Just thirty minutes past midnight of Fire Prevention Day, the day observed throughout the country as the fifty-second anniversary of the great Chicago fire of 1871, in the basement of the Cline-Vick drug store was discovered a fire that caused $180,000 damage before it could be extinguished. Continue reading
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Two grocery stores and two dwelling houses at the edge of the city limits on E. Main St. were destroyed early Friday morning by fire which originated in the store of H.L. Davis about 1 am. Continue reading
A NOONDAY BLAZE. A careless boy cook in Gill’s Restaurant played the part of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow while cooking dinner, Tuesday. He let the grease in the skillet catch afire and then threw water on it, which action only served to enlarge the blaze. The ceiling of the restaurant, which was located in the basement of CH. Denison’s building on the north side of the square, was very low and the blaze soon got a start on it. Continue reading
At last the “wooden block” consisting of the entire south half of the east side of the square is gone up in flames. The most destructive fire Marion has had for years, occurred on the morning of last Tuesday. Continue reading
The Crescent cafe appears to have come into existence around 1920. The photo’s above show the cafe as it was in 1923 and then 1926 when it was located at 115 N. Market St. just across Union Street from Brown’s Business College. In 2012 the Razor’s Edge Barber shop is occupying this location. Directories indicate that by 1927 the cafe had moved across the street to 110 N. Market behind the bank building just off the square and was still in existence in 1929. In the 1923 photo shown left to right are Boyd and Leesa Robinson (owners), Al Caraway, Bernice Cathey, Hazel Chamness, Daisy Elliot, Johnnie Anderson, Frank Williams, John Gilbert and Harry Goodner.
(Photos courtesy of the Williamson County Historical Society)