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THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland-
-Devoted to the Counties of Currituck, Dare, Tyrrell and H\de
VOLUME III, NO. 153
MANTEO, N, C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1933
Single Copy, 5c
Bauin*s Decision To
Take State*s Offer
Finds High Approval
Ferry Fare Roanoke Island to Manns Harbor
to Be Reduced From $1 to 50 cents; From
East Lake to Fort Landing Cut From $1.25
to 75 cents’ Passengers only 10 cents; Sub
sidy Increased
JUDGE BURGWYN
SCORNS PUBLIC
DANCING PLACES
Considers Roadside Public
Dance Halls Dens of in>
quity; Parents Re
sponsible
Wide approval has been express
ed over the announcement of Capt.
T. A. Baum owner of the Roanoke
Ferry Company, to accept the
state’s offer of an increase in sub
sidy, and to cut the ferry fares in
half on Cretan sound, and to cut
IKtssenger fares more than half,
while the Alligator River ferry
fare is cut from $1.25 per car to
*75 cents.
The new rate between Roanoke
Island and Manns Harbor will be
60 cents per car each way.
The state in making Capt. Baum
the offer a few days ago,- refused
however to grant any subsidy for
a much needed extra boat between
Manteo and Manns Harbor during
July and August. The extra ser
vice is considered highly necessary
.because of the great increase in
traffic during these months.
The State had promised to ne
gotiate lower rates over the Ore
gon Inlet ferry, but did not take
up the matter at this time, but it
is believed this too will be done
prior to June 15th, in order that
all new rates may become effec
tive together, July 1.
The Commissioners of Dare Co
unty this week will join the South
ern Albemarle Association in a re
quest for the extra boat during
July and August. With the road
'now complete connecting Hyde
County with Dare, it is difficult
to imagine just how much greater
the traffic will be this year.
ALPH DRINK\NATER IS
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
AtPHEUS W. DRINKWATER.
popular telegraph operator at Slan-
tuo for more than 40 years return
ed recently from Highsmith Hos
pital, Fayetteville, where he got
looked over and certified fit for
duty foiling a serious illness at his
home in Manteo. Mr. Drinkwater
is shoNs-n sitting at his telegraph
key about as he looked when he
sent out n-aws of the first airplane
In the midst of a masterful
charge to the Grand Jury at tho
opening of court Tuesday, Judg.;
W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland,
paid his respects in no polite
terms to public danoa halls, when
he told the Jury that the parents
were responsible for the growth of
thesa place, and unless they kept
a firm hold on their daughters, of
ficers could not be expected to dc
much to curb them.
“In these plaoas,” said the
Judge, “the most disreputable
man in your county, can take the
commonest sort of woman, and
by paying a dollar admission, can
enter and danca cheek to cheek be
side people who would throw
them out on their ear, if they
can to the front doors of their
homes. They also have a prac
tice known as cutting in,’’ said
the Judge', “and if such a man de
sired to cut in and dance with
your daughter, he can raise a
scene if ha is refused.’’
The Judge continued with a
summary of other nuisances that
should be combatted for the social
health of the community.
HAS CONE FAR SINCE
HE LEFT HOME TOWN
MacNEILL’S MOTHER DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Ben Dixon MasNeill left Tliurs-
day to attend the funeral of his
mother in Cumberland County to
day. She was Flora MacKinnon
MacNeill,  age 79, widow of the
late Angus Benjamin MasNeill who
died seven years' ago, and a
daughter of Col. Murdock Mac
Kinnon. For a year and a half
she had suffered with cancerous
affliction about the %ice, and in
addition to this infirmity, suffered
a broken arm, and collar bone
during,, the winTer. ,
W. BEN GOODWIN of Elizabeth
City has done pretty well for him
self since he left Manteo, his boy
hood home and established himself
in Elizabeth City, where is to be
found in charge of the new and
spacious Albemarle Building &
Loan offices. As th4 active mana
ger of this business since it was
foundel, he has seen it g-xiw into
a huge organization and loan m..ny
thousands to folks at Manteo to
build homes. He has also held the
offices of State Treasurer of the
Improved Order of Riad Men for
RHYNE FELONY
CHARGE LOST IN
GRAND JURY
Spruill Cirl Didn’t Testify
Unfavorably Against For
mer Teacher
many years, hA been honored byr
the National organization and ini
Elizabeth City,'built up the state’s!
largest and richest Hodge of BadI because his
Men. He is a viator, often seen in ' “
Carrying her pretty little two
months old baby boy, which she
has named J. Lamar Junior, Annin
Spruill, back fram a home for un
derprivileged girles in Greensboro,
failed to bear severe witness
against J. Lamar Rhyne of Bre
vard this week before the Grand
Jury, and the Grand Jury failed to
hnd a true bill in an indictment
charging him svith prescribing for
the girl, and aiding her in an at
tempted abortion.
Changing her original story,
this week, the girl said Rhyne
brought her the medicine for la
grippe or some minor ailment. The
case was not hard pressed.
In the meantime a bastardly
case is pending against Rhyne on
a warrant sworn out by the girl’s
m-other, Mrs. Bertha M. Spruill.
Rhyna is charged with seducing
the little girl, just out of an or
phans home in Pasquotank County
last year, while she was living in
his home at Kitty Hawk where he
taught school.
The case was set before Judge
Baum in Reoarder’s court Monday,
but defense counsel, D. L. Russell
pulled a surprise befona the court,
when he read an affidavit that
Pulp Mills Begin To
Scare Fishermen On
Roanoke and Chowan
Offensive Waste From Huge Plants Said to Be
Destructive of Fish; Coleraine Fishermen
Alarmed Over Scarcitj" of Herring This
Season
BANK OF MANTEO HAS
A CAPABLE MANAGER
. ! flight in 1903.
The people are well plewed with 1
time by the Highway Commission \many leaders in dAre
and also feel very good tov/.ird
Capt. Baum for his ready coopera
tion. It took the enterprise and
grit of Capt. Baum to stick to the
ferries through thick and thin until
.he developed a need for road.s in
this section.
SUNDAY MAIL
ASSURES DARE
GOING TO THE BAT IN
SATURDAYS PRIMARY
Dare County.
The successfully operated Albe
marle Building '^ Loan Associa-
tioi. of Elizabeth Sity. which has
loand out somethiog like $3G,000
in Dare Coun’tj^'during the past
year, shows an"fincrease in re-
souress of a lilte sum, accor^ng
to a recent/ rep^ of the Building
& Loan Leagnie.? W. Ben Goodwin,
formerly of Manteo Is Secretary-
Treasurer, and ' t.’io Association’s
assets are a half .tnillion dolars.
LEGtJM BRINGS
BIG FURNITURE
STOCK TO TOWN
ELECTIONS IN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTHERN ALBE
MARLE EXPECTED TO BE COMPARATIVELY QUIET.
BUT THE JUDGE’S RACE WILL BE A WARM ONE.
Hujcs Display of Furniture
Now Being Shown in the
W. F. Baum Brick
Store
24-HR. PICK-UP pgyy, local contests in dare.
■wife, whom he desired as a witness,
was required at home, where two
of his four children are ill witli
measles.
The grl had previously told of
ficers that she fell in love •with
■him and became the mother of his
baby, and that Rhype promised to
take her to Norfolk, and obtain
an abortion, but left and failed to
advise her further.
"Ernest Scarborough colored, was
fined $50 for drunken-driving, as
well as indecent exposure when
found guilty* in recorder’s court
WILLIS R. PEARCE came to
Manteo to take ov’er the Cashier’s
post of the Bank of Manteo, at a
time when drastic changes were
being made everywhere in Bank
ing rules and regulations. Some
months before, R. Bruce Etheridge,
around whose personality th'e Bank
of Manteo had grown into a suc
cessful and popular institution in
a quarter of a century of useful
ser\’ice to the people of Dare
County, had left to take up the
post of Director of the State De
partment of Conservation and Der
(Please turn, to "page five)
12 MEN FIND NEGRO
GUILTY; 12 OTHERS
SET WHITE MAN FREE
‘I’M GLAD 1 DON’T OWN ANY POUND NETS IN DARE
Mail To Leave Manteo in Af-,
ternoon, and Will Come m i
Before Night
An additional mail schedule into
Manteo on Sundays will give all
points in D.are County a 24-hour j
speed up, beginning June lo, it I
w^ stated this week by C. R.
Evans, Postmaster, wlio was visit
ed by W. T. Culpepper of the
Elizabeth City postoffice, and A.'
U/. Bowers, Chief Railway Mail
Dispatcher of Richmond. \
Alail arriving into Manteo at
4:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon will
go to points in the county Mon-1
day morning, or 24 hours earlier,
than if there were no Sunday i
mail. I
Secretary D, B. Fearing of th-s.
Chamber of Commerce, said he had;
been cooperating whole-heartedly'
with Sostmaster Evans in behalf^
of this new route, and has been
• uled in his efforts by Representa
tive Roy L. Davis.
Out-going mail will leave Man
teo at 3:15 on Sunday afternoons.
While there are few local con
tests in Dare County, in Satur
days primary, there will be a
strong fight over tiie judgeship
and a vigorous camppaign on be
half of several candidates for
County Commissioner. For tlie
past two 01 ihrte days, much cam
paigning .has been going on. And
the few hours left before the pri
mary, will see much activity.
Dare County will go strong for
Stanley Winborne for Utilities
Commi.ssioner. He is a First Dis
trict man, "and popular here. Bob
Reynolds will carry the county
strong for U. S. Senator, over
Frank Hancock".
The county will be badly split
on the vote for District Solicitor.
AH candidates are popular here.
UNITED FOR FIRST TIME i
IN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
The old home place of J. C.
Peterson at Nags Head was the
scene of a family reunion tba first
Sunday in blay, when four sisters ,
and one brother gathered together;
for the first time i 25 years. The j
home is now occupied by Mrs. Ida
Midgett, who had as her gpiests on
that day the follow-'ng brother and
sisters: J. B. Peterson of Manteo,
Mrs. Annie Martin of Chincotea-
gue, Va., Mrs. Mamie Martin of
Ooaan City, Md., And Mrs. Maud
Melson of Manteo. I
JOHN GASKILL .MARRIED >
John Gaskill, 21, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Gaskill of wanchese,
•who is a fireman first class in the
Navy, recently took to wife Miss
■Dorothy Maderson of Oregon. i
Its a toss up. For State Senate,
this entire region will be almost
unanimous for D. B. Fearing and
Wm. Rodman of Washington. Mrs.
J. J. Purdy of Pamlico County,
the third candidate being practic
ally unknown.
olajo'r Offices Not Contested
No opposition appears in the De
mocratic primary this year to
Register of Ddetls Melvin R, Dai.-
iels, Sheriff D. V. hleekins, Clerk
of the Court C. S, Meekins, Re
corder’s Judge W. F. Baum, Cor
oner Slanin Rogers, County Sur
veyor Jack Neilson, nor for th-J
two place to be filled on the Board
of Education, held by Cahin Pay
ne of Stumpy Point and Edward
Baum of Kitty Hawk, nor to Com
missioner John A. ileekins, rep
resenting the South Banks. The
names of these incumbents
not appear on the ticket in
primarj- June '4th.
Were it not for a contest for
P.epresentative and an excess of
candidates for County Commis
sioner there would be no Democra
tic primary in the county this
year.
C. C. Duvall, of Buffalo City,
Capt. Thos. A. Baum of
the' Roanoke Ferry Company,
will
the
and John E. Fereboe of
the Manteo Bottling Com
pany had filed for Commissioner,
and also AlpTi Hooper well known
Sumpy Point 'man. |
In addition, the following in-;
cumbents of the office of County;
Commissioner stand for re-j
nomination: A. J. Daniels of Wau-
chese and W. E. Rogers of Duck.
Chairman D. B. Fearing and Carl
D. Mann of Manns Harbor did not
file for re-omination. Mr. Fear
ing has filed for State Senator
from the second district.
With Messrs. Ferebea, Baum
Duvall, Rogers, Hooper and Dan
iels running for County Commis
sioner the voters will .have an op
portunity to sslect high type men
for this important office. AH of'
them bear a good name and are
highly respected for their ability!
and integrity. Prom the list of
six nwn, four are to be selected
in the primary. |
Representative Roy L. Davis
who has served twice with distinc-,
tion at Raleigh is opposed by At
torney D. L. lvusf»’Il of Manteo
and B. F. Etheridge, well knovni
citizen of the county. Mr. Ether- i
idge has twice before bren a can- j
d.date against Mr. Davis, but this!
is Mr. RusseB’s first time in pol- i
itics in Dare County. ' '
The SoUcitorship is sought by J.
C. Meekins of Columbia, Ch-jster
R. Morris of ' Currituck, .John B.
McMullan of Elizabeth City, and
Reprf'‘’entative Sam Blount of
Beaufort County.
For years and years, thousands
of dollars worth of furniture has
been bought by Dare County peo
ple. Mail order houses got a lot of
this business. There wasn't enough
local enterprise to capture it.
Sonve talked about it, but A. J.
Legum Funiiture Company, one of
the best known dealers in Tide
water Virginia is out to get the
busiivess, and this week Legum’s
has opened a store in the W. F.,
Baum building in Manteo, and,
stocked it with a wide variety of
goods, including full suites of fur-^
iiiture, el-actric refrigerators, and
summer furniture. i
The store will be managed by
Frank Facchini. local salesmanager
for the firm, and the people of Dare
COUNTY JUDGE BURGWYN COMMENTS WHEN AL-I
Become really alarmed for the
first time over a scarcity of herr
ing, fishermen in the Chowan River
section advanced the opinion that
poisonous waste from pulp mills at
Franklin, Plymouth, are tending
to poison the fish, or drive them
away from the Roanoke and Cho-
a-an Rivers, according to an article
recently published in the News &
Obsenfer.
Few people know that one gal
lon of the poisonous chemical
waste from pulp mills may so
effectively poison 6,000 gallons of
water and destroy fish life. In
Minnesota, and other paper pro
ducing states, serious problem*
have been faced because of the de
struction of game fish, and conse
quent impairment of a highly tval-
uabie natural resource. '
The article ’in the Raleigh paper
says:
•‘Along upper Albemarle Sound
and Its tw.o major tributaries, the
Roanoke and Chowan rivers, fish
ermen are beginning uneasily to
wonder if there is any connection
between the fact that within the
past year two great paper mills
have begun operations and this
j^ear there have been virtually -no
fish in waters that have abounded
in shad and herring.
“Assurances were given the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment that adequate machin
ery for protecting these waters had
besn instailedi by the pulp mills at
Plymouth and at Frank'iin, Va“ and
there may oe scientific proof that
the machinery is working. But the
practical fisherman is beginning to
be worried. He got worried in
March when, if there ■were any
shad in the Albemarle; Roanoke
and Chowan, mighty few of them
got into nets.
“Still, from the beginning, the
shad has been subjected to vaga
ries that are beyond the compre
hension of anybody. This year he
comes and next year he may not.
TON BEST IS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF STEALING
FISH; NEGRO HAS ALREADY DONE TIME.
There were few shad taken this
Twelve white men a year age,
sat down in a jury room, and fig
ured that Nat Selby was guilty of
drove 80 miles to sell them when
he might have gotten more on the
New York market.
stealing fish. Nat Selby is a Ne-! -w.han the Jury announced his
He confessed to being in a .g^ict, judge Burgwjm said;
gro.
ojat with Alton Best anJ Robert ... . ,
Sawyer in Mai-ch and had fished, any
nets belonging to others.
Best sat in the courtroom and!
heard the Negro sentenced and. .
sent to prison for IS nioiitlis. He
didn’t rMse his voice to help tiie
negro, because he too was eliarg-
ed with the same crime, but was
year. The herring is a different
sort of fish, an humble but depend
able fish, good to eat if corned or
smoked but especially valuable
for roe."
and made him
leave the courtroom after the ver
dict was announced.
Much dissatisfaction was ex
pressed by fishermen over the ver-1
GEESE DESTROY
60 ACRES OATS IN
HYDE COUNTY
Farmers Go to Washington
Seeking Refuge From
. Wildfowl of Lake
Mattamuskeet
Harrassed by the depredations
of wild geese harbored o n the
Lake Mattamuskeet Federal Game
refuge, a delegation of -farineis
County are invited to visit it, and' ^ot tried at that term of court.' usually mighty difficult
get acquainted with the new store., i{,i,ert Sawyer had fled the coun' apprehend anyone for steoliny
The Legum company has buen op- ... -nd wno dpciro,) in' P.n-n * f'-il' from nets, hence the unlaw-, _ . _ -
crating in Dare County for mere both together for trial. It, d-’predations of thieves has be- hI^'coui'Iv r^n"^
than a year, has built up a wide Ro,t'c'Kivit- ' come a sore subject. L. Darts of recently
friendship, and has created Ini ji.e \»irro Nat Selbv who I journeyed to \\ashmgton to ask
many people a desire for finer* ), e 'went ivith them for at $7,000 IN REALTY DEALS 1 ‘he Biological Survey to give them
CTi>are County people, who’ ^_.«f RECENTLY RECORDED, j?, oavis had lost $1,500 ..orth
have not been content to simply*
look at the catalogs and samples
brought to the county by Legum’s
salesmen, have journey^ to Nor-i
folk, and examined the vast dis-
pplays on the thousands of feet
of floor space in the Church
Street store. Here is carried ev
erything in funniture the
could desire. And from
The Negro, Nat Selby, who
said he went with tliem for a
days work went to prison. He
•was promised $7 but never paid.
He was recently paroled. Again
at the terms of November court,
Best did not oiiic to trial, and the
case was postponed.
This week he se:)t a letter he
was sick. Judge Burgwyn didu’‘
like the looks of it. He sent to'
Stumpy Point, had him broug'-t’
heart, Imre, and made him stand trial,
these: And another 12 white men this
P. Davis Buys Leo Midgett
Home: Oil Company Buys
Steamboat Wharf; Mrs.
RIssell Bays Barnett
House
i '
stocks have been selected com-! time decided and said Best was
plete furnishings for entire homes.! not guilty. According to all test-
Free souvenirs for wonvan visi-' ''uony, all men were m the same
tors are being presented at the boat. But strangely enougli, the
Manteo store all thi., week. | Xegrn has done rime,
R. A. Cogan, manager of thej
Norfolk store was in Manteo Mon
day. getting the place here opened; ,
upp. A. J, I^gum, the own-or of tne tear and whiskey and
business IS a young man. who bu.It ^ .^Uv full. He then went
a hup business in Berk’ev befora borne he said, and that night got
opening up his big ChurrJi Street, ^is barn, fish he had caught
store four years ajo Today it is Saturday, and took
called one of NorfolVs greatest to Belhaven and sold them
furniture store.s, and its sal-esforce
is friendly, courteous and helpful.
and th-e
IN Currituck county
Three seams to be the role of j
candidates for many of the im- j
portant offices of Currituck i
County. For recc ders Judge, wc *
see the veteran Justice of the
Peace and popular citizen, George
W. Meiggs of Coinjock launch into
a contest vvith the incumbent, John
Sandarlin and R. E. Flora, of
(Please turn to page eight)
Best claimed he came to Man
teo that day, instead of fishing.
It was Sunday. He said he drank
Daniels testified
more than $100
CooU Boy Oat et Army
During the Civil war, conscien
tious objectors could buy- their way
lut of the army for’SSOO
to Joe Daniels,
to buying them,
worth.
The state took ■with much salt
the story of- Bast that he kept
the fi'sh in hfe barn two days
when prices were high, and then
$7,000 IN REALTY DEALS
RECENTLY RECORDED,
of oats, 30 acres, when great
flocks of ge?f.e decended upon his
t'niity aci-e patch, and pulled them
up by the roots. Hugo acreages
of corn had been pulled up by the
roots, particularly in the vicinity
of the lake shore, and farmers be
lieve th-2 problem will increase
vrtth each year as the geese become
more sure of their security and
pwtection.
When an nfficial of the refuge
at Lake Mattamuskeet came out
to check up on th-s damage, he ran
approximately 1,590 geese out of
one man’s field. And if you don’
,,, ^ nnn believe 1,500 hungry wild gesse
\\ estern Union office for $1,000,, plenty in a young cornfield,
then ask any .Hyde County farmer.
Some $7,000 was involved in
three realty deals that recently
took place on Roanoke Island. The
.Standard Oil Company bought the
old Eastern Carolina Steamho.'it
w.harf and a lot for S3,0n0; Mrs.
Flossie Q. Russell bought the Ban
nister Barnett House near the
the deed went to racord for the
Leo Midgett home at Skyco, which
■was sold to I. P. Davis of Manteo.
In transferring the property it
became nccessai-y to have, the
signiture of Robert Midgett,
younger brother of the Midgett
heirs who in in the , Navy, The
papers were senl to him in Califor
nia, then they followed ' him to
Alaska and finally to H-anolulu
where his signature was finally
obtained. .This- is ths,\fitT!t pane?
notarized in Honolulu to ba re
corded in Dane County.
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The damage lo crops is believed
to ru into many thousands of dol
lars already.
WEBB ETHERIDGE IN TOKIO
\
Post cards were received here
this week by friends, from Webb
Etharidga in Tokio. Japan. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs, R. Bruce
Etheridgre, and is employed on a
ship making that port. He former
ly served in the Coast Guard.