I believe the Gazette is more correct on one detail — it was Willard (W.O.) Halsted doing the work. Willard describes himself as a carpenter to the 1920 census-taker, while I cannot find any William Halsted in Hobart at all (and I don't think 6-year-old Wilbur Halsted is in the running). Willard was then about 61 years of age, so if he was still capable of handling the carpentry on a five-room, thoroughly modern house, that's pretty good.
The young Mackeys intended to make this house their home, but they soon changed their minds. By the end of July, the News said that the Mackeys had purchased a lot in the Hobart Park subdivision and intended to build a house there shortly. Then in mid-August, the same paper reported that the Mackeys had purchased the Don Frace residence in Hobart Park. The Gazette backed up that report, with more detail:
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Note also the story about the motorcycle races in Valparaiso — the Gazette is back to calling Marvin Hoover "Marion," and it also tells us that the heretofore-unidentified "Brick" was a Ballantyne.
Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 24 July 1919; 31 July 1919; 14 Aug. 1919.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 25 July 1919; 15 Aug. 1919.
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I am amazed and awed to have known Bricky's sister, Dorothy.
I learned a story in Hobart Jr high in 1973 where sometime in the 50s at the beginning of a school year, a substitute teacher started the year, and students kept leaving one desk open in a class. The teacher asked after a few days why. She was told that's Yohan's seat, but he's sick.
So the teacher began recording Yohan Ystrenglvich absent for weeks until asked by the office why.
There was no Yohan, but a nice prank on the teacher.
I learned this in the 1939 addition to the school, just west of the 1928 Roosevelt gym.
That's how Yohan, the "Brickie" image got his name.
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