Saturday, March 5, 1927
Showery
Got the children’s clothes ready for Sunday School this morning. Mrs. Kilby invited me to a party at her house next Wed. so I went down to get silk for a spring dress. Had been home only 1 ½ hours when Dick and Dale started to the show and Dick started to cross the street and stepped in front of a machine without a light and his leg broken. Called Papa who had Haggard and son set it. Of course, no sleep for me and no rest in sight. John and Grace and Mrs. Collins and kids called. Dick suffered on account of swelling.
(Aunt Marjorie wrote, "Dr. Haggard was a good friend of Grandpa's. I was old that Dick was laid on the kitchen table to have his leg set."
That had to have hurt!)
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Poor Dick and poor Grandma. Does she get to go to her party? I can't imagine she will find time to make her dress now. And silk. Was it expensive back then, or more of a common fabric? Or was it not really silk, but a silky fabric? You don't think of someone who has to watch what they spend so closely buying silk.
ReplyDeletePoor Dick. I didn't remember this story of the broken leg. Wasn't he the one who had nightmares of being hit by a horse and buggy though??? Grandma? Do you remember??
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