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The Waco News Tribune
Waco, Texas
Saturday, January 29, 1927
Page 4

                              Criswell School Burns

                    Classes Had Ended for Day; Blaze
                                   Blamed on Stove.

                          MARLIN, Jan. 28. --  Fire,
                       assumed to have originated from a
                       stove or flue, destroyed the Criswell
                       schoolhouse, near the Falls -
                       Limestone county line, about 4:30
                       o’clock Thursday afternoon after
                       classes had been ended for the day
                       and the teachers and students had
                       gone home.
                          Building and furnishings and a
                       quantity of school books were a
                       total loss.  The structure was of
                       an exceptionally good rural school
                       type, having been rebuilt a few
                       years ago.  Insurance of $2000 was
                       carried on the house and equipment.