It is no news to state that the long looked for fire truck has arrived, for if you have been in town since the day of its arrival, you have seen it. But really, it is a thing of beauty, and we hope will be a joy forever, and that our fire ladies will never tire of it. If it accomplishes what the City Dads say it will, and what the fire boys promise to do with it at the very first opportunity, then we old timers who have kicked about the cost will take a back seat and make due apologies.
It is the very latest in fire fighting apparatus, and when the City Dads decide where they will build a house in which to house it, some one will sleep with it every night and be ready at any emergency to start when the alarm is sounded. Certainly it is a great improvement over the old hand reel which the boys have been dragging from pillar to post for many years, and we can not censure them for desiring the change.
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Small Blaze Monday Night
Monday night, just as the town clock was striking 12, fire was discovered in an old frame building on Lamarr Street, next door to the Roxboro Steam Laundry. So, the boys had an early chance to show what the new fire truck would do, but in justice to the boys we will say that the town has not accepted the truck, and it was still in the hands of the representative who sold it, and there was considerable time lost in getting him and the keys to the building where the truck was stored. The fire had made considerable headway before connections were made, but after the connections were made the fire was soon under control. It worked like a charm, and the boys are all delighted with it, and all will admit as a fire extinguisher it is all to the good.
The building belonged to Judge J.C. Pass, who had some plate glass and other things stored in it. The loss on the building was not great, though there was no insurance, as it was only a one-story frame structure. There was a loss of several hundred dollars on the glass, etc.
From the front page of The Roxboro Courier, J.W. Noell, Editor and Publisher, Wednesday evening, Aug. 12, 1925
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