From the Hobart Gazette of April 23, 1970

HERE'S JORYVILLE, WHERE'S CANADA? One of the original residents of Joryville, Mrs. Frank Davis, has given us a genuine first hand account of that locality. Joryville, according to Mrs. Davis, is not, as popularly believed, all the area south of the E.J. and E. Railroad tracks. It consists of five acres which was developed as a subdivision by the late Thomas Jory, and covers the area from 8th Place to 8th Street and from Linda Street to Lincoln Street. The developer had a furniture store on Main Street and lived in the little house on the corner of 8th Place and Linda, Mrs. Davis relates. Mrs. Davis, who moved to the corner of Lincoln and 8th Place at the age of one year (in 1884) was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Mereness. She is the widow of the late Frank Davis, who was once Hobart's Mayor and who was one of the founders of Hobart Federal Savings and Loan Corporation. She now resides at 952 Lincoln. When she was a school girl, Mrs. Davis recallls, there was nothing but cultivated farm acreage south of 8th Place. One of her idols when she was a little girl was Mary Jory, a brown eyed beauty who played the big square Steinway piano at the Unitarian Church. (The piano is still there). Hobart's population was 1,000 then, and Mrs. Davis says everyone was very proud of their big prosperous town. Newcomers may be interested to learn that there were four specific sections in the area in the old days: there was Hobart, Joryville, Canada and Swede Avenue.