Chapter 26
318 SOUTH TENTH STREET
Three weeks after we moved,
I started another small "spec" job on the other lot, just between
this house and our last one. That house I sold to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wenger on
October 5th, 1954.
This is a brick ranch house with a garage in the basement, entered from an alley in the rear. Our neighbors across Eshleman Drive were the Henry Blough family. Incidentally, Johnnie had on occasion trouble with Blough, Junior; he was older than John.
318 S. 10th St., Akron, PA
After the Wenger house was
finished, in the new year, I bought another lot from Mr. Oberholtzer on a
triangle between Grandview Drive and Hillcrest Road. There I started a small
brick ranch house on March 7th, and sold it to R. S. Carter in September of
1955. As soon as I had sold to Carter, I bought a lot from Mr. Oberholtzer on
the corner of Oak and South Ninth Streets for a speculation house.
While I was working at the
Wenger house, we had a rare tornado. Hazel did much damage in the county, but I
lost only a few shingles at Wenger's. In early January of 1955 Johnnie had his
appendix removed in the Ephrata Hospital by Dr. Peter Paul Prankun. He had no
other problems.
Jay had started college at
Millersville with a SICO Scholarship some years before, had worked a year and
then had gone back to Millersville where he got his B. S. in 1956. But this
summer of 1955, on July 16th, he married Mary N. Musser of Landisville.
On September 7th, 1955 we
traded our '51 car for a light green '55 Chevy two-door.
Late in the year, we again
sold our "new" house. This time we sold to Austin E. Hess. We sold to
Hess on December 17th, and moved into the "spec" house at 902 Oak
Street on February 20th, 1956.