Chapter 24
712 NEW STREET
This house was our second
split-level and our first brick house. We moved at the end of September. After
starting the house, I bought a new "Ten-inch tilt-arbor table saw"
from Sears; also a used six-inch Craftsman jointer. Now I began making my own
trim. The Wingenroth’s at the East End Planing Mill didn't like it.
712 New St., Akron, PA
At this house we subscribed
for our first telephone.
One day Ada was watching our neighbor, Mrs. Frank
Heil, handing concrete blocks down into a cesspool her husband was lining. One
of the blocks broke in her hand and fell on his head, cutting a large gash on
his brow. He looked up to her and said, Now look what ya’ done; ya’ broke my
goldarn hedt." He was a little Dutchified!
As soon as we had moved, I
started a brick house on the other lot to the east for speculation. On January
2nd, 1953 I sold it unfinished to Rev. Paul L. Brandt for $8500.00.
After the Brandt sale, I
bought two lots from Mr. Oberholtzer on the west side of South Tenth Street
between Walnut and High Streets and began a split-level brick "spec"
house. Then because we sold 712 New Street to H. D. Haus on May 9th we moved to
this "spec" house at 312 South Tenth on July 22nd, 1953.