THE BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922.
Page Seven
A News Item from Last Week's
Banner-Courier:
C C STORE IS BADLY
DAMAGED BY FIRE
10RE THAN $30,000.00
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Firemen Battle Smoke and
Flame for More Than
Two Hours
DAMAGE IS $10,000.00
Blaze Started In Rear of Second
Story Goods Damaged
Chiefly by Smoke
and Water
At the sound of the fire alarm
on Tuesday night at 9:30
o'clock, a crowd of people
quickly gathered at Main and
Tenth streets where they saw
smoke and flames issuing forth
from the rear of the C. C. Store.
The firemen with the truck
and apparatus were on hand
promptly and soon at work try
ing to locate and conquer the
flames. The fire had gotten in
to the walla and there being no
wind It kept well within the
anteroom and kitchen until
very recently used by several
of the local lodges. And with
smoke thoroughly filling the
building and issuing from all
the windows in the upper story
the firemen worked over two
hours before they were satis
fied that there was no more
danger of outbreak.
The back part of the upper
floor is badly burned, the main
hall is - disfigured by smoke
while the stock of goods be
longing to the C. C. Store own
ers is badly damaged by smoke
and water,
J. C. Cochran, manager of
the store estimates the loss on
goods between five and ten
thousand dollars, and John
Knapp, owner of the building,
places the damage to the build
ing at from three to five thous
and. Both merchandise and
building were only partially Insured.
The C C Store's
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WORTfl OF GOODS SLIGHTLY
DAMAGED BY SMOKE AND WATER
Thousands and thousands of doDars
worth of goods including shoes, dry
goods, woolen and cotton dress goods,
underwear, ladies coats and dresses,
hosiery, men's wear, notions, have
been slightly damaged by smoke and
water. Some goods have only received
a drop or two of water, other goods are
slightly discolored by smoke. But all
these are considered damaged, and
everything will be so marked down as
to be almost given away.
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We are not going to quote any prices or offer any baits to get you
to buy. If we were to list every article that we have reduced the
price on it would require a sheet ten times the size of this one.
The Insurance Companies have paid us for our loss and we can
afford to make big cuts in the price of our goods. This is a gen
uine Fire Sale and we have cut the price on every article in our
store in order to move them.
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