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      Two Fires Thursday.

   Thursday afternoon the Will Per-
grin residence on Forest street nar-
rowly escaped being destroyed by
fire.  Mrs. Pergrin had been across
the street at a neighbor's and re-
turned home and put a piece of dry
wood in the kitchen stove.  Leaving
everything apparently all right, she
went to another neighbor's for a few
mintues and upon her return found
the house full of smoke.  The kitchen
floor was buring and the heat
from the fire was so great that it
killed the plants in another room and
cracked a mirror on the wall, besides
ruining some woodwork recently fin-
ished.  She did some lively husling
and succeeded in extinguishing the
flames before they gained more
headway without calling the fire
department.
   Thursday evening about ten o'clock
the fire department was called to the
Rathbun home on South main street
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. Scherf,
to extinguish a blaze on the roof,
caused by sparks from a chimney.  A
small hole was burned in the roof.
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