The Way It Was

Eight persons lose their lives in hotel fire

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Eight persons are dead from suffocation or from leaping from windows and a score of people were more or less injured as the result of a fire in the West hotel early yesterday morning.

The fire, which is supposed to have been caused by crossed electrical wires, was in itself insignificant, being confined to the elevator shaft and the top floor in the corner of the building, but the wild excitement that followed the first alarm caused people to hurry into the halls and out upon window ledges in a frantic attempt to save themselves.

50 years ago

Correspondent resigns after 28 years

Miss Josephine Hoffman of the West Fairview community east of Nevada, has resigned her post as a Daily Mail correspondent after writing items for the newspaper for the past 28 years. Prior to that time her mother, Mrs. Joe V. Hoffman was the West Fairview correspondent.

Miss Hoffman and her parents, have moved this week from their farm on east Highway 54 to a new home they have recently built in the 800 block of North Cedar.

Mr. Hoffman has resided on the same farm for the past 53 years coming here from Illinois.