The Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S., Tuesday, 22 Dec 1942: EARLY MORNING ALARM IN STELLARTON Four Families Lose Possessions Early this morning fire broke out in the building owned by William DesLaurier on Foord St., first building north of the Oddfellow's Hall, Stellarton. It was a wooden building on the corner of Foord and Union Streets but fortunately the Oddfellow's Hall on the south side and Medical Hall on the north are brick and the firemen promptly on the scene and doing what they could for the doomed building, turned their attention to the saving of surrounding homes, especially that of Mrs. Jarline situated below on Union Street, which runs south from Foord. The building until recently was headquarters for E. Eaton Order Office, but was now occupied by four families, John Higgins, Wm. Greely, a family by the name of MacEwan and a family from Guysboro just moved in within the last few days. The last three have small children and everything the tenants possessed were lost. The loss will also be a big one for the owner who had gone recently to some expense to make the place over. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ABERCROMBIE FIRE The deepest sympathy will be extended to Warren Jones of Abercrombie and family, whose home was badly damaged by fire on Friday night. Mr. Jones was a mail carrier for that district and for some time has been confined to the house through illness. During his illness his daughter looked after the mail route until she too was taken ill. No man could have been more faithful to his duties as mail carrier and the many friends along the route who knew and so liked him will deeply sympathize with him in his misfortune. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Carolyn Wallace