Think maybe this was the "Green flat on Center street"?
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Because it's on Center Street? And says "John H. Green 1906" on the front? Maybe?
Howard had gotten a job with the Hobart Oil Company, driving an oil wagon (which probably looked something like this).
Calvin senior was doing well with the Barnes & Shearer business. Throughout the spring they were at work grading and laying gravel on the New Chicago road. In September they successfully bid for another road job at $5,900. While all this was going on, they also had an office in Hobart, on Main Street near the Nickel Plate tracks, where they sold building materials and coal:
In July Calvin's younger daughter, Bliss, married Paul Raymond Emery and went to live in Laporte, Indiana, where her husband was employed.
Altogether the Shearers didn't do badly for themselves by leaving Ainsworth.
Sources:
♦ "Additional Local News." Hobart Gazette 2 Apr. 1915; 23 Apr. 1915.
♦ Advertisement. Hobart News 20 May 1915.
♦ "Hobart Girl Marries." Hobart Gazette 9 July 1915.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 26 Feb.
♦ "Personal and Local Mention." Hobart News 20 May 1915; 16 Sept. 1915.
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Another "relative" story. I can remember when their company would deliver coal for our furnace thru a back window. I loved the smell of the coal but I hated to stoke that furnace and try to keep it burning!
Would you believe I've never smelled coal?
Stoking must have been a pain. My mother used to tell me coal stories from her childhood to impress on me how lucky we were to have an oil furnace -- no shoveling, no having to clear out the "clinkers." (And no falling on the coal pile and getting a bad cut but being afraid to tell your parents because you weren't supposed to be playing on the coal pile in the first place.)
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