08/18/2026
๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ง๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฌ
Fแดสสแดแดสส 14แดส, 1957
๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ ๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐
The old Swiney Hotel building โ a Bunker landmark โ burned to the ground Thursday night.
The building, owned by Fred Counts, was unoccupied at the time of the fire. Dr. Newman of Centerville had his office in the old hotel building for his weekly Thursday visits and he had left for the day.
The fire started about 6:30 p.m. Apparently the blaze caught beneath a sink in the kitchen, either from electric wiring or possibly matches carried into the building by mice.
Banker I. A. Hulsey told The News โthe wind was right to save us.โ The flames were not blown to adjoining buildings, although the Baptist Church wall and roof were scorched by the heat from the burning hotel building some 50 to 75 feet away. Trees in front of the hotel building were cut to fall in the street and burn safely.
Salemโs fire department made a rush call to the fire. The new truck with the 1,000-gallon booster tank made the run, controlling sparks and preventing any spread of the fire through the town. Bunker is supplied water by deep wells with electric pumps at various homes. Largest well is the Highley well which only recently had been drilled deeper. Also handy for the fire fighting were large cisterns. But the Salem firemen had sufficient water on the truck, with the kind help of the favorable wind.
The Swiney Hotel building was built by the late I. N. โLinkโ Swiney, a Bunker old-timer. The building was erected about 1908.
The people of Bunker were high in their praise of the Salem fire department and many have expressed their thanks to Salem and the volunteers.
