WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

January 23,1903

 

ROASTED POTATOES

 

Mr. Fagerholt’s Warehouse Nearly Consumed by Fire

 

            On Monday evening about half past eight o’clock the fire alarm sounded and a telephone message from the Third Ward stated that the Fagerholt warehouse was burning. The department responded quickly as possible but the indications were that the fire which had caught in the partitions and ceiling from a stove used to warm the basement, had been burning for some time for when it broke out in the roof, the building was soon doomed to destruction. Part of it was saved, however.

            The Leigh Fruit and Storage Co. of Kentucky, managed by Chris Christensen of this city, had from 1,500 to 2,000 bushels of potatoes stored in the building which were insured by a policy of $1,500 in Olson and Johnson’s agency. There may be a savage on them when sorted.

            Winfield Scott & Son’s agency carried $1,000 on the building. The building cost $1,500 or $2,000.

            Mr. Christensen continued business as usual the next morning having rented the Bailey warehouse.