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Guy’s Bakery Completely DestroyedAnd The Drug Store Building Damaged Many Hundred Dollars.One of^the most destructive fires that has visited Republic in more than twenty years, was that which started in the F. A. Guy Babery early Wednesday morning.Dr. Langrall, who rooms at the Aspegren hotel discovered the fire at 2:30 Wednesday morning and at once turned in the alarm, centralsounded the fire siren and in a very® - - . — •few minutes most of the people of Republic were on the streets and the hose carts brought out and in ten minutes the fire had been put out but not until the entire building andcontents were destroyed-In the Stover building is the S. E. Arbuthnot drug store, Ross Laport the Jewerel, Ray Moore’s Radio and Electrical Shop and on the upper floor of the building Dr. Langrall has his offices and the Republic Club .their card room. None of the stock in the Doctor’s offices or the drug store was damaged by the fire, but the furniture in the Club Room was damaged and also sone of the stock of Laport and Moores’.The north half of the east wall of the Stover building gave way and fell over into the old bank building.The roof on the barber shop was so damaged that a new one had to replace the old one.The bakery was located in the* old Republic State Bank building and the directors of the Republic State Bank owned the building, which we are told by them, was fully insured.Mr. Guy carried insurance on,the/ftBj A.,- i J •■p* •• 'V - . M» i .bakery but has not been able to find his policy and does not know the ex-*ClVnq?nt* «' . . ** - %The brigin of the fire is a mystery and no one has the least idea how it was started.The site of the old bank building we hope, will be purchased by someone. who will put up a modern building in the very near future.The loss of the Bakery to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Guy will be very keenly felt, as they have told us that vras about all they had since the bank closed the first of the year. Their circumstances are implorable and they are at a loss just now slk to any future plans. _ aIt may be a long time before we will again have a bakery in Republic. The one just destroyed by fire was less than a year old although it was enjoying a very liberal patronage and Mr. Guy tells us that it was a good paying investment. We hope tjiat some other party will think sufficient business in the bakery line can be obtained here and put in another bakery as good as the one we had.
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Republic City News
Republic, Kansas, US
Thu, Sep 29, 1927
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