Blood Poison and Home Sales

Bad health plagued George Sauter. In July 1920 a simple cut on the index finger of his left hand led to "an attack of blood poison" (sepsis). He "suffered greatly," according to the Gazette.

At the same time his mother, Augusta Fiester, was ill, suffering from rheumatism. His sister Lizzie Epps came down from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to visit Augusta, bringing along her two teenaged sons. (Lizzie's husband, Alfred, was away visiting his "old home in England.")

But Lizzie's visit was more than a mission of mercy. She had a house to sell.


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This house was still the home of her suffering brother George. (The earlier report that George and his wife, Mabel, had bought the house appears now to be in error.)

But by mid-August, it seems that George had recovered from his blood poison sufficiently to attend to real estate matters. In the week following Lizzie's putting their home up for sale, George and Mabel bought Willard Stevens' house (described as being "on Lincoln avenue, in Joryville"), while John Ziegler bought Lizzie's house.

On August 30 George and Mabel moved into their new home. Within a month, the industrious George had installed a new cement sidewalk in front.





Sources:
♦ Advertisement. Hobart News 26 Aug. 1920.
♦ "All kinds of Wants." Hobart Gazette 13 Aug. 1920.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 22 July 1920; 5 Aug. 1920; 19 Aug. 1920; 2 Sept. 1920; 30 Sept. 1920.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 23 July 1920; 13 Aug. 1920.