properties and extinguishing the tire from the blackened and char red ruins. The proprietor said she could not account fox an origin of the fire except for the possibility of defective wiring. She reported that no fires have been started in cafe stoves Saturday morning. No cue was in the roadside cafe at the time, although it had been opeued earlier in the morning for business. It was discovered when the proprietor s mother. Mrs Ger trude Washington who lives in an adjoining house, saw smoke and flame coming from the building She gave an alarm and with neighbors rushed toward the building, but was prevented from entering by heat, flame and smoke Mrs Alien said she had owned the property for 17 years, acquir ing it from her parents in 1940.

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