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General store day books, 1928-1937
Manuscript Collection 708
INFORMATION ABOUT THE GENTRY STORE
The ledgers were found by Mrs. Serritslev in the Elberta Hotel, Gentry, shortly before the hotel was demolished in 1982. Although there is no identification on the day ledgers, they are most likely the records of the general store, furniture store, and undertaking establishment of Ray and Roy Carpenter.
The Carpenter brothers, Ray and Roy, took over the retail grocery of
their father, I. W. Carpenter, in 1909. They built up the grocery
business, added a furniture line, and in 1929 moved into a new building.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Day books from an unidentified general store in Gentry, Arkansas, were donated to Special Collections by Mrs. Paul Serritslev, Yountville, California, through David Haberstich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., in March, 1985.
The day books originally had paper clips and pins placed to mark pages
or to attach tapes from an adding machine showing totals of the entries
from each page or each division. For better preser-
vation of the day books, the adding machine tapes were removed to folder
6, and marked to indicate the volume and page number where they were originally
attached. The marks are enclosed in brack-
ets; the first number is the volume number, the second the page number
(e.g., [4-36] means volume 4, page 36).
Prepared by Nan Lawler, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in August 1987.
CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (5 volumes)
Box 1
1. Day book, 1928. Inventory of groceries, furniture, undertaking supplies. "Cash" for December 1928. "Expense Account" for January 6 - December 31, 1928. Pages loose; pages 31-170 missing.
2. Day book, 1934. Inventory. "Merchandise Bought for Sale" for January 1 - December 31, 1934. "Cash" for January - December, 1934. "Expense Account" for January 1 - December 31, 1934. Rents for June - December, 1934.
3. Day book, 1935. Inventories of furniture, groceries and merchandise, and fixtures. "Merchandise Bought for Sale" for January 1 - December 31, 1935. "Cash" for January - December, 1935. "Expense Account, Labor" for January 2 - December 28, 1935. "Expense: Lights, Water, Phone, Wood, Washing" for January 5 - December 31, 1935. "Freight & Dray" for January 5 - September 19, 1935. "Advertising" for January 1 - December 12, 1935. "Ice" for May 22 - October 2, 1935. "Car Repair, Gas & Oil" for January 2 - December 20, 1935. "Misc." for February 1 - December 23, 1935. "Sales Tax" for July 1 - December 31, 1935. Rents for January - December, 1935.
4. Day book, 1936. Inventories of furniture, groceries,
and fixtures. "Merchandise Bought for Sale" for January 1 - December
30, 1936. "Cash" for January 1 - December 31, 1936. "Labor" for January
4- December 31, 1936. "Lights, Water, Phone, Wood, Washing" for January
3 - December 31, 1936. "Misc." for January 1 - December 31, 1936.
"Advertising" for January 2 - December 1, 1936. "Ice"
for April 17 - October 20, 1936. "Sales Tax" for January 1 -
December 31, 1936. Rents for January-
December, 1936.
5. Day book, 1937. Inventory of furniture. "Advertising"
for January 2 - November 30, 1937. "Lights, Wood, Water, Phone, Washing"
for January 6 -December 28, 1937. "Misc." for January 1 - December
29, 1937. "Sales Tax" for January 1 - December 31, 1937. Rents
for January, 1937 -
January, 1938. Pages loose, most missing, remainder not in numerical
order.
6. Adding machine tapes removed from day books.