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If t A \ / ^ Weekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches—Foremost Summer Resort, Fishing and Hunting Haven yOL. I; NO. 9 NAGS HEAD, N. C., JULY 28, 1939 ^each soft ball team downs MANTEO in 12 INNING THRILLER Head Outfit Joints Dare bounty Soft Ball League newly formed Beach soft ball j^jy 29—Wright vs. Choir VIRGINIA DARE SOFTBALL LEAGUE SCHEDULE TIME SE^EMS TO STAND STILL OVER ON HISTORIC COLLINGTON ISLAND GOERCH VISITS US 1^ ni, after losing its opening game the Lost Colony cast by a 14 tp , ^ore last Monaay, came back . ^iday afternoon and downed the "lanteo all stars, 15 to 12 in a k’elve inning thriller. Manteo started off the scoring in Second half of the first inning, and when the beach boys went to in the first of the second, the ®core was 3 to 0 against them, i^ey pi(;ked up in their hitting in dat and the following frame, how- and going into the ifourth .''ey were leading 4 to 3. The score I'fi'iped to 8 to 4 in favor of the “each boys in the fifth, and at tne of the sixth the Nags Head out- had 11 runs to Manteo’s 6. In ^eir half of the eighth Manteo ®''ored four runs, and in the last *’alf of the ninth tAey brought in another to tie the score at 11 all. I^oth teams settled down in the axtra frames, and no runs were peered in either the 10th or 11th Jnnings, although a number of men aad reached base. The 12th proved to be the most aaciting inning for the beach team followers. Lead-off man White got a single, Nicholson was called out a technicality. Sheep hit another jjagle, and Stick tripled, driving in .he two men on base. Davenport allowed with a single and before he frame was ended the beach out- jv' had scored five runs. Although ‘he Manteo boys brought their a^ore up to 13 runs in the last half the inning, Nags Head’s margin '^as more than enough to win the battle. Karris got five hits for six times hat for the beach club, to lead h« days hitting. Barnette pitched ^aven innings for Nags Head and f'aholson relieved him in the last ’’atne. Stick knocked two triples ,hda home run, and afield Basnight “ok high honors with a spectacutor Ihggle catch of a high Manteo fly. ..The Nags Head team has joined h« Dare County Soft Ball League. 30— \V right vs. Last—2 31— Wright vs. Manteo. 1— Beach vs. Manteo—2 2— Beach vs. Cast. 3— Manteo vs. Cast. 4— Choir vs. Cast. 5— Choir vs. Beach. 6— Choir vs. Wright. Beach vs. Wright 7— Manteo vs. Wright. 8 Beach vs. Manteo. 9—Beach vs. Cast. 10 Manteo vs. Choir. 11— Choir vs. Cast. 12— Wright vs. Beach 13— Wright vs. Cast 14— Manteo vs. Wright. 16- Beach vs. Choir. 16— Cast vs. Choir. 17— Manteo vs. Choir. 18 Manteo vs. Cast. 19— Beach vs. Wright. 20— Choir vs. Wright. Cast vs. Wright. 21— Manteo vs. Wright. 22— Cast vs. Beach 23— Choir vs. Beach 24— Manteo vs. Cash 2.5—Manteo vs. Choir 26— Cast vs. Wright. 27— Beach vs. Choir. Wright vs. Choir. 28— Cast vs. Beach. 29— Manteo vs. Beach. 30— Cast vs. Choir. 31— Manteo vs. Choir. Sept. 1- Manteo vs. Cast. 2— Cast vs. Beach. 3— Wright vs. Beach. MUSI N’S WEEKS DONATES BOOKS TO LIBRARY Recently published novels donat- to the Manteo public library by tp' J. C. Weeks are; “,The Tree of by Elizabeth Page, “The Uver String” by Cora Jarrett, jf'fe Thibaults” by Roger Martin ^ Card, “Whatever Love Is” by T^oert W. Chambers, and “Kay .® Left-Handed” by Leslie Bar- ,, The Vantine Diamonds” by Aus- j"' J- Small, “Silent Witnesses” by j^hn Stephen Strange, “The Doctor at Dusk” by Geoffrey Homes, Oath Walks the Post” by Vir- Hanson, “Give Me Death” by ■'bel Briggs Myers, “The Acci- Ward” by Rhoda Truax, and ^^ouse of the Daifined” by An- Rudd are 'new mystery stor- ® also contributed by Dr. Weeks, librarv has also received a '’atiib. SOUy. ei' of older books from various'! and these recent additions For some reason unknown to this writer a crowd of us went over to Edenhouse Beach last Thursday night to hear Count Milgrom and his orchestra. It rained most of the way over and all of the way back, and the 250 mile trip seemed like a cross country jaunt to those of us who don’t get away from the beaches v’ery often. It was sort of a Nags Head af fair, a great majority of the danc ers were folks who spend a good deal of their time in this section during the summer season. Billy Watts, Hubert Cook, Marvin Roberson, Hardy Rose, and John Gurganous were there from Wil- liamston; Phyllis Gatling, Lyles Gatlin, Peter Gillam, Jack Gold stein, Jane Lassiter, Sophia Thomas, and a crowd of others were present from nearby Windsor; Ann Louise Nixon was over from Elizabeth City, Jane Evans of Washington, D. C., was there, and Spec Harris, and Dick Payne of Hertford were very much in evi dence. Everybody was dressed up in his Sunday best when the affair started, but the Nags Headers gave in after an hour or so and began pulling off their shoes. It began to look like old home week, and when Tom Woodard sang “Arsenics” the folks I don’t suppose that any section of Dare County has changed so lit tle in th’o last decade, as have these two wooded island lying to the north and east of Roanoke. In fact, during the twenty odd years during which this writer has been acquainted with the territory in question, about the only noticeab'e difference is an improvement,in transportation facilities embraced ill the construction of two bridges and several short sections of as phalt road over and across what were at one time almost impassable sand areas. Named after and originally own ed by Lord Colleton, one of the original Land Proprietors, Colling- ton Island is not devoid of historic interest. In fact, if we are to be lieve Colonel William Byrd, one of the most sincere and honest his torians of his period, on the North ern shore of this very island, the second most important event in American history occurred. This the territorial acquisition of the American continent by the English in the year 1584. Here, not far from what is now known as Eagle- ton Point, according to our afore mentioned Colonial gentleman, landed the intrepid mariners, Amadas and Barlow, sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh on an expedi tion of discovery, and took posses sion of the land in the name of Queen Elizabeth. It is all told about in Colonel Byrd’s interesting book “The Story of the Dividing Line,” and veri similitude is added to his statement by contemporary and earlier his torians, and by study of maps of that and later periods. Unques tionably a bold inlet once existed at a point not far to the north of the present Kill Devil Hills, and that the at present fresh waters of Kitty Hawk Bay, were once of strong saline content, is attested to by oyster shell formation, by pres ent existing shell mounds on the northern end of Big Collington and by the physiographic formation of the lands and waters. Place Point Harbor a bit to the south of its present location, and we have a true picture of Trinity Harbor as shown by the present islands and Kitty tarei;erareT“The Gold;;;!f-m^ down this way almost shook *'^'■6’’ by James Oliver Curwood, j''Le house down. ‘Th, ® House of Darkness” by C. E. "v ■ » v„-!MID.SUMMER BUILDING i BOOM STRIKES BEACH j. “ A. Travis. “Flat Iron For Uj .^tiling” by Juliana Horatia Ew-| p5’,''Lubert Neal” by Will N. i A mid-summer building spree has struck the Nags Head, Kitty Hawk Bay, in the famous John' White map, first published by De- Brie in the fifteenth century. When i we consider the fact that this and j other early maps were prepared pretty much by guess, and without proper instruments for notating direction and distance, a deviation of a mile or so is not only quite likely, it is to be expected. In j Amadas and Barlow’s descriptions of distances travelled from Trinity Harbor to Roanoke Island, taking into consideration the deviousness of the channels, our description again, is not far off. But even aside from its historic significance, Collington Island is well worthy of a visit. At present it can be easily reached by follow ing the highway leading into the W’right Memorial around the circle, then taking the branch leading al most due West. This will carry the traveler first across Collington Creek, to Little Collington, and thence over another bridge to the larger and more important of the two islands. Here, if one leaves the main highway, and takes one of the woods roads branching into the in terior, are to be discovered as love ly woodland as can be found any where in Eastern North Carolina. The timber varies from gum and holly up to mightiest of liveoaks, cypress and pine. In season wild grapes dangle above the winding roads, and in the open, persimmon trees offer their fruit to the way farer. Passing the last habitation in Collington village, one can follow the sandy road northward almost to the shore of KRty Hawk Bay. It is well to leave the car well back from the water, however, since the sand is somewhat treacherous to the uninitiated motorist. From the beach, across a neck of the lake. Kill Devil Hills looms up in the distance. To the left are sev eral ancient Indi'”' mounds, where the Roanoke and Chowanoke tr”- - once feasted on oysters and other j sea food. Interesting articles of warfare and of peace have been uneiwthed from these mounds at timel, though re-occurring storms and tides have destroyed most of fPIease turn to Page Four) m y.:; ■ I -i- JUST flShlN’ HOW NAGS HEAD GJOT ITS NAME Carl Goerch, editor of the State magazine, and a frequent visitor | to this section in times past, flew down from Raleigh Wednesday evening, saw the Lost Colony that night, and returned by plane Thursday morning. i Mr. Goerch was the guest of Mrs. Lindsay Warren in the Dewey cot tage at Nags Head Shores, while he was here. His daughter, Miss Doris Goerch, a rising Senior in the University of North Carolina, and a regular cciumnist for “The State” has been visiting Miss Emely Warren this week. PRODUCTION MANAGER LEAVES HOT DOG STAND J. C. Scholl, who has been in charge of production at the Little Hot Dog Stand for the past month, has returned to his home in Ral eigh, from where he will journey to Jacksonville, Fla., for three w'eeks’ encampment. Bob Mills, of Burkrnk, Cal., w-ho has also been employed at the Lit tle Hot Dog stand this month, has returned to Williamston, prepara tory to a cross country jaunt to his home in California. Prosnector by | jjawk, and Kill Devil Hills beaches Cou,?., ^r®'^®“^"®ithis year, and at the present time "brav, • T^*®^‘'Ker. L e j gg^gjj j^g^^ buildings are in the pro- IS dependent upon book do- tio ^JJiHons to its collec- J.I "s and welcomes all contribu- Reid cess of construction. Already this spring a new 40- room hotel, a 1,000 foot long fish- 1 ix'xg pier, two attractive new service stations, a large rooming house, and over a dozen new cottages have been opened, and plans are even being made to begin work on - ''ln>s Evelyn Bright of Norfolk,. ^.^udings before the season is ended. Up at the northern turn of the beach highway, J. B. Anderson of Elizabeth City is building four large tourist cabins, in the space formerly occupied by the 14 room boarding house belonging to Mr. Anderson, which was completely jj . Spending a week at the James cottage at Kitty Hawk. 0 0 0 Sellers Mi sotii, 'ss Marie Sellers is spending Hnie at the Chowanoke cot- Mi Bowden Marie Sellars is spending ^ i 4.T,- time at the Chowanoke cot- destroyed by fire early this sum- ‘*8e, mer. At Kill Devil Hills Charles Baker, Frank Stick, and T. S. Meekins are all building new cottages which are expected to be ready for oc- o o o A Scoutls , .P^rty of Boy Scouts from Wp„T N. C., are spending this , - Sn, ^ the Kramer cottage on the, cupancy before the summer is over. “Ppd Side. All of the buildings now being built I are finished on the outside with the new asbestos • shingle, which Cl; Sotji, 0 0 0 White apde D. White is spending has proven so popular in beach ® time at the Harris cottage. 1 construction this year. NOTICE TO READERS OF THE SEASHORE NEWS During the month of August the Seashore News will be combined with the Dare County Times. This will give readers and advertisers a two-fold benefit, in that all of our readers will re ceive in addition to the material in the Seashore News, all of the Dare County Times; and adver tisers will be given the benefit of the circulation of the Times, which goes to other counties. Fur ther, more space, than is contained in the limited four pages of The Seashore News will be available to chronicle the doings of the beaches. This week The Seashore News will appear on Sunday, instead of Friday, the usual date of pub lication. Another season, when we shall have had time to increase the force of The Seashore News, we expect to give the beaches an even better and larger paper than this season. We are extremely grateful for the support given the News this year, and for the reader interest and compliments paid the paper. Readers on the beaches may look forward tp receiving the Seashore News ard Dare County Times combined during the month of .Auitust. Those who have subscribed to The Sea.shore News will continue to receive during the term of their subscription this season, the Dare County rimes. We want to publish news items about the beach activities at Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Devil Hills. Our Seashore News bureau .is lo cated at Nags Head, Phone 204. If you have news to be printed, or want advertising or printing, then call us at 204. If it is not convenient for you to visit the office, '.ve will have a representative call on you. We want personals, and other news items, and wish them sent in as early as possible. All must be sent in to the office by Wednesday noon. SEASHORE NEWS OFFICE TIMES PRINTING CO. Croatan Miss Carrie "Johnson and Mrs. Chrrles Smith are among the guests at the Croatan hotel. | 0 0 0 j Nags Header j ■ Miss Phyllis Owen and Mrs. Max Genet are among those registerd at the Nags Header Hotel. o o o Perry Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Long and daughter, Sylvia; and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur West are at the Martin Perry cot tage at Kitty Hawk. 0 0 0 Ea'-lie Miss Pamelia Earlie of Elizabeth City has been staving in the Grice rottage at Nags He^d. o o o Dail Tom Dail has returned to his home in FJizabeth City after spend ing his vacation at Nags Heads. * * * Sheep Harry Sheep of Elizabeth City is spending a week at Naas Head as the guest of C. B. Morrisette. * * * Armstrong Mi.'-s “Diddle” Armstrong from Elizabeth City is visiting Miss Mar garet Hanna at the Atlantic View Cottage. o o o Miller Mi.sses Marian Pender, Martha Rhodes Ward, Dot Ward, all of \Villian-..smn, spent last week on the Sound Side as the guests of Mrs. Theodore Miller. By PISCATOR How much is a marlin swordfish worth? From a practical stand point no more than a few cents pei pound, even if captured in close proximity to market; as a natural history specimen, nothing at all, and from all aesthetic standpoints he is just a big mass of blo’ody flesh, bone and hide, offering noth ing more than a problem in elimi nation after the sqacessful fisher man has exhibited him on the dock. As a trophy of the chase his value is also almost nil, for he is entirely too bulky for a mantel or wall or nament, even though his grim vis age .and generally disquieting ap pearance did not so signally fail to lend themselves to even the most! modernistic trend in interior dec oration. Put the above question to any dyed in the wool marlin fisherman however, and you will be surprised at the answer. Several years back I asked Zane Grey (who at that time, if our memory is correct, held world’s records for both tuna and stripped marlin), what he figured the cost to him in actual dollars and cents, of every marlin he had brought to boat. After some cogi tation he opined that by and large, each fish had probably set him back four or five thousand dollars. He added, however, that this did not include incidentals. Zane Grey who, besides having captured more large salt water fish than any man living, .has also written the finest books on this subject that have ever come from the press, is probably about right in his estimate. On the other hand, other deep sea anglers have computed the cost at two and three times his figure, and they also are probably right, for them. I would say that an average cost of around ten thousand dollars woul(j not be far off. We are speaking now of the blue marlin, not his smaller cousin, of course. Now what is the urge that will cause a man to spend week after week, sometimes mont.hs on end, (Please turn to Page 4) Is Traced to Brazen Looting Df Wrecked Ships Unusual as are the names of Nags Head, Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills, the names themselves are overshadowed in this regard by :he manner in which they came into being. The legends of Kill Devil Hills ■have already been printed in an earlier issue of this newspaper, and ere many weeks pass we’ll give you a story on the naming of Kitty Hawk, but today our writings deal with the way Nags Head came to get its name. Many years ago, before summer vacationists even dreamed of using this section as their favorite water ing place, there lived on the barren coastland opposite Roanoke Island an unusual group of people. Some were quiet, home loving, God fear ing, and hard working folk; others were rowdy braggarts, and drunk ards; and still others were thieves pnd outlaws, gaining a livelihood in any way they could, crooked or otherwise. The only common bond between the inhabitants of the Dare banks at that time was the fact that the gre^t majoritv of the peo ple were seaiaring folk, who had been shipwrecked on this coast. While the good peonle were at home in bed, and while the rowdy people were out c^rousfng around, a group of the thieves banded to gether and'were oftimes making preparations for big and profitable hauls. This group of robbers used tac tics comparable in audacity and boldness to those employed by mod em, racketeers. Their plan was simple, yet effective, and consisted simply of tvinp- a lantern to the neck of a hobbled horse and having one of the members of the gang lead her up and down the heaeh, with the light swinnrinsr to and fro in front of her. The=e excursions wore made onlv on ttiose "lo-iits when ships "'ere liable to drift in too close to shore, and the swinging (Please turn to Page S) ; The Sportsman's Column At the fish bowl Tuesday after noon.—The Nags Head soft ball team arrived en masse at five min utes before 2 o’clock, expecting to take to the field against the Lost Colony cast at 2 sharp. The only representatives of the Lost Colony present at that time, however, were the scorekeeper and a fella who later turned out to be the cen ter fielder. He didn’t look much like a softball player, so we paid him little mind at the time—but we’ll be forced to tell you more about him later. We had the foresight to bring our own softball, and a bit of talk soon resulted in the borrowing of a bat from some Manteo youngsters proving their contention. Pappy Davis, lead off man, hit a single, the next man filed out, catcher Bowers got on base through an error, sec ond baseman, Bailey connected for a one base hit, and Justin Tune followed suit with another bingle. Before the rally was ended three runs had crossed the plate, four errors had been made, and the Nags Head cheering delegation had lain down and gone to sleep. In the next inning interest in the game was revived when three suc cessive hits by the Beach boys re sulted in runs, and going into' the last half of the frame the score was tied.—3 all. The teams battled on even terms who were out to see the game, for an inning and a half, when Joe Slugger” Mann broke the bat the first time he hit a ball, and the team was forced to limit its prac tice to fielding and throwing for a while. Members of the beach cheering section took their seats in the cen ter of the fish bowl grandstand, and grand mogul Gilly Nicholson start ed putting down his line up Davenport hit safely and scored on an error to put the Nags Head out fit ahead, four to^ three. The cast settle’cl down at this point, promptly put out the remain ing beach batters and went to wo in their .half, of the fourth to score three markers and bniug the tally up to 6 to 4 in their favor. A p!av by play de.-cription for Led by Don Rosenberg (cap and rest of the game would be most un- all), the Lost Colony te.ai» began interesting, reading something like arriving, and e’'9 many minutes .had this—Jones hit one to the second the fio’I ’.va,s ever run with baseman who Phone 204 Nags Head Phone 44 Manteo A Wise Saying The moderation ot fortunate people comes from the calm which liood fortune gives to their tempers. -Ls Rncheto'.icauiti Memorial to a Clown Honoring Joseph Grimaldi, one of ;he greatest clowns in the Nine teenth century, a memorial tablet stands outside his former home in Pentonville, England, where he died in 1837 after spending his latter days a helpless cripple. hip UiC oU,,, ..'."I pocket. 3inL.'i who bunted one to the short stop, who apple after getting tangled up with the ' hitcher finallv lunn-jcrod r/actice Art of Hawking I’he ancient art of hawking Is practiced in Egypt among the Bedouins. Made Columbus Day Holiday Colorado was the first state in the Union to make Columbus day a legal holid.ay. The bill providing tWjc. ; O'CT',. . \pri' I .1907 Indians, colonists, soldiers, c:r' tors, and even some actors, were all tossing that old around. ! pitcher finally managed "to get the Donny Twine flipped the coin, ball to first base—but by that time then promptly left the ball park Jones was crossing the home plate and headed for Stumpy Point or and Smith was pulling into third, some such place, where he and the Let it suffice, if you will, to sav rest of the Manteo Ball Club were that the Cast managed to make le.ss scheduled to engage a hard ball errors than the Beach boys, which team from over on the mainland, point, combined with some exeel- Rosenberg. manager for the Cast, lent hitting by Messrs. Bailey and won the toss, and his team took to Tune, resulted in their scoring 8 the field. ’ more runs. The final score was 14 Clyde Marin, first man up, con- to 4 in favor of the Lost Colony, nected with orie of pitcher “Pappy” and we ask as a friind, that you Davis’ first tosses, but couldn’t teen don’t tell anybody about it. After the ball inside the foul line. Zack all, it, was our first try, and we’ll Harris and Gilly Nicholson, second be out for revenge next time, and third respectively in the hat-| Horse shoe pitching is becoming ting order, were promptly put out, ever more popular with the Nags ""d th° side retired—three up and Head, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Dev’! three down. Hills cottagers. If the interest keeps Nicholson started burning the up there’s a possibilitv a ’hn-or. c.rir,r. old pill down the groove. i"'.t the pitching tourn''m.ent ' -a- ’ ' ■ C"-*- '-oy's wp"" of the mind that conhinction "•’‘■h '''.o —— ■ -■ i “'■rip Vi"’-''.p" tPpv come the harder celebration which is schf'''''’arl * i they go” and they soon got down to come off August 18, 19, rnc 19.
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