Iron County Record | 1947-10-02 | Page 3 | Evicted

Evicted Takes House Along HAGERSTOWN, MD. When Jesse Young, a carpenter, received an eviction notice, he was not downcast. down-cast. Instead, he went down to his basement and built himself a new house out of army surplus trunk crates. In two months the story and a half dwelling was completed. Modeled Mod-eled after an English cottage, the house has two rooms and a bath downstairs with enough space to make rooms upstairs. When moving day came, Young and a son, Frank, who is a mechanic, me-chanic, loaded the floors, walls and other parts of the new house onto a truck. It took two hours to put the house together, six more hours to apply the finishing touches.