Note on the post on or about the 11th.. 2 days before and after the full moon. watch out...
Granny I mostly misspelled it .. its “Dugaloo” or Doogaloo ,it was coin scrip ..
may be regional to the smoky mtns..
reference from ghost town tremont ,tenn
” Tremont became a lumber mill town in 1927 about the time that Elkmont was closing down. Logs were passed through town on RR from Lynn Camp Prong and Thunderhead Prong. At one time there was a school, church, and theatre (in the same building), Post Office/General Store, Machine shop for the locomotives, Dr. Bruce Montgomery’s Doctors Office, several homes and a Hotel. The Hotel was promoted, after the demise of the town, as a Resort Hotel. The General Store was like many company stores dealing mainly in company scrip called “dugaloo” or “doogaloo”. When the timber ran out so did the town. The National Park Service bought out the area in the 30’s.”
and from NC :
“ At the Commissary the employees could buy soap, brooms, kerosene, matches, Velvet brand smoking tobacco and pipes for smoking, candy, school supplies such as pencils and tablets, fabric, thread, buttons, bib overalls, socks, shoe laces, and dry goods, canned food items such as dried beans and salt pork, flour, corn meal, fresh produce, hardware and other necessaries for the logger and his family. The loggers could charge such items against their wages by using a line of credit called a “scrip”, sometimes called a dugaloo or doogaloo. The charges were taken directly out of the workers pay checks.”
what is unnerving is do a scroogle for scrip or scrip great depression and there is a lot of activity...barter/scrip is actually starting again by the way I read it... seriously going to double my efforts..
what is unnerving is do a scroogle for scrip or scrip great depression and there is a lot of activity...barter/scrip is actually starting again by the way I read it... seriously going to double my efforts..<<<
A couple of the barter for script started about 20 years ago, I remember sending for information on them.
There was a problem, IRS wants paid on barter too.
There were still company stores at some of the mining companies here in Arizona, 30 years ago, bill applied for a job in one of them near Prescott, AZ the day that we came on up here to Kingman, as we had not been here before and he fell in love with the town.
If it is the full moon that would explain it, for folks do strange things then.
With no gold to back our money supply, the money you have in your wallet, is little more than scrip.
History is fun and important to read, for it keeps repeating itself, they say there is nothing new, it has all been done before.