Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1941, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by: Calvin B. Jones, 180 Bay Drive, Farmerville, LA 71241 Keyed 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, 1941 1 - Wed - Staid indoors sick - rain most all day 2 - Thu - Worked some on lot fence - cloudy some rain 3 - Fri - Finished lot fence - faired 4 - Sat - Went Ruston am - fair 5 - Sun - Staid home -part fair 6 - Mon - Split wood - cloudy 7 - Tue - Hauled load wood town - Mrs Celia Posey burried 90 yrs old - fair 8 - Wed - Cut wood-Mrs Alexander went home - part fair 9 - Thu - Hauled & split wood-burned off new ground - fair 10 - Fri - Tore down orchard old rail fence - fair 11 - Sat - Went town-cut wood in new ground - fair 12 - Sun - Staid home - fair am - part cloudy pm 13 - Mon - Plowed garden planted english peas - part cloudy 14 - Tue - Worked on pasture fence - part fair 15 - Wed - Worked on moving fence of pasture - part fair nite rain 16 - Thu - Hauled wood-Herman & Clarence came - cloudy cool 17 - Fri - Worked on pasture fence - cloudy cool 18 - Sat - Hauled wood-working on pasture fence - snow flurries cold 19 - Sun - Staid home - fair 20 - Mon - Plowed in oats am-Hope Mr Leonard on garage - fair 21 - Tue - Worked for Mr Leonard on house - part fair 22 - Wed - Worked on mattresses - part fair 23 - Thu - Cut bushes in orchard - part cloudy 24 - Fri - Plowed in oats - cloudy 25 - Sat - Cut wood & went church Bro Jones came - R.L. Jones died Friday 7 oc pm - rain pm 26 - Sun - Went church & to Jim Alexanders -Fate Jones burried - cloudy 27 - Mon - Went Ruston am-sold cow & yearling $30.00 - fair 28 - Tue - Killed hogs (3) 450 lbs in all - fair cool 29 - Wed - Made sausage cooked lard - fair cool 30 - Thu - Hope wash am-planted some oats pm - part fair 31 - Fri - Made hog head sauce & cleaned up yard-got pecan scions- cloudy FEBRUARY, 1941 1 - Sat - Canned sausage - slow rain all day & nite 2 - Sun - Staid home - damp rainy 3 - Mon - Went town - part cloudy 4 - Tue - Hauled slabs from mill for Hughes - fair cold 5 - Wed - Hauled wood & cut sprouts - fair 6 - Thu - Plowed in oats pm - rainy 7 - Fri - Plowed in orchard oats finished - cold fair 8 - Sat - Cut wood in pasture - fair 9 - Sun - Staid home - fair 10 - Mon - Went Ruston am-Mr Sam Gallott died pm - fair 11 - Tue - Hauled wood am-went funeral pm - fair 12 - Wed - Planted garden, set out onions, cabbage, radishes, spinish, turnips, etc - windy fair 13 - Thu - hauled wood & rocks from field & slabs mill - fair 14 - Fri - Hauled wood & rocks from field am-plowed in new ground - fair 15 - Sat - Plowed & fertilized & planted irish potatoes - fair 16 - Sun - Staid home - fair 17 - Mon - Fertilized & Planted irish potatoes - part cloudy 18 - Tue - Plowed terrices in new ground - part cloudy 19 - Wed - Planted oats - rain pm 20 - Thu - Put loft over one stable in barn with slabs - rainy all day 21 - Fri - Hauled some wood-drug oats - cloudy cold some rain 22 - Sat - Sawed some wood & wnet church am - went town pm - rainey am cloudy pm 23 - Sun - Went church-staid home pm - cloudy cold 24 - Mon - Put loft in stables - rainey cool 25 - Tue - Cut post & wood - cloudy damp 26 - Wed - Hauled wood am - split wood pm - cloudy 27 - Thu - Planted oats - cloudy am fair pm 28 - Fri - Hauled wood & planted some oats - fair MARCH, 1941 1 - Sat - Plowed in oats - fair 2 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 3 - Mon - Plowed in oats - fair 4 - Tue - Plowed in oats-pigs came - fair 5 - Wed - Finished plowing oats - fair 6 - Thu - Went Ruston - rain all day 7 - Fri - Went Ruston got FSA check - rain all day 8 - Sat - Hung meat sawed wood & Whities calf came (male) Ruby and Albert came - rain most all day 9 - Sun - Staid home - fair 10 - Mon - Worked on pasture fence - windy part cloudy 11 - Tue - Worked on pasture fence - fair 12 - Wed - Worked breaking corn land-planted 1 row irish potatoes - cloudy 13 - Thu - Went Ruston-had Dr with Eva Mae-cut sprouts-set out 12 peach & 4 apple trees - fair 14 - Fri - Plowed corn land - cloudy 15 - Sat - Plowed some in corn land-worked in shop pm - rain pm 16 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 17 - Mon - Plowed corn land - cold cloudy 18 - Tue - Went Ruston-cut sprouts pm - cold cloudy 19 - Wed - Plowed corn land - cloudy 20 - Thu - Staid in house - rain all day & nite - 21 - Fri - Went Ruston am-cut sprouts pm - cloudy 22 - Sat - Cut sprouts am - some rain cloudy 23 - Sun - Went church - cloudy 24 - Mon - Plowed corn land - cloudy 25 - Tue - Plowed corn land - cloudy 26 - Wed - Went town-started planting corn late pm - cloudy 27 - Thu - Planted corn-cow taken bull red heifer - cloudy 28 - Fri - Planted corn - cut sprouts - fair 29 - Sat - Cut sprouts on Sumlin 40 - fair 30 - Sun - Went S'boro Church & Jim Alexanders-Claudie went to Minden - fair 31 - Mon - Went Ruston - big rain nite part cloudy APRIL, 1941 1 - Tue - Filled in old well on north 40 - part fair 2 - Wed - Went Ruston am fishing pm - part fair 3 - Thu - Plowed on north 40 fair 4 - Fri - Plowed in north 40 - fair 5 - Sat - Plowed in north 40 - fair 6 - Sun - Chloe, Bennie Lee & wife came - fair clouded up pm 7 - Mon - Plowed on north 40 - cloudy some rain 8 - Tue - Plowed on north 40 for corn - part fair 9 - Wed - Put out fertilizer for watermellons & plowed patch - fair 10 - Thu - Planted watermellon seed & plowed popcorn land - fair 11 - Fri - Planted corn north 40-planted popcorn & put out fertiizer for cotton on north 40 - part fair 12 - Sat - Planted cotton north 40 - planted peas-plowed garden - fair 13 - Sun - Jim & Bell Alexander came - fair 14 - Mon - Put out fertilizer in garden - planted beans - fair 15 - Tue - Plowed for corn & planted some corn late pm - shower part cloudy 16 - Wed - Plowed for corn & planted corn-after school boys came - part cloudy 17 - Thu - Plowed for corn & planted corn late pm - part cloudy 18 - Fri - Finished planting corn & plowed for beans - part cloudy 19 - Sat - Plowed soy bean land - rain late pm 20 - Sun - Staid home - Thelma & Jack came - fair 21 - Mon - Went town am - planted soy beans pm - cloudy 22 - Tue - Planted soy beans - cloudy 23 - Wed - Middle busted land - part cloudy 24 - Thu - Broke land - cloudy 25 - Fri - Broke land for peas north 40 - part cloudy 26 - Sat - Plowed & went church am-put up table at church pm - part cloudy 27 - Sun - Went church-Children from Baptist Children Home came to church - fair 28 - Mon - Plowed under Austrian peas for cotton - part fair 29 - Tue - Plowed under peas for cotton - part cloudy 30 - Wed - Finished peas & run middles in corn - nite rain cloudy MAY, 1941 1 - Thu - Made hoe handles am-planted peas north 40 pm - rainy 2 - Fri - Plowed land & planted peas late pm - cloudy 3 - Sat - Planted peas & plowed corn north 40 - cloudy 4 - Sun - Staid home - showers pm 5 - Mon - All day rain & nite - made hoe handles - cloudy 6 - Tue - Went to Ruston & town - replanted corn pm - wet showers & cloudy 7 - Wed - Thinned corn - wet - faired off 8 - Thu - Plowed for cotton west field - planted cotton after school - fair 9 - Fri - Plowed middles for cotton-planted cotton late pm - fair 10 - Sat - Had Dr with children sick with bowels - fair 11 - Sun - Staid home - part cloudy 12 - Mon - Plowed middles for & planted cotton - fair 13 - Tue - Planted cotton - fair 14 - Wed - Finished planting cotton & plowed patches - fair 15 - Thu - Plowed patches & corn - part fair 16 - Fri - Plowed corn - fir 17 - Sat - Plowed corn am-went fishing big creek - fair 18 - Sun - Staid home - Herman & Clarace left - part cloudy 19 - Mon - Plowed peas & corn - fair 20 - Tue - Went Ruston-stuck beans-start chopping cotton - fair 21 - Wed - Plowed corn am-chopping cotton after school - fair 22 - Thu - Chopped cotton no school - fair 23 - Fri - Chopped cotton after 9oc am - school closed - fair 24 - Sat - Chopped cotton - fair 25 - Sun - Went Church - Monroe Morris & family came - fair 26 - Mon - Swept & replanted cotton-taken Mrs Alexander to Simsboro - part cloudy 27 - Tue - Swept cotton am-thinned corn pm - cloudy 28 - Wed - Put out soda & plowed corn am-set out collards in garden - rain pm 29 - Thu - Thinned corn - rainy 30 - Fri - Thinned corn & plowed for peanuts - cloudy 31 - Sat - Planted peanuts & peas - cloudy JUNE, 1941 1 - Sun - Staid home -Herman & Clarance came-Mrs Alexander went home - cloudy 2 - Mon - Borred off cotton west field - part fair 3 - Tue - Borred off cotton west field - fair 4 - Wed - Plowed soy beans planted peas - fair 5 - Thu - Reunion of G.W. Alexander family here - fair 6 - Fri - Dug potatoes & plowed patches - showers 7 - Sat - Rain am-put out soda on corn pm - cloudy 8 - Sun - Went SS & to Jim Alexanders - rain 9 - Mon - Went town am-Calvin plowed potato land-set out 1000 potato slips - cloudy 10 - Tue - Plowed corn-boys chopped cotton - big rain pm rainy 11 - Wed - Split some wood-rain am-chopped cotton late pm - 12 - Thu - Chopped cotton - part cloudy 13 - Fri - Chopped & plowed some cotton - part cloudy 14 - Sat - Swept cotton - cloudy 15 - Sun - Staid home - rain 16 - Mon - Rain all day - canned beans pm - faired nite 17 - Tue - Picked berries am-thinned corn pm - part cloudy 18 - Wed - Plowed corn-too wet-hoed cotton-part fair 19 - Thu - Plowed corn-children chopped cotton - fair hot 20 - Fri - Plowed corn - hot - big rain pm 21 - Sat - Went town & church - part cloudy 22 - Sun - Went church & to Monroe Morrises - fair 23 - Mon - Plowed corn middles - part fair 24 - Tue - Plowed middles in corn-finished - hot fair 25 - Wed - Swept cotton - fair hot 26 - Thu - Chopped cotton - part cloudy 27 - Fri - Chopped cotton - rain pm 28 - Sat - Chopped cotton & plowed peanuts - showers 29 - Sun - Staid home - faired hot 30 - Mon - Finished hoeing cotton lst time - part fair hot JULY, 1941 1 - Tue - Plowed cotton - fair 2 - Wed - Plowed cotton am-big rain pm 3 - Thu - Went Ruston am-worked on pasture fence & plowed peas - cloudy hot 4 - Fri - Went Ruston am-worked on pasture fence & plowed peas- cloudy hot 5 - Sat - Hoed cotton - fair 6 - Sun - Staid home - fair 7 - Mon - Hoed cotton north 40 - fair 8 - Tue - Hoed cotton north 40 - hot part fair showers 9 - Wed - Hoed potatoes & peanuts-boys plowed cotton - fair hot 10 - Thu - Plowed cotton - part cloudy 11 - Fri - Plowed cotton am-big rain pm - 12 - Sat - All day rain - canned butter beans - 13 - Sun - Staid home - rain pm 14 - Mon - Plowed & planted 2 rows watermellons - rainy 15 - Tue - Planted some peas-went town - rain 16 - Wed - Hope around house-robbed bees am-hoed pm - part cloudy 17 - Thu - Went grave yard working am - hoed cotton pm - hot fair 18 - Fri - Hoed cotton - hot fair 19 - Sat - Went to grave yard working Trussells & town pm - cloudy 20 - Sun - Herman & Clarace came - rain pm 21 - Mon - Went Ruston & town plowed some pm - fair hot 22 - Tue - Plowed terrices cotton (Calvin's cotton) - part fair hot 23 - Wed - Plowed cotton - fair hot 24 - Thu - Plowed cotton - big rain pm 25 - Fri - Cut weeds - wet cloudy 26 - Sat - Finished plowing cotton -went town & church - part fair 27 - Sun - Went Church Meeting starts-Mrs Bennie Hughes came - fair 28 - Mon - Went church - part fair 29 - Tue - Went church-Bro Jones, Rev JC McCann several young folks came - fair 30 - Wed - Went church-went to Mr Sims - fair 31 - Thu - Went church-Jim Alexander & family & young folks came - fair AUGUST, 1941 1 - Fri - Went church-Mae & Earl Turner, Monroe Morris & folks & others came - fair 2 - Sat - Canned peaches-went church - fair 3 - Sun - Big rain am no church - cloudy 4 - Mon - Went town-cows cut up-sawed some wood - rain pm 5 - Tue - Picked some peas-went to Mrs Wes Halloways funeral - hot part fair 6 - Wed - Picked peas am-went fishing pm - rain pm hot 7 - Thu - Picked peas am-hoed watermellons pm 0 rain pm 8 - Fri - Picked peas am - fair 9 - Sat - Went to L.L. Dormons with Earl & Mae Turner Bienville, La Star Route - fair 10 - Sun - On to J.W. Simpsons, Caster, La. Rt1 - back home pm - fair 11 - Mon - Went to Monroe Morrises am-cut corn tops pm - fair 12 - Tue - Cut & hauled in corn tops - part fair hot 13 - Wed - Went fishing lake east of Monroe - showers 14 - Thu - Cut corn tops & hauled in some - part fair hot 15 - Fri - Cut corn tops & hauled in pm - hot fair 16 - Sat - Hauled corn tops - big rain pm 17 - Sun - Went Aviaton field pm - part cloudy hot 18 - Mon - Turned corn tops & cut tops & hauled 2 loads - hot p fair 19 - Tue - Nite rain worked on bean cutter-hauled tops pm - part cloudy 20 - Wed - Sawed some wood cut hay pm - part fair 21 - Thu - Raked hay am-threatening rain - part fair 22 - Fri - Hauled in some hay not so dry - threatening part fair 23 - Sat - Went church & schocked some soy bean hay - part cloudy 24 - Sun - Went Church & Baptising-went aviation field pm - fair 25 - Mon - Cut hay & hauled in - part cloudy 26 - Tue - Cured hay - fair 27 - Wed - Went town & hauled in hay - part cloudy 28 - Thu - Picked peas & cut syrup wood - fair & threatening 29 - Fri - Picked peas & thrashed peas - hot fair 30 - Sat - Went town & boys sawed wood - fair hot 31 - Sun - Staid home - some rain - cloudy SEPTEMBER, 1941 1 - Mon - Picked some peas am-went fishing on creek pm - big rain pm 2 - Tue - Cut syrup wood - cloudy & rain most of day 3 - Wed - Went town-cut some grass in garden - rain cloudy 4 - Thu - Cut grass in garden - part cloudy 5 - Fri - Taken Edwin to Dr - plowed in garden - hot part fair 6 - Sat - Staid home planted turnips in garden - hot fair 7 - Sun - Went to Earl Turners-US Army start passing - fair 8 - Mon - Picked peas & cut some syrup wood - cloudy 9 - Tue - Cut some syrup wood-1st U.S. Infantry passed going south all day - rain soon 10 - Wed - Visited some of the Army camps, camped on road side near Simsboro - cloudy 11 - Thu - Cut some syrup wood - cloudy 12 - Fri - Picked some cotton - part fair 13 - Sat - Went to Minden - part cloudy 14 - Sun - Came home from Minden - showers 15 - Mon - Picked cotton - part cloudy 16 - Tue - Pulled up and hauled peanuts - part fair 17 - Wed - Cut some wood - part fair 18 - Thu - Picked cotton - fair 19 - Fri - Went Ruston to Dr. picked cotton pm - fair 20 - Sat - Picked cotton - fair 21 - Sun - Staid home - fair 22 - Mon - Picked cotton - part fair 23 - Tue - Picked cotton - part fair 24 - Wed - picked some cotton - part rain 25 - Thu - picked off peanuts - rain 26 - Fri - Pulled corn - fair 27 - Sat - Hauled in tow loads corn-went church-Bro Jones came - fair 28 - Sun - Went church - fair 29 - Mon - Pulled corn - fair 30 - Tue - Hauled & pulled corn - no weather entry OCTOBER, 1941 1 - Wed - Hauled & pulled corn - fair 2 - Thu - Went to Association at Cart Wright church - some rain 3 - Fri - Went to Association-boys pulled corn - cloudy some rain 4 - Sat - Hauled in last of corn, 13 wagon loads-picked cotton pm - drizzly 5 - Sun - Staid home - some rain 6 - Mon - School starts-picked some cotton - cloudy 7 - Tue - Picked cotton - part cloudy 8 - Wed - Picked some cotton - cloudy 9 - Thu - Picked some cotton - showers all pm - cloudy 10 - Fri - Picked cotton - fair 11 - Sat - Picked cotton - finished - fair 12 - Sun - Staid home - Herman & Mrs Alexander came - fair 13 - Mon - Hauled cotton to gin-Jim and Bell Alexander came - fair 14 - Tue - Went Ruston - part fair 15 - Wed - Hope wash - cloudy rain late pm 16 - Thu - Went hunting & hope around house - cloudy damp 17 - Fri - Went town - cloudy showers 18 - Sat - Worked on road to field - part fair 19 - Sun - Staid home - fair 20 - Mon - Went Ruston after cotton stamps - fair 21 - Tue - Hope wash & went town pm - fair 22 - Wed - Dug some potatoes - fair 23 - Thu - Part sick with back - fair 24 - Fri - Staid around house - fair 25 - Sat - went church & cut some wood - fair 26 - Sun - Went church-B.S. Best killed in car wreck - fair 27 - Mon - Went town - cloudy 28 - Tue - Went funeral of B.S. Best - cloudy cold 29 - Wed - Went to town meeting AAA - cold cloudy 30 - Fri - Rain - picked off peanuts - all day rain 31 - Sat - Rain - picked off peanuts - cloudy NOVEMBER, 1941 1 - Sat - Cut wood - fair 2 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy 3 - Mon - Hope wash am-hauled wood pm - part fair 4 - Tue - Rain nite went town hauled wood pm - faired 5 - Wed - Put up pole to syrup mill - fair 6 - Thu - Worked on road to syrup mill - fair 7 - Fri - Worked on syrup mill-went to Pleasant Grove to SS assoc. Nite - fair 8 - Sat - Worked on syrup mill-sawed some wood - windy cold 9 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy 10 - Mon - Worked around syrup mill-Lewis Dick ground some cane pm - fair 11 - Tue - Made syrup for Mr Lewis Dick 52 gals - fair 12 - Wed - Made syrup for Mr Lewis Dick 52 gals - fair 13 - Thu - Made syrup for Mr Lewis Dick 26 gals - fair 14 - Fri - Hope wash & haul load wood - fair 15 - Sat - Sawed wood - fair 16 - Sun - Went to Monroe Morrises - fair 17 - Mon - Went Ruston - fair 18 - Tue - Worked around house - had stove fixed - fair 19 - Wed - Hauled some wood & worked at S mill - part cloudy 20 - Thu - Made syrup for Horris Castle 38 gals in all - cloudy 21 - Fri - Finished making syrup for Horris & cleaned up mill - cloudy cool 22 - Sat - All day rain picked off peanuts - rainy 23 - Sun - Went church - cloudy 24 - Mon - Hauled wood-casterated 2 hogs - fair 25 - Tue - Went Ruston - fair cold 26 - Wed - Hope wash & split wood - fair 27 - Thu - Worked on old tin & partly covered shed - fair 28 - Fri - Cut wood in new ground on Sumlin 40 - fair 29 - Sat - Cut wood in new ground - fair 30 - Sun - Went to Mr Leonards - fair DECMEBER, 1941 1 - Mon - Worked at Ark Ntl Gas Co plant - part cloudy 2 - Tue - " " " " " " " " " 3 - Wed - " " " " " " " " " 4 - Thu - Worked at plant - fair 5 - Fri - Worked at plant - fair 6 - Sat - Went to Ruston & hauled load wood to killens - fair cool 7 - Sun - Went church at Simsboro-The USS Oklahoma sunk by Japan, over 300 our casilaties reported - part cloudy 8 - Mon - Worked at plant-U.S. declared war on Japan - part cloudy 9 - Tue - Worked at plant-later causilities over 3,000 - part cloudy 10 - Wed - Hope wash - part fair 11 - Thu - Went Ruston - rainy 12 - Fri - Staid home - rainy cloudy 13 - Sat - Went town pm - cloudy 14 - Sun - Robert Murphy came - fair cool 15 - Mon - Worked on wagon - part fair 16 - Tue - Worked at gas plant 8 hrs - part cloudy 17 - Wed - Worked at gas plant 8 hrs - fair 18 - Thu - Worked at gas plant 8 hrs - fair 19 - Fri - Worked at gas plant 8 hrs - fair 20 - Sat - Worked at gas plant 8 hrs-killed hog late pm - part cloudy 21 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy showers 22 - Mon - Worked some at plant 2 1/2 hrs - rained 23 - Tue - Worked at plant 7 - drizzly part cloudy 24 - Wed - Worked at plant 8 hrs - fair 25 - Thu - Staid at home-Bennie Lee & wife & Gordon & wife came pm - rain am fair pm 26 - Fri - Worked at Gas plant 8 hrs - fair 27 - Sat - Worked at plant - fair 28 - Sun - Went church Herman & Clarece came pm - fair 29 - Mon - Worked at plant - cool fair 30 - Tue - Worked at plant - cloudy 31 - Wed - Staid home Ben Cargall burried - rainy Found information where he earned .40 hr working At the Gas plant (55 hrs@.40=$22.97)