Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1933, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by: Calvin B. Jones, 180 Bay Drive, Farmerville, LA 71241 Keyed and prepared for submission by Jo Autrey, Dallas, TX ********************************************** 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, 1933 1 Sun staid home (no S.S. books not here) fair 2 Mon start as forman on 200 day relief work Job #10 fair 3 Tue worked on road fair part cloudy 4 Wed on road cloudy 5 Thu on road cloudy faired 6 Fri on road Malcom came fair 7 Sat on road Malcom went home rain 8 Sun went S.S. rainey am cloudy pm 9 Mon on road fair 10 Tue on road fair 11 Wed on road cloudy 12 Thu on road faired eve 13 Fri on road fair 14 Sat on road Trudy came fair 15 Sun at church-flu cought fire-Trudy & Will went home fair 16 Mon on road cloudy rain 17 Tue on road Rubean came cloudy 18 Wed on road cloudy 19 Thu out & hauled wood cloudy 20 Fri went Arcadia cloudy rain 21 Sat went town cloudy fair 22 Sun at S.S. fair 23 Mon on road letter from Eva fair 24 Tue on road cloudy showers 25 Wed on road fair 26 Thu went town-hung meat-made bed wind fair 27 Fri Plowed & planted some garden-beets,lettuce,turnips, spinish, E. Peas - fair 28 Sat went town cloudy 29 Sun went S.S. cold cloudy 30 Mon worked on road cloudy, cleared 31 Tue on road rainey new receipt for cure meat: 8# salt, 3# sugar or syrup, 3 oz. Salt peter, 1 oz. Black pepper, 1 oz red pepper rub meat good and put away. Above amounts for 100 pounds fresh meat. FEBRUARY, 1933 1 Wed worked on road cloudy & faired 2 Thu - hauled load sand to church fair 3 Fri - went Mr.Morrises & town-made brackets for church flue cloudy cold 4 Sat - help build heater flue at church-baby sick-set hen fair 5 Sun - went S.S.-baby sick fair 6 Mon - worked on road-Mrs. Tom Calahan burried cloudy rainey 7 Tue - worked on road-set hen-big rain at night cloudy cold 8 Wed snowed-worked on road-snow on ground cold squally 9 Thu cut some wood snow not gone fair cold 10 Fri hauled wood bad day slow rain freezing 11 Sat went town cold bad wind misty rain 12 Sun went S.S. faired warmer than clouded up 13 Mon worked on road rain most of the day 14 Tue worked on road big rain night rainey warm 15 Wed worked on road cloudy cool 16 Thu sawed wood cloudy 17 Fri cut wood cloudy damp 18 Sat hauled wood went town cloudy 19 Sun went Church rain evening 20 Mon worked on road front of house fair 21 Tue worked on road front of house fair 22 Wed worked on road front of house cloudy 23 Thu went town set out onions & cabbage fair cloudy 24 Fri Fertilized and planted irish potatoes fair 25 Sat Plowed terrices eve rain 26 Sun Went S.S. & Mr. Gilmores-Mr.& Mrs. Davidson came cloudy 27 Mon Worked on road (Center Point Road) rain 28 Tue worked on road am rain cleared eve. As foreman Dad earned $2.00 per day MARCH, 1933 1 Wed worked on road fair 2 Thu cut wood warm fair 3 Fri - plowed terrices fair 4 Sat plowed terrices fair 5 Sun went S.S. Herman Alex came 6 Mon worked on road all night & morning rain 7 Tue worked on road cloudy 8 Wed worked on road fair 9 Thu hauled wood for Mr. Gilmore cut wood cloudy showeers 10 Fri killed hogs (3 wt 365 all) fair cool cloudy 11 Sat salted meat ground sausage etc cloudy 12 Sun went S.S. & Gilmores cloudy 13 Mon worked on road cloudy 14 Tue worked on road-set hen-Recall election day-cloudy fair 15 Wed worked on road last day fair 16 Thu repacked meat went town cloudy cool 17 Fri bedded sweet potatoes hauled wood cloudy 18 Sat set hen went town hunted cow cloudy 19 Sun went Church & S.S. Will & Trudy came cool cloudy showers 20 Mon went Ruston cold cloudy wind 21 Tue went Ruston cold cloudy rain 22 Wed plowed corn land fair 23 Thu set hen-planted sugar cane fair then clouded eve 24 Fri plowed corn land shower-cloudy all night rain 25 Sat went town & Ruston-cashed work cards-cut sprouts fair 26 Sun went S.S. cloudy 27 Mon plowed corn land set hen cloudy fair 28 Tue plowed corn land warm part cloudy 29 Wed plowed middles in corn land cloudy shower 30 Thu plowed midles rain 4 oc evening rain all night storm 31 Fri fixed pasture fence went town cleared APRIL, 1933 1 Sat worked on planter-taken up meat & hung fair cloudy 2 Sun went S.S. & Mr. Gene Sims fair 3 Mon planted beans etc garden-okra-corn in patch (twin days) fair 4 Tue start planting corn (sign Cancer) cloudy 5 Wed plowed some-cut sprouts in orchard-went town cloudy dry 6 Thu went Ruston-sold cotton-paid taxes. FLB etc fair 7 Fri plowed in orchard fair 8 Sat went town-plowed can & planted sun flower seed cloudy 9 Sun went S.S.-Mr. W. E. Lann & Jim Morris came fair 10 Mon Finished planting corn-planted peas-plowed garden sign Virgo, full moon fair cloudy 11 Tue plowed terrices cotton land fair 12 Wed hope Mr. Gilmore plow land & plant corn cloudy sprinkle 13 Thu plowed terrices & cut sprouts cotton land cloudy some rain 14 Fri fixed pasture fence rain & cool ost all day rain 15 Sat went town worked in shop all day cold wind & rain 16 Sun S.S. & Church & Easter egg hunt cloudy 17 Mon went Ruston-cut some sprouts fair 18 Tue plowed cotton land fair 19 Wed plowed cotton land cloudy big rain evening & night 20 Thu cut sprouts on cotton land-sold Walter Bissic peas,50 cents credit went cane patch cloudy 21 - Fri cut sprouts cloudy am faired eve 22 Sat went town-hoed stubble cane patch-Dr.Cane came fair 23 Sun went Center Point Church & Jim Alexander fair cloudy 24 Mon cut sprouts in cotton land-Frank Davidson came fair 25 Tue finished cutting sprouts & plowed cotton land big rain night 26 Wed wet, replanted some corn-taken sow to male cloudy 27 Thu plowed cotton land cloudy 28 Fri plowed cotton land part cloudy fair 29 Sat went town-planted watermellon seed (twin days) cloudy eve rain 30 Sun went S.S. warm fair FLB Federal Land Bank MAY, 1933 1 Mon plowed cotton land 4 oclock a storm wind hail & rain big storm at Minden & Arcadia-killed several people cloudy 2 Tue went town-fixed fence fair 3 Wed went Minden saw destruction from storm fair cloudy 4 Thu casterated 3 hogs for Pesnell-Malcolm & Velma came all day-night rain 5 Fri went town & Mr. Mayfield-Velma went home-fixed pasture fence-hauled wood part fair cloudy 6 Sat replanted corn & went town part fair cloudy 7 Sun went S.S. fair 8 Mon replanted corn worked out cane fair 9 Tue plowed cotton land middles full moon cloudy 10 Wed planted cotton cloudy hot fair 11 Thu planted cotton seed fair part cloudy 12 - Fri plowed middles-planted cotton-sold yearling $4.00 fair 13 Sat planted cotton went town fair 14 Sun went S.S. fair 15 Mon planted cotton finished-plowed peas etc cloudy fair showers 16 Tue plowed peas orchard-Rose Hilton came-plowed potato patch & corn middles fair 17 Wed hope Mr. Gilmore plant cotton fair 18 Thu plowed middles in corn fair 19 Fri finished corn middles set out potato slips-Eunice came fair 20 Sat went Simsboro-date of Eunice's trial put off made table and worked around church hot fair clouded 21 Sun home comming day observed by church dinner Rev. W.A. Harman preached fair 22 Mon planted some peanuts-borred off corn-set hen fair 23 Tue borred off corn set out some potatoes fair 24 Wed borred off corn-set out 1 row potatoes hot fair showers 25 Thu planted peanuts rain at night & evening rain 26 Fri worked around house. Rain morning eve faired 27 Sat planted Dafier corn-went town-Eunice & Negro trial (cow) fair 28 Sun went S.S. fair 29 Mon planted Kefier corn & peas-Claudie thinned corn cloudy fair 30 Tue borred off corn 60 airplanes east fair JUNE, 1933 1 Thu borred off cotton fair 2 Fri borred off cotton fair 3 Sat borred off cotton fair 4 Sun went S.S. hot fair 5 Mon borred off cotton fair 6 Tue - finished cotton, plowed peanuts & peas fair 7 Wed picked berries am-plowed peanuts & corn pm fair 8 Thu swept corn house cut fair 9 Fri plowed corn (turn plow) hot fair 10 Sat worked in cane patch-went town not fair 11 Sun went S.S. good shower at noon hot 12 Mon plowed potato land-went to cane patch shower and big rain set out potatoes rain 13 Tue set out some potato slips-start chopping cotton fair cool 14 Wed chopped cotton fair cool 15 Thu chopped cotton am plowed corn pm fair 16 Fri plowed corn-Lou Napper came about Sebe McCary trial fee fair 17 Sat - plowed corn-went church-hope put down carpet at church am fair 18 Sun preaching day Jim & Belle came fair 19 Mon plowed corn hot fair 20 Tue finished plowing (laid by) corn hot fair 21 Wed plowed cotton hot fair 22 Thu plowed cotton hot fair clouds 23 Fri plowed cotton went town - thunder sprinkle hot 24 Sat plowed cotton fair 25 Sun at S.S. Herman got sick threatening rain 26 Mon plowed cane & Kafier corn hot fair 27 Tue plowed peas Mrs. Pesnell & Eunice came Edwin and Herman sick fair 28 Wed plowed peas & peanuts fair 29 Thu went town-hoed potatoes-Frank Davidson came fair 30 Fri chopped cotton, F.D. hope fair JULY, 1933 1 Sat dug potatoes-went town-Fire in Simsboro, 3 store buildings, l interior fair 2 Sun went S.S.-Monroe Morris came-all nearly sick hot fair 3 Mon hoed cotton hot fair clouded eve 4 Tue plowed cotton wind threatening rain eve hot 5 Wed finished hoeing cotton & some peanuts cloudy most of day 6 Thu plowed cotton fair 7 Fri plowed cotton hot fair 8 Sat went town am fishing pm fair hot 9 Sun went S.S. hot fair cloudy evening 10 Mon plowed peanuts & Kafier corn part cloudy evening 11 Tue plowed peas went meeting Simsboro fair hot 12 Wed hoed peanuts-went after apples-signed up for cotton plow up - thunder heads hot fair 13 Thu W.C. grave yard working a good rain at noon some wind 14 Fri hope out apples-went town-cleared off church yard & house fair 15 Sat went to grave yard working at Trussells-meeting starts Walnut Creek-hoed peanuts eve shower cloudy 16 Sun went S.S. & Church fair 17 Mon hoed peanuts-cut off apples-went church fair 18 Tue plowed peas & peanuts at church fair 19 Wed plowed Kafier corn-went town-I.O. King of Shreveport joined church cloudy fair pm 20 Thu went town taken Pied cow to male-plow cotton middles Mrs. Alexander sick fair 21 Fri started to Minden didn't go-taken dinner with Henry Pesnell-went church fair 22 Sat went town & church Went Carters baby funeral big rain 23 Sun went to baptising drizzly 3:30 oc eve rain 24 Mon went town pm- all night and all day rain 25 Tue staid home all night and all day rain 26 Wed staid home all night and all day to 3:30 eve rain 27 Thu went Ruston fair 28 Fri baby girl came (Clara Bell) cloudy drizzly 29 Sat washed-children went town rainey 30 Sun Chole & children came cloudy 31 Mon washed-cut & put out peaches to dry fair AUGUST, 1933 1 Tue plowed potatoes am hot fair 2 Wed cut peaches Edwin sick hot fair 3 Thu washed am plowed cotton middles pm fair hot 4 Fri plowed cotton middles went town fair 5 Sat - plowed cotton middles & cane hot cloudy fair 6 Sun went S.S.-Chole & children, Mr-Mrs. Sims, Mr-Mrs. Pesnell came fair 7 Mon plowed up cotton am hot fair 8 Tue plowed up cotton am hot part cloudy 9 Wed washed clothes-taken Pride (cow) to male eve sprinkle hot 10 Thu hoed in garden etc hot fair 11 Fri went town sold 2 yearlings fair 12 Sat at home eve rain 13 Sun at baptising cloudy 14 Mon plowed up cotton-pulled fodder- went town eve rain 15 Tue Will came cloudy hot 16 Wed sow due to farrow cut wood fair 17 Thu washed clothes fair 18 Fri split wood received receipt for plowing up cotton fair 19 Sat went town fair 20 Sun went to Minden-Claudie & children staid fair 21 Mon pulled fodder pigs came fair 22 Tue went town & Mae's- eve taken cow to male (Belle) fair 23 Wed - ate dinner at Monroe Morris's fair 24 Thu - Mr. Gilmore's for dinner fair 25 Fri - hoed in garden fair 26 Sat - plowed in garden went town fair 27 Sun went S.S. Claudie & children came home fair 28 Mon picked muscadines went town fair 29 Tue washed & worked around house eve shower 30 Wed fixd on crib went fishing threating 31 Thu picked peas showers SEPTEMBER, 1933 1 Fri fixed land for garden-planted turnips hot cloudy 2 Sat Heifer Jimis taken bull (Collins) went town-picked peas hot cloudy 3 Sun went S.S. fair 4 Mon picked peas & cotton hot fair 5 Tue picked peas & cotton hot part cloudy 6 Wed picked peas & cotton fair 7 Thu picked cotton fair 8 Fri picked peas & cotton fair 9 Sat set hen-went to Ruston to get tooth pulled for Claudie shower back 10 Sun went S.S. & town fair 11 Mon picked cotton fair 12 Tue picked cotton fair clouded 13 Wed made slide picked cotton fair 14 Thu Picked cotton Dixie & Jessie came fair 15 Fri picked cotton fair 16 Sat went town fair 17 Sun church called pastor-Went to Sims & Morrises fair 18 Mon school starts (Calvin starts)-went town- picked cotton fair 19 Tue cut Kafier corn fair hot 20 Wed hauled bale of cotton town sold-hauled load Kafier corn cool fair 21 Thu cut Kafier corn-paid note to Jim Pirkle = cool fair 22 Fri pulled up peanuts-hauled 2 loads kafier cool fair 23 Sat went town-paid note-pulled up peanuts hauled load Kafier fair 24 Sun went S.S. last day as supertandent-call conference Monroe Morris came rain shower 25 Mon hauled in peanuts & kafier corn cloudy fair 26 Tue picked some peas-cleaned out well-Mr. Dye came - eve showers 27 Wed picked peas & cotton cloudy 28 Thu went to association at Alabama Church part fair 29 Fri at association came home eve rain 30 Sat went town-Trudy came fair evening Calvin in 2nd grade OCTOBER, 1933 1 Sun went S.S. Trudy & Will came clouded 2 Mon picked cotton cool cloudy 3 Tue picked cotton am pulled peanuts pm faired 4 Wed picked cotton hauled in 3 loads peanuts cloudy 5 Thu picked cotton fair 6 Fri picked cotton fair 7 Sat picked cotton fair 8 Sun went Trudy's & Wills fair cool 9 Mon picked cotton-went town-baby sick (Clara) fair cool 10 Tue picked cotton fair 11 Wed dug potatoes fair 12 Thu picked cotton clouded 13 Fri picked cotton am-Ruston's 50th anniversary eve rain 14 Sat went town fixed fence warm cloudy 15 Sun went church rain cool 16 Mon cut seed came warm cloudy fair 17 Tue pulled corn cloudy 18 Wed pulled corn fair cool 19 Thu hauled corn for Mr Gilmore-pulled corn for self- went town got check fair 20 Fri cut wood at church & pulled corn fair 21 Sat finished pulling corn-made cane knives fair 22 Sun went S.S.-Belle & Jim Alexander came fair threatening 23 Mon hauled corn cloudy 24 Tue finished hauling corn-125 bu hauled cloudy fair 25 Wed striped cane- Mr Gilmore hope cool fair 26 Thu finished cutting cane & hauling wood can mill fair 27 Fri hauled cane 4 loads fair 28 Sat made syrup 58 « gallons- 49 my part fair 29 Sun went S.S. clouded faired 30 Mon plowed under cane tops-picked cotton fair part cloudy 31 Tue picked cotton E 185 me 155 fair part cloud NOVEMBER, 1933 1 Wed picked cotton fair cloudy 2 Thu went after seed POJ Cane-300 stalks $3.00 cloudy 3 Fri plowed up cane stubbles to bed cloudy 4 Sat plowed cane stubbles-rain-went town cloudy 5 Sun went S.S. at home cloudy dismal cold 6 Mon went town & picked cotton cloudy cool 7 Tue went to Ruston faired 8 Wed first light frost-picked cotton fair 9 Thu went Ruston Senator Huey P Long spoke fair 10 Fri went after seed cane-175 stalks from Earl Causey fair 11 Sat went town-worked on stove pm cloudy rain 12 Sun went S.S. fair 13 Mon picked cotton (scrapped) fair cool 14 Tue picked cotton fair 15 Wed picked cotton-Edgar Jones moved-mules got out fair 16 Thu went after mule-hauled B cotton & sold fair 17 Fri went town-hope clean off church yard fair 18 Sat went to grave yard working & town cloudy fair 19 Sun went church am - to Trudies pm she sick fair 20 Mon scrapped cotton fair clouded 21 Tue finished picking cotton-cut wood-shelled corn warm cloudy 22 Wed went after mule-Mrs. Alexander came-loaded bale cotton fair 23 Thu went town-sold B cotton-Sam Gallates gin boiler blowed up fair 24 Fri Mrs. Alexander went home went fishing cloudy cool 25 Sat sawed wood fair 26 Sun went S.S. fair 27 Mon went Ruston am-hauled wood pm fair 28 Tue split wood-finished digging & bedding cane stubbles fair 29 Wed split wood etc cow died fair 30 Thu staid home-hauled off cow Thanksgiving fair There were three gins in Simsboro at the time, Burts & Napper both modern at the time & Gallates was an old steam boiler gin. DECEMBER, 1933 1 Fri went to Ruston reg fair 2 Sat split wood showery cloudy eve rain 3 Sun went S.S. fair 4 Mon went Ruston fair 5 Tue staid around home cloudy & rain 6 Wed all night rain-hope Mr. Pesnell kill hogs pm cool fair 7 Thu Hope Jimmy Gilmore cut wood cool fair 8 Fri went after mule-sawed wood fair 9 Sat went town hauled 2 loads wood fair 10 Sun went S.S. & Mr. Davidson's am fair 11 Mon hauled wooed & post etc fair 12 Tue around house am went fishing pm cloudy 13 Wed fixed hog hanging pole went after mule fair 14 Thu went town made knives cloudy 15 Fri hauled wood for Mr. Gilmore am-Set big garden post worked around house pm cloudy 16 Sat went town-no church-Fed land bank man Mr. Chapman came cloudy 17 Sun went church cloudy, drizzly rain 18 Mon all night rain-went town eve cloudy cool 19 Tue went town am-killed hog 250# pm cloudy cool fair 20 Wed cooked fat & ground sausage baby sick fair warmer 21 Thu staid at home baby sick fair 22 Fri went town eve fair 23 Sat baby better went town fair 24 Sun Chloe & children & Trudy & children came fair 25 Mon Trudy & children here clouded cool drizzly 26 Tue Grandma & Gerty came-Trudy went home cool fair 27 Wed at house fair cold clouded 28 Thu went town cold cloudy drizzly 29 Fri worked on harrow cloudy 30 Sat finished harrow rainey warm 31 Sun went S.S. cloudy Clara was baby at the time. A one man saw mill-write for book-how to make lumber- special offer. Address Beslaw Mechinery Co. Box 102-A, Pleasant Hill Mo.