Final and Other Business

Simeon and Abbie Bullock were happy to open their home to their grandchildren, Lester and Vera Quinlan. The young folks had now enrolled in the Hobart school; they were no doubt making new friends, and they had plenty of relatives in the area. But the newly widowed Jessie Bullock Quinlan still had her husband's estate to settle. In mid-April 1919, she and her father left for Alva, Oklahoma. They spent three weeks attending to the final business, returning to Hobart on May 3.

Meanwhile, in Hobart, the first ad of the resurrected business of Lee & Rhodes appeared, perhaps by accident, next to an ad placed by Charles Lee's long-ago partner, George Bruce.


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And the Gem Theater's Saturday-night features included a comedy starring the immensely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.




Sources:
♦ Advertisements. Hobart News 10 Apr. 1919.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 10 Apr. 1919; 8 May 1919.