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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: [INMONROE] Gabriel Suffers Major Loss When Adolphus Cooter Tries to Keep Eggs Warm
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 08:07:15 -0500

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, Feb 7, 1899, p. 1. NOTE: Gabriel is a
community name in Monroe County that I had not come across before!

COOKED THE EGGS
Over $60 of Hen Fruit and $57 Cash Fed to Flames

The little hamlet of Gabriel, in Washington Township, 16 miles north of
here suffered a disastrous conflagration early yesterday morning and the
village post office and only general store the town could boast of is now a
heap of smoking ruins. About 10 o'clock Wednesday night Adolphus Cooter,
the village merchant who does a general business, built a large fire in the
storeroom stove to keep several hundred dozen eggs he had in stock from
freezing, and locking up the store went home. About 2 o'clock in the
morning the store and contents was destroyed, fire having originated from a
defective flue. The post office was located in one end of the store and
all the mail sacks and official papers were destroyed. Coooter had a $400
stock of goods including $60 worth of eggs and $57 in cash that assisted in
feeding the flames. No insurance.

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