Jerome R. Chester who has been running the farm of his father, the late Henry Chester, located a half mile east of Ainsworth, for the past five years, has sold out his interests in the farm and will leave shortly for the West.I wonder if any part of his motivation was to get away from the less-than-ideal reputation he had built up for himself in the this community by, among other things, being legally adjudged and popularly considered the father of Mary Kovanek's illegitimate child. (I think the Kovanek family remained around here some time after the court case, and I'm not entirely sure Joe Kovanek took Mary and the kids with him when he left for Illinois in August 1910.)
Or maybe Jerome just wanted adventure, new horizons, big sky and all that. Anyway, I look forward to hearing about his Wild West adventures; I hope they get reported.
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This advertisement ran in the Hobart Gazette of May 11, 1911.
Speaking of Broncho John, the previous year's show had been attended by various Ainsworth people, and two Ainsworth boys (unnamed) were so impressed by it that they wanted to hire on. They slept in the show tent that night, but the next morning when Broncho John declined to pay them, they gave up on him and walked back to Ainsworth.
Sources:
♦ "Ainsworth Pick-Ups." Hobart Gazette 5 Aug. 1910; 26 Aug. 1910.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 6 Jan. 1911.
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