Oscar Still At It

Nearly four years after his first "scrap" with the town over Linda Street, Oscar Carlson still hadn't given up the fight.


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From the Hobart Gazette of April 18, 1919.

Thanks to those glass-plate images, I feel as if I know Oscar better than when I came across the 1915 incident. I was still unclear on who was who among all the Carlsons in Hobart, but then in May 1919, Swan Peter Carlson died, and his obituary helped to explain the relations.


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From the Hobart News of May 1, 1919.

The Hobart museum has a large binder devoted to Carlson genealogy, for anyone who is serious about it.

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In non-Carlson news, a somewhat vague report seems to have John Dorman leading the effort to get firefighting equipment for Ross Township, and to store such equipment at Ainsworth … the heart of Ross Township.


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From the Hobart News of April 17, 1919.