Saturday a little past midnight, before the town had hardly settled down for its nightly slumber, the fire company was aroused and called to the business district. A blaze had been discovered in the Ashley Smith buildings on Market street. The fire was burning in the second story in a room used by Isaac Woodard, Smithfield colored undertaker. Indications are that the fire caught in a barrel of old trash. This room is over the store formerly occupied by the Vara L. Smith company. This was the third fire discovered in this building within two years.
The fire company had little trouble in extinguishing the blaze, and in 10 minutes the excitement was practically all over. The store under the room where the fire caught being vacant, there was little damage on account of water. The Ideal Pharmacy and millinery shops of Mrs. A. W. Smith were slightly damaged. The entire loss has been estimated at about $400.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Sept. 14, 1926
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