Greensboro, Nov. 12—Fire at 2 o’clock this morning practically destroyed the town hall at Smithfield, Johnston County, with a loss of about $14,000. Watson Wharton of Smithfield, here today, told of the fire.
The blaze, when discovered, was eating its way through the auditorium in the building and had made such headway that firemen could not save the structure. A call was sent to Selma, five miles distant, for fire fighters to aid the local firemen, and the Selma trucks made the distance in seven minutes.
It is supposed that the fire started from a cigarette stub dropped in trash in the auditorium. A boxing festival was held in the auditorium last night.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1926
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