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Transcription of Delph Carpenter Diary, 1926


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Collection: Delph E. Carpenter and Family Papers (WDEC)
Author: Carpenter, Delph
Title: Diary
Date: 1926
File Name: WDEC03110a.pdf
Date Transcribed: June 2020
Editors: Patricia Rettig, Helen Baer
Transcription Platform: FromThePage.com


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Friday 15 [Jan. 1926]
Little Rock Ark. Meet
re Arkansas River Com
Marion Hotel. DEC
Made chariman com
on Dec of policy
Bed 1:30 AM




Sat. Jan 16, 1926
Little Rock     Ark R
Ark River Com
Marion Hotel
Sunday 17
Took bus to Hot Springs
Arkansas registered
at [Como?] Hotel




[text written sideways on page under no specific date]
At Hot Springs Ark
taking baths and
resting but keeping
in touch with Sec Work
sending wires writing
letters etc. until Feb
28th.




Thur. Jan. 28, 1926
Geo [D?] Statler died at Greeley




Sun. Jan. 31, 1926
Dinner and PM at
Col John R Fordyce res
Mon. Feb. 1
Sent flowers to Hiram
[Whittington?] funeral




Mon. Feb. 15, 1926
All eve at Como
Hotel with EB Coulter
formerly of Greeley
Tuesday 16
Lunch PM and dinner
and eve at Como with
Coulter




Sunday 28 [February 1926]
Dinner at Col. Fordyce
Dr [Eckel?] 10 a.m.
Took Mo. Pac. to Kansas City
Mon. March 1
Kansas City saw
[Stackelbach?] and Sum
mers in depot 6 P.M.
U.P. Denver




Tues. March 2, 1926
Arrived in Greeley
conf. Hinderlider
12 to 1:30 P.M.
Wednesday 3
Denver - [miscelaneous?]
river matters all day.
Thursday 4
Denver conf. Denver water
board atty etc. bought
tickets for Don and I left
for Washington at
midnight.




Fri. March 5, 1926
Enroute Washington
U.P. ry
Saturday 6
Chicago Don and I
visited Geo Miller
and took lunch at
bar ass. left by B.
-O for Washington.
Sunday 7
Arrived at Wasington
conf. Boatright etc.
Lee House




Mon. March 8, 1926
Washington Swing
Johnson Bill Colo.
River intv with
Sec. Work and et. al.
supreme court noon
and Park P.M.
Tuesday 9
Same
Wednesday 10
Same




Thur. March 11, 1926
Same
Friday 12
Same
Saturday 13
Same




Monday 15 [March 1926]
Same
Tuesday 16
Same




Wed. March 17, 1926
Same
Thursday 18
House
Com. hearing Swing
Johnson Bill
Friday 19
Same




Sat. March 20, 1926
Left Washington
for Denver via Memphis
and Kansas City
(Met Cohen - author)
Sunday 21
Don and I enroute
through south
Monday 22
Don and I at Hot Springs Ark
saw Dr. Eckel etc.




Tues. March 23, 1926
Kas Cy
Took Don and Tom
[Walker?] of [Ans?]
[pere?] for auto [ride?]
Wednesday 24
Arrive Denver
PM at St House
Home on eve U.P.
Thursday 25
Denver    All day
Rio Grande matters
with Meeker and Hinderlider
made date with
Hopkins for tomorow
Home eve UP




Fri. March 26, 1926
AM Greeley - PM at
State House with
Hopkins - [Sabin and Lubers?]
Metropole [706?]
Saturday 27
Denver
All day state house
Denver with Hopkins
Boatright etc.
Sunday 28
Greeley P.M - Ford to Crow
Creek ranch. Don driving
all PM and eve.




Mon. March 29, 1926
Denver Colo arive Hopkins
in re amdendments Swing
Johnson bill
Metropole
Tuesday 30
State House Denver
Hopkins and Boatright
Fred E. Wilson N. Mex.
arrived noon Boatright
left for Washington 3 P.M.
Metropole
Wednesday 31
All day conf. Hopkins
and Wilson at State House
Swing Johnson Bill
Metropole




Thur. April 1, 1926
Same as yesterday.
Bannister present
Wilson left for Santa Fe
7 P.M. Amendments
agreed to.
Friday 2
State House Denver
with Hopkins Bannister
and I discussed amend
ments. Hopkins left for
Wyoming this eve.
Saturday 3
State House Denver
Cleared up miscellaneous
river matter S.




Sun. April 4, 1926
Crow Creek ranch.
Davidson driver.
Father with us. Bought
hay of Wells etc.
Monday 5
[Mon.?] Home sick with
flu
Tuesday 6
Flu - phoned Hopkins
Wyoming [requesting?]
he go [to?] Washington.
Sent miscelaneous
wires.




Wed. April 7, 1926
Flu
Thursday 8
Flu
Friday 9
Flu




Sat. April 10, 1926
Greeley     Interview
All day at Greeley
office dictating river
correspondence and
clearing desk.
Sunday 11
Greeley     Cattle
At Ranch with wife
all PM. Galland
Ford
Monday 12
Greeley    Per
Dictated river
wires etc.
and red P Newman and
B L Von Trotha called.




ADDRESS        TELEPHONE
AP Rep[?]
TH Walker, Denver
Robinson, "
Walter B. Clausen
Walker R506x236
So [Hill?] St. [Sos?] Aug




Hot Springs Ark
ADDRESS       TELEPHONE
John R Fordyce
Mountain [Val?] Road
Dr. J.S. Bolten
607 Reserve
Chas A Rockafellow




K&T 219
The Evolution of
Climate by
C E P Brooks
R V Coleman, Nat. Book
Buyers Service, 522
5th Ave N.Y. ([$2.50?])
See also same [house?]
"Civilization and climate
$5.00 (By Huntington
" 5.00 Character of [illegible] " "
"Origin of Continants[?]
$4.50 (Alfred [Wegmer?])
The Ashley - Smith
Explorations (Edited
by Harrison C Dale - U of
Wyo) The Arthur H
Clark Co,, Cleveland
O. - 1918
[margin] BT/85 [end margin]

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