Ruth Campbell Smith 1925-27 Diaries

My grandmother, Ruth Campbell Smith (1892 - 1972) kept a diary for many years. I am posting her entries from 1925 - 1927 in this blog. Her family included sons Dale (1916 - 2004), Dick (1918 - 1971), Albert (1920 - 1979), and Ned (1923 - 1976), and later daughters Marjorie (1925 - 2010) and Eleanor (1929 - 2011). Her husband was Gilbert (1889 - 1937) and they lived in Indianapolis. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of what it was like to be a housewife and mother in the 1920's.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Monday, July 19, 1926

Monday, July 19, 1926
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Robert Collins came over to play with the boys but Dale and Dick hiked off to the creek regardless. Dick came back at noon and thought Dale was following soon but Dale didn’t come. I found that he was with Robert Miller and Robert Johnson so I began to worry when he didn’t appear at 3 to go for his papers. I visioned all sorts of mishaps with those two cowards along and in fact worried myself sick. Finished the day with a nervous head ache that lingered long after he blew in with a little fish about like my finger and he was sore because I wouldn’t clean and cook them for supper!

(Another day when Dale seemed to worry Grandma. I remember earlier in the summer she couldn't get him to do any chores for her. I hope he got his papers delivered!

Robert seemed to be a popular name in the early part of the 20th century.)