, and some of the more valuable equipment, equip-ment, was taken from the Kinema theatre; nNo everything was taken 'mm the VanWormer garage on the nor'h cf the fire. The fire is sappos'd to haveorlgin-at"d haveorlgin-at"d from a defective tin flue stopper stop-per over a thimble in the rhimney. which is in the party wall between the Boyter building and the Odd Fellows Fel-lows building. Eventually this stopper stop-per had become loose, and hot soot or coals had dropped to the floor of i the building and' started the fire. I The fire demonstrates Milford's , need for an organization to fight 1 fire and to better care for what ap-1 ap-1 nratus it has. Grand Master Harvey ClufT has been sent a telegram, asking that he ' n here at a meeting to be held to-niirbt. to-niirbt. ?.t which plans and ways and means will be discussed for the erec-!on erec-!on of a much larger and better building. |