Entries from Journal #1: May 1930

May 1 – Mrs. Lizzie Korting and myself rode down to the cyanite and then walked up on the opposite side of the hill on [illegible] 1930.  The Herman Weinsitter boulivard.  It was made by him for pass time, he is well to-do.

May 11 – Mother’s day – Cid, Fran, Shirley & Buddie Dalin¹, Bro. Wm. Rumping were up, had a nice time, went down the ridge bee hunting.  Cid & Fran went up to Erick Hedblom at Belmont (electric station [illegible]).   After dinner Mrs. Lizzie Korting & I went down to Mother Setzer walking over the hill part way.  I got a nice box of candy & necklace from Fran & Cid.  A nice card & box of candy from Evely[n] & Fred Marks.  A nice card & box candy from Irene & Jno Webber.  The 2 youngest daughters at Hannibal, Mo.   2 nice t bone steaks from Alb.  Nothing from Christie and I sure wonder why & it hurts, I say (Mother).  I am so lonesome for my nice black kitten Albert made me take away.  He was a loving cat.

 May 23 – Mrs. Marq. Hedbloom & myself were at Frances (Mrs. Dalin).  She was all unreasonable, out of sorts, let us feel we fell in her way, in fact told us so.  I’ll go in June for Shirley’s sake but not Fran’s.  I sure can’t understand her emotions to me at times.  Fran chastised Shirley for making the same remarks to us she did herself.  Shirley did grand at her five page recital at Mrs. Luby’s studio on the piano in Helena.  Larson’s Geo, and Jno L Sullivan spoke fine of her.

 May 30 – My black cat came back home.

1.  Cid, Fran, Shirley & Buddie Dalin.  Mary’s daughter Georgiana Frances (aka “Georgie”, “Fran” or “Frances”) and her family.

Entries from Journal #1: June 1930

June 1 – Mr. & Mrs. Jno [John] Korting & myself were at the Marlow to see Winnie Lightner & Polly Moran play “She Couldn’t Say No”[1].  It was a good show.

June 6 – “Flag Day” – Frank Risoni’s playing at the Fox Liberty Thea[tre].  National Anthem march from Gt. Falls over the radio.  Yesterday was a fierce windy day. 

June 15 – I went 61 miles with Mr. & Mrs. Erik Hedblom up to Gould, Empire, Towsley & home by the Shannon mine.  I finished painting the front of the house & fixed it up real nice.

June 19 – I was to Helena.

June 20 – Had the first rain since spring.

June 22 – Mr. Alb. Price came over at 2:30 a.m. with a severe nose bleed.  Alb[ert] Schaffer & H. Ingman took him to Helena.

Notes:

[1] I think the movie she meant is “The Girl Said No”.  Click here for more information.

And so that you have an idea of the type of movies someone like Mary would have seen in 1930, here’s a short clip from YouTube –

©Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Entry from Journal #1, June 29, 1930

Today Frances Dalin (Schenk) is 29 yrs. old.  Yesterday Christie Schenk was 27.  We had mass at 11:30.  Rev. F. Lagris was up.  I played for Mass[1].  Annie & Victoria Larson, Georgette Betor, Shirley Wilhoit, Blanch O’Connell, Ann O’Connell, Cath. Smigaj, Twila Korting, Myrtle Color Williams, Anita Walsh, Miss Collins and Miss Thomas sang; for supper Fran, Cid, Shirley & Buddie Dalin[2], Mrs. Breta Dalin, Erick Dalin[3], Wm Rumping, Martin Pole, Emma Schiavou, Cora Wood and Christie Schenk were at home.  Bro John Rumping and family were camping on Silver Creek near the old [illegible] with a 1931 model auto drawn by a gray horse[4].

Notes:

[1] Mary knew how to play the piano and there are several references in her journal to playing piano (or maybe the organ?) at Mass.

[2] This is a photo of “Fran, Cid, Shirley & Buddie Dalin”, potentially from June 29, 1930 (the date on the back of the photo is “June 1930”).  There also appears to be a small child holding Shirley’s hand.  Were it not for the June 1930 date on the back of the photo, I would guess that child to be Clayton, Fran and Cid’s third child.  However, since Clayton wasn’t born until November 1931, either the date on the photo is incorrect or the small child isn’t Clayton.

[3] Brita Dalin and Erick Dalin were Cid Dalin’s mother and uncle.

[4] I did quite a bit of internet searching but wasn’t able to locate anything to help identify a 1931 horse-drawn auto.  Maybe the date “1931” is incorrect??