Nadine's Diary, "Amused Ourselves"

Friday Oct. 12, 94.  In school.  Entertained Messers Frink and Stinson in the evening.  We plaid cards and amused our selvs until the go bell rang when they had to go.  

From "World of Playing Cards".  Royal Playing Cards, mid 1890s, made
by New York Consolidated Card Company.

Nadine's Diary, "Waiting on the Supper Bell"

Oct. 11, 94.  In school.  Met Mr. O'Conner at Chapel.  Miss Sinclair and I took a walk after supper.  Mr. Frink came home in the after noon.  Miss Sinclair and I were standing on the stairs waiting for the supper bell to ring and she introduced me to him.

Nadine's Diary, "Went to Singing"

Wednesday Oct. 10. 94.  In school.  Mr. Stinson came up to my room in the after noon to tell me something Mr. Holz told him to tell me.  I also received a letter from him, went to singing in the evening, after taking a walk.

Nadine's Diary, "Trial at the Law Building"

Monday Oct. 8, 94.  In school.

Tuesday Oct. 9, 94.  In school, in the evening Miss Sinclair and my self attended a law trial at the law building it being a case of Breach of Promise, Miss Grace, Brown and Mr. George Glenn, being the characters.  Mr. Garland came home with us. 

c. 1898.  Law School Building at Northern Indiana Normal School.

Nadine's Diary, "Church in the Evening"

Sunday Oct. 7, 94.  At home in the morning.  Mr. Garland called in the after noon a while.  Edna Nichol was here a few minutes.  Miss Sinclair, Mr. Garland and my self called on Misses Cooley and Chapman in Union Hall.  Mr. Stinson took me to church in the evening at the Christian Tabernacle*.

AKA The Christian Tabernacle, from 1911, www.inportercounty.org

*On January 1, 1901, "The Christian Evangelist", "a weekly family and religious journal" reported that the Christian Tabernacle "seats about 1,500 people and during favorable weather has been filled to overflowing." The building was constructed in 1888 and is no longer standing.

Nadine's Diary, "Just Starving Hungry"

Saturday Oct. 6, 94.  In the morning Miss Sinclair, Messers Reed and Stinson and I took a walk out to Sagers Pond.  I tore my dress on the wire fence.  Miss Sinclair found a four leaf clover.  We came home about dinner time just starving hungry cause by the exercise of the morning.  In the afternoon Miss Sinclair and my self took a walk down town.  In the evening we went to the Star Society*.

*Star Society:  another literary society.

From Hodges' personal collection.  He labeled this 1897 photograph:
"Looking South on College Ave. Valparaiso, Ind."

Nadine's Diary, "A Basket of Fruit"

Friday Oct. 5, 94.  In school in the evening Miss Flag, Miss Nichol, Miss Sinclair and my self went to the Cresent Society*.  Mr. Holz called in the afternoon to say good bye.  Received a basket of fruit in the afternoon with Compliments of Mr. Holz. 

*perhaps the Crescent Literary Society.

from www.indianahistory.org
c. early 1900s, a birds eye view of Valparaiso, IN.  The Christian Tabernacle,
featured later in Nadine's diary, may the the building in the center.