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V i.iv- m. Pam. Six- The Dave Co‘i>.ifi.[ Tir,iee, Manteo, N. C. GJi- -M mt 'M-" W^--. IS r@RT'iniELY RERRESENTED IN CONGRESS AN ABLE AND LOYAL FHday, A'pril 2, 19S7 TYRRELL COUNTY t'ODNTV SEAT Pormeii in 1728. c o'.( Mm\ Ifuige"Credit for Achievement and Progrcsfi / of This Section Due Hon. Lindsay C. { Warren, Representative in Congress for ^ the FirH North Carolina District Our Representative 1^- aw- w- I.- F' 0 0>‘\ :k-- r I i-fe '1- Hf,. i4 !=»■&. ■ ,- Tlio outstnnding man in the 'public life of this Soutliern Albe marle^’ section of Nortli Carolina • is'Hon Lindsay C. Warren, Repre sentative in Congress, than which no man has worked harder or ac- complislicd more than he. Mr. Warren, .back In 1924, got elected • to Congres.s. As a young man Ire had dislfhguislied liimself early in tlie fleld-of pllitlcs, had been Rep resentative and State Senator and had qiiickly gahied a place In the party icounciis Having a natural live ^r this section and having spentia great many vacation seas- ons at our seashore, he soon recog- ;,nlze’d|the need of the people of this section and accepted the challmge that their isolation held out to him. Since then he has been instru mental in obtaining legislation of value ito this section and has ob tained for this section many gi gantic; improvements. It was greatly through the efforts of Mr Warren that ho brouglit to the Columbia-Creswell section of Tyr rell and Washington counties, unc of the largest resettlement pro jects in the nation Here a real HON LINDSAY C WARRSN. undertaking is being carried out in Representative in Congress for order tto enable many farmers to I the First District of North Caro- roturii to the land, and land has I Una is not only a powerful polit- been ,accepted for purchase a-' ical figure in North Carolina. bu„ mounting to $300,000. which is to {an able representative in the luii.u be reconveyed to worthy settlers of Congress Something of his who wish to continue farming and work in behalf of tlie diswu dui - .Named in Honor cf Sir .lolin Tyrrell. O/u- i-f the Lords Proririelor.s County Officers Clerk of Superior Court ..George W Joiif.s. Culiimbu Register of Deeds Miss Snra I.. Taft C'Diitmbia Sheriff . Joseph E Reynolds. Colueibi.'i Treasurer Branch Banking & Trust Co.. PIviiioutli Auditor .M. A Davenport C’uluiiibin Coroner Dr J C RloCleese. Columbia Board of Elections. J. Ernest Norris, chairman, Columbia J. G. Brlckhouse. Columbia. Route 2 P. E. Cohoon. Columbia Supt. of Health Dr. S C. Chaplin Columbia County Farm Agent H. H. Harre;. Columbia Supt. of Schools R. H. Bachman. Columbia Supt. of Welfare R. H. Bachman Columbia County Commissioners; W S Sykes, chairman. Columbia, Route 2 H. T Davenport. Columbia Luther Davenport, Columbia. Route 1 Judge Recorder’s Court W. C Ale.xander, Columbia Prosecuting .Attorney S. S. Woodley. Columbia Board of Education: C Earl Cohoon, Columbia R. S Knight. Jr.. Columbia C P Kemp, Columbia, Route 3 fj I coastland of the Southern Albe- mar e country wil prove of inesti- mab.e value through the advan tage i in attracting people to and through this region. Pc’’ the Wright Memorial, where man first flew represents a cost of a half a mi .lon c 'liars spent by the Ped- eial Government in doing honor to t! e dauntless achievement of WUb ir .".nd Orville Wright His district was greatly alariii- ed last summer when a rumor came out that he was being con sidered for tile post of romptrol- lor General of the United States, and a wave of protest—in person, by letter and telegram -rolled in to M Warren, urging him not to accept if it should be offered liim. His response in the face .--f tli.-, earnest of the people’s love and ano' a? sound aneJ ds solid rodr.y ns -t was lone before the county of Wadiingtiiii was formed Jo.ii.tli t’ollui.':. u ae.iltli.v and liifluential citizen m hi.s day, Imd 25.U00 acres in his estate more Limn 1,000 of wiiich wore cleared by slave labor and under culti vation His lai'ge and comfort able house was built of Imiid- liewii timboi's cut from the wood- iaiids on hi.s estate, erected on a foiindal'lon of sniall but substan tial brick bro’.udit from Eiigli.nd in the holds of sailing vrcscls. In tlie liouse are liuge flreifiaces witli Iieui’tlistones and mantles of gray- isli-btuo marble, light, airy higli- ecillngcd rooms, windows tlial remli from floo’’ to ceiling and gnieeful stairways leading fryiu til- spacious lialhv.ay to the second story Outside wide upiier and lower porches coiiiiuund an egcel- lent view of tiie countryside for miles around. ’’Somerset Plnntaiicin." like tlio otlicrs nearby, was practically self-supporting in the old days. Rice, cotton, corn, potalce:., flax, .. , catiic. hogs and lowl were pro- fiom neaiby forests almost as dueed on its acres witn greatest threo duarlers abunuauce S'avcs tilled the fer- i " ! *.ile soil and the forests that cn- I Overlooking llic bcauiiful waters | clo.sed tlie wide fields abounded in of tile lake St/iiieisel ’ tlie state-1 a variety of native gf-.me ) ly Colonial man.'-ion of J,,.>iah Col- | Tiie master of the great house plant-.’i and eountiy gci,- j lived Ills days m a leisure such as never ag.am will be known in this mAmm Brood Over hi^kni Places I’'(»ur \Vi'Mhi,i'lo-i County IMaiilulM.n.s Well Wot’lli Visilinji Pour interestir.g old plantations about wlilcli .11 mo of tlie grandeur of olde: tiiue.i still lingers aie j located over u, Wasliinglon eouui y [seven niilco .-iuutli of tlie town of rrc.swcll. Tliev have intriguing names ■ Ma,.niuin "Soiiie..>et." and "Bonorva a:l wortli a trip out to Lake Rbcliis. once known as Lake oeuppei nong to see Eaeli contains a tliousand or more acres of land wliie.- were under culti vation many y, ar.-. befuie Uie War ' BeUveoii tlie otutes and tnree of j '\.he old man.sious ur manor houses I arc still slaiid'iig today, their I sturdy, liand-lieaii limbers cut sound as tluy were of a century ago Magrtol:?. FlantaMdri," ireaAy, Is another stn’ely old countrv place which was once the proud seat of Brigadier General J. J. Pettigrew who gave his life to the cause of the Confederacy, dying gloriously in battle with General Leu at Gettysburg. His body lies I under one of the great heavy .'slabs of bluish-gray marble in the old Pettigrew Ceiiietcry, 70 by 100 feel and well kept up even today. About these old plantations lin gers a charm of other clays when the swashbuckling pioneers who subdued those forests hundreds of years ago lived quiet and secluded lives ill the midst of some of the most beautiful countryside North Carolina affords. .A trip to Lake Phclp.s and the .sites of these famous old country seats is well wortli the time and iiouble. I WITHOUT a fire chief, police judge, alderman and ju.stlce of tlie lioace for tl.ree days recently v/as Savannah, N. Y.. because M. J. Colvi.,, tiro village butclier, was liome in bed with a bad cold. Col vin holds all four positions. THIS COijp3«BIA STOfiE T - . KEEFS ABREAST- TBVIES One of the largest and most moflern department stores in the entire Southern Albemarle and one vttWch would do credit to a town" twice the size of Columbia, Is' White’s Department Store, an up- toitlv'-minute store In ihe latest' styles'for all the family. White’s Department Store is a credit to' ■ CoJ^umbla’s Main Street, as effl- cleTirand smart little clothing es- tablislunent os one con find any where. A BRIDEGROOM for the first tUipp.-at the age of 90 years is A. J. Abbott, a Civil War veteran living at Willow Springs, Missouri, who recently took as his bride Miss Agues Galley, aggd GO. A.«-EROPOSED $3,000,000 state fupijl, from which newly-wed couples could borrow up to $1,500 with which to begin housekeeping would be created if a bill Intro-x dUMd-" by Representative Gus Kaiscli were to pass the Ohio State Legislature. s> , liiis, a tlcman of note many years ago, was once Ine M'at of a magnifi cent coanirv estiUc and is today one ot the sliowplaccs of all Washington Countv sec lion, wanting for little that . could not be liad from lii;: liroad acres or killed witli his flint-lock musket tlie.t hung in the great ' iiallway Tlie waters of tlie near- ^ Ai.I Old Fort Raleigh, in ful- affection could only mean that he Approaching ”Somcisct" one, _ sees the immense old barn four teemed with small fishes -lories high, built on a partial -sporting nature and liero the brick foundation :',s beams and; '’f *be plantation whiled timbers of solid hand-liewn ouk j “''■'’J' many an liour after the way i fitted togetlier with wooden pegs,°^ Isaac Waiion. ' live close 'n tiie soil ."Vlr Warren has bjcen very active in securing improvements to tlie Scuppernong River,, an Important waterway running tlirough Tyrrell county, and cin which tlie town of Col umbia is located llytlc County Improvements One of the largest imprveoments obtained for Hyde county was a bridgej costing $90,000. connecting TyrreU and Hyde countites near Fairfield, across the inland water way After many attempts Mr ing tlie past ten years lo.d else where in this paper but it doesn t represent the half of his laboiw There arc thousands of personal things he has given attention to He Is a man of great loyalty to his friends, his state and his admin- i-stration His advices is valued high in the councils of the Demo cratic patty, and his friendship is prized by thousands threughtout his district He visr.s m the coast section and l...s bio-..gln many di-otlngulshed visiiors to tlie iillniem of a dream of a small tlicugli tireless group of local peo ple over a peiiod of many years, has at last, and largely through t.ic efforts of this able Congress man been recognized an drestor- f ! as It might have been 350 years .igo As a result of this restora- t on the Nation will be invited this sanimer to visit Port Raleigh and live over the matchless stoiy of the Lost Colony. Mr. Warren is one of our kind of people. He can meet the humblest or the great men of the j country, o rwear frayed trousers in tlie fields of the hublest farm er Tliere are none but who feel must promise them to remain in their service However proud of the honor suggested and how grateful in knowing that he liad won for himself so high a place in the esteem of the administra tion it would have been consider ed an irreparable loss to Ills dis trict had he accepted Warren was successful in passing .seashoie here, among them last through Congress a bid to author-1 year being Hon John N Garner, pie of the Coastland counties. Ize this bridge, which is an Im-! Vice President of the United particularly, cal Ihim the ablest - pprta4t link between the. county 1 States. i Congressman to ever represent the seats of Tyn-ell and Hyde.'’ He has I First District of North Carolina. also obtained a large Biological! up to date ' I'as ke been opposed in the survey camp in Hyde County and ' Fathered The Wright Memorial I Primaries of his party, and he has two great migratory bird refugees I it was the work of Mr Warren ki every instances been elected by have been established, not the • that caused the Federal Govern- tke most astounding majorities. least Of these being the beautiful to become InSed urUie ana i ’nous Mattamuskeet Lake, great damage clone by winds and where one today may see numer- tides in the erosion of the beaches, i bedeck.ng its placid j and from that effort liave come ' wate''S, ' jQ Dare County more than 1.000 ■ Among the other th.ng.- of great men employed in build ng sand value Obt-.ined for Hyde County' fences and otm r work to ha.t the was his .succes.sful effort m ob- ,avages of Nature W!-. u he fust taming ifundc for construction of w’ent to Conei-e».s f''vv people a bridge acro.ss the inland water-■ t-.aidlv knew cmpai'..tii^ly speak way over Wi.kinson Creek Mr , ir.g. that there was such a thing ' Warren also labored activTfy in {,ts a Coast Guard Now the I obtamu|g the paving of the higli- j county knows raueli about it and wnj’ from .Sv.-r.n Quarter to Engel- ; reliance is placed upon Mr War- hard, knd In furtherance of .Ills ren’s judgment :n matters affect- great project which will eventual- mg tlie men of ihe ly connect with Manteo, Mr War-1 r . . p ren Inis' been active in behalf of' the road from Stumpy Point to Mann.s; ^arbor now more tlian half constructed Of further in terest. wa.s anollier road project OFFICERS recently found $42,0001 in cash tucked away in bureau! drawers, tin cans and under bun dles or rags in the three-room shack in Spokane. Wash., in wliicli Mrs. Anna Mille- age 1 recluse, was slowly dying from cold and at ease in his presence find a re- i kunger cepiivc air and rympathetic un- | derstanding of our problems, and i ■AS has so ften been said, the peo- l PROPOS/'XS of ma’riage. re quests for photographs, outline.' of cures and notes of symp-thy con tinue to pour in at Oak Park. Ill., near Chicago, where pretty Pa tricia Maguire has Jain for over , five years in a strange coma or "sleeping disease ’ vvhicli has baf fled medical .science. S'l’.,( c not lea.'t ’wo gicat prcjecLs which may oc :ai.(fl u.- ' crowning achieven’cnt.s f Mr i Warren s career from a .stand- I point of tourist intcre.v’ and No tional appeal, are ti-e Wright Aviation Memorial at Kul Devil Hill an dihe restoratirai : i Old Foil Raicigli on Hoan'/kr 1- ,.r.d Destiny placed tiics- ... .nto the territory now known a' Dare j County but the.'e thing.' are too „ , , ‘big to belong to a smglc county Several years ago he got through . and are really shrines of the state imiirovement of Shaliowbag and nation Tlie'r Ic.cati.in t. the which ,, through Commi.'c.ioner Frank G Kuglcr was obtained by Mr. 'Wm-ren. namely the road along the beacli of Dorp County which ^llas played a wonderful part in ,the county's de-veiopment Waterways Improvemenis the improvement of Bay in*Manteo liarbor. and he ob talned 'a recently completed im- provem'eVit of Rolllnson Channel at Hatteras at a cost ot $27,000 i f Not the’lea.st of ids value to Dare County has been his con.stant ad- vertisirig of the country and his bringing, here from time to time some of'the men mo.st prominent and distinguished in tlie affairs of the nation Of interest to sport.s- mne wak his flglit in Congress to secure passage of a bill tc restore locks in Albemarle and Chesa peake Canals at a cost of a half a million dollars, and which it is believe^, by holding back the salt water o5 Hampton Roads, has sav ed fislilflg and liuntin gto a large extent lui Currituck Sound, and will aidiin the restoration of the grasses^pn which ducks feed. Mr. Warren has been called "The Guardian Angel of the Coast Guard.” because of his zeal in looking after the Interests of the meii of this service, and as a result of his long labors in their belialf Jsfnd his knowledge of the men and their situation, he was ‘ made Gliairman of a Sub-Com mittee j^ndllng legislation affect ing the Coast Guard. Lighthouse and edijst and Geodetic Survey. In marist Instances he has brought to the J attention of the depart ment n^n deserving promotion, and now he is working to increase the sui&nance allowance of en listed men to $.' 00 a day. His eforls Ippear to have a reason able clii^ce of success by July 1. In lifit with his constant cn- deavo $4jJ behalf o filie Coast Gurad utations, as wlel as Im- ' jirovem^pts to many others that have b«9n remodeled and brought We Are Among Columbia’s Biggest Boosters Of the Entire Southern Albemarle Territory “The Garden Spot of North Carolina’r Columbia Co. Phone 29 Columbia, N. C. ‘'Where QUALITY Counts” DRUGS — SUNDRIES Rendering A Useful and Humaue SERVICE TO THE People of Tyrrell Columbia may now boast of a hos pital service equal to tiiat found in large cities throughout the United States. Modernly equipped in every respect, recently remodeled and en larged to take care of many more bed patients. Competent Graduate Nursing Service Columbia Hospital Vs' Owned and Operated by DR. S. C. CHAPLIN Columbia, N. C. The Best Place" (k Tyrrell County to Buy Juniper Shingles h «-■ and' Boat Lumber Enterprise Lumber Co. COLUMBIA, N. C. l! TRAVEL BY TPIE FERRIES (^Djwsnjuud J/dpA ovuh (UUqjaloh Rwnh and ^Jioaian Sojumf You’ll Save Feel Better When You TIME, TIRES, GAS Snv£ 60 mUsA \dhwinq; am mw AMnnhi^ People of DARE, WASHINGTON and TYRRELL FERRY SCHEDULE Leaving Roanoke Island for Manns Harbor 7, 9 ajn.; 12:30, 3 and 5 pjn. Leaving Manns Harbor for Roa noke Island: 7:30, 9:30 a.m. and 2, 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. Fare $1 each way: passengers 25c. ’ Leaving East Lake for Fort Land ing: 8:30 ajn., 2 and 4:30 pjn. Leaving Fort I.anding for East Lake: 7:30 amt., 12 m. and 3:30 pun.; Fare $i.25; passengers 25c. Extra Trips After July 1 ROANOKE FErIy COMPANY T. A. Baum. Mgr.^ Manteo, N. C. t| > V ' r »* • f ) r II I« t« »I « 9 f 1 - t 9 t * 9 9 I i I t ■ . » a $ 4 I 9 i 9 « k i 9 i t* « « 4 e R « a \ &• a I i $ P Within The Next Few Months Our Ferries vw Often Serve the People of Hyde County and mes r'f. t. Stumpy Point
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