Sunday September 8, 1935

(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.