Today, as we write this, it is Friday August 31, 1923, and the minds of many of our people are turning back to another day, just twenty-nine years ago today, and that was Friday also. Friday, August 31st, 1894. During the hour of noon, the cry was sounded "Fire". The days before Roberts had been celebrating. A great Woodman picnic had been held here. That day Roberts was placed in sack cloth and ashes. From the ashes has sprung what is now the real Roberts. Fire is a great calamity to any community but frequently the calamity proves a blessing, not to the person who suffers the losses but to the town that springs up in the place of the one destroyed.
This was not the first great fire in Roberts. There was one when the town was first started that probably was as great in proportion to the value of the town as was the great fire of 1894. This fire of 1873 was one of which we have been unable to get much particulars except that the business part of town which had been in the block now occupied by the Star Garage, poultry house, harness shop, etc. was entirely wiped out and was rebuilt on Green Street making that the main street instead of Main Street as named.
This was not the first great fire in Roberts. There was one when the town was first started that probably was as great in proportion to the value of the town as was the great fire of 1894. This fire of 1873 was one of which we have been unable to get much particulars except that the business part of town which had been in the block now occupied by the Star Garage, poultry house, harness shop, etc. was entirely wiped out and was rebuilt on Green Street making that the main street instead of Main Street as named.
--Roberts Herald. 5 September 1923.
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