Week of November 15, 1960

Tuesday, November 15, 1960

Another big fog this AM. Did not lift until 10AM.

Fair & warm.

Picking peanuts; slow still in field east of cherry tree.

Picking corn (Arthur).

Combining beans (Turner).

Discing and sowing oats in land in front of silo.

Sold tow loads peanuts. 3570 lbs @ 11.44 and 2707 @11.73.

Four men from town came in PM.

Wednesday, November 16, 1960

Fair & warm.

Picking peanuts completed the field east of the Goat pasture.

Picking corn completed the black bottom field.

Counted 27 new crop calves.

Sarah left this AM to spend the night at her mother’s housel she not so well.

3 men from town.

Thursday, November 17, 1960

Light rain before 7 AM.

Cloudy and warm balance of day.

Hauled up, baled peanut hay and fed cows with loose hay.

Picked Arthur Thigpen’s peanuts in PM; ½ day.

Friday, November 18, 1960

Cloudy and warm with Rain at 12:30 pm.

Rain at noon.

Picked Peanuts for Arthur, completed at 11:30 AM

Hauled up Hay and fed cows.

Turner went to football game; high school @ Hillsboro, NC.

Saturday, November 19, 1960

Fair and cool.

Peanuts, bean and corn too wet from yesterday and last night rain.

No one working.

I settled with Norville; final check 532.27

I settled with Thigpen; final check 145.87

Lewis did not come home for weekend.

Sunday, November 20, 1960

Fair and warm.

Sarah, Turner and I at home.

Turner and I were at farm all pm.

CALVARY CHURCH OBSERVED ITS 100 ANNIVERSARY TODAY.

About 7 PM Joe Reed phoned Sarah that her mother had a stroke and was unconscious and advised that she should come home. She and I left and spent the night. Returned Monday at 10AM.

Monday, November 21, 1960

Fair and warm.

Sarah and I back home at 10AM and Sarah left to go back to her mother’s home at 3:30 PM.

Picking peanuts on last field rear of cabin.

Picking beans and corn.

Two loads of peanuts to market.

The Edgecombe Bank new branch uptown opens today with open house tonight.

Week of November 8, 1960--Kennedy elected!

Tuesday, November 8, 1960

Fair and Cold, Big Frost this AM

½ inch of ice last night.

Picking peanuts completed Norville at 3 PM

Combining soybeans—David and Harper

Picking corn.

THIS IS ELECTION DAY: NIXON AND KENNEDY at 7PM it is very close.

Wednesday, November 9, 1960

Cloudy to Fair

Picking peanuts Henry Lyon’s Field.

Made very slow progress.

Combined beans and picked at cabin.

Some corn #1 field.

KENNEDY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT: I don’t think much of him and did not vote for him.

Thursday, November 10, 1960

Light rain last nigh and today. Warm.

Hauling up peanut hay.

Bailing hay left in field.

Two loads soy beans sold to Super Grain at @.00

1 load peanut sold at $11.25.

Friday, November 11, 1960

Cloudy and Cold.

Scattering picker beds on field # 4 (Norville) and sowing multigrain oats in stack rows

(other part the oats [?])

Picking corn.

Started picking peanuts; completed field on road to Manning and started on east side of road @ the cherry tree.

Lewis came in from Raleigh for the weekend.

Saturday, November 12, 1960

Fair and cool.

½ day only.

Scattering picker beds so that can so oats.

Picking corn.

Sunday, November 13, 1960

Fair and warm.

Sarah, Turner and Lewis and I at home and spent at Farm as had expected to

Get someone to combine. No such luck. My help knew that I wanted this and left before I got out.  Sarah went out to see Whit Powell, B.W. B Sr. and Jimmie came by to see us.

Monday, November 14, 1960

Big fog this AM and fair and warm after fog raised.

Started picking peanuts late with three men from town.

Picked three loads of corn.

Sowed oats in stack rows. Fertilized with 5-10-10 (400).

Week of Nov. 1, 1960: Harvesting

Tuesday, November 1, 1960

Cloudy & Warm.

Cleaning up scrap iron pile and in orchard.

Dragging out water furnace in field. Rear of (?) house.

Started picking corn in field #1.

Wednesday, November 2, 1960

Fair and warm. Nice Day.

Started thrashing peanuts. Completed hill field and field in front of Dave Moore.

Fill holes in road with 420 tractor.

I attended dinner at club by Edgecombe County to all industries in Edgecombe.

Harvested 72 bags of peanuts.

Three men from Town.

Thursday, November 3, 1960

Fair and Cool. Nice fall day.

Picking peanuts ½ day.

Hauling up peanut hay to loft in town shelter.

Bailing hay.

Combining beans at mail box.

Six men from town.

Friday, November 4, 1960

Fair and Cool. Beautiful Day.

Picking peanuts. RH Norville Crop.

Bailing Lespedeza hay.

Hauling up peanut hay.

Combining beans at Mail Box west and east of lane.

Our peanut elevator is working fine. We hauled one load peanuts in bulk to Col. Peanut Company; sold at $11.15 per CWT 3100 lbs.

Six men from town.

Saturday, November 5, 1960

Fair and Cool. LAST DAY OF TARBORO’S BIRTHDAY PARTY

AND IT WAS A BIG DAY.

7 mile long parade started at 10AM. Big dinner on Commons.

Two white and two negro dances at night. Parachute drop from Fort Bragg.

Quiet day. No farm work.

Sunday, November 6, 1960

Fair and warm. Nice Day.

Sarah, Turner and I at home.

Turner and I fed cows and hogs. Everyone thanks our Birthday Party last night was Tops.

I went to BWB Sr. fro a visit.

Turner went to Raleigh to see Lewis. Left at 6 PM.

Monday, November 7, 1960

Fair and very cold. Windy. Our first cold day; only about 40 degrees but felt like 20.

Not enough labor to pick peanuts. Hauled up hay and hay to cows.
Cleaned up at picker beds.

Got started combining beans and picking corn after dinner.
Turner returned from Raleigh at 4 PM.

Week of Oct. 25, 1960: Tarboro's 200th Birthday Party

Tuesday, October 25, 1960

Fair and cool. Another beautiful day.

First thin ice this A.M.

Mowing Hay.

Cutting weeds on Lespedeza.

Fertilize oat land.

Started peanut picker; picked one bag and 1/2 bag off three stacks so I could check.

Moved machinery from about Nowell’s House and shop.

Wednesday, October 26, 1960

Cloudy and Cool. Ice this morning.

Picking corn.

Discing and harrowing for oats.

Sowing oats.

Norville completed picking his cotton. This cleans up the farm. Only three bales

Weighing 1590 lbs off seven acres.

One bushel to gin (Norville).

Thursday, October 27, 1960

Fair and Warm.

Curtis Tucker phoned me about 7PM that he is going to work at Hart Cotton Mill tomorrow.

Mowing weeds off Lespedeza with Roto Mower.

Turner got a 8m Belt from Ligget Gin to fix up a peanut elevator.

Friday, October 28, 1960

Cloudy and cool to 1 pm.

Light rain after and till tonight.

Tucker left as of 7AM to work in Hart Mill.

Combining early hill beans; 72 bags, 130 bushels.

Had 3 men from town to trim shrubbery and working on town shelter.

Odd jobs after dinner to keep labor; floor to pack house.

SOLD LAST OF TOB CROP. THANK GOD FOR A GOOD CROP. 10.23 acres; 22,524 lbs for $12,556.52.

Saturday, October 29, 1960

Fair and warm.

Arthur and Norman came up at 7 AM and I put them to work on center line of town shelter.

Curtis Tucker is moving.

Sunday, October 30, 1960

Sticker affixed to page:  

You Are Invited to

TARBORO”s

200^th Birthday Party

Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 1960

Turner, Sarah and I at Home.

Wiley Walston met me at Farm and we talked about him coming back to work for me.

I attended services in the commons to open the birthday party. A big crowd. Looks like its going to be a big week.  The boys have done a good job on arrangements.

                                               

Monday, October 31, 1960

Misty. Rain all day.

Odd jobs; fixing gate, feeding place in hog pasture. Fixing peanut elevator.

Attended annual stockholders meeting as director of the National Farm Loan Association @ Armory with dinner at Deberrys and Directors meeting. Got to farm about 5 PM.

Week of October 18, 1960: Lamenting Loss of Pines

Tuesday, October 18, 1960

Fair and warm

Nice fall day

Completed fence on canal in hog pasture and started work on fence around lot house.

Mowing weeds off lespedeza.

Completed clover and rape in hog lots

Picked small amount corn.

Bought 30 square feet aluminum roofing from town @ $5.00 square.

Wednesday, October 19, 1960

Fair and warm.

Picking corn; it’s very slow as half is on the ground.

Picking up corn in the field on the highway that the picker has been over. Curtis and four boys.

Mowing with Roto mower.

The Georgia Pacific Lumber Co. completed cutting the pines.  I will miss them as long as I live. They were more than 70 years old but had not grown much in 25 years.

Thursday, October 20, 1960

Rain in AM; Fair PM. Warm.

No work in AM.

Building fence around the little house in lot occupied by David Briggs.

Only Curtis, Arthur, and Norman.

Friday, October 21, 1960

Fair and cool. Nice Day. First Fall Day.

Picking up corn, all hands in field #3.

Saturday, October 22, 1960

Fair and Cool. Beautiful Day.

Only Norman and Arthur working. Picking up corn in field #3 completed.

Job Savage came out to try the new ground plow he wants to sell.

Lewis came home for the weekend.

Sunday, October 23, 1960

Fair and Cool.

A Beautiful Fall day.

Dr. Spencer is 77 today.  We saw him at our house and Sarah and I went to see him.

Sarah’s family came over to see us, mother, four sisters and Will Allen Connell.

Lewis left at 9:30 for Raleigh.

Monday, October 24, 1960

Fair and Cool.

Another fine day.

Picking Corn.

Discing corn field for oats.

Norville sold last of his crop of tobacco today except some scrap which will tie up. 876 pounds at $505.80

Week of October 11, 1960: State Fair! Time Capsule!

Tuesday, October 11, 1960

Fair and Hot

Arthur, Norman, Junnie, Ray, Joe,

Street, Curtis, went to state fair in Carryall and Turner and I in the 54 Ford.

No Farm work.

[Editor’s note: A clipping from the Tarboro Daily Southerner from this date was also placed in the journal.  A transcription follows:

Town Council Gives Approval Of Time Capsule

The Town Council last night gave full support to a plan to bury a “time capsule” on the Town Common as part of the town’s 200^th birthday celebration. 

Mayor Herbert Bailey told councilmen that the Long Manufacturing Co. will construct and contribute a heavy steel box in which pictures and letters to future generations of Tarboreans will be placed.  The box then will be painted with a preservative, coated with tar, and buried in the Common.  Above it will be placed a stone or metal marker telling of the box and its contents and with instructions that it not be opened until the celebration of the town’s 300^th birthday. 

Churches, civic and fraternal organizations will be permitted to place a “reasonable” amount of material in the box at no charge.  However, to offset expenses a charge of one dollar will be made for material placed by individuals.]

Wednesday, October 12, 1960

Fair and Hot

Arthur plowed up his peanuts.

½ day & breaking up lot in rear of hog house in pm.

Building bob [barb] wire fence to divide the sub soiled field

so that cows can graze ½ & ½ to be harvested for lespedeza land.

Thursday, October 13, 1960

Fair and Hot

Completed fence in center of sub soiled field

Started work on fence up grave yard lot

Broke up grave yard lot to sow for hogs

Norville sold Tobacco in Rocky Mount

1074 lb-$688.60 good sale

Friday, October 14, 1960

Fair and Hot

Turner and I went to Atlantic Beach as I wanted to attend

at town board to discuss the building of a sea wall

Left @ 7:30 back @ 5pm

Worked on fence in grave yard lot

and started picking corn after dinner

Saturday, October 15, 1960

Fair and Hot

Picking corn

Sowing oats in lot,

Rear of hog house and cemetery lot

Sunday, October 16, 1960

Cloudy with showers- warm

No fire in house nice outside

Turner, Lewis, Sarah and I @ house

Sarah does not feel very well and has been in bed from 2pm.

Monday, October 17, 1960

Fair and Cool

Norville sold Tobacco in Rocky Mount

786 lb- $492.80

Sowing clover and rape in lots for hogs

Building fence along canal in hog pasture

Started picking corn late in afternoon

Week of October 4--Sowing cover crops

Tuesday, October 4, 1960

Cloudy to Fair. Shower Monday night.

Sowing Rye for Cover Crop

Discing and Harrowing for Cover Crop

Curtis and David removed radiator from 400 Tractor for repairs

Arthur putting up stack rows in his peanut crop

Stacking peanuts in Henry Lyon’s field

Last field of wage peanuts

Stacking with wage labor

Wednesday, October 5, 1960

Fair and warm

Completed stacking all wage peanuts

(Arthur has his four acres to dig)

(Norville has completed his ten acres)

Sowing rye and oats for cover

Fertilize 400 pounds per acre on Norville peanut land to be put in oats

Started installing corn snapper on M tractor

Thursday, October 6, 1960

Fair and Hot

Lewis came home for this night only.

Replaced radiator on 400 tractor (it had been fixed).

Placed corn snapper on M tractor

Disc and harrowed land for oats

Planting oats for cover and for combining

Friday, October 7, 1960

Cloudy to fair and cool

Started picking corn

Planting oats for combining

Completed cover crop. Oats oversowed with rye and wheat

Norville and Turner went to Rocky Mount with tobacco

Saturday, October 8, 1960

Rain all day—Warm

No farm work.

Turner went to Raleigh to see Lewis

I was going to go to Raleigh with Joe Powell to a

football came but we called it off due to bad weather.

Sunday, October 9, 1960

Cloudy and warm

Sarah and I at home.

Curtis went to Durham.

Lift stack (?)

Monday, October 10, 1960

Cloudy and Warm

Rebuilding fence at west side of hog pasture

Cleaning out Hog house

Week of September 27--More Peanuts!

Tuesday, September 27, 1960

Cloudy and cool

Stacking peanuts (Only David’s tractor working on peanuts)

Digging peanuts with shaker

Restacking down stacks and broken poles

Plowed up two stack rows for Norville.

I went to Bethel and bought from M. O. Blount & Sons

I used Victory Two stack peanut stack lift $50.00

I used American double chain elevator with unloading extension $75.00

Wednesday, September 28, 1960

Cloudy and warm

Discing & harrowing & planting land & oats for cover crop in field front of cabin

Corn had been planted for silage

Cleaning up in peanut fields, places that plow had missed

Light rain & all hands came to lot and cleaned up in shop and under shelter

Plowed up one stack row for Norville

Thursday, September 29, 1960

Cloudy with rain starting at 9:30 light showers

Started sowing oats & fixing land stop by rain

Curtis & David came into town, put windows in porches & cleaned out gutters till 5 pm

Friday, September 30, 1960

Cloudy and Hot

Went to Job Savage Farm @ Speed and got a new ground plow (loan) Curtis and Norman

Went to  W.O. Blount Grimes Farms @ Mayo X rds got a 30ft elevator

Purchased from WOB @ $75.00

Turner & Norman pulled old chev 1 Ton truck to Shorty Simpson Garage @ Hy Wa 64 for Shorty to sell for me

Curtis and Norman disc harrowed & sowed oats & rye for cover crop

Arthur and David Turner went to Raleigh tonight to Football Game

Saturday, October 1, 1960

Cloudy to Fair Cool

Only Curtis working

Fed and plowed up peanuts for Norville & in wage crop

Sunday, October 2, 1960

Cloudy & Cool

Sarah, Turner & I went to Norlina to see Mrs. Robinson

Back at 6 pm

Lewis did not come home week end

Week of September 20, 1960--Peanuts

Monday, September 19, 1960

Fair and hot

Digging Stack Rows in PM & digging holes erecting poles & slats

Land Very Wet

Mowed Hay in cemetery lot

Lewis came home @ 2 pm got his car and went to Raleigh

Turner and Warren Boys still @ beach

I put 2716 lbs wage tobacco Ry Mt (Rocky Mount) Market

Norville 1858  wage tobacco

Curtis and Norville drove ¾ T truck

Tuesday, September 20, 1960

Fair and Hot

Plowing up stacking

Poles & Slats in Pea Nuts

Started Stacking in Field @ wind mill tower

Sold 3516 lbs tobacco @ $2805⁰⁰

Farmers tobacco wharehouse Rocky Mt

Norville & 9 others went to sale

Wednesday, September 21, 1960

Fair and Cool

Stacking PM

Post Hole Rows

Digging PM & pole rows

Packing poles

Brick mason rebuilding fire place in den @ home

Thursday, September 22, 1960

Cloudy and Cool

Digging PM Post Holes & packing poles & stacking stack rows

I attended a Hospital Meeting all pm, 3 to 530

Friday, September 23, 1960

Fair and Warm

Stacking & plowing up p/nuts

Cherry tree field planted April 29 (5 months)

Hauled up hay that was bailed in cemetery lot

Saturday, September 24, 1960

Fair and Cool

Plowing up peanuts

Stacking peanuts

Breaking up land for cover crop

Big Pay Roll

Did not get home for dinner till 4 pm

counted peanuts stacked this month 774 stacks

Sunday, September 25, 1960

Fair and Cool

Sarah, Turner and I @ home

Nice Cool Fall Day

Frank Warren came by @ 7 pm & got the last of our dogs

 

Monday, September 26, 1960

Fair and Cool

Plowing up peanuts

Stacked peanuts which were plowed up Saturday

Bailed Hay at house lot

Had to get a mechanic to take head off  motor, to Rocky Mount,

the valve seat had come out.

Restacking down peanut stacks

Picking cotton for Norville as he is stacking his peanuts

Week of September 13, 1960--Clean-up!

Tuesday, September 13, 1960

Fair and Hot

Repaired fence @ lot and moved all cows & calves

From back pasture (due to high water covering all of corral [?] hub cap deep on culvert @ gate)

To house lot & separated calves from cows

Wednesday, September 14, 1960

Fair and Cool

Loaded 69 calves on Tarboro Livestock tracks for calf sale

Turner went with them. One was rejected for light weight and we brought her back

Cows returned to pasture

Cut weeds out of beans

Thursday, September 15, 1960

Fair and Cool

Sold 68 head of calves @ R[?] Feeder calf sale for $ 7975.23

Selling expense of 67 herd 707.00

Av wt 487 Av price net to me 24.09

Kept 1 str & 1 hef @ farm

Repaired roof of Tobacco barn and other bldgs which were damaged by hurricane of the 11^th

Cut beans & weeds for cows

Disc land for cover crop

Plowed up some peanut stack rows in field @ wind mill

Friday, September 16, 1960

Fair to cloudy & cool

Sold all of pine trees on Highway to Georgia Pacific

Lumber Co for $2000⁰⁰

Put up peanut poles & stacked stack rows in peanut field front of Dave Moore house & wind mill lot

Shrub along fence line on Highway

Discing field front of cabin to sow cover crop

Saturday, September 17, 1960

Cloudy and cool

No Farm Work

Turner, Lewis & two Warren Boys put boat in river & left for Atlantic Beach @ 530 pm- Spent Night @ Washington NC

Sunday, September 18, 1960

Fair and Hot

Only Sarah & I @ home

Turner, Lewis and the Warren Boys did not arrive at Atlantic Beach until 11 pm Sunday night.

They phoned us

 

Monday, September 19, 1960

Fair and hot

Digging Stack Rows in PM & digging holes erecting poles & slats

Land Very Wet

Mowed Hay in cemetery lot

Lewis came home @ 2 pm got his car and went to Raleigh

Turner and Warren Boys still @ beach

I put 2716 lbs wage tobacco Ry Mt (Rocky Mount) Market

Norville 1858  wage tobacco

Curtis and Norville drove ¾ T truck

Week of Sept. 6, 1960--Hurricane!

Tuesday, September 6, 1960

Fair and cool

Rain last night (light)

Discing land for cover crop

Cutting weeds out of beans

Sold 2000 lbs tobacco

B. tractor broke down in steering had to pull it to C & N.

Wednesday, September 7, 1960

Fair and Warm

I have a very bad cold and did not go to farm till about 2:30 pm

Mowing with roto mower, discing

Got B Tractor back from C & N about 4pm

25 bags early cover oats to sow grain for cleaning

Discing- M. to shop muffler repairs (Arthur stopped work)

2 men and 2 boys cutting weeds out of beans

Thursday, September 8, 1960

Fair and Hot heavy rain @ 6PM (3 inches)

Bailed hay

Cutting weeds out of beans 2 men and 2 boys

I went to [?]  Battleboro to have a canvas on AC [?]

Sold tobacco to Farmers #1

Work in pasture

Cut beans for cows

Weeds

Friday, September 9, 1960

Fair and Hot

Land wet, ditches full

Mowing in back pasture

Started picking cotton (3 boys)

[?]- Herring sent a man to repair governor on M tractor

Bob Knight & Hertford Co agent came to see me about buying some calves

Saturday, September 10, 1960

Fair and Hot

Cut beans and weeds for cows

420 Tractor to C & W for starter repairs

Norville tobacco to market

FED

Sunday, September 11, 1960

Hurricane Donna Hit Tarboro about 11 pm

[Editor’s note: Hurricane Donna was a Category 3 or greater storm. For a track of the storm, see the map of major hurricanes from 1951-1960 found on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/DC_11_1951-1960.jpg]

Has done untold damage

City trees, poles and light lines down

Country:  all corn flat, cotton blown out,

and leaves blown off

Peanuts: all fields full of water

Ditches running over

It will be a heavy loss both to town and county

No One working

Monday, September 12, 1960

Fair and sun is shining

Town is cleaning up after Hurricane Donna

Trees fell on lots of houses

Many trees in my pine grove broke off and blown up

Am in bad shape @ farm but no buildings were damaged

Damaged evap[oration] vent on one Tobacco barn

Have not rec. any report from Atlantic Beach. Storm hit land @ that point

Sold tobacco today Norville & Wage

No Farm Work

Week of August 30, 1960

Tuesday, August 30, 1960

Fair and Hot

Erecting wire along

canal in sub soil field

west side so can put rows of Lespedeza

[Editor’s note: lespedeza is a plant in the pea family

that is planted to improve soil quality]

Cut some rows in beans

at silo field so that I will have

have place to put weeds

Two men pulling weeds out of

Beans on the north side of cabin

Wednesday, August 31, 1960

Fair to Cloudy and Hot

I went to Richmond to see

Dr. Wood and Sarah went to Norlina

to see her mother. Back

at 9:30 pm.

Completed filling silo

Cut hay, too wet to bale

Thursday, September 1, 1960

Fair and Hot to 6 PM

Heavy rain at 6 PM   1 inch

Worked on Corral to

Shut up calves and bull cows

Most of day on this job

Sorting calves from cows

Rain has wet the hay again

Friday, September 2, 1960

Cloudy and Showers. Cool.

Chas. Lockhart came out and we

Picked the cows to be sold.

It required all labor.

Bundled up tobacco sticks.

Came to town and pulled P/N picker and

bailer to Walston shop.

Run mower to C&W Equip Co for repair

Disc Tobacco fields and land from

which we cut silage.

Sold 1300 lb tobacco—low average.

Sarah went to Ry Mt [Rocky Mount] Hospital

for a check up.

Saturday, September 3, 1960

Fair and Hot

Carried stalk cutter to Pender Farm

Disc around Beans on front of farm

Went C&W Equip to get mower which

had been repaired.

No labor except Curtis

Sunday, September 4, 1960

Fair and Hot

Lewis is at home and he and

Turner got Turner’s boat in the River

using a trailer from Carstarphen after much

Work and adjustment they got going

[Editor’s note: Turner and Lewis were his

 twin sons; this day was their 26^th birthday]

Monday, September 5, 1960

Fair and Hot

LABOR DAY

I carried two men from Grimesville

To farm for 4 hor and Curtis did some

discing.

Not any of the regular

Labor is working.

I also went to Conetoe to

Have the PTO on roto mower repaired.