(The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary,  written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

The M.E. Church, South of Roswell,N.M is payed for entirely! I think it will be dedicated at Easter!  Sent off a letter of application to Colorado Springs Supt. of Schools. Wonder what will come of it, if anything!  League was terrible but no so bad as Sunday School. I wish they would get things organized up there!

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

SS Iowa wrecks on Peacock Spit at Cape Disappointment with a loss of 34 lives

The families of evicted sharecroppers of the Dibble plantation in Parkin, Arkansas were legally evicted

The Battle of Ganale Doria began on the Ethiopian southern front

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