I enjoyed reading about your great-grandmother's school bill. I noticed a question mark by "Drilling" on the sundries bill. I am reasonably sure it meant purchase of cloth...I know my mother used the word upon appropriate occasions. Somehow I think it was a heavy but nice kind of goods. Merriam-Webster's dictionary says: Main Entry: dril·ling Pronunciation: 'dri-li[ng] Function: noun Etymology: modification of German Drillich, from Middle High German; drilich fabric woven with a threefold thread; from Old High German drilIh made up of three threads, from Latin trilic-, trilix, from tri- + licium thread Date: 1640 I assume 1640 is the period when it was first made. I assure you my mother wasn't anywhere near that old. She did work in a dry goods store, with fabrics, in the 1930s. Most of her "cloth words" came from there I assume. Kristy