Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, March 26, 1924, p. 1. VETERAN EDITOR TELLS OF FIRE EXPERIENCES "When I erected The Telephone block some 15 years ago it was upon the idea that it was better to have a monument on the public square than one out at Rosehill," was the remark of Walter Bradfute Monday night as he watched the fine stone building and all its content of a newspaper go up in smoke. This was his third fire experience, but the other two were not so serious. About 15 years ago a part of the building in which the paper made its home was partially burned, and the equipment burned or drenched with water, but one room was saved in which the editorial work was done, and The World printed the paper. Ten years before that fire delayed business for a week. However, the fire of Monday is so complete that the salvage will not pay for its own removal, and a large part of the loss now includes the fine stone building, of which only two side walls and the stone columns in front remain. "But a fire in a newspaper office is no time for a 'quitter'," Mr. Bradfute said, the paper must be issued as usual-there must be no break in the record of almost 50 years when I started the tiny paper, so before the roof of the building had fallen, we were figuring on the morrow's paper, the phones wires were busy ordering new machinery before the old equipment had been entirely destroyed. And then there was a side that seemed to make the disaster most glorious-the offer of scores of friends of their personal aid-and financial help if necessary-almost enough in itself to repay for the material loss that had fallen so suddenly and with such force-the genuine sympathy of a community of which the paper has been a part for almost a half century. It all made life worth living and pointed the way to a stronger and a better effort-a wall of kindliness that overcomes all discouragement." Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.