Thurs., January 10, 1935 - Have quite a bad cough today. Went to Carroll to installation tonite with Helen, Irene, Margaret C. and Howard. Treasurer wasn't there and Helen didn't have to say her part. Lucky girl!
Fri., January 11, 1935 - To Wayne for installation tonite and dance afterward. Had a flat tire on way home three miles east of Winside. Didn't get home until 3:30.
Sat., January 12, 1935 - Rained this p.m. Slept until 10:00 a.m. and napped in p.m. Mom and I went down town this eve. Annabelle was here last nite until this p.m. Read until about 10:00 tonite.
I am going to guess that Margaret is Aunt Margaret Christensen and so I'm adding her to the labels on this post.
As alluded to earlier, so far as we know there is no 1934 diary of Grandma's available, but I do have the Winside history book so I'll add some 1934 news even though it is not as personal as a diary. There's enough that I'll split it between this post and the next. Off we go:
January 2, 96 applications for corn-hog loans to date in the county.
January 30, Guy Sanders, local trucker, was hit by the afternoon passenger train near the Benshoof feed yards. His cab was badly smashed and when the man was found, he was bleeding quite badly. First aid was given and the train took him to a Wayne hospital -- He passed away February 1.
February 1, Mrs. Minnie Morrow was reappointed postmaster for another four years.
February 4, Ed. Krause, a resident of Wayne county since 1882, was called to rest.
February 15, Mrs. David Koch passed away.
March 1, Weible Mercantile Co. is remodeling their store -- the store will be operated on a cash basis hereafter.
March 4, Walter Gaebler threw his hat in the political arena when he filed for state representative on the Democratic ticket.
March 22, Glen Hamm has been organizing a Rural Baseball League of which he is president.
March 28, Citizens State Bank pays out first dividend, or 25 per cent.
April 12, bonded indebtedness in Winside, $24,000; Carroll, $71,200; Wayne, $445,000.
April 12, CWA died a natural death -- FERA took its place with 113 men in the county at work.
April 26, small fire in the St. Paul's Lutheran garage did about $100 worth of damage.
April 29, the high school girls' glee club under Miss Rachael Bracken gave a delightful program over WJAG at Norfolk.
May 16, Steve Porter filed for sheriff.
May 24, Tribune issued a special school edition.
June 16, the Winside Bakery, under the management of Wallace Brubaker, quit business. He had leased the shop the past 18 months from Anton Vondra.
I like that the baker's name was Brubaker . . .
Here is a little about FERA (courtesy of wikipedia), something I had previously heard nothing about:
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was the new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) which President Herbert Hoover had created in 1932. FERA was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
FERA's main goal was to alleviate household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. Jobs were more expensive than direct cash payments (called "the dole"), but were psychologically more beneficial to the unemployed, who wanted any sort of job, for self-esteem, to play the role of male breadwinner. From May 1933 until it closed in December, 1935, FERA gave states and localities $3.1 billion (5.54 billion in 2017). FERA provided work for over 20 million people and developed facilities on public lands across the country.
Faced with continued high unemployment and concerns for public welfare during the coming winter of 1933-34, FERA instituted the Civil Works Administration (CWA) as a $400 million short-term measure to get people to work. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was shut down in 1935 and its work taken over by two completely new federal agencies, the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Administration.
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