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Nora Gowdy Diaries - 1898
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December
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Notes
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December 1st |
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Went to prayer meeting. Love cut his
finger just before we started. It pains him very much. |
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December 4th |
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Did not get in until 9 o'clock. Love
went out to the market to get something for breakfast. It was very cold
and stormy. We did not go out at all except Love went to A.G.'s for
some popcorn. They were not home so Love went to Al's. They did not
have any so Love went to the Springs and she did not know where it was
although she knew they had some. Home then. |
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December 5th |
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Cold and stormy. Love went to work as
usual but his thumb is very sore and it bothers him a great deal. |
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December 6 |
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I am entertaining a sore throat for
a change. Not very bad but disagreeable. Had a letter from Mama and
answered it. |
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December 7th |
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Nell Hiatt was here at noon and wants
me to go to the church Friday for rehearsal and to help arrange for
the evening. I'm to take part in an entertainment to be given by the
Epworth League. My throat was much better -- not getting worse at night.
Love thinks it is doubtful if I can go to the church Friday night. Wrote
a letter to Love's sister Charity. |
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December 8 |
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My throat still getting worse. Love
will have to tell Miss Hiatt I will be unable to take my part. |
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December 10 |
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The Simmons came over to help me. We
made bread and cookies. She knocked [??] and ironed some for me. Minnie
G. was here are all the p.m. Brought me a cake. |
Minnie Gowdy |
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December 11 |
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A lovely day to look out but cold. Love
went to Sunday school but I could not go on account of my cold. A.G.
was here in a.m.. Mort, Anna and Ila here in the p.m. Al and Minnie
here in the evening. |
Nora has two sister-in-laws named Minnie.
Her brother-in-law Albert Morris's wife and her brother Jack Gowdy's
wife. |
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December 13 weather cold
thermometer zero. Cold morning. |
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"One year ago today I went to work
in the Tappan shoe factory." Wrote a letter to Mama in the evening.
My cold is getting better. Nell Hiatt called at noon to know how I was.
Not well enough to take my part in, "Songs of Seven" tomorrow
night. |
We have a picture of Nora on the front porch
of a house with the same caption below it. Now we know when it was. |
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December 14 clear and cold,
thermometer 0 |
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Coldest morning of this season. Our
kitchen window dropped down from the top and everything was frozen up.
Love went to Springs for water to get breakfast. He did not leave the
house until the last whistle had blown. |
Probably the Tappan factory whistle. |
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MEMORANDA |
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One summer eve
with pensive thought,
I wondered on the
sea -- shore
Where oft in --
I gathered shells
in days before
The splashing waves
like music fell
Responsive to my
every will
A train came o'er
me like a spell
I thought it was again a child
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A poem Nora wrote? |
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MEMORANDA |
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Commenced work at the shoe factory December
13,1897 |
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I stood upon the
-- strand
To cull the toys
that around me lay
But as I took them my hand
I threw them one
by one away. Repeat.
O' thus I said in
every stage
By toys our fancy
is beguiled.
We gather shells
from Earth to ye
and then we
leave them
like a child.
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A song? |
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Paid Dunns back |
1.50
1.00
1.50
2.00 |