The promised silliness

 

May 10, 1931 - Rainy all day.  Florence and Ralph came up about 11 o'clock, we played pinochle and then had dinner.  It took about 2 hours to do the dishes, but during those 2 hours much happened including being locked in the pantry, crawling in and out the windows, taking handles from cars, tooting horns, running away, and making soft taffy.  We went to the baccalaureate services tonite.  After that Ray, Ralph and I started for Wayne in Ray's Ford.  The lights burnt out so we're going tomorrow morning at 5 bells.
May 11, 1931 - We got up at 4 o'clock this morning and left for Wayne at 4:30.  We got to Wayne at 6 o'clock.  Oh what a ride and what roads!!  We had a blowout 1 1/4 miles from Winside and went the rest of the way on the rim.  Uncle Charlie went to Grand Island to some kind of convention.  Aunt Mary and I looked through her old samples and started piecing a quilt tonite.
May 12, 1931 - Pearl and Wallace came to Wayne tonite.  Wallace lost his job, they told him they'd be through with him the end of this week and he quit right away.  We made candy this evening.  It tasted good but didn't get hard.

Goodness -- no wonder it took two hours to do the dishes with all those shenanigans going on!  I am trying, somewhat successfully I might add, to imagine Grandma 19 years old and climbing out of windows and running around laughing and carrying on.  Fun stuff.

In case anyone is wondering, the reason to get up so early to go to Wayne was because that day was Monday and Grandma had to get to her classes.  That's my best guess, anyway.

Help, please.  Who is/are Pearl and Wallace?

I do not know who is in the photo with Grandma, but I thought it fit somewhat the time period of Grandma's journal.