Author: David Haldeman

Tuesday June 4th 1935
Got my belt and buttons tonight.
Wally came down to take a walk but we went to the show. “A Notorious Gentleman” and “Private Worlds” Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert.
Walking home is about all the Romanticism we two get though.

Monday June 3rd 1935
Rushed Uptown this noon in the heat to get a dark blue belt and buttons for my new pink dress but couldn’t find any I liked.
Raining when I came home tonight.
Pressed some clothes took a bath, made a block for my quilt and now I think I’ll go to sleep.
Wally has Sea Scout meeting on Monday evenings from now on.

Sunday June 2nd 1935
Such a dull day. I guess worrying about Wally. Read several issues of Laura’s Good Housekeeping, sketched and started to take a walk. But it started raining.
Went to BY. Sat by Arnold Frankhausher. At church sat with Ephid Sachrison.. Wally showed up at Fireside and just wouldn’t be ignored so he brought me home. -Sweet.

Saturday, June 1, 1935
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Friday May 31st 1935
To Columbus with Mr. Shelton. All the men complimented me on my hair. Must tell Mrs. Dodrill.
Wore my prom dress to the Sea Scout dance. Wally (Nye Scofield drove) came about 8:15. Got to Buckeye Lake about 9:30. Dance at the Yacht Club. Rather dumb Orchestra- nice place. Got home about 2:00.

Thursday May 30th 1935 Memorial Day
Up early and out to the garden with Daddy. Corn about 3in High. Stuff needs rain. After dinner took a drive out to Marg. and Ruben Smith but they weren’t home. Mrs. Dodrill set my hair about five. Rest of the family set out tomato plants. I was too tired. Read and popcorn. And so to bed. Nice day.

Wednesday May 29th 1935
Typed about 5 letters after 4:30. Daddy and Louis Woolum met me after work. Daddy had been to Blanchester with RJ Bindley. When I got home Mary was all ready to go to the circus. Hagenbeck-Wallace and Paw and Sells Bro. Gypped the ticket man in paying tax on comps. Had cotton candy and peanuts. Man walked upside down -clowns. Bert Nelson animal tamer. Mademoiselle Rasputin a flop. Drunk act of slack wire artist. Acrobats- trapeze- everything.

Tuesday May 28th 1935
Stopped at all the shoe stores on High Street during my lunch break but could find anything. After work went to Gilbert’s and got a pair of white sandals for a $1.88 for the dance next Friday.

Monday May 27th 1935
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Wally brought the big suitcase over this evening and had a letter from [rest blank]

Sunday May 26th 1935
Mrs. Davis’s birthday. Had the loveliest ice cream cake (looked like a beautifully decorated cake but was three layers of ice cream on the inside.)
Wally came over about 3. Went to Olentangy Park. Pretty swimming pool. Rode on the airplanes and Wally took a roller coaster ride. Walked to church. Wally up for treasurer of BY. Preacher says if it rains 1” over one square mile it would take 15 miles of boxcars to hold it. Too tired to stay for Fireside hour.