Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1929, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by: Calvin B. Jones, 180 Bay Drive, Farmerville, LA 71241 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spelling and punctuation is as found in transcript compiled by Calvin Jones from original diary of his father, Arthur O. Jones. The following format is used: date - day of week - entry - weather entry JANUARY, 1929 1 - Tue - piled brush in new ground near east line - cold fair 2 - Wed - piled brush & cut wood new ground - cold fair 3 - Thu - cut wood & hauled - cloudy 4 - Fri - helped Jim Alexander cut wood - cloudy 5 - Sat - big rain nite - hauled load wood town Bro Henderson pastor Methodist Church - cold windy 6 - Sun - went church Simsboro - cold fair 7 - Mon - cut paper wood 3 cords (Negro Tom Kelly hope) - fair 8 - Tue - cut paper wood 3 cords Tom hope - cloudy 9 - Wed - worked on axes (big rain) - rainey 10 - Thu - cut 3 1/2 cords wood Tom hope (wages one-half wood cut @ $1.25 cord - cloudy 11 - Fri - cut 4 cords wood - Tom hope - faired up 12 - Sat - went town & cut some P wood - fair 13 - Sun - staid home - fair 14 - Mon - moved Mr T.J. Gilmore Bro Bryant to Mrs Sims place Tom & cripple Negro cut 1 1/16 cds wood $1.75 - cloudy 15 - Tue - cut 2 c wood am Tom hope - worked on Mr Beards heater flu at Lolley place pm - cloudy 16 - Wed - moved Mr M.A. Beard from Collins to Lolley place - cloudy 17 - Thu - built rear porch roof for Aunt Lou Lolley (Mr Beard) - cloudy 18 - Fri - finished porch roof & cut & split some stove wood - rainey 19 - Sat - went town, set out some cabbage plants - fair 20 - Sun - went church Walnut Creek - rainey 21 - Mon - hung up meat - warm cloudy 22 - Tue - cut 3 1/2 c paper wood Tom hope - warm cloudy threatening rain 23 - Wed - planted some english peas & cut p wood - rainey 24 - Thu - cut bushes in pasture - warm rainey 25 - Fri - staid home - Mama went to Uncle John Colvins - cold fair 26 - Sat - went town-shipped my carpenter tools to Malcolm Eldorado, Ark. hauled some wood - cloudy 27 - Sun - Malcolm came staid little while & went to Mr Gilmores - cloudy 28 - Mon - cut p wood 3 1/2 c Tom hope - fair 29 - Tue - cut 1 1/2 c wood Tom hope - Rob Hines daughter (Carma Hines) from Eldorado Ark burried at Walnut Creek - fair 30 - Wed - cut 2c wood, hauled some fire wood - fair 31 - Thu - hope load P wood on truck & fixed some fence - part fair FEBRUARY, 1929 1 - Fri - cut trees in hog pasture & fire wood - cold cloudy 2 - Sat - hauled load wood town - cold rainey 3 - Sun - staid home - cool cloudy 4 - Mon - piled brush in hog pasture - cloudy 5 - Tue - went town, sawed some paper wood - cloudy rain 6 - Wed - cut paper wood in hog pasture (self) - cloudy 7 - Thu - cut paper wood in hog pasture 2 c (self) - cloudy 8 - Fri - hauled wood for Mr Gilmore - cloudy rainey 9 - Sat - staid home - Elton Dorman came - cold rainey 10 - Sun - staid home - Elton went to Uncle John Colvins - faired off 11 - Mon - went town - Mama & Uncle John came after things - fair 12 - Tue - cut wood Mr Gilmore helped - fair 13 - Wed - hauled wood & brush - hauled nitrate of soda for Mr Gilmore - fair 14 - Thu - planted some garden & 2 rows irish potatoes - cloudy 15 - Fri - worked in barn - rainey 16 - Sat - went town & split some wood 17 - Sun - went church W.C. - Deerfese boy burried - fair 18 - Mon - cut 1 1/2 c wood in pasture - fair 19 - Tue - split some wood-hope dig grave fro Mrs Robertson - rainey 20 - Wed - went town - killing rain-sleet-rain - rain sleet 21 - Thu - went town - some warmer - cloudy 22 - Fri - hauled some poles for wood - fair 23 - Sat - went town - planted some irish potatoes - fair 24 - Sun - Jule & John Lolley, Mrs Liner, Eunice, Mae all came - cloudy 25 - Mon - cut sprouts - a big rain 26 - Tue - cut paper wood 1 cord (self) - cloudy 27 - Wed - cut wood, Mr Gilmore borried 1 bll corn - rainey 28 - Thu - cut p wood - fair MARCH, 1999 1 - Fri - hauled Mr M.A. Beards shop tools from negro - fair 2 - Sat - went town, stacked paper wood - fair 3 - Sun - went church & Eunices - cloudy 4 - Mon - cut paper wood - cloudy rain 5 - Tue - went to Mr Gene Sims & cut sprouts - fair 6 - Wed - cut sprouts & hauled rocks from field - fair 7 - Thu - filled some gullies & cut stalks - part fair, cloudy 8 - Fri - plowed terrices and land - fair 9 - Sat - went town & worked on terrices - fair 10 - Sun - Mr Beard & girls came & went to Mr Gilmores - fair 11 - Mon - hauled load of lumber from town for Mr Beard - cloudy 12 - Tue - Eunice came, planted cane (got pay $15.00 for timber cut on gas pipe line right of way) - rainey 13 - Wed - bedded sweet potatoes, went town - rained 14 - Thu - Set up with Mr Beard he taken sick Wed eve-slept some - cloudy 15 - Fri - staid with Mr Beard-Dr Green came and advised him to go to Sanitorium. Mr. McKinney taken him in car - fair 16 - Sat - plowed cotton land near cane, set hen - fair 17 - Sun - baby sick (Edwin) staid home - fair 18 - Mon - plowed cotton land - cloudy 19 - Tue - went town & plowed corn land - fair 20 - Wed - plowed corn land - part fair cloudy 21 - Thu - most sick, made 2 single trees - rain 22 - Fri - hauled dirt to fill ditch in field - rain & hail 23 - Sat - went town am & fishing pm - fair 24 - Sun - staid home - fair 25 - Mon - plowed corn land - cloudy 26 - Tue - planted some corn & plowed C land, set 2 hens - cloudy 27 - Wed - Mrs Loftin got (Cate) mule for $25.00 Plowed corn land - cloudy 28 - Thu - planted corn - cloudy 29 - Fri - put away meat, plowed, planted corn - cloudy 30 - Sat - went town, plowed corn land - fair 31 - Sun - Claudie went to Hilly with Jim to see Aunt Mollie Alex.- windy fair APRIL, 1929 1 - Mon - plowed corn land - cool fair 2 - Tue - went Ruston & plowed corn land - cloudy 3 - Wed - plowed land for corn - part fair cloudy 4 - Thu - planted some corn - fair cloudy 5 - Fri - planted corn - fair cloudy 6 - Sat - finished planting corn, went town Mr. G.W. Alex came - fair 7 - Sun - went to Eunices in evening - fair 8 - Mon - nite rain, plowed land for cotton, Malcolm came - cloudy showers 9 - Tue - went town, replanted corn - cloudy 10 - Wed - plowed cotton land & replanted corn - cloudy showers 11 - Thu - plowed cotton land - fair 12 - Fri - plowed land for cotton - fair clouded eve 13 - Sat - rain, went town & hauled load fertilizer - part fair 14 - Sun - wind storm, Eunice & children, Mr & Mrs John Davidson came - cloudy showers 15 - Mon - hauled some fertilizer & cut some bushes - cloudy 16 - Tue - plowed land for cotton - fair 17 - Wed - plowed c land & cane - fair 18 - Thu - hoed cane, plowed garden, opened rows for cotton - cloudy 19 - Fri - opened cotton rows - cloudy 20 - Sat - rain, went town, opened cotton rows - cloudy 21 - Sun - went church W.C., Jule, John & Mrs Lolley came - cloudy showers 22 - Mon - hope Jim Alexander plant cotton, went to Mr John Williamson (on hunt for a cotton planter) - cloudy fair 23 - Tue - hope Jim plant cotton - fair 24 - Wed - opened cotton rows - rained 25 - Thu - started planting cotton, Jim Alexander hope half day - fair 26 - Fri - Lewis Best got cow (Mamas) planted cotton Jim hope - cloudy 27 - Sat - finished planting cotton seed - cloudy 28 - Sun - Malcolm came, went town, Eunice & children came - cloudy 29 - Mon - nite rain, went town & to Mrs Loftins, planted watermellon seed, plowed peas in orchard - cloudy 30 - Tue - plowed peas & potato land, set out potato slips - rain Address of Co. Mfg our stone; The H. Witter, Mfg Co. South Pittsburg, Tennessee Malcolm's Address 719 Russell Ave, Eldorado, Ark. MAY, 1929 1 - Wed - planted some peas, mostly sick - threatening rain, cloudy 2 - Thu - finished planting peas in orchard, borred off corn-cold wind faired 3 - Fri - borred off corn - cool fair 4 - Sat - went Ruston - fair 5 - Sun - Mr J. T. Gilmore, Clyde Gilmore & Mr Hamilton for dinner - fair 6 - Mon - borred off corn, set 2 hens - warmer fair 7 - Tue - borred off corn - part fair 8 - Wed - borred off corn - showers cloudy 9 - Thu - borred off corn, rain 3:30 pm set out 2 rows potatoes - cloudy 10 - Fri - finished corn, went town - faired some 11 - Sat - hope Howard Alexander plant cotton - some showers eve 12 - Sun - went Trudys - eve showers 13 - Mon - borred off cotton - big rain at 5 pm - showers 14 - Tue - borred off cotton - cloudy 15 - Wed - borred off cotton - cloudy 16 - Thu - borred off cotton, went to Simsboro School closing exercise in evening - cloudy 17 - Fri - finished borring off cotton - cloudy showers 18 - Sat - planted cotton for Jimmie Gilmore, set out potato slips - rainey 19 - Sun - calf due - Will & Trudy came staid all night 20 - Mon - calf came - went town, cut some bushes, Mr Beard came - fair 21 - Tue - swept up some (plowed) cotton, sow taken male - cool fair 22 - Wed - plowed cotton - other sow taken male - fair 23 - Thu - plowed cotton - fair cool 24 - Fri - showers, chopped cotton - cloudy showers 25 - Sat - chopped cotton AM, went town PM Geo Gentry sow taken male $1.00 - rain 26 - Sun - at home most of day - cloudy 27 - Mon - chopped cotton - cloudy 28 - Tue - swept cotton - rain 29 - Wed - swept & chopped cotton, negro Giles brought sow for service By male pd $1.00 - rainey 30 - Thu - chopped cotton - cloudy 31 - Fri - chopped & swept some cotton - hot fair JUNE, 1929 1 - Sat - swept cotton - hot fair 2 - Sun - staid home - fair 3 - Mon - swept corn, Calvin wasp stung, thought he was snake bitten at first, Dr Green with him $5.00 - cool fair 4 - Tue - plowed burmuda grass middles cotton, swept cotton Sharp Davis sow to male, paid 75 cents - fair 5 - Wed - hoed & plowed cotton half day each 6 - Thu - hoed, chopped cotton - John Johnson sow to male $1.00 - fair 7 - Fri - finished hoeing cotton, swept some cotton - fair 8 - Sat - went town, swept cotton - small shower, part fair 9 - Sun - staid home - fair 10 - Mon - swept up cotton - fair 11 - Tue - swept cotton-Walter Bisic brought sow for male svc $1.00 - hot fair 12 - Wed - finished plowing cotton, plowed watermellon patch dug irish potatoes - fair 13 - Thu - plowed up onions, garden, & plowed peas in orchard-part fair cloudy 14 - Fri - thinned corn AM, picked berries & went fishing PM - fair 15 - Sat - went town AM, picked berries PM - fair 16 - Sun - at home, Malcolm came Sat nite - fair 17 - Mon - thinned corn - hot sprinkle rain PM, part fair 18 - Tue - start plowing out corn (last time) - hot fair 19 - Wed - plowed corn - hot fair 20 - Thu - plowed corn - hot fair 21 - Fri - finished corn & picked some berries - hot fair 22 - Sat - plowed old corn - fair then cloudy 23 - Sun - staid home - hot fair 24 - Mon - plowed cotton, hoed cane & some cotton - cloudy, sprinkle 25 - Tue - hoed cotton - cloudy 26 - Wed - hoed cotton - hot fair 27 - Thu - hoed cotton & picked some berries - hot cloudy 28 - Fri - hoed cotton - went town - cloudy then faired 29 - Sat - hoed in garden - hot sultry 30 - Sun - Jim & Belle Alexander came - fair [Submitter's note: Berry picking was a family affair, and we always picked enough to can 50 or more quarts for the year. There was a lot of walking and red bugs.] JULY, 1929 1 - Mon - plowed and hoed cotton - hot fair 2 - Tue - plowed and hoed cotton - cloudy 3 - Wed - planted peas in garden etc - light rain 4 - Thu - Claudie went to Minden (visit family) - rain 5 - Fri - planted some beans-garden, went fishing PM - rainey 6 - Sat - went to Minden - fair 7 - Sun - came home - fair 8 - Mon - Claudie came home, plowed cotton - hot fair 9 - Tue - plowed cotton - fair & clouded 10 - Wed - plowed cotton - hot fair 11 - Thu - plowed cotton - had 1st watermelon of season - hot fair 12 - Fri - plowed out terrices in cotton - fair 13 - Sat - plowed cotton middles, went town - fair 14 - Sun - went to Jim Alexanders, Will Choate came - fair 15 - Mon - finished cotton middles - cloudy showers 16 - Tue - plowed garden & peas - hot fair 17 - Wed - plowed potatoes & went town - hot fair 18 - Thu - went to grave yard working Walnut Creek* - fair 19 - Fri - finished plowing potatoes, Aunt Lou Lolley came - fair 20 - Sat - Walnut Creek Meeting starts, hoed in orchard, went town, Aunt Lou came again - fair 21 - Sun - went Church, Monroe & Berryl Morris came - fair 22 - Mon - plowed in orchard, went church (Parish worked road) - fair 23 - Tue - Bro James Jones & family & Rev Venerman came - fair 24 - Wed - cut peaches, went church - evening showers 25 - Thu - worked on cotton house, Simsboro grave yard working 26 - Fri - went to Trudys & worked on cotton house - hot fair 27 - Sat - went church - fair 28 - Sun - meeting closed, went to Baptising, I joined Church** - fair 29 - Mon - worked on cotton house - showers 30 - Tue - worked on cotton house - cloudy 31 - Wed - shower, worked on cotton house, Mr Sims hauled some P. wood - fair * Walnut Creek Grave Yard Working was always on Thursday after the second Sunday in July. ** Prior to this time Dad belonged to the Methodist Church. AUGUST, 1929 1 - Thu - went town - cloudy 2 - Fri - went to Ruston - fair 3 - Sat - went to Trudys & cut peaches - fair 4 - Sun - Belle & Jim Alexander came - fair 5 - Mon - went town, cut some corn - hot eve rain 6 - Tue - cut corn Claudie sick - fair 7 - Wed - Jessie & Belle came, Claudie sick, hauled in fodder - fair 8 - Thu - went town, C sick - fair hot 9 - Fri - washed & cut corn * - fair 10 - Sat - Edd Cleveland & wife from Stamps Ark. came - fair 11 - Sun - staid home - hot fair 12 - Mon - pulled some fodder - hot fair 13 - Tue - cut corn - hot some rain 14 - Wed - pulled fodder & set post for fence - fair cooler 15 - Thu - cut corn & taken in fodder etc - fair cooler 16 - Fri - built on fence (cow cut up) - fair 17 - Sat - built on lot fence, went church - fair 18 - Sun - went church and to Monroe Morrises, Aunt Mollies - fair 19 - Mon - finished fence and started picking cotton - fair 20 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 21 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 22 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 23 - Fri - picked cotton - clouded & threatening rain 24 - Sat - hauled bale cotton to gin - cloudy 25 - Sun - staid home - hot fair 26 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 27 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 28 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 29 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 30 - Fri - hauled bale cotton to gin - fair 31 - Sat - picked cotton, Claudie sick - fair [Submitter's note: * Washed = washing clothes, you did this outside, boiled clothes in a wash pot, scrubbed on rub board, rinsed and hung on line to dry.] SEPTEMBER, 1929 1 - Sun - Claudie sick - fair 2 - Mon - Claudie sick, Ladies came* - fair 3 - Tue - Claudie sick, I staid home - cloudy 4 - Wed - Claudie sick, picked some cotton - fair 5 - Thu - Claudie sick, picked cotton (cow cut up) - hot showers 6 - Fri - picked cotton (taken cow to male) - cloudy 7 - Sat - washed clothes, went town - hot cloudy 8 - Sun - Eunice & children came, staid home - cloudy 9 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 10 - Tue - picked cotton - road hands built culbert near house in road-showers 11 - Wed - Bro Hawkins came, picked cotton - fair 12 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 13 - Fri - rain - planted turnips - pigs came - rain 14 - Sat - went church AM- & town PM - fair 15 - Sun - went church-church called James Jones for pastor. He & family taken dinner with us - fair 16 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy rain 17 - Tue - hauled bale cotton to town & picked cotton - faired 18 - Wed - picked cotton -fair cool 19 - Thu - went town, picked cotton - fair cool 20 - Fri - picked cotton, Jessie came - fair 21 - Sat - went town, picked cotton - fair 22 - Sun - went to Bells & Eunices - fair 23 - Mon - picked cotton - part cloudy fair 24 - Tue - picked cotton - faired 25 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 26 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 27 - Fri - went town, picked cotton -fair 28 - Sat - picked cotton - fair 29 - Sun - Mama & Malcolm came - got a petition signed up for a school bus route etc - fair 30 - Mon - picked cotton half day - fair [Submitter's note: * I am told she had a miscarriage.] OCTOBER, 1929 1 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 2 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 3 - Thu - went to Bethlehem Baptist Association at Barnet Springs Church (all of us) - cloudy 4 - Fri - picked cotton, set out 5 rows onions - cloudy rainey 5 - Sat - hauled bale cotton to gin - cloudy cool 6 - Sun - staid home - fair 7 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 8 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 9 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 10 - Thu - picked cotton - cloudy 11 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 12 - Sat - finished picking cotton - fair 13 - Sun - went to S.S. & Church-Claudie to Eunices - fair 14 - Mon - dug sweet potatoes - cloudy 15 - Tue - went Ruston S.B.M. - fair 16 - Wed - went town - started pulling corn - fair 17 - Thu - hauled & pulled corn - fair 18 - Fri - finished corn, loaded bale seed cotton - fair 19 - Sat - hauled bale seed cotton gin & town - fair 20 - Sun - went to Walnut Creek Church - was Ordained as Deacon - cool cloudy 21 - Mon - cut seed cane - Claude sprung her ankle - fair 22 - Tue - built fence around seed cane - woods a fire - fair 23 - Wed - went town, and to Hwy 80 road to see the paving operation newly being done - fair 24 - Thu - cut wood - fair 25 - Fri - hauled wood and went town - fair 26 - Sat - went town - fair 27 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 28 - Mon - went town, worked on cow lot fence - misty rain 29 - Tue - went town - fair 30 - Wed - went town - cloudy 31 - Thu - big rain nite - went town - cloudy NOVEMBER, 1999 1 - Fri - went town - cloudy rain 2 - Sat - Planted some turnips & went town - cloudy 3 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 4 - Mon - covered cane bed & cut some paper wood - fair 5 - Tue - cut paper wood, worked on garden fence, sow taken male - fair 6 - Wed - cut paper wood, caught a Opossum in hen house - cloudy 7 - Thu - cut paper wood - cloudy 8 - Fri - went town S.T.M. - rainey 9 - Sat - cut wood, Mr Brown hope, hauled wood, went town - some rain cloudy 10 - Sun - went to Mr Gilmores & to the Lomax place - am rain pm fair 11 - Mon - castorated hog, went hunting - rainey 12 - Tue - cut paper wood - hot rain 13 - Wed - cut paper wood - rainey 14 - Thu - cut wood - Avis, Beadie came - faired 15 - Fri - hauled some wood - rainey 16 - Sat - went town, Trudy & children came - cloudy 17 - Sun - went W.C. Church, Bro Harman preached, Trudy and children went home - cold cloudy 18 - Mon - cut paper wood - fair 19 - Tue - cut paper wood - part fair 20 - Wed - cut paper wood - cold cloudy 21 - Thu - cut paper wood am-pm started sleeting & snowing continued all nite 22 - Fri - went town - cold cloudy 23 - Sat - Baby Calvin sick, went town - cold cloudy 24 - Sun - staid home, baby sick, snow melted off considerably - cold 25 - Mon - went town after Dr Harrell - he came - rainey 26 - Tue - staid with baby most of day - had Dr second time - cloudy 27 - Wed - Calvin still sick, Jessie came, hauled some wood - fair 28 - Thu - children some better - fair 29 - Fri - Will came also Eunice - cold cloudy 30 - Sat - went town - cloudy DECEMBER, 1929 1 - Sun - children better, Mr Davidson & Clyde Gilmore came - rainey 2 - Mon - went town & mailed Malcolm his overcoat - cold fair 3 - Tue - cut & hauled wood - cold fair 4 - Wed - cut paper wood - cool fair 5 - Thu - cut paper wood - fair 6 - Fri - cut paper wood - warmer cloudy 7 - Sat - cut wood am half day, pm went town 6 lbs butter @ 35 cents = $2.10 - part fair 8 - Sun - staid home - fair 9 - Mon - cut paper wood - fair 10 - Tue - cut paper wood - cloudy 11 - Wed - cut paper wood - cloudy 12 - Thu - cleaned out Mr Davidson's well, cut some wood - cloudy 13 - Fri - cut wood (paper) - cloudy 14 - Sat - went town - cloudy 15 - Sun - went church, Chloe & children came - fair 16 - Mon - cut wood - cloudy rained 17 - Tue - cut wood - cloudy 18 - Wed - staid home - big rain wind, freezing 19 - Thu - killed hogs - cold fair 20 - Fri - hope Mr Gilmore kill hogs & ground sausage - cloudy cold 21 - Sat - Snow start 6 to 9 am-all day-6 inches 3pm 8pm-still snowing 22 - Sun - at 8 am snow 12 inches - staid home - faired pm 23 - Mon - at home - fair cold 24 - Tue - went town-Mr Will Calahan got free bale cotton offered as prize By Cross & Napper Mdse co. - fair 25 - Wed - snow melting-Mr Higglin burried W.C., went after mule and on to Mr Morrises - fair 26 - Thu - went town & went to Mrs Loftins after corn owed on mule - fair 27 - Fri - taken pig to Geo Cooks, sold for $6.00 taken it in corn @$1.00 - rain 28 - Sat - went town & hope Claudie wash - fair 29 - Sun - went to Howard Alex & Jim & Bells-Howard came home with us - fair 30 - Mon - brought 2 heffer calves from Elton Sumlins I traded for at town, Malcolm came - fair 31 - Tue - went to Mr Sims-taken bull yearling to town (Sumlins) fair Finished copying this diary for 1929, Feb 21, 1935 From the original wall book. Arthur O. Jones