Letter from Home,  Dad got home Thursday – Ty-ty said Jaime god a card from Carsey in California wanting Dit’s address. The big bum hasn’t written but maybe he hasn’t been home in time to get my letter – Another contract lesson, I believe I am catching on a little!  Wrote to Sante Fe again about my certificate.  The teacher to take Mrs. Miller’s place has come but I haven’t met him yet – I am having to make over my English book – pasting stray leaves from several books into a notebook like this diary.  Starting taking the Herald Post –

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

A new time magazine with Clyde Herring on the cover.

President Roosevelt released a statement condemning the shooting of Huey Long.

“The spirit of violence is un-American and has no place in a consideration of public affairs, least of all at a time when calm and dispassionate approach to the difficult problems of the day is so essential”

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(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Old Timers Day with robed choir – Mrs. Hoffman said she would like to have me help her but that if the Young People needed me she’d rather I’d go there – She said she had three children in that department.  Lucy Mae Crow ate dinner with us. Saw Kit Carson’s Cousin whom everyone calls “Rip Van Winkle” dressed in leather jacket with fringe and wearing long blond-grey hair.  Quite a character!   Alyce Claire dated Bud Titler, our bridge teacher, to a show. Went to bed before 10 o’clock.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Senator Huey Long, aka “The Kingfish”,  is shot in the Louisiana state capitol building.

Hans Stuck won the Italian Grand Prix.

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