My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 13 June 2 - 13, 1920

This is a photograph from my Grandmother's album, probably taken a few years after the diary.  From left to right:  Gertrude,  her friend Bea, Skeet (her little sister Mildred), and the mysterious Bob.  The sheep in this photo are probably the sheep mentioned in the excerpt of the diary today.

This is the 10th installment 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 post more of this diary every week for Amanuensis Monday.

WED.  JUNE 2, 1920

Got up at 6.45 went

to school home 1.15 Rus

up to dinner home all the

afternoon layed down awful hot

Marion up after supper

rode around on my bike

went to bed at 10.15

THURSDAY 3

Got up at 6.45 went to

school home at 1.15

Helen & baby all afternoon

Went to ride with Ella

after supper and to ride with

Brick went to bed at 10.30

FRIDAY 4

Got up at 7.00 went to

school M?? singing club sang

home at 1.15 home all after

noon.  After supper went

down Marion came at 9

went to bed at 9.45

NOTE:   School is still in session.  She mentions her brother Russell, her married sister Helen, cousin Marion Hoogerzeil, and friends Ella and "Brick". 

My great grandmother with a lamb, Gertrude's Ma

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil (1871 - 1941)

SAT. JUNE 5, 1920

Got up at 7.45 had break

fast worked around the

house all day.  Hollis

came down thro the plastering

in the attic.  Took a bath

stayed home all evening.  Rain

hard all day went to bed at 10

SUNDAY 6

Got up at 10 had break

fast Harold Hansen sheared our

sheep.  Stayed home all

afternoon Mr. Lowell came

over.  After supper was going to

walk with Ella but it rained.

Mrs. Butler, Mr. Lowell over bed at 10

MONDAY 7

Got up at 7.00 went to

school arith. exam.  Home at

1.15.  Went out in the afternoon

went a while after

supper.  Ma went to the

Legions went to bed at 10.15

NOTE:  It seems that her little brother Hollis fell through the attic floor, through the ceiling below.  Someone named Harold Hansen sheared their sheep (see the photos above).  The neighbor Mrs. Butler and the boarder Mr. Lowell are mentioned.  Ma went to "the Legions"?  Is this the Legion hall or association?  The American Legion was founded in 1919, so perhaps this organization was in Beverly in 1920?

TUES. JUNE 8, 1920

Got up at 7 went to

school home at 1.15 at

3.30 Eunice and I went

up to Ethel’s came home at

6.  After supper Marion

came up.  Harold over all

evening went to bed at 10.15

WEDNESDAY 9

Got up at 7.15 went to

school had 3 exams

home at 1.15 stayed

around the house all

afternoon after supper

went out a while

came in at 9.15 bed at 9.30

THURSDAY 10

Got up at 7.00 went to

school home at 1.15. Went

down to Warl. School with Marion

Helen, Baby & Ellsworth up.  Went

down Nana’s with Eunice.  Stayed

home all evening bed at 10.30

NOTE:  She mentions her sister Eunice, sister-in-law Ethel, cousin Marion and Harold, who might have been the handyman? (The same Harold who sheared the sheep last week?)  School must be ending soon for the summer because Gertrude had exams.  Helen is the married sister, her husband is Ellsworth and the Baby.  

FRI. JUNE 11, 1920

Got up at 7 went to school

home at 1.15 home all

afternoon at 3.45 went to Salem

for John Kin??? Home 5.15

Got supper  Ma & Pa down Helens

Rus & Ethel down these two stayed

home all evening bed at 10.45

SATURDAY 12

Got up at 7.30 had break

fast worked home here all

morning Eunice went to N. B. [North Beverly?]

Mr. Lowell over to dinner

home all the afternoon

Went out after supper

came in at 9.45 bed at 10.15

SUNDAY 13

                     Rain

Got up at 9.15 had breakfast

home all morning Ma, Millie

gone to Rus.  Pa gone on jury outing

Eunice & I home alone all day

Studied all evening went

To bed at 10.30

NOTE: Lots of visiting on this weekend.  I don't understand "jury outing" (perhaps I didn't read it correctly?)

Gertrude with a sheep (a closeup detail of the photo from the top of this page)

This photo must be a few years after the diary, since she was only 14 in 1920

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 13 June 2 - 13, 1920", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 6, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/my-grandmothers-diary-part-13-june-2-13.html: accessed [access date]).