How the Class of 1921 Partied

Hobart High School's Class of 1921 had its class dinner on the Paine farm, west of Ainsworth. From the report, I gather that Ethel Paine did much of the hard work of preparing the food and décor — surprising, given her health problems, but then again not so surprising, given that Alice was her only daughter.


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I am mystified as to why the cars were left at the Frank residence.

The above article is from the News; the following day's Gazette ran the same article next to an ad for the class play, A Modern Ananias.




Sources:
♦ "Class Dinner Given by the Senior Class Hobart High School." Hobart News 28 Apr. 1921.
♦ "Class Dinner." Hobart Gazette 29 Apr. 1921.
♦ "Senior Class Play" (advertisement). Hobart Gazette 29 Apr. 1921.

The Wandering Post Office

The Ainsworth Post Office, in its 52-year existence, revolved clockwise around the Ainsworth Triangle to end exactly where it began.

(1) In January 1882, Ainsworth's first post office opened in a general store (I think this store was later operated by William and Carrie Raschka) on the southwest corner of the intersection of Ainsworth Road and State Road 51.

(2) In 1927, it moved to Charles and Lucy Popp's grocery store across Ainsworth Road.

(3) In 1931, it moved into the Grand Trunk Railroad station and was administered by the railroad's agent, E.G. Clark.

(4) Subsequently (date unknown), it moved back into the general store where it had started. The Ainsworth Post Office ceased operation on February 15, 1934, and Ainsworth's mail delivery was handled by the Hobart Post Office.

The table below lists the seventeen people who held the position of Postmaster and the dates of their appointment:

Name of Postmaster	Date Appointed
Henry Chester	1/10/1882
Francis W. Clinton	9/4/1885
George Guernsey	9/21/1888
Mary E. Guernsey	5/23/1889
Willard O. Halsted	5/11/1893
Elmer Griffith	5/15/1901
Frank Coyle	1/14/1902
Hugh Dotzer	1/28/1904
William Raschka	5/24/1904
Mr. Pintz[1]	9/7/1915
Amelia Goldman	12/14/1915
Henry J. Paulus	5/15/1923
Lucy Popp	6/10/1927
E.G. Clark	3/11/1931
Nellie Slaters	9/3/1931
William Summer	10/29/1932
Milton Guernsey	7/12/1933

Source: Dorothy Ballantyne and Robert Adams. Along the Route: A History of Hobart, Indiana, Post Offices and Postmasters. Hobart: The Hobart Historical Society, Inc., 1979.

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[1] This postmaster's name was actually Max Mintz.