The passenger and freight trains did good service in alarming the people by their continuous whistling.
Mrs. Geddes millinery room was in very great danger. It stood the extreme heat of the bank building.
Several of our citizens did not get down in time to see the fire; among them Dr. Goodman and W. W. Star.
Baldwin & Maxwell's store is peculiarly decorated over the front this Monday morning with frozen blankets.
Everybody seems to be bearing the loss pleasantly this Monday, A. M., because it might have been so much worse.
S. E. Cooper & Co., have secured Bagwill & Co's agricultural implement building and will open their stock at once.
The train men of the freight train came up town and helped fight the fire. Two passengers left the train and came to our assistance.
Our town well was an excellent servant and paid for itself. It was going constantly for two hours but did not fail with its stream of water.
All household goods and merchandise in the four buildings north and in the range of the fire were removed as it was thought nothing could save the buildings.
It was only by extra efforts that the business house of Baldwin & Maxwell was saved. No goods were removed, consequently but trifling loss of blankets, buckets, etc.
The ladies deserve great praise for their work during the fire. They handled the goods, moving wagon loads several times, while the principal part of the men were fighting the fire.
Geo. W. Olinger, one of our oldest and respected citizens, died at 12:30 n. M., today.—(December 8, 1886.)
Mrs. Frank Higley was appointed post-mistress for Iowa Center, in October or November, 1886, in the place of Miss Sheldon, who resigned the office.
DESCRIPTION OF THE MAXWELL SCHOOL HOUSE.
The school house is very large; it has four school rooms, two recitation rooms and three halls. It stands on a small hill, with evergreens in the yard. It is made of brick, and has nine doors and thirty-one windows. It is two stories high. In the largest room, up stairs, is an organ, library, globe, eight maps and a philosophical apparatus, thirty seats, a stove, two large pictures and about fifteen song books. The other room, up stairs, is not quite so large, but has a teacher's desk, a stove and about twenty seats. The smallest room, down stairs, opposite this one is not used only when there are sociables for the school. MAMIE MEAD, C Grade.
—Maxwell Tribune, January 6, 1887.
The tri-weekly mail from Nevada to Maxwell quit from Iowa Center to Nevada. January 1, 1887; but is still tri-weekly from Maxwell to Iowa Center.