Calvin Scholler's Third Marriage

Calvin Scholler's experience with marriage had been heartbreaking so far — one young wife lost to influenza and another to cancer — but in April 1923 he decided to brave it once more.


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Hobart News, April 12, 1923.


The Gazette added, "The bride is formerly from Glascow [sic], Scotland, and a life-long friend of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce."[1]


Other mildly interesting items on that page include (in the left column) the Gem Theatre's ad for The Toll of the Sea, which made me learn a little more than I used to know about motion pictures in color.

In the next column, the top article concerns the future site of the Roosevelt Gym. The bottom article describes the newly formed Hobart Gun Club planning to meet "on the Jerry McAuliff[e] farm east of the city in the field formerly used as a motorcycle race track," which sounds as if the racetrack had fallen into disuse.

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[1] "Scholler-Young Nuptial," Hobart Gazette, April 13, 1923.

Flip This Horse-Drawn School Bus

James Chester, wheeler-dealer, bought two horse-drawn school buses that nobody wanted and managed to sell them to somebody else that same day.


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Hobart News 29 March 1923.


I wonder what Jerry McAuliffe did with his?

I never heard of Julius Salzwedel before. Per the 1920 Census, he was a retired harness-maker living somewhere near where Tenth Street meets the road to Ainsworth, now S.R. 51 (aka Grand Boulevard, aka Lake Park Avenue).

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Over in the right-hand column, it looks as if plans are being made for what would eventually be the Roosevelt Gym.

Hobart Then and Now: Roosevelt Gym

Circa 1949 and 2010.



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Top image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

Well, I guess we showed that historic landmark who's boss, didn't we?

The Hobart Historical Society has a pile of bricks salvaged from the gym, and they are going to offer them for sale as soon as they can decide how much to charge, which I believe they are going to do at their meeting on Saturday.