Fire shortly before noon today destroyed the barn and contents of Mr. J.P. Cline, 3 ½ miles south of Hickory, causing a loss estimated at $1,000, with only $80 insurance. Chief H.E. Whitener was called upon and went to the scene, but it was impossible to use the fire truck, which could not leave Hickory.
The fire is believed to have started from the sparks from an engine running a threshing machine. Mr. Cline saved all his wheat, but he lost 200 bales of feed and a wagon on which was a load of rye.
From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, July 25, 1922
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