General Teaming and Great Love

I don't know whether Ross Graham was still in business with James Chester by 1919, but we're following him anyway — he did grow up on a farm south of Ainsworth.

Early in March, Ross bought out the teaming business of Ray Halstead (yet another former Ross Township farm boy). Ray kept one of his teams, expecting to use it the next summer for some teaming work; beyond that, he planned to move onto his father's farm south of Hobart and northwest of Ainsworth.


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The Halsted and Graham farms as they appeared on the 1908 Plat Map.

Ross meant to continue operating his livery business (which I have the impression that James Chester was no longer involved in, if he ever really was). The issue of the News that announced the sale also carried a little ad for Ross's new business. Plus I thought you'd like to see what's coming up at the Gem Theater.


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The Great Love was a wartime drama, now presumed lost.


Sources:
♦ Advertisement. Hobart News 6 Mar. 1919.
♦ "R.W. Graham Buys Dray Business from Ray Halstead, Monday." Hobart News 6 Mar. 1919.