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Three Fire AlarmsOver WeekendAfter weeks of inactivity, the fire pumper made three runs over the weekend Friday morning it was called out about 10 o’clock to extin-uish a large weed fire at the Rob-rt Callaghan property on the Fayetteville road. The fire, which had •cad over a large area, was ex-ished with the aid of paddies ’unday morning the pumper made a •in to the farm of Walter Beisiegel, •• of the Red Ray strip mine. ;'trel was working in a field t* the ‘house when his wife discovered a fire in a brooder house id small corn granary There was ~irre mistake in location given the ire pumper as it went as far south * Five Forks before turning around and coming back to the strip mine nd The two small sheds were bend saving, but Mr Beisiegel was ^ry very lucky that the wind was blowing the fire aw3y from other nearby buildings There was no water on th« place except a well and cistern. Buildings included a machine Iphed and a barn. 150 bales of clover hay and straw were in the granary and were burned up. Damage wjs ! estimated at $500. The hay and straw was insured, but not the buildings Origin of the fire was unknown, but it is believed it started from spontaneous combustion.VILLAGE TO GET $1500FOR ENGINEERING FEES*%IAt Monday night’s meeting of the village board, Clerk Robert Browning rt ad a letter he had received from the IlLnois Post War Planning Commission in answer to his inquiry if the Village would not be entitled to engineering fees for the building of the new diesel electric plant in accordance with rules of the com- [ mission. The letter stated that the4 Village would be reimbursed approximately $1500 for engineering fees after the oom miss ton has received certified copies of the executed contract between the village and the National Supply Company Browning said these would be forwarded to the commission as soon as the National Supply furnishes the neces-sc *y papersBrowning also read a letter from the State Highway Department in which the department turned down a request of the village for flasher signals across the hard road at two different intersections in the village. The highway department agreed to help the village reduce the speeding through town and the board accepted .he » m r ani asked the Clerk to inform the highway department] that they were ready to cooperate with the State Police. It was also oo i n ted out that State Hi eh wav FV»-Uttiota lot of arguing Smrth was given to understand that the village expected the firemen to wipe off and keep i pumper clean, but that only n Bergert was to run the motor Clerk Browning said that Walter siegel, who had been delinquent paying his fire pumper assess-nt, was rn his office to pay up the $^;00. He said he accepted the money the rest of 1948, but that it was to the board to tell him if he to send Mr Beisiegel a bill for nan, as he was delinquent at the e Upon motion by Kessler, sec-ed by Courar, the board ordered Clerk to bill Mr Beisiegel for runhe Village Treasurer’s Annual ort was read and accepted, fter the reading of the claims in ich the filter operator and fire-n at the light plant had claims for Overtime, trustee Borger asked why the board W3S still allowing overtype Light Plant Superintendent N4ld said his assistant was so busy Wk could not relieve the firemen properly He also said that the filter operator had refused relief on his Off,»saymg he would work Clerk Bcbwmng then said he understood! o .nction between the filte* ODferatOr and the liffht nlant lt;uiru
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Freeburg Tribune
Freeburg, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 09, 1948
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