My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 7

Beverly High School, 1874 - 1923
It still stands on Essex Street, Beverly, Massachusetts
This would have been where Gertrude went to school in 1920

This is the 7th installment of sections of my grandmother's diary from 1920.  Her name was Gertrude Hitchings (1905 - 2001), and she was living on Elliott Street in Beverly, Massachusetts.  The diary is a tiny 3" and every Monday I publish a new section, with transcriptions of the tiny handwriting.  You can read the first installment HERE.  I'll be posting new installments of this diary every week for Amanuensis Monday.

March 22 - April 8 (missing pages)

MON. MAR. 22, 1920

Got up at 7.00 went to

school home at 1.15 had

dinner. Went down the store with

Eunice at 4.30.  Stayed

Home all evening and

Studied.  Quite warm all

Day. Went to bed at 9.45

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TUESDAY 23

Got up at 6.30 took 7.45

car to school and 1 o’clock car

home had dinner.  Mrs. Butler

over. Went down the A & P

with Marion.  Marion up

after supper Ma & Pa over to

Butlers.  Went to bed at 9.30

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WEDNESDAY 24

Got up 6.30 went to

school.  Went down Helen’s

to dinner stayed all the

afternoon came home 5.00 had

supper went out a little while

on the bikes came in and studied bed 10.15

[NOTE:  Gertrude mentions going back and forth to school by trolley car. Also, dinner was the mid-day meal, and supper was the evening meal.  She mentions Eunice her 17 year old sister, and Helen, the eldest sister who was married by this time and had small children at home.]

[The pages are out of order]

Thurs. Mar. 25, 1920

Got up at 6.45 went to

school went to Salem with

Ma after school to get my hat

fixed over.  Came home 4.30 had

dinner.  After supper went down

A&P with Marion and then

Went down ??  bed at 10.

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Friday 26

Got up at 7.00 went to school

Had a swell play home at 1.15

Worked part of the afternoon

Then went out with Bertha

?? on the bicycles came in

got supper stayed home all

evening and read went to bed 9.30

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Saturday 27

Got up at 7. had breakfast

Eunice went to North Beverly

Worked all morning and after

noon went riding 4. O’clock

took a bath before supper home

all evening wrote letters bed at 9.30

[NOTE: I love the little note about getting Gertrude's hat fixed over for spring. That was a very frugal thing, instead of getting a new hat!  I imagine that there were silk flowers or new ribbons added to her hat by a milliner.]

March 28 - April 3, 1920

Sun. Mar. 28, 1920

Got up at 8.30 had break

fast went to church.  Ma

and Pa went down to

Nana’s after dinner. I went

for a little walk with Eunice & Rozella

Home all evening played the

Victrola. Ma home 8.15 bed at 9.30

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Monday 29

Got up at 6.45 went to

school came home at

1.15 stayed home all

the afternoon. Stayed

home all evening and

played games.  Pa over

to Russell’s went to bed 9.45

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Tuesday 30

Got up at 7.00 went

to school got home at 1.15

worked awhile and then went

down A&P with Marion

stayed at home all

evening went to bed 9.30    

[NOTE:  On March 28th there is a rare entry about attending church.  That same day Gertrude's parents visited "Nana", who was my 2x great grandmother Mary Etta (Healey) Hoogerzeil (1852 - 1932).  She lived on Bartlett Street, where Ma (Gertrude's mother, Florence Etta (Hoogerzeil) Hitchings (1871 - 1941) grew up.

On the 29th Pa went to visit Russell, who had recently married and was living in Lynn, Massachusetts.

On the 30th Gertrude went with her friend, Marion, to the A&P.  The A&P was a grocery store.  It was located on Cabot Street when I lived in Beverly in the 1960s, but I don't know where it was located in 1920.]

Part One  posted December 5, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/amanuensis-monday-my-grandmothers-diary.html

Part Two posted December 12, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/amanuensis-monday-my-grandmothers-diary_12.html   

Part Three posted December 19, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-grandmothers-diary-part-3.html   

Part Four posted December 26, 2016

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-grandmothers-diary-part-4.html   

Part Five posted January 2, 2017

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-5.html   

Part Six posted January 16, 2017

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-6.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 7", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 23, 2017 (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-7.html: accessed [access date]).