Trish, I believe the Joyner Library at ECU would like to have those ledgers for their Eastern Carolina collection. If they were at Joyner, they would be available to all. Jo Prytherch

Martha, Jo, Laymond and others, Thanks to everyone for the suggestions on what to do with the ledgers. I will contact Martha Elmore at Joyner to find out what she thnks. That might be the best place, if they will take them. The books are dirty and dusty and will need some sort of cleaning. If anyone would know how to go about this, I would think it would be someone at Joyner. My father had already contacted someone from Winterville Historical to see if they want to look at the books. We will let them look, but I don't think they have the storage facility and I know the books would not be easily accessible there. I don't know whether Sheppard wants to deal with big bulky dirty books, but will certainly give them a chance if ECU doesn't want them. Meanwhile, we will keep them here to give local folks a chance to go through them & make copies of pages of interest. In addition to the 1918 ledger, there is: A 1937 ledger which contains invoices from all the suppliers. Some of these are very interesting, especially with the old letterheads. With the Ange store being the main general store in Winterville, one gets an idea from these invoices as to the types of consumer products being bought & sold at that time. There were other stores in Winterville then, mainly grocers, but Ange had the most variety & probably the only hardware. Plus, A. W. Ange was connected with the Bank of Winterville. There are a couple from the 1940s. The others from 1968, 69, 84, etc. I think the store was closed in 1992. Trish