Item Number:
0073
Description:
Diary book of George W. Justice January 1-October 5, 1933, also
some notes dated 1948.
Date of Item:
1933/48
Category:
Supporting Documents
Location:
Box 11
[1]
Sunday, January 1, 1933
Fair - Sunday school - church
L D Henderson spent day with us
Marion went back to Wake
Forest in car with Albert Bech
I gave him 500 in cash to pay expenses
[2]
Monday, January 2, 1933
Co came muting - Routine only.
Spent after noon on welfare work.
Had 13 men at work at Co home
clearing land, building fence -
conveying wood to sick people
Deacons meeting called 7:30
P.M. Lewis house.-
Car mileage for the Day-
Co. home - road location & to
convey men to work morning - 8.
Co House p.m. men hither[?] 8.
total mileage - 16
16 m @ 5 = 80
[3]
Tuesday, January 3, 1933
clear - warm -
Had a busy day -
men rushed in an account
of Court week[?]
spent 730 - 10 - Court House
with co. atty - car[?] [??] later
pleasant hill 2 trips - mud
creek line - Flat Rock 21
Lowes clear creek looking
up [?] love & m__[?] 10
21
21 MI @ 5 $105
[4]
Wednesday, January 4, 1933
Fair warm -
Col. school house clearing - m
prut[?] Robinson put in [?] 2
Co. House - work to adjust
waking[?] nun[?] 8
10 mi @ 5 - 50 ct.
[5]
Thursday, January 5, 1933
Fair - Detail work welfare
Hard work -
survey John B Lewis[?] place
put out 100 an h__[?]
no mileage
[6]
Friday, January 6, 1933
Fair work for co. - hard
day - detail work
no mileage
[Note added later]
Jan 6 - 48
Did not sleep well
got up around 100 a.m.
Looked finance[?] over
made coffee -
prayed for family
Geo -
[7]
Saturday, January 7, 1933
Fair - day spent interviewing
co people - making cards - ears[?] -
taking[?] much for work - helping
on pay rolls -
more paper earnings[?]
booked[?] for work than any
other day -
visited Pleasant Hill p.m.
with prof [?] Cullers - back
at mud creek county[?] to
inspect work an eundiy[?]
came down town after sup. -
to get shine & Hair Cut -
no mileage
[8]
Sunday, January 8, 1933
Sunday school & church -
visit Rutoe[?] lawyer[?] the day -
preaching - good sermon
put in calculation[?] for
ceed[?] pledge 2.00
for current 1.65
wife put in 1.00
Four gone to Wilson Watson's
to deliver clothes for his
mother mileage 14
14 mi @ 5 ch per m .70
[9]
Monday, January 9, 1933
Fair afternoon - rain forenoon[?]
office work during day -
[illegible line]
ordered left[?] clerck
p.m. to see Ary[?] Jones 10
car furnished for Ledbetter
to go not[?] same [??] asheville[?]
nx during - Dr Brasley[?]
attending Tuesday. - 42
10 mi @ 5 ct .50 ct
[10]
Tuesday, January 10, 1933
Trip to Pleasant Hill Road - back
via mud creek ce__[?] 10
Back page for Asheville 42
By even[?] pace plunby[?] 5.00
water bill 2.42
Left have 2.30
Co. house & return with
4 work men
8
60 mi @ 5 ct $3.00
[11]
Wednesday, January 11, 1933
Rainy - cloudy - but weather
was such that many welfare
men got in the Day -
To Fletcher to see Aucheson - with
new lift - if workmen & back
by Co House 20
Lot time spent in & around
office forenoon -
Met Mr Frage[?] 2 pm
Spent one hour with him on
useful planning -
Co house after[?] men 8
spent evening at house with
family
28 mi @ 5 ct $1.40
[12]
Thursday, January 12, 1933
Fair cold -
Sent out [??] to Co House &
brought in wood 2 parties
went Flat Rock auders[?] his [??]
to look into[?] school work -
spent afternoon following
up B.B. Blythe - Horse Hoofs[?]
four[?] - John Jorce - 20
co House 8
R.K. 4
[13]
Friday, January 13, 1933
Fair & cold -
sent out Morrison with truck
load of welfare workers - 15
sent out Love with 16 more
Took 4 more to Co house 8 mi
To Hooper's creek - Calton
& Barnure's - 32
co house for return men 8
[14]
Saturday, January 14, 1933
Busy day as usual
getting men out to work
[15]
Sunday, January 15, 1933
Church - Sunday school
[16]
Monday, January 16, 1933
went to Raleigh
spent day on Road
[17]
Tuesday, January 17, 1933
at Raleigh -
called on Enlutuy[?]
went up to see Marion
at Wake Forest
[18]
Wednesday, January 18, 1933
Rushed from Raleigh
took a cold
[19]
Thursday, January 19, 1933
Fair at home sick with a cold -
wife tooth pulled - wisdom tooth -
called Dr. Haver[?] to
give morphine shot
Chris Lewis[?] came in
___oged[?] to survey monday p.m.
[20]
Friday, January 20, 1933
Fair - warm -
cold getting hold on
me -
called on - Anderson met Hene[?]
Fletcher at old So line
25 miles - @ .5 $125
[21]
Saturday, January 21, 1933
Stayed at house all day
sick - wife suffering
with [??] tooth sx[?] reaction
[22]
Sunday, January 22, 1933
At home all day -
no Sunday school - no -
Church -
wife still sick
[23]
Monday, January 23, 1933
Able to come down town
but weak -
wife better -
[24]
Tuesday, January 24, 1933
fair spent forenoon
at Pleasant Hill -
[25]
Wednesday, January 25, 1933
Rain - warm -
Flue -
Court in Session
no work -
crowds still come
looking for work
Trip to Mill River
to see about shoes with
Auller[?] - found family with 8
children - 2 needing shoes -
we helped them -
wife improving - my cold
improving slept better than
usual -
[26]
Thursday, January 26, 1933
Fair cold - windy -
Took Tom to school
at C.H. to attend duties a they cause
[27]
Friday, January 27, 1933
Friday cold & flue -
Routine work -
[28]
Saturday, January 28, 1933
cold Routine -
welfare -
[29]
Sunday, January 29, 1933
Did not go to Sunday school
Did go to church - forenoon
" not " night
went to Sun Hyder's funeral
[30]
Monday, January 30, 1933
cold -
not well
wife still sick -
welfare work to Co House
to see sick people - 8 mi
[31]
Tuesday, January 31, 1933
Fair warm -
King Burger working
in gold[?] see -
JM Jeame by
to look to me[?] -
dear[?] creek see nesbit 8
E House 2
[32]
Memoranda
Marion Justice 33 sepurse[?]
Jan 1 exp 5.00
" 17 " 10.00
" 30 " 40.00
no mileage
[33]
Wednesday, February 1, 1933
cloudy - slow mist early in the morning -
Looking for Miss Pearl
Weaver to confer with us today -
King & Burger worked in garden
Jan 31 - Clearing up -
welfare office moved into
Grand Jury room - Mrs Fruze[?]
representing Red cross - she
coming in occasionally
Thelmer c__et[?] with a desk
for Red Cross Records[?]
Mrs. Geddings with a desk
to keep cards & Records
GF Clark with a desk to
meet to applicants
and guard office wall[?]
no mileage
[34]
Thursday, February 2, 1933
morning day [?] lented[?] as
Junires[?] page should
have been on this page
[35]
Friday, February 3, 1933
clear -
at office early - boring
notes[?] for half day -
Young out at Shone's[?]
creek bird hunting without[?]
andes
[36]
Saturday, February 4, 1933
Rain - bad day -
Sent to Hooper's creek to see about
burial of Mrs. Nix - Brady - diors -
miles by car - & retrue[?] 35
Tuxedo work sheet for Love
buckly upward for 5 air[?]
meal for O.S.P - 25
Total sixty miles - 60
5
306
[37]
Sunday, February 5, 1933
Fair cold -
no Sunday school -
church -
went to Black Mt. to hear
J.M.J. - farewell s___[?]
[38]
Monday, February 6, 1933
Cloudy - a little rain.
day spent at Court House
First monday no big
acct[?] work -
[39]
Tuesday, February 7, 1933
cloudy - rain - Enguge[?] not[?]
at Saluda - Don't[?] know whether
I can fill it or not -
Coal Trips - 4 pasties[?] + 5 mi-
[40]
Wednesday, February 8, 1933
Fair - promises to be colder
Got up cooked breakfast -
came down & loaded out miner[?] -
[??] men -
Day spent around CH - wd -
f__[?] men - & workers[?]
[41]
Thursday, February 9, 1933
Day spent with Fletcher[?]
[42]
Friday, February 10, 1933
More to Come