Stable And Contents Destroyed

On November 8, 1876 at 2:00 a.m. while the town’s people slept, the shout of fire was heard. Firemen soon learned the location was on East Main Street in the alley east of Penn Street for a stable fire. An arson fire destroyed a large frame stable and its contents. A damage estimate was not available. The Vigilant and Cumberland Valley Fire companies extinguished the blaze.

In the same Shippensburg News that this article came from was this short article of interest printed here exactly as it was in the paper.

--The firemen of Carlisle must be something of agriculturist, for we learn from the Mirror that unless they speedily “obtain more hoes their efficiency will be destroyed,” &c.

The Mirror was a Carlisle newspaper. I was actually thinking the same thing as the rest of you and never once did agriculturist cross my mind. Besides hoes are more fun than horses.