Elevator fire in Villard

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, July 13, 1922.

Ad – H. J. Berry Undertaker. New Auto Hearse for use anywhere in Pope County. Calls answered promptly day and night. 

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, July 13, 1922.

Messrs. J. R. Grignon and W. G. Webb of Paynesville are coming to Glenwood soon to open an automobile paint shop. These men have had a paint shop in Paynesville for some time, but they intend to abandon this shop when they come here.  

E. E. Kaldahl has installed a radio in his residence and he can now have any kind of concert that he wants in his house at any time. 

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, July 14, 1922. 

About midnight, July 3rd, R. L. Smith’s elevator at Villard burned to the ground. Two large coal sheds belonging to the Standard Lumber Company also burned. For a time it looked as though the whole business section of the town would go, but two streams of water from the hose and bucket brigade with the aid of a south wind confined the fire to the buildings mentioned. A call was sent in to Glenwood and they responded in 30 minutes with a number of men and their chemicals, but the fire was then under control.