Stanly News Herald
News reached Albemarle Thursday morning to the effect that a 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Almond, of the Bear Creek section of this county, burned his father’s barn late Tuesday afternoon, with all contents. Asked why he did it, the little fellow answered, “Because I wanted to see a big fire.”
The boy got hold of some matches in some way unknown to his parents. Through precaution they had kept the matches hidden and didn’t know the boy knew where they were kept.
The youngster would himself have been burned but for the timely efforts of his mother who saw him standing in the barn watching the growing flames. She ran in and snatched him out just in the nick of time.
Mr. Almond had just threshed out 175 bushels of wheat, 104 bushels of oats, and this, with all straw and other feed, together with most of Mr. Almond’s farming tools and machinery, were destroyed in the flames.
Mr. Almond is a well known young farmer who resides about 12 miles west of Albemarle to the North of the Red Cross-Bloomington highway. It is said that there was no insurance on any of the property burned and that the loss is a total one.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 25, 1925
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