Nothing much was planned in Hobart for Independence Day, but on its eve Camp 133 promised a big fireworks display. If you didn't care for fireworks, you could go dance at the old Deepriver schoolhouse to music "with real pep" played by Perry's Big Six (I have no idea).
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Hobart Gazette, June 29, 1923.
Still, work had to go on. Planning for the future Roosevelt Gym building was going forward, and our favorite plumbers, Lee & Rhodes, as the only bidders for the plumbing work, were awarded the contract.
Some unpleasant business involving tuberculosis-testing of cattle occurred on "the big farm of Roper Bros." (and even more unpleasant business later at a Chicago slaughterhouse). I don't know where that farm was. I can't find any land owned by a Roper in Union Township on the Lincoln Highway in the 1921 or 1928 plat maps.
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Which school was that they were going to build? Was it a grade school or a new high school building?
It was next door to the high school and would hold a gymnasium and some additional classrooms that were needed because the high school building was getting overcrowded. In those days some (or maybe all?) of the lower grades had their classes in the high school building.
You're right. I remember now looking through the Hobart High yearbooks of that time and it mentioning additions.
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