As about forty different firms are making fire trucks, it will be easily seen that competition is fairly sharp on this line as well as in many others. Hugh and Tracy Killam will have this outfit in charge and it is now in the Killam garage but is soon to be transferred to the firemen’s quarters in Sandy Creek. A new approach has been laid to the village hall and at least one hose cart will be disposed of Friday evening this new apparatus was tried out at the corner of Railroad and Main Street and on Saturday afternoon at lacuna from the Mill Street bridge. It threw a forceful stream under a pressure from under a pressure from under 100 to 150 pounds and is sold under a liberal guarantee. Where water is to be taken from a cistern or well it can be thrown through the chemical hose by attaching it to the pump through a special outlet for this hose. The pump is driven by the same engine that drives the truck and can be thrown into gear as readily as a car can be reversed. The cost of the outfit was $3450 and this sum was raised by the fire departments by a series of socials and by sale of ice cream and soft drinks at the fair supplemented by private subscriptions.

Every township should own one or more such fire trucks and farmers and others outside the reach of the city mains should see that their property is protected by having adequate source of water supply. If this is a stream of water see that a suitable landing place is constructed for the fire truck to stand near the stream with easy means of access also an accessible place into which to drop the hard section hose which is only twenty feet in length.