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%The Fire MeetingThe fire meeting that **§ ao well advertised for lost Saturday evening was a lamentable failure. Parker hall * as welljfc . fg ’ ' * TO.r^V* •/ 1 rKS • ;®*5g •. •• • / ;.V . */•.. , . . -; ■*’ ‘ ■ lt;\V. ' IV .-'S '’2? /= * rV. £’ “ . $•- 'ylighted and warmed for the occasion, and at the appointed hour five or six citizens rambled in, and took seats in the hall. This looked rather discouraging, and several enterprising citizens conceived the idea of stirring the people up by ringing a false alarm. Accordingly several of them went over to the Presbyterian church and soon sent the startling peals roll in o’er the town.Hundreds of people poured out of their heuaet in anxious haste to see where the fire was, and ene lady is reported to have almost floated from (right Gradually it dawned on ths citizens that they bad beeninvited to attend a fire meeting, theirarder cowled, and they returned again unto their domiciles. A3 a result ef this extra effort nine citizens were at last gathered together in Parker hall, including three newspaper men. After waiting until 8^ o'clock, these grew tired o{ wait.ing and adjourned. No fire companywas organized.
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Dakota Daily Leader
Huron, South Dakota, US
Mon, Jan 08, 1883
Page 4
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