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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!
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