Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 55
Marlin, Texas, Monday, July 6, 1931
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FIREMEN ANSWER THREE
ALARMS DURING WEEKEND
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Door or Nearby Building Found Open
Coincidentally With
One Call.
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       Marlin firemen answered three calls during the weekend, no damage of consequence being reported, however.
       They were called to Fred Schimming's filling station on Commerce street at 10:42 o'clock Friday night when a tourist's car was threatened by an electric short, but the blaze was curbed before any damage occured.
       Coincidentally with this alarm, a party residing nearby noted the door of a building of the Model Laundry across the street open.  An investigation followed, but nothing was found missing and it was concluded the door probably was left open inadvertently by an employe (sic).
       At 12:25 o'clock Saturday morning, firemen were called out by burning grass on Gresham street.  The flames were extinguished before they spread to surrounding property.
       The third alarm came in at 2:45 o'clock Sunday morning from the Hilton hotel.  Fire in a mattress, reported to have been ignited in a room earlier in the night as the result of a guest smoking in bed, again broke out after it had been taken to the hotel basement.  Considerable smoke resulted but there was no damage beyond that of the mattress.

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