"We are going to have questions in Geography tomorrow. Grace Bidney brings a school case to school. Marie Server and Grace use one Geography book. Grace brought her case to school today and forgot the key to the case. Marie couldn't take the book home to do questions. I let her take my book. Daddy forgot to take me to the spelling bee."
Shortages of school supplies is not a new thing! It was kind of Shirley to share her book with Marie. Grace Bidney was a classmate of theirs. Her parents were Peter and Helen Bidney, and she had a brother, Robert, who was two years younger, according to the 1930 Federal Census. Her parents were immigrants, having been born in Poland and Germany.
How disappointing it must have been that Shirley's daddy forgot to take her to the spelling bee! I believe it was the one sponsored by the radio station, WKBZ.
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