Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
Bliss did indeed become a teacher — by December 1913, she was teaching in a Ross Township school. We know this because early that month she and Delbert* Fisher (another Ross Township teacher) were on their way to their school, riding a motorcycle in a heavy fog, when they collided with a car driven by Fred Bowman of Merrillville. None of them was seriously hurt, but the motorcycle was smashed up so badly as to be undriveable. William Wollenberg gave the two bruised but undaunted teachers a ride to their school.
Bliss' teaching probably ended in the summer of 1915 with her marriage to Paul Emery.
That same morning fog of December 5, 1913, caused a collision on the Grand Trunk tracks. The four men of the Ainsworth section gang were on a handcar on the south tracks, waiting for a westbound freight train to pass. Between the blinding fog and the roar of the passing train, they did not realize that an eastbound freight was bearing down on them. When the engine suddenly loomed up out of the fog, the men could only make a desperate leap to the side. All four escaped with their lives.
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*This may be a misprint for "Delmer."
Sources:
♦ "Fog Accidents." Hobart Gazette 12 Dec. 1913.
♦ Hobart High School Aurora yearbook, 1912.
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