Category: Trella Diaries

Friday February 8th 1935
[shorthand] Wally. [shorthand] really just found it out tonight. [Long shorthand] other boys are losing their attraction for me.
We talked about old times. He left at 11:30. [Shorthand]

Thursday February 7th 1935
Paid $5.50 at the Fashion and that closes my account again. This ice is terrible to walk on. Has made me all sore.
Bill has been terrible to work with this week. Everything so messed up and then so awfully busy too.
Mrs. Davis asked me if I had been washing things in the bathroom. I told her “No nothing but me.”
Messed around guess I’ll go to bed early.

Wednesday February 6th 1935
Well it looks more like an office now but the noise from the shipping room is getting me down.
It was almost zero this morning. Froze all that slushy snow and there is an inch thick on everything.
Wally brought me my Valentine tonight. A box like I’ve been hunting filled with candy. He went home early cause “When a man has to go”.

Tuesday February 5th 1935
Have part of the walls up. 5 foot sure will make a difference.
Started snowing this afternoon. A sticky snow. Everything looks so pretty.
Took a bath. Wally called and I called Aunt May and ask her to come down Sunday afternoon.

Monday February 4th 1935
Up at 5:30, breakfast and out to meet B. Shelton. When I got to work our office had no walls at all. Just a couple of desks in a corner of the shipping room.
Left the only dollar I had at home so I had to borrow some money from Bill for lunch and tickets.
Wally hitchhiked back this afternoon and came down this evening. He brought my dollar. Cutout quilt blocks.

Sunday February 3rd 1935
2 SS. Made an announcement for Life Service League. Stayed for church then BYB. Walt & I met Rosina and she took us to her house for dinner. Duck and chicken. We kids had fun learning talks for LSL and singing “No, no, a thousand times no” with actions.
Came in at 4:30 and went to tea & BY. Then the kids came to my house for popcorn. Gave the $0.50 we would have spent at Islay’s for Missions. Wally stayed all night.

Saturday February 2nd 1935
Up at 10. Finished my peacock blue tunic. Typed some things for Daddy. Did a washing. Had hair fixed.
Walt came in time for supper. I made creamed tuna fish on toast. Walt’s Aunt Martha to Mrs. H & us up to Lowell’s in their new car. Poor Lowell and Alice. But it seems to me they could do more with what they have.
Walt stopped in for popcorn and then went to Milt Baker’s for all night.

Friday February 1st 1935
Wally met the streetcar. I came on home had supper. Daddy came about 6:15. Had Ben Bindley’s Coupe. So Wally, he and I made it from door to door in 58 minutes.
Grandma is still at our house.
Nice to be able to really love Wally again.
They are going to enlarge our office.
Wally went to Bernard Brooks at 1:15 for the rest of the night.

Thursday January 31st 1935
Went up to Morehouse Martin’s for lunch. This sales tax sure is a nuisance. Rather springy out today.
Cut a few quilt pieces this evening. Read. Davis’s went out for a change.
Got sick in the night. Got up and took some Seigrittes[sic-illegible] that a girl at Godman’s gave me and some whiskey and then went to sleep. Finished Harvests.

Wednesday January 30th 1935
Worked on cards (parcel post and express rates) all morning. Sure is hard on your eyes. Mine I mean.
It warms up to about 30 degrees every noon and drops to zero degrees every night. Such weather.
Called Aunt May this evening. She said her flower garden quilt had 90 but I think 50 will be enough for mine.
Wally brought me a magazine and some candy tonight. He had some overtime.