My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 21, September 12 - 23, 1920

Gertrude and her brother, Gordon, 1920s  

This is the 20th installment of my grandmother's diary from 1920.  Her name was Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (1905 - 2001) and she lived on Elliott Street in Beverly, Massachusetts.  I'm transcribing small sections of this tiny 3" diary, with its minuscule handwriting, and posting it at my blog every Monday.  You can read the first installment of the diary HERE.

SUN. SEPT 12, 1920

Up at 9. Had breakfast at

9.30 stayed around home

all morning.  After dinner went

down Mabel’s with Eunice. After

lunch went up to Russell’s with

Eunice & Ethel H.  Helen & Ellsworth

Up.  Bed at 10.

MONDAY 13    Rain

Up at 6.45 went to school

At 7.45 came home at

1.15. Stayed home all afternoon

before supper Eunice & I went

down to the A &P.  Stayed

home all evening and read

Mrs. Butler over. Bed at 8.30

TUESDAY 14

Up at 6.45 went to school

at 7.45 came home at

1.15 home all afternoon

And evening reading

Went to bed at 8.30

NOTE:  Gertrude and her sister Eunice went to visit their friend Mabel (this is not Aunt Mabelle who died in 1916).  She visited her married brother Russell, and her married sister Helen visited with her husband Ellsworth Robson.   Gertrude mentioned the A&P, which was a grocery store (one of the first chain groceries in the country, which operated from 1859 - 2015).  

WED. SEPT. 15, 1920

Up at 6.45 went to school

at 7.45 came home at

1.15. Stayed around the

house all the afternoon

after supper went to

ride with Eunice & Alice

Went to bed at 9.45

THURSDAY 16

Up at 6.45 went to school

at 7.45 came home at

1.15. After dinner Eunice &

I went down to Helen’s.  After

supper went to the store with

Eunice & Ida. Bed at 9.30

FRIDAY 17

Up at 6.30 school all the

morning home at 1.15

Helen up.  Walked down A&P with

Eunice.  After supper went

To movies with Ella & Brick

Went to bed at 11.30

NOTE:  Gertrude mentions her friends Alice, Ida, Ella and Brick.  More visiting with her married sister Helen. 

SAT. SEPT. 18, 1920

Up at 7.30 worked around

the house all the morn-

ing and afternoon.  Mr. Lowell

came over stayed all night

stayed home all evening and

went to bed at 9.45

SUNDAY 19

Up at 9.00 had breakfast at 9.30

stayed home all the morning

after dinner Ella and I

went to walk up Danvers

Brick up all evening. Went

To bed at 10.00 PM

Monday 20

Up at 6.45 school at 8 had

short periods on account of lecture

came home at 1.15.  Home all after

noon.  Went down the store before

supper.  Home all evening.  Feeling

punk with a cold.  Bed at 8.30

NOTE: The occasional board Mr. Lowell was back on the 18th.  She mentions her friends Ella and Brick.  School classes are back, and she has caught a cold.  

TUES. SEPT. 21, 1920

Up at 6.30 went to school

at 7.45 school all morning

came home at 1.15.  Helen &

Clemont up all day, stayed

around the house all evening.

Ellsworth up to supper

Went to bed at 9.45

WEDNESDAY 22

Up at 6.45 cars late got to

school at 8.35 came home

at 1.45 went back for

bookkeeping got home at

4.45.  After supper went to ride

With Gladys and with Brick.  Bed at 8.45

THURSDAY 23

Up at 6.45 went to school

At 7.45 got home at 1.30

Stayed home all afternoon went

Down Ella’s at 4.  Stayed around

Home all the evening.

Bed at 9.30.

NOTE:  Her married sister Helen visited with her baby, Clemont, and husband, Ellsworth.  Gertrude has started bookkeeping classes on Wednesday afternoons.  I didn't know that she took bookkeeping!  She mentions her friends Gladys, Brick and Ella.  (Her brother-in-law, Ellsworth Robson, had a sister Ella born in 1906 (same age as Gertrude) - could this be her friend Ella? They lived on Odell Avenue in Beverly.  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 21, September 12 - 23, 1920", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 1, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-grandmothers-diary-part-21-september.html: accessed [access date]).