Can't I Have a Nervous Breakdown in Private Around Here?

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From "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, Oct. 22, 1920.

I really wish I knew whether the Dorman family called up the Gazette office to impart that bit of information, or whether the editor found it out through local gossip and decided to plaster it on the front page because, well, it's news, isn't it?

If your curiosity was piqued by that announcement in the right-hand column about the parking ordinance published elsewhere, you can read some of its text on this page:



The same page informs us that Gust Deering, thus far best known for changing his mind, has changed it yet again. Gust would move with his family into their Joryville home in early December. The 1930 census shows them living on Linda Street, and Gust working in a steel mill.


Sources:
♦ 1930 Census.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 9 Dec. 1920.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 22 Oct. 1920.
♦ "Ordinance No. 274." Hobart Gazette 22 Oct. 1920.
♦ "Public Sale." Hobart Gazette 22 Oct. 1920.

A Hodgepodge of Tidbits

A few news items that for some reason I thought needed to be in this blog, dating to mid-March 1920.


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When I saw that item about Gust Deering moving onto an Ainsworth-area farm, I thought I had never heard of him. But upon perusing my notes, I see he's figured in them twice before (though I never mentioned him in the blog), and both times because he was moving, or thinking of moving, to another farm, i.e., in January 1910:

Gust Deering who lives on the Kruse farm east of Ainsworth has rented the Wm. Bissell farm five miles east of Crown Point and will move sometime next month. We understand that James Ed Kelly who formerly lived on the Kruse farm will again occupy the place as soon as Mr. Dearing [sic] moves.

and in February 1920:

Gust Deering and family are preparing to move on to the Nightingale farm, [microfilm illegible but I think it says: formerly known as the Zeller] place containing 220 acres, located southwest of Ainsworth. They have resided on the Clinton farm for the past five years, but this farm was sold last year to D.C. Frank. Mr. Deering thought some of quitting farming, and last year bought the Thos. Hanna home in Joryville, but when his son Henry returned from the war and concluded to stay with his father on the farm, Mr. Deering thought it best to continue farming. Their other son William, is employed this winter in Gary.

So at this point I don't know anything about Gust except that he keeps changing his mind.

As for what was formerly known as the Underwood farm, if we go back to 1874 we find several parcels owned by various people with that surname, but the one directly north of the Vincent schoolhouse comprised 240 acres on the west side of Clay Street.



Concerning Lesta (not "Tesla") Raschka and her visit to Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, the News attributed her health problems to an attack of "infantile paralysis several years ago."

"Mr. Chester" is, of course, Charles Chester.


Sources:
♦ 1874 Plat Map.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 5 Feb. 1920; 18 Mar. 1920.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 14 Jan. 1910; 19 Mar. 1920.