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.