Fire Chief examines schools

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1925

The fifth, sixth and seventh grades of the Lowry school enjoyed a sleigh ride party Friday evening. They were accompanied by Mrs. Murphy, their teacher. They called at the home of Mrs. Nellie Lida where a delicious hot lunch was enjoyed by all.

The last report from the Glenwood band is that they have raised $400 toward the new band stand to be erected this spring. They expect to put up a very fine structure that will be a real attraction in the park. Let’s help them along in their undertaking. 

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1925

Fire Chief Examines School Buildings. Fire Chief Joe Achter went to the three school buildings in Glenwood last Monday to investigate the shape of the buildings for preventing fire, stopping it if it got started and provisions made to get the children out in case of fire.

He rang the fire alarm in each building and found that the children had been given a very good drill. Every child seemed to know exactly what to do. There were 153 little tots in the primary building and they got out in the short time of 48 seconds. This must be considered remarkably well done. In the grade building there were 305. They got out in 47 seconds. The people in the high school building got out in 40 seconds. This establishes a record in the time in which the school buildings were cleared. The time was short last year, but this year the time had been shortened considerably in every building.

Use Water Sparingly Supply Is Very Low. It is necessary that the people of Glenwood use water sparingly these days. The reservoir is getting lower and lower. What the reasons are for the small supply of water is not definitely known. It is definitely known, however, that unless more care is exercised by the users of the city water, it may result in that there will not be a sufficient supply on hand someday, if a fire breaks out, to extinguish the fire.

Miss Norena Dankers left Sunday for St. Cloud where she will attend a telephone conference this week.

Miss Josie Flaten left last Thursday for Minneapolis to spend several days enroute to New York on a business trip, and other points in the east. She expects to be gone about a month.  

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Jan. 16, 1925

At the meeting of the stockholders of the White Bear Lake Telephone Company today a proposal will be made to change the name of the company to Starbuck Telephone Company. It is said that there is considerable confusion caused from the fact that there are so many White Bear Lakes, and also from the fact that the name is so similar to that of the White Bear Lake Insurance Co.

A village water main between the mill and the dray barn burst about 6 o’clock Thursday morning. Mr. Dreyer had been up early and pumped water into the tank and had it about half full. He went to the restaurant about 6:30 and on returning found the gauge showed no water in the tank. He did not have time to investigate before he received calls notifying him there was no water, and a call from Ole Olson saying the water was flooding the ground near the mill. Martin Stoen, Anton Carlson and Hans Hanson have been digging to find the leak, using dynamite to blast thru the frost. This morning they had not yet found the break. The bursting of the main is caused by the tremendous pressure due to a “water hammer” or surge of water moving back and forth after pumping and the village may have to install an air chamber to take care of the expansion in the pipes.