Delia Locke Diary, 1898-1902

Page 138 1899. Sept. 26. Tuesday. Received letters from Mother and Theresa and wrote to the children in Humboldt Co. - Theresa sent some little photos of herself and Edna Greenlaw taken together. I think they are the best she has ever had - Bert Condy is now once more at home but has been in the Hos...

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Main Author: Locke, Delia
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Scholarly Commons 1898
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CA
Ida
Online Access:https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/dld-all/1724
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Summary:Page 138 1899. Sept. 26. Tuesday. Received letters from Mother and Theresa and wrote to the children in Humboldt Co. - Theresa sent some little photos of herself and Edna Greenlaw taken together. I think they are the best she has ever had - Bert Condy is now once more at home but has been in the Hospital in San Francisco suffering from rheumatism contracted in the Philippines and is not yet well. (T.S.R. 59. 2 P.M. 92. S.S. 84.) Sept. 27. Wednesday. Weather a little cloudy. Have written to Theresa (T.S.R. 57. 2 P.M. 90. S.S. 77.) Sept. 28. Thursday. Still a little cloudy. Received letters from Ada and Willie and wrote to Ada. (T.S.R. 53. 2 P.M. 85. S.S. 73.) Sept. 29. Friday. Wrote to Mother. (T.S.R. 53. 2 P.M. 82. S.S. 70.) Sept. 30. Saturday. We have had an unusually hot month of Sept. - Received letters from Calvin, Ida, and Annie Holman. Ida sent a curl cert from Irving's head. She has had his hair cut short, so he has lost all his beautiful curls. As a boy, he could not be allowed to wear long curls hanging around his shoulders. Calvin announces privately to me that he is soon to be married. (T.S.R. 50. 2 P.M. 77. S.S. 73.) Oct. 1. Sabbath. North windy. A Mrs. Lunsford, Lecturing for the Good Templars, is stopping here - is to speak tonight in the M. E. church and tomorrow evening in our church. She is a late arrival from Kansas. (T.S.R. 44. 2 P.M. 74. S.S. 66.) Oct. 2. Monday. Have written to Lizzie. Mrs. Lunsford is still here. (T.S.R. 45. 2 P.M. 78. S.S. 74.) Oct. 3. Tuesday. Estelle Condy and Walter Hammond came to visit us from Stockton. Mr. Hammond is a man whom we met at Donner, when we were boarding there three years ago. He now belongs to the regular army and has lately come down with his regiment from the Yukon, Alaska, where they have been stationed. They are now at Angel Island and he is out on a furlough. He is bugler for the Regiment - is quite a musician. He is an Englishman, but lived for a time in Boston, before coming to Cal. When we met him in Donner he was a track - walker for the ...