Category: Trella Diaries

Monday November 18th 1935
Was I ever glad for 5:00. Took the bus down this morning 5 minutes late stomach ache from hungriness- headache and then had to type figures all afternoon.
Cut out green for my quilt about 100.
Started letter to Wally. Am turning in now 8:30.

Sunday November 17th 1935
Sunday school. Mother and Daddy went to Uncle Hen’s but we three kids stayed home. Had a nap. Took a typing test. Made 42 words per minute. Bernard & Rosina down after BY. Listened to Major Bowes amateurs. Sang old songs. They didn’t go until about 11 so I lost more sleep.

Saturday November 16th 1935
Up 8:30. To Kissel to finish filing my tooth. Walt and I both banked $10 a piece at the National City Bank & Trust. Miss Snodgrass gave me some wrappers for my pennies. Ohio State beat Illini 6-0. All five of us went to Bindley’s for turkey dinner. Really very nice. Walt, Mary and I skipped out to see “Rendezvous” -William Powell & Rosalind Russell. Walt and I didn’t get to bed until 2:00. Mary Burch Johnson here all afternoon- started up town in the rain.

Friday November 15th 1935
Stopped at hamburg shop for a bite before getting bus. Slept all the way to Marion. Ran to catch mother just as the bus pulled in.
Got out my blue-green tunic to rip it apart and try to make a blouse out of it.
bad about 11:00.
Wally in about 1:00 and woke me up for a minute.

Thursday November 14th 1935
My Xmas savings is completed now $12.50.
Letter from Wally. Still don’t know if Daddy will be after me tomorrow.
Listened to Davis’s radio. Every time I got interested he tuned in another program. And so to bed!

Wednesday November 13th 1935
Letter from Wally tonight. He and Mary went to see “The Crusades” Monday. Worked on quilt. Had a bath. Sure wish I had my radio here.
Started a letter to Wally and munched chocolate.
Filed period 12. Took all afternoon. Getting cold.
Took my brown suede oxfords to Moby’s for new heels.

Tuesday November 12th 1935
Felt rotten this morning. Had a terrible night but got through the day ok. Cleaned up all the drawers in my dresser tonight- brushed my clothes. I can take up more time just doing things around my room.
Showed Laura my birthday gifts tonight and she showed me her wedding dress. Blue velvet with metallic trim.

Monday November 11th 1935
Too foggy for Walt to drive me down so I took bus and slept all the way down (Mr Shelton didn’t have to work) Walked from Broad to Front and Bill Holiday picked me up so I got to work on time.
It finally happened. Wrote Wally this evening- worked on my quilt- but was too fidgety to do much.

Sunday November 10th 1935
Skipped Sunday school and church. Had a headache until Wally put me to sleep. Okay when I got up.
We went over to Burch’s in p.m. they have moved near Glenn’s at edge of Lincoln Park. Played with kittens. I surely would like to have one. Mary doesn’t seem to feel so well.
BY quite a success. Bernard Brooks and Rosina, Glenn and Mildred came up after church. Played my little radio- talked- showed them my sewing machine. Bath- bed 11:00.

Saturday November 9th 1935
Had lower tooth filled this morning. Silver. $2.50. Wally and I went to the bank but it was too crowded to wait.
Daddy said they had cute radios at Firestone so he, Wally and I went to see them. Got the sweetest little one. About 11” x 5” x 7”, good tone. $12.95. Wally insisted on paying for it. -Time. 4.00-1.00 wk.
We, Wally and I, went to Bucyrus to see Lowell and family tonight. Wally drove. Got me an ice cream cone.