Certified List and Invoices of Materials Purchased for C.W.A. Project No. 56-C-864

Synopsis

A packet of local merchant invoices and a typed sworn summary documenting materials the Town of Wedowee bought for Project No. 56-C-864, apparently a Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.) work-relief project (one invoice is marked 'This CWA'). The typed certification dated February 17, 1934 lists purchases from John W. Carlisle (picks, mattocks, shovels, hoes and wheelbarrows, $55.00), R. M. Swann (nails, $7.40), E. E. Lee (3,006 ft lumber, $22.90), Handley Hardware Co. of Roanoke (8 joints of pipe, $3.20), Griffin Hardware Co. of Roanoke (100 sacks cement $70.00; sewer pipe and dynamite $16.20), E. C. Kirk (cement, $21.00), J. V. Perry & Co. of Wadley (cement and drayage, $151.20), and T. A. Perry (nails, $1.70), plus drayage paid to about twenty local men, for a total of $497.13. Sand and gravel worth $45.87 were donated. The original Swann, Lee, Handley and Carlisle bills accompany it, along with an undated Roy Dobson tool bill. The records show how a Depression-era relief project was supplied by local businesses and labor.

Key facts

• Project No. 56-C-864 (apparently C.W.A.)
• Total certified purchases: $497.13
• 100 sacks of cement from Griffin Hardware Co., $70.00
• J. V. Perry & Co., Wadley: cement and drayage, $151.20
• Donated sand and gravel valued at $45.87
• Drayage paid to about 20 local individuals

Feb 17 1934
I here by certify that the following material was purchased by the Town of Wedowee for Project No 56-C-864.
John W. Carlisle Wedowee, Ala.
6 picks with handles
10 mattocks
12 Shovels
6 handled hoes
5 Wheelbarrows $ 55.00
R. M. Swann, Wedowee, Ala.
Nails 7.40
E. E. Lee, Wedowee, Ala.
3006 Ft Lumber 22.90
Handley Hardware Co. Roanoke, Ala.
8 joints Pipe 3.20
Griffin Hardware Co, Roanoke, Ala.
100 sacks Cement 70.00
Sewer Pipe & Dynamite 16.20
E. C. Kirk, Roanoke, Ala.
Cement 21.00
J. V. Perry & Co. Wadley, Ala.
Cement & Draysge 151.20
T. A. Perry Wedowee Ala.
Nails 1.70
The Following are invoices for Drayage.
Hoyt Yates, Malone, Ala. 3.00
Leon Payne, Wedowee Ala. 12.00
Levis Wilson, Wedowee, Ala 3.00
R. L. Fincher, Wedowee, Ala. 16.00
J. A. Taylor, Wedowee Ala. 6.00
Tom Lee, Wedowee, Ala. 3.00
Douglas French, Wedowee, Ala. 3.00
Loyd Grant, Wedowee, Ala. 9.00
Horace Dobson, Wedowee, Ala. 18.50
Tom Williams, Wedowee, Ala. 1.00
Davis Dobson, Wedowee, Ala. 28.50
Sam Carpenter, Wedowee, Ala. 6 .00
J. M. Traylor, Wedowee, Ala. 4.53
Sol Johnson, Wedowee, Ala. 6.00
Edd Phillips, Wedowee, Ala. 6.00
Elton Lee Wedowee, Ala. 3.00
Rufus Harris, Wedowee, Ala. 15.00
R.B. Ford, Wedowee, Ala.
Labor 5.00 TOTAL$497.13

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Also the following material donated,
Sand and Gravel $45.87
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____ day of ______ 1934.
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Physical description

Mixed packet of printed billheads with handwritten entries in ink and pencil, plus typed certification; pencil lumber bill trimmed at right edge so amounts are partly cut off; staining and small holes; notary jurat left blank and certification unsigned.

Reading notes

The nature of Project 56-C-864 is not stated (C.W.A. inferred from the Carlisle invoice notation); Handley Hardware bill is headed 12/1/1933 but its line item appears dated 'Jan 26' 1933; Roy Dobson bill is undated and its annotations (e.g., 'Mrs Oestar', 'JGS') are hard to read; lumber supplier's handwritten signature read as E. E. Lee from the typed list.