Last Sunday, June 10th. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Houtzel and family, who live on a farm six miles southeast of Roberts, ate their dinner early and then drove to Thomasboro to visit a former neighbor, who had recently moved to that place. They had been gone but a short time when the neighbors discovered their home to be on fire. The fire was burning in the kitchen but had gained such headway that there was no chance to save the building and but little property could be carried out. The neighbors broke open the doors and carried out the piano and a couch but were unable to save anything more.
No word could be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Houtzel as none of the neighbors knew where they had gone so that the first knowledge they had of their loss was the discovery on their return.
No word could be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Houtzel as none of the neighbors knew where they had gone so that the first knowledge they had of their loss was the discovery on their return.
--Roberts Herald. 13 May 1936.
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