Pearl Button Factory Destroyed By Fire

SABULA

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/13/2010 at 22:14:20

Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, September 27, 1918

SABULA-

The Sabula Pearl Button factory was totally destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon between four and five o’clock. Nearly all of the apparatus and some of the company’s books were lost. The fire was thought to have been caused by a large pile of coal which was stored there.