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ton, G . W arr, T. W arr, W. W irt. W . Roan. with few i f any changes. Among other things There were many more charter members. The it provided that a chief engineer and three as name w as changed to Rescue Hook and Lad* sistants shall be elected annually in December der Company on M ay 12, 1900. T his com by the several fire companies, and that the pany’s location is on E ast F ifth street, above officers shall rotate among the companies, be E ast street, where by its own efforts a fine ginning with Friendship No. I, and so on, the brick building has been erected, up-to-date for assistants coming from the companies not hav the purposes, with pool tabic, kitchen, quar ing the chief. ters fo r apparatus, and with meeting rooms on A fire alarm system was installed in 1900 the second fioor. connected with the courthouse bell, with alarm Winona F ire Company, No. 3, was organ boxes in various parts of the town. H . P. ized in Ju ly, 1880, and chartered Aug. 20 .18 8 0 . Chamberlin was the contractor. The charter members w ere: Robert Buckinglam . S . F . Peacock. A rthur A . Clark. E . B. T H E T O W N F O U .N T A IN O ark, C. B . Robbins. W. G a r k Sloan. Geo. E . Elw cll, J . F . Peacock, L ess A lexander, C. F. David Stroup died in August, 1884, and in Woodhousc, E . E . M oyer, J . K . Bitten^nd er, his will made a t r u e s t "to the Town o f F . P. Pursel, R . F . Snyder, II. W . M cK clvy, Bloomsburg to assist in supplying the same F . S . Kinports, L . S . Wintcrstccn, F . D. Dcnt- with water, two thousand dollars, to be in Icr, W. O. Bccklcy, R . R . Little, Paul E . W irt, vested and kept at interest, the latter to be W . B. Alien, Frank Maloy, J . W. Gibbs, W. C- applied to that object, or to be expended upon M cKinney, H . M. Rupert, H arry Billmc>‘cr, water works erected or maintained by the John Palm er. T he company occupied the third Town, or to be invested in stocks or bonds o f fk>or over what is now the Bloomsburg N a any water company organized to supply the tional Bank in handsomely furnished rooms, town with water, on such terms as the T o w n and for six or eiglit years k ^ t up an active Council may prescribe.” organization. Each year during the holidays T he Bloomsburg W ater Company proposed it gave a ball which was the leading social that if the town council would cause the money event of the year. But fo r various reasons so devised to be expended in the erection o f a the interest died out, and the organization was fountain at or near the public square the com abandoned. Later on. however, it was renewed pany would furnish water for it free o f e x by younger men, and still exists with a goodly pense. T h is proposition w as accepted by the number o f brave fire fighters. The company council, and a petition setting forth these facts has vcr)' comfortable rooms over the J . l l was presented to the court on Aug. i8, 1892. A fte r the necessary legal proceedings Ju d g e Shaqiless store. Liberty F ire Company, No. 4, w as incor Ikeler made a decree granting the petition. porated Feb. 10, 1906, with a large number The town council appointed President F . P . o f charter members. T hey own their own Drinker and Councilmen W. 0 . Holmes an d house through their own efforts. It is located W . II. Gilmore a committee to select a fou n on (.eonard street near Main street, and ad tain and also the drinking fountain which now mirably adapted to their uses, containing ap stands at the post office com er. The fountains paratus and meeting rooms, pool tables, kitch were selected, and their erection completed in October, 1892. A n inscription on the la rg e ens, etc. Another company known as the Good Will fountain reads: "Erected by David S tro u p , F ire Company organized about the same 1892.” time, and provided themselves with a chemical outfit, but disbanded after a few years’ e x TOW N H A L L istence. With three fire companies in (own there was 'Fhe (own hall avas erected at E ast and M a in no arrangement for concert o f action in case streets, and dc<licated on Sept. 14, 1890. T h e o f a fire, as there w as no recognized head, and occasion w as obscr'c<l by a parade in w h ich so the companies each appointed a committee numerous organizations took part. A p r o to confer with the others, and to draft a con gram consisting of music, and speeches b y a stitution and by-laws for the organization o f a number o f citizens, w as followed, and a la r g e fire department. T he committees performed crowd w as present. T he town is justly p ro u d their duly and on Jan . 25, i8 8 t, the result o f of the hall. It is a three-story brick b u ild in g their work was presented to the town council, o f pleasing architecture. On (he first Boor is and approved by that body, and stands to-day the council room. Friendship F ire G m p a n y
