Oscar the Grouch At It Again

The Hobart town board, in a meeting the second week of December 1916, considered the bills that had been presented to it by various parties for payment. Most of them were routine and unremarkable, but two stood out, and they were both from our friend Oscar W. Carlson. According to the Gazette, "One for $15 was for rent of parts of lots 12 and 13 (lying in part of Linda street) for street purposes, and the other was for $14.70 for brick that the town ordered moved from the street a year or so ago."

Evidently Oscar was looking for another fight over Linda Street.

Oscar's bills "were objected to," said the Gazette — I'll bet they were — and the board declined to pay them.

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I have found a 1944 map at the Hobart Historical Society Museum that shows lot 12 on Linda Street lying north of Cleveland Street and south of Home. (It doesn't show lot 13 at all.) Whether 1944 information applies to 1916 is another question.

Sources: "Town Board Doings." Hobart Gazette 15 Dec. 1916.