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Updated: August 28, 2026

There were other news items, many of them. Old John Runnels was still chief of police; Tom Fitch, the hardware man, was the new mayor; Buck Severance, my one-time chum in the High School, was now chief of the fire department, having won his spurs or rather, I should say, his red helmet and silver trumpet at the fire which had destroyed the Blickerman Department Store. "And the bank?" I asked.

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