The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more
We decided Mary Jo could go to De Paw for only the transportation extra over anything around here! I am as thrilled as she! It is as if I were going back. Maybe I will for the Centenial in May ’37. Wrote her about it – Ty-Ty is making wool crochet set for Elfy – cap, jacket, and coverlet – precious!
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today
Day 8 of the 1936 Olympic Games
US Men swept the 3 meter diving
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 metre springboard |
 Richard Degener (USA) |
Marshall Wayne (USA) |
Alan Greene (USA) |
| 10 metre platform |
Marshall Wayne (USA) |
Elbert Root (USA) |
 Hermann Stork (GER) |
American novelist, John Roderigo Dos Passos, is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine
Today is the hottest day in Arkansas history.
Arkansas BRINKLEY 8/10/1936 108 74
Arkansas CONWAY 8/10/1936 115 69
Arkansas CORNING 8/10/1936 102 71
Arkansas EUREKA SPRINGS 8/10/1936 112 74
Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE EX 8/10/1936 109 68
Arkansas GRAVETTE 8/10/1936 112 65
Arkansas MAMMOTH SPRING 8/10/1936 103 69
Arkansas MENA 8/10/1936 112 76
Arkansas NEWPORT 8/10/1936 106 70
Arkansas PINE BLUFF 8/10/1936 108 79
Arkansas POCAHONTAS 1 8/10/1936 99 71
Arkansas PRESCOTT 2 NNW 8/10/1936 112 76
Arkansas SUBIACO 8/10/1936 117 81
Follow
Adolf Hitler
American track and field athlete JESSE OWENS with an NBC news reporter during the Olympic Games in Berlin Germany
The horror film 
Got “Fiesta in Mexico” by Erna Ferguson. Asked for Woolcott’s “While Rome Burned” or his “Reader” – No luck on them – cleaned my room. Somehow the sun always seems to shine brighter after I’ve cleaned my room. Changed the furniture around again too. had a sore throat since Thursday so I bought another bottle of stuff to gargle. Read Erna Fergusons “Fiesta in Mexico” until after 10 P.M.
