Rutherfordton, May 5—Sunday night about 10:45 as Night Watchman Ed Waldrop was making his rounds, he detected smoke in the court house and on investigation discovered a fire in the boiler room. The alarm was immediately turned in and the new fire engine with the volunteer company came on the job.
The flames broke through the doors of the basement and windows of the side entrance to the court house were damaged. Outside of the damage in the Sheriff’s office, the walls of that being broken, the damage was confined to the basement.
Had it not been for the efficient work of the fire company there might have been a disastrous fire with a great loss and inconvenience to the county and the people therein.
From the front page of the Forest City Courier, Ruthford County, Thursday, May 7, 1925
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