Delia Locke Diary, 1907-1911

• Main Author: Locke, Delia
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1907
• Subjects: Delia Locke; diaries; women; diarist; California; Locke-Hammond Family Papers; Lockeford; CA; Dean Jewett Locke; rural life; rural California; 19th Century; church; temperance organizations; Mokelumne River Ladies' Sewing Circle; temperature recordings; journal; Yukon; Pacific; Eureka; Webb; Ida; Gam; Locke; Farmington; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/dld-all/2298; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/dld-all/article/3352/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

Page 162 1909. May 31. Mond. This has been the hottest day of the year thus far. It seemed as if May, having heard so much said about the mouth being cold and wintry, under took to show as what she could do by way of a parting blessing. And so the 2 P.M. temp. leaped 23- in two days time. Alice and Nellie came in this A.M. The National celebration of Memorial Day was observed today instead of on the Sabbath. So Nellie had, the two days for a home visit. Received letters from Jee Gam and Eunice and wrote to Eureka, Jee Gam sent me an invitation to attend the dedication of the new Chinese Mission in San Francisco, on June 3rd and 4th. So after three years of work and struggle on the part of the friends and helpers, they have rebuilded the Mission House which was destroyed in the great disaster of 1906. And the new building is a joy to them, being so much better than the former one. Carnegie gave $10,000 to this one. (T.S.R. 60. 2 P.M. 94. S.S. 78.) June 1. Tuesday. Received letters from Ida, Willie and Theresa and wrote to Ada. Ida writes that Irving has had the mumps and seriously ill. Probably now the other children will have them. Willie, too, has been seriously sick with a complication of troubles. He was having the grippe and continuing to go around on his survey work, he picked some dogwood blossoms and smelled of them, with the result that his nose and the rest of his face were seriously poisoned and he was sick in bed over a week. He thought dogwood would not poison him, because it never had before. I am hoping now his rheumatic trouble will disappear. (T.S.R. 60. 2 P.M. 88. S.S. 72.) Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opened today in Seattle. June 2. Wednes. Have written to Theresa and Jee Gam. We learn of the death today of the oldest person in the County - James Webb of Farmington, aged 102 yrs-10 mos. and some days. Had he lived till next month he would have been 103 yrs. old. He was a native of Kentucky, and what is most remarkable, was a total abstainer all his life from liquor & tobacco. Was strong ...