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Albert Witt placed the above notice of public sale in the News early in October 1917. The social column on the same page sums up the situation: Albert had been renting and farming Charles Chester's 80 acres of land just north of Ainsworth; Charles sold the parcel to John Berndt; perhaps Albert was required to vacate to make way for the new owner, but it was no skin off his nose because he'd had enough of farming anyway.
The 80 acres we're talking about were probably the same as John Berndt owned in 1926:
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That parcel belonged to John Ols in 1891, but there was time enough between then and 1910 for either Henry or Charles Chester to buy it.
I have to revise my earlier guess at which parcel Lovisa Chester Nelson had rented from Charles Chester in 1911. Now I think it was the Berndt 80 plus an additional 30 acres somewhere adjacent (which Charles sold to Charles Ols at the same time as the Berndt sale).
Sources:
♦ 1891 Plat Book.
♦ 1926 Plat Book.
♦ "Personal and Local Mention." Hobart News 12 Oct. 1916.
♦ "Public Sale." Hobart News 11 Oct. 1917.
♦ Untitled social column. Hobart News 11 Oct. 1917.
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