President Harding proclaims Oct. 9 as Fire Prevention Day

From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Oct. 5, 1922.

October 9 is Fire Prevention Day. President Harding, in a proclamation, calls upon the country to set aside Monday, Oct. 9, as fire prevention day and to observe it in such a manner as to impress upon the people the “importance of precautionary measures for the avoidance of fires.”

“It has long been a reproach of our country,” the president said in his proclamation, “that by reason of poor construction, inadequate facilities for fire prevention and all too general carelessness about possible causes of conflagration our fire waste reaches figures year after year which are not approached in any other country in the world.” The president estimated that America’s fire loss has approximated seven billion dollars in the last 40 years.

D.S. Rombough of Villard left today for the National Dairy Show at the Twin Cities, taking with him two head of his Ayrshire cattle. One of these was the heifer calf which took the prize at the state fair and the Pope County fair.

Lutheran Free Church has English services by Rev. T. Kleven at city hall, Sunday at 3 p.m.

Harry Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Anderson of this city, and who is attending St. Olaf college at Northfield while out walking with a lady friend last Monday evening was held up at the point of a gun by a man who forced them to walk to the outskirts of town and then stripped them of their valuables and then let them go. The same man then attempted to hold up two other students who happened along, but they overpowered him and held him until the police arrived.

Helmer Hagen is seen on the road at sunrise every morning. He is a member of the gravel crew, hauling gravel on state road no. 6 between the Nora Town Hall and the Douglas County line.