--Mr. Louis Yackee, of Roberts, spent Christmas with the family of J. A. Cooper on North Main street. Mr. Yackee brought news of the burning of the M. E. church there Wednesday afternoon at 4:30, just as the young people were getting ready for the Christmas celebration.
The building was a frame one and built thirty years ago and it is supposed fire caught between the roof and the ceiling, blew the flames in the opposite direction from the parsonage and it was saved, although it was thought necessary to push in the walls of the burning building. The seats and the new organ were rescued as well as the more valuable ornaments of the Christmas tree which was not accountable. The Christmas exercises were postponed till last night and held in the Congregational church. Rev. A. W. Atkins is pastor and there is a congregation of over 200.
--The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. 26 December 1902. Page 7.
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