On His Toes!

John and Lillian Call had been living in a rented home in Hobart when the 1920 census came around and, I suppose, when their first child was born. In the spring of 1921 they bought their own house and their own lot, but it seems the two were not at first in the same place. It was easier to bring the house to the lot than vice versa … which is not to say it was easy to move the house.


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Also, a little news of other people we know, including a new way to spell Grabowski, but we're going to stick with the old way. And Theodore Rossow's little daughter was sick. Who (I asked myself) was Theodore Rossow? I believe he was "Uncle Theodore" to our Minnie Rossow Harms, being her father's brother … only I don't know what his family was doing "southwest" of Hobart, since the censuses (1910 through 1930) show them living on their own land in Union Township, Porter County; the 1921 plat map of Union Township shows this Rossow farm in the northwest corner of Union Township, which is southeast of Hobart. Perhaps the "southwest" in the News item was a misprint.


To return for a moment to the Calls' house-moving — while the item above suggests it was expensive, we must go to a second item on another page to find out that it actually cost John much more than he'd expected:




Sources:
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ 1930 Census.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 5 May 1921.