In January 1923, the Hobart Gazette tells us, John and Mary (Baird Chester) McDaniel moved from Ainsworth to Knightstown, Indiana, near Indianapolis. But the Gazette fails to give us even a hint of why.
In other moving news, the Arment house and 20 acres, recently abandoned by its previous tenant, had just been leased for two years to Edward Maicke … who might possible be the brother of Otto Maicke, but I don't know for sure.
Source: "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette 26 Jan. 1923.
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
The Unpleasantness with the Prohibition Officer
On an October afternoon in 1921, two prominent Hobart citizens mistakenly got into a car chase with a federal Prohibition officer.
(Click on image to enlarge)Hobart Gazette 12 Oct. 1921.*
The story suggests that the officer's car had no markings that would have made it identifiable as such. From what I've read about the early federal Prohibition enforcement effort, I gather it was grossly understaffed, with the officers poorly paid, often untrained and ill equipped.
Above that story, we have the news of the death of William Krausse (father of Carl), who had a more interesting life than I suspected.
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The "Local and Personal" column of the Hobart News of October 13, 1921, included this item:
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*This issue of the Gazette is erroneously dated "Friday, Oct. 12, 1921." Friday was the usual day for the Gazette to come out, but that week's Friday fell on the 14th.
(Click on image to enlarge)Hobart Gazette 12 Oct. 1921.*
The story suggests that the officer's car had no markings that would have made it identifiable as such. From what I've read about the early federal Prohibition enforcement effort, I gather it was grossly understaffed, with the officers poorly paid, often untrained and ill equipped.
Above that story, we have the news of the death of William Krausse (father of Carl), who had a more interesting life than I suspected.
The "Local and Personal" column of the Hobart News of October 13, 1921, included this item:
O. Amlong and family have moved to the Chester Cooper residence on Lake street and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Maicke of Ainsworth have moved to the Humes flat vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Amlong.… which leaves me knowing very little except that Ainsworth had lost its Maickes.
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*This issue of the Gazette is erroneously dated "Friday, Oct. 12, 1921." Friday was the usual day for the Gazette to come out, but that week's Friday fell on the 14th.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Mrs. and Mrs. Maicke of Ainsworth
Having been properly showered, Lesta Raschka soon became Mrs. Otto Maicke.
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From the Hobart Gazette of 18 Mar. 1921.
Moving to Ainsworth would be something of a homecoming for Lesta, as she had spent 13 years of her childhood there, in the living quarters over the Ainsworth general store. The store, of course, had been sold to the Goldmans, but William Raschka still owned a grain warehouse — a reliable source of employment for sons-in-laws and nephews.
Before the homecoming, however, a honeymoon:
From the Hobart News of 31 Mar. 1921.
… And the address of Fremont B. Price's insurance office in Gary.
Sources:
♦ "Hobart Girl Married." Hobart Gazette 18 Mar. 1921.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 31 Mar. 1921.
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From the Hobart Gazette of 18 Mar. 1921.
Moving to Ainsworth would be something of a homecoming for Lesta, as she had spent 13 years of her childhood there, in the living quarters over the Ainsworth general store. The store, of course, had been sold to the Goldmans, but William Raschka still owned a grain warehouse — a reliable source of employment for sons-in-laws and nephews.
Before the homecoming, however, a honeymoon:
From the Hobart News of 31 Mar. 1921.
… And the address of Fremont B. Price's insurance office in Gary.
Sources:
♦ "Hobart Girl Married." Hobart Gazette 18 Mar. 1921.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 31 Mar. 1921.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sunday School, Dandelion Wine, and a "Period of Retrenchment"
After Daisy Raschka became Mrs. John Fleck, Lesta was the oldest daughter still at home; but in the spring of 1921, at about 22 years of age, she was making plans to leave — destination: marriage. She was engaged to Otto Maicke.
On the evening of Friday, March 4, Daisy hosted a shower for Lesta at the Raschka home on Lake Street. "The evening was spent in social converse, during which a dainty luncheon was served," said the Hobart News. "Miss Raschka was the recipient of many beautiful gifts."
On Monday evening, Lesta brought her Sunday School class over to the house, and I hope her parents were home from their missionary board meeting in time for the fun:
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That social column is packed with news of people we know — brothers Christ and Tony Springman drunk on dandelion wine; Albion Paine traveling from his farm west of Ainsworth to seek medical help in Chicago; and Paul Newman busying himself with a proposed tourist camp for travelers on the Yellowstone Trail where it ran with Cleveland Avenue into Hobart.
The last item in the column mentions the local effects of a depression the nation was going through. Among the men laid off by the Pennsy Railroad was our friend Peter Palm. I am not sure what his job with the railroad was, as the 1920 census is illegible on that point — but he described himself then as a farmer as well as a railroad employee, and he took the layoff in stride, saying that he had plenty of work to do on his small farm.
Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 10 Mar. 1921.
On the evening of Friday, March 4, Daisy hosted a shower for Lesta at the Raschka home on Lake Street. "The evening was spent in social converse, during which a dainty luncheon was served," said the Hobart News. "Miss Raschka was the recipient of many beautiful gifts."
On Monday evening, Lesta brought her Sunday School class over to the house, and I hope her parents were home from their missionary board meeting in time for the fun:
(Click on image to enlarge)
That social column is packed with news of people we know — brothers Christ and Tony Springman drunk on dandelion wine; Albion Paine traveling from his farm west of Ainsworth to seek medical help in Chicago; and Paul Newman busying himself with a proposed tourist camp for travelers on the Yellowstone Trail where it ran with Cleveland Avenue into Hobart.
The last item in the column mentions the local effects of a depression the nation was going through. Among the men laid off by the Pennsy Railroad was our friend Peter Palm. I am not sure what his job with the railroad was, as the 1920 census is illegible on that point — but he described himself then as a farmer as well as a railroad employee, and he took the layoff in stride, saying that he had plenty of work to do on his small farm.
Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 10 Mar. 1921.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Warmed by Love, Heated by Hot Water
On the heels of the Spanish-flu marriage came a half-flu marriage, as Calvin Scholler, bereaved of his first wife by flu, became the first husband of Edith A. MacPherson on November 15, 1920.
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From the Hobart News of Nov. 18, 1920.
Also, news of an acquaintance: John Harms was moving onto the farm he had bought last August. (I don't know if "Mr. Maicke" is the Otto Maicke who eventually married Lesta Raschka, but perhaps we'll find out.) And a wedding south of Ainsworth! I must admit this is the first time I've noticed the William and Rosie Wilkening family, even though a little investigation shows they've been farming in southern Ross Township at least since 1908.
From the Gazette, another report on the Scholler-MacPherson wedding, and more news of acquaintances:
From the Hobart Gazette of Nov. 19, 1920.
Lee & Rhodes heating up their own headquarters in the Roper building, and the Borger building, wherever that might have been.
As for Mrs. Harry Barnes, this is the first time I've mentioned her, but it won't be the last. She was born Lillian Newman, and a descendant of hers just recently clued me in to the connection between the Newmans and the Gruel family of Ainsworth. Lillie was the sister of Paul Newman, of Hobart hardware-store fame, and Arthur Newman who appeared somewhere in the Gruel pigeon-shoot picture (and who, I believe, just recently provided confections for the W.G. Haan School fundraiser). "Mrs. Philip Roper, Jr." was their sister, Dollie. More to come from that direction.
Other sources:
♦ 1908 Plat Map.
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
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From the Hobart News of Nov. 18, 1920.
Also, news of an acquaintance: John Harms was moving onto the farm he had bought last August. (I don't know if "Mr. Maicke" is the Otto Maicke who eventually married Lesta Raschka, but perhaps we'll find out.) And a wedding south of Ainsworth! I must admit this is the first time I've noticed the William and Rosie Wilkening family, even though a little investigation shows they've been farming in southern Ross Township at least since 1908.
From the Gazette, another report on the Scholler-MacPherson wedding, and more news of acquaintances:
From the Hobart Gazette of Nov. 19, 1920.
Lee & Rhodes heating up their own headquarters in the Roper building, and the Borger building, wherever that might have been.
As for Mrs. Harry Barnes, this is the first time I've mentioned her, but it won't be the last. She was born Lillian Newman, and a descendant of hers just recently clued me in to the connection between the Newmans and the Gruel family of Ainsworth. Lillie was the sister of Paul Newman, of Hobart hardware-store fame, and Arthur Newman who appeared somewhere in the Gruel pigeon-shoot picture (and who, I believe, just recently provided confections for the W.G. Haan School fundraiser). "Mrs. Philip Roper, Jr." was their sister, Dollie. More to come from that direction.
Other sources:
♦ 1908 Plat Map.
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Silver Wedding Anniversary
William and Carrie Raschka were well enough aware, I'm sure, that May 2, 1919, was their 25th wedding anniversary. Yet two days later some three dozen relatives and friends allegedly pulled off a "complete surprise" — they all showed up that Sunday morning at the Raschkas' Lake Street house, coming from as far away as Chicago and North Judson, Indiana.
The guests brought baskets of food and gifts. They gave William and Carrie " a handsome set of silverware and a beautiful basket of roses." The party went on into the afternoon. Someone called up John Naumann, the photographer, asking him to come over and capture the happy assemblage of four generations.
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I believe this photo was taken on this occasion. Only the people marked with numbers are identified: (1) Leona Raschka Ewigleben; (2) Carrie Chester Raschka; (3) William Raschka; (4) Wilma Raschka McLain; (5) Bernice Raschka Schultz; (6) Lesta Raschka Maicke; (7) Daisy Raschka Fleck; (8) Eugene Fleck; (9) John Grover Fleck; (8) Eugene Fleck (born August 16, 1917); (10) Otto Maicke (who married Lesta Raschka); (11) Lovisa Nelson (Carrie's sister); (12) Jim Chester. The lady between Carrie and William Raschka is tentatively identified as Minnie Raschka Marx (William's sister).
Image and identifications courtesy of John Fleck and J. Holborow.
Though Carrie's parents were both dead, William's widowed mother, Mary, had come up from Knox, Indiana; and William and Carrie's daughter, Daisy, now the wife of John Fleck, had no doubt brought along their first grandchild, one-year-old Eugene.
Among the guests were Carrie's brothers, Charles and James Chester, as well as her sister, Lovisa Nelson (and Lovisa's son Glen, with his wife, Elsie). Nearly all of William's siblings were there: Louis and Anna Raschka of North Judson; Frank and Frieda Raschka, along with their unmarried brother, George — they jointly farmed a piece of land in Winfield Township; sister Minnie with her husband, John Marks, from Knox; and from Hamlet, Indiana, sister Lillie and her husband, Jacob Short.
Also present was Otto Maicke of Chicago. I haven't figured out yet whether he was related to any of the Raschkas. [Update: he would marry Lesta Raschka in 1921.]
If that day was favored with the best of Indiana's early-May weather, it would have been sunny, not too hot, just warm enough so you could sit outside in the flower-scented breeze — and surely they did sit outside, as all those brothers and sisters, all those young nieces and nephews, would have spilled out of the house and all over the lawn.
Perhaps William and Carrie felt a twinge of the heart in remembering little Bessie, who would have been a teenager now if she had lived. But when they considered that in a quarter-century of marriage, they had suffered no other losses, and that they and all their family had just come safely through a world war and an epidemic, I expect they felt blessed.
Sources:
♦ 1880 Census.
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 9 May 1919.
♦ "Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Raschka Given Surprise on 25th Wedding Anniversary." Hobart News 8 May 1919.
The guests brought baskets of food and gifts. They gave William and Carrie " a handsome set of silverware and a beautiful basket of roses." The party went on into the afternoon. Someone called up John Naumann, the photographer, asking him to come over and capture the happy assemblage of four generations.
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I believe this photo was taken on this occasion. Only the people marked with numbers are identified: (1) Leona Raschka Ewigleben; (2) Carrie Chester Raschka; (3) William Raschka; (4) Wilma Raschka McLain; (5) Bernice Raschka Schultz; (6) Lesta Raschka Maicke; (7) Daisy Raschka Fleck; (8) Eugene Fleck; (9) John Grover Fleck; (8) Eugene Fleck (born August 16, 1917); (10) Otto Maicke (who married Lesta Raschka); (11) Lovisa Nelson (Carrie's sister); (12) Jim Chester. The lady between Carrie and William Raschka is tentatively identified as Minnie Raschka Marx (William's sister).
Image and identifications courtesy of John Fleck and J. Holborow.
Though Carrie's parents were both dead, William's widowed mother, Mary, had come up from Knox, Indiana; and William and Carrie's daughter, Daisy, now the wife of John Fleck, had no doubt brought along their first grandchild, one-year-old Eugene.
Among the guests were Carrie's brothers, Charles and James Chester, as well as her sister, Lovisa Nelson (and Lovisa's son Glen, with his wife, Elsie). Nearly all of William's siblings were there: Louis and Anna Raschka of North Judson; Frank and Frieda Raschka, along with their unmarried brother, George — they jointly farmed a piece of land in Winfield Township; sister Minnie with her husband, John Marks, from Knox; and from Hamlet, Indiana, sister Lillie and her husband, Jacob Short.
Also present was Otto Maicke of Chicago. I haven't figured out yet whether he was related to any of the Raschkas. [Update: he would marry Lesta Raschka in 1921.]
If that day was favored with the best of Indiana's early-May weather, it would have been sunny, not too hot, just warm enough so you could sit outside in the flower-scented breeze — and surely they did sit outside, as all those brothers and sisters, all those young nieces and nephews, would have spilled out of the house and all over the lawn.
Perhaps William and Carrie felt a twinge of the heart in remembering little Bessie, who would have been a teenager now if she had lived. But when they considered that in a quarter-century of marriage, they had suffered no other losses, and that they and all their family had just come safely through a world war and an epidemic, I expect they felt blessed.
Sources:
♦ 1880 Census.
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 9 May 1919.
♦ "Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Raschka Given Surprise on 25th Wedding Anniversary." Hobart News 8 May 1919.
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