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

Played for Rally Day S.S. church morning and evening.   Nothing in S.S. class – practiced shorthand for a while.  Called Evelyn for  a shorthand manual but she doesn’t have one.  Card from Kate Balton inviting me to a party Thursday, during the convention.  Wrote Mahota, to see if she knew George Rummage, Alyce Claire’s friend.  Wrote to Jeanette – Pauline was up from Dexter for the first time since the first Saturday that I came to Roswell this year.   She is having a pretty good time and her work is not so heavy.  I am glad!

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

Mao Zedong arrives in Shensi Province in northwest China with 4,000 survivors and sets up Chinese Communist headquarters. The epic flight from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco.

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