Monday, May 8, 2017

My Grandmother’s Diary ~ Part 22, September 24 – October 5, 1920

"Beverly High School Football team." Photograph. 1909. Digital Commonwealth, http://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5425kb281 (accessed April 20, 2017).

This is the 22nd blog post with transcriptions of my grandmother's 1920 diary from Beverly, Massachusetts.  Her name was Gertrude Hitchings (1905 - 2001) and she lived on Elliott Street.  Her diary is a tiny 3" book with minuscule handwriting.  It has taken me a long time to transcribe, and the book is very fragile.  It has missing and torn pages, and the end of the book is gone, so I am very near to the end of this project with these September and October pages. Every Monday I post another section of the diary.  You can read the first installment HERE.  





FRI. SEPT. 24, 1920
Up at 6.45 went to school
at 8 had an assembly
home at 1.30.  Home all
the afternoon.  Ma & Pa
went down to Helen’s
Stayed home all evening
Went to bed at 10.

SATURDAY 25
Up at 7.30 worked around
home all morning.  After
dinner Gordon & I went to the
football game we got beat by Lynn
Mr. L. over after supper
Went down Ella’s until 9.15.  Bed at 10.

SUNDAY 26
Up at 9 Stayed around home
all morning.  After dinner went
to ride with Brick.  Ma
& Pa up to Russell’s.  Went
To ride after supper with B.
Up N. B.  Went to bed at 10.15

NOTE:   Gertrude mentions her parents visiting her married sister Helen on Friday.  On Saturday she went to the Beverly High School Football game.  (Trivia:  The first football team at Beverly High School was 1891, and they have played against Salem every Thanksgiving since that year.  It is one of the longest football rivalries in American history.)   The boarder Mr. Lowell was back.  On Sunday her parents visited her married brother Russell.  She mentions her friend Ella and a friend “B” (Bea or Brick?)

MON. SEPT. 27, 1920
Up at 6.45 went to school
all morning home at 1.15
stayed home all afternoon
Mr. Lowell came up to
supper.  Went out a little
while after supper Brick came
up.  Bed at 10.30

TUESDAY 28
Up at 6.45 went to school
all morning home at 1.15
went down Nana’s after
dinner with Eunice.  After
supper went to ride with
Brick.  Bed at 9.30

WEDNESDAY 29
Up at 6.45 went to school on
7.30 car, came home at 1.15
Went back for bookkeeping. Helen
Ells, Rus, Ethel & Mr. L. up.  Went
out a little while after supper
went to bed at 9.30.

NOTE:   Mr. Lowell, the boarder is back again.  She mentions her friend Brick and her sister Eunice.  It seems that every Wednesday afternoon she has a bookkeeping class now. 



THURS. SEPT. 30, 1920
Up at 6.45 went to school
at 7.30  Home at 1.15 stayed
home all afternoon.  After
supper Eunice, Rozella,
Brick and I played
Cards.  Ma & Pa over Butlers
Bed at 10.15

FRIDAY, OCT. 1
Up at 6.45 went to school
all morning got home at
1.15 stayed home all after-
noon.  After supper went
to movies with Brick
home 10.15.  Bed at 10.45.

SATURDAY 2
Up at 7.30 worked around
the house all morning,
Stayed home all after
Noon and evening.
Brick came up after supper
Went to bed at 10.30

NOTE:  Gertrude mentions her sister Eunice and her friends Rozella and Brick.  Her parents went to visit the Butler family, where Gertrude sometimes works. 

SUN. OCT. 3, 1920
Up at 9.30 stayed around
home all morning. After
dinner went to walk
up to the reservoir
with Brick.  After supper
took a ride over North
Beverly.  Bed at 10.15

MONDAY 4
Up at 6.45 went to school
all morning got home
at 1.15.  Stayed home
all afternoon.  Went out
a while after supper.
Went to bed at 8.45

TUESDAY 5
Up at 6.45 school all
Morning.  Helen & baby up
Went down Ella’s after
Dinner home all evening
Reading.  Bed at 9.15

NOTE:   She went to the movies with Brick, and now a walk at the reservoir.  My mother thinks Brick was one of Gertrude’s boyfriends.  She mentioned him a lot this week!

This is the 22nd blog post with transcriptions of my grandmother's diary.  If you would like to start at the beginning with the first pages of her 1920 diary, click on this link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/amanuensis-monday-my-grandmothers-diary.html


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Grandmother’s Diary ~ Part 22, September 24 – October 5, 1920", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 8, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-grandmothers-diary-part-22-september.html: accessed [access date]). 

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