His Dog and His Daughter

In June 1920 Charles Ols lost his dog and his daughter. He wanted the dog back.


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We've previously met Bessie's younger sister, Pearl. Irvin Ols was an eight-year-old cousin, a son of their Uncle Christ and Aunt Alpha (who now farmed rented land east of Ainsworth — I believe it was the former James Chester place, at the county line). As for little Totsie, I can only guess that she was one of Irvin's sisters.

Earlier that month, some of Bessie's friends had thrown a bridal shower for her, held at farmhouse of her neighbors, Albion and Ethel Paine.

Here is Bessie, in her senior portrait in the Hobart High School Aurora yearbook of 1915:



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A day after Bessie's wedding, Margaret Boldt became Mrs. Raymond E. Cosgrove. Margaret, as you may or may not remember, had an Ainsworth connection through her mother, the former Mary Sullivan, who did not live to see the wedding.


Sources:
♦ 1880 Census.
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "All kinds of Wants." Hobart Gazette 25 June 1920.
♦ "Boldt-Cosgrove." Hobart Gazette 25 June 1920.
♦ "Boldt-Cosgrove." Hobart News 24 June 1920.
♦ "Ittel-Ols." Hobart Gazette 25 June 1920.
♦ "Ittel-Ols." Hobart News 24 June 1920.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 6 Mar. 1914; 11 June 1920.