James Minor Barn Burns

Jamestown Press
Jamestown, [Boone County] Indiana
Friday, 20 January 1905 page 1

James Minor Barn Burns

James MINOR's barn, one mile east of Max, was destroyed by fire early Thursday of last week together with all its contents, including about two hundred bushels of corn, five tons of clover hay, fourteen tons of shredded fodder, a carriage, threshing machine, corn sheller, several plows, a feed cutter, carpenter's tools, a binder, a hay rake, harness and a number of minor articles. The barn was insured in Boone Co. Farmers' Cooperative Insurance Co. for $250 and the contents for $500. Mr. MINOR estimates the value of contents destroyed at $447.75.

The fire is suppose to have originated from a lightened lantern which Mr. MINOR had hung up in the barn while he harnessed the horses. The fire was not discovered until Mr. MINOR had been away from the barn some little time.

Transcribed by: Janet ISLEY Price, 20 June 2001. "I am posting this for others. I am not related to the subject. No other information was given."