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Chronicles of Oakland Township, p. 39

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that... "Oh boo, I wouldn't live there!" (laughter) Maybes I wouldn't want to live where they live. Debbie: That's right. It works both ways. Mr. A: Yes, It does work both ways. We, as I say, we got burnt out down here in 1926, right after the election and that's when we moved to Townsend and back. I told them that little story when you was in hunting your pictures. Joanne: About the fire. That's right here or down... Mr. A: At the corner. Right where the big garage is now. Joanne: Did they have a fire department around here that'd come around? Mr. A: It just burnt. Joanne: There was nothing you could do about it? Mr. A: It got set on fire. I got accused of setting it on fire but I didn't do it. Mrs. A: Somebody else did. Mr. A: You see the hotel. Well, it used to by a hotel. Mrs. A: On the corner where the store is. Mr. A: There was two brothers and their sister took it over. I guess the summer we was there in 1926. I don't think they were there before that and they boot legged, down in the barn across from, well where... (end of side one) Side II Mr. A: I had to go down and hunt the eggs. We kept a few chickens down there. But it was him that set it on fire because we didn't uh--I should have jumped him. I believe it was John Brenner and I worked on the radiator of his ford truck. I saw this fellow going out. He come from where I had my office and parts department. I saw him walk off. Of course, I never thought anything about it and it was only just about a minute and we heard crackle, bang and there she was going. We shoved it out and got out and my own car that was in there, my old Dodge was in there, shoved it out and got my wedding outfit out. And that's all we got out. There was not one fleck of wind that day, and it went straight up. Never got any insurance. We got money around here that went through that fire.

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