Random Changes

Having auctioned off their farm things, the Rossows apparently were making plans to move to town.

Wm. Rossow last week purchased the Ray Halstead home on Lincoln avenue, the consideration being $3,000. Mr. Halstead and family will remain there until next March, when they expect to move on the farm.

I don't know exactly where on Lincoln Street this house stood (or stands). By "the farm," I suppose the writer meant some of the Halsted property between Ainsworth and Merrillville.

Speaking of Halsteds, changes were coming up for Hazard.* In July he sold his barbershop to a partnership formed by Clifford O. Mize (a barber sidelining in phonographs) and one Mr. Brown, whose first initials vary from report to report. Since none of these newspapers stories ever give an address, I don't know if the barbershop in question is the one in the photo linked to above, but it was indeed on Main Street. "Mr. Halstead has not fully decided as to his future business engagements," the Gazette commented on July 4, adding that Hazard meant to work for at least a week in the barber shop of Lawrence Niksch — filling in for the said Mr. Brown, who had worked there for several weeks.

Meanwhile, his sister, Alta, had left for Boston, intending to spend a month's vacation traveling and visiting in the East and South.

In non-Halsted news, our Deep River friend, Wilma Cullman, enrolled for the "summer courses" at Valparaiso University. While the report does not specify what courses, Wilma was likely preparing to become a teacher, as she would be by 1920. Among her classmates were Elsie Gruel and Pearl Ols.

And finally, on May 30, Benjamin and Mertie Strattan returned from Florida. They had been visiting someone named Harlan, who I believe was Benjamin's son from his first marriage, and who operated a "pleasure boat" for a living.

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*I still don't know what, if any, relation Hazard and Ray were to each other.


Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Halstead Barber Shop Sold." Hobart Gazette 4 July 1919.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 29 May 1919; 5 June 1919.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 4 July 1919.
♦ "Mize & Brown Form Partnership and Buy Halstead Barber Shop." Hobart News 3 July 1919.
♦ "Mize-Schreffler." Hobart News 3 July 1919.