Yesteryear in Yoakum: July 27, 1907

Note: The following passages are printed exactly as they were published in the respective historical local paper.

The Yoakum Weekly Times, July 27, 1907

Opera House Burned

No Other Building Hurt – Prompt Work by Firemen

At 3 o’clock Sunday the fire alarm was sounded, the location being the opera house. While considerable time elapsed before the fire horse could be secured and put to the ho…