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THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938:
lodtaiis L’sed Sign Language '
Sign language was often useful '
to Indians in huntog. because they I
could communicate without alarm- i
ing the game.
Wl'ian in Norfolk
Stop at the
HOTEL FAIRFAX
Headquarters for all cit
izens south of the Mason
Dixon line when visiting
Norfolk and the beaches.
Attractive rooms with
bath and shower, $2.50,
$3 and 33.50, others with
bath privileges, $2. Cof
fee Shop, Dining Room,
Beverage Room. Garage
Service.
HUGH F. CALVIN
Pres, and Cen’l Mgr.
THE OLD IRMA’S BONES ARE
SCATTERED ALONG THE BEACH
Large Summer Colony Built Up About Schooner
Wrecked at Kill Devil Hills in 1925
FUN MAKING COMEDY
IN MANTEO THE 10TH
Kaufman Corned}-, “Old .Man Min-
ick," At Sc.hool House Friday;
1_ -.1 Actors
WAGES OF SIN
IS DEATH; SAYS
REV. L. TWIFORD
By David Slick
Dwarfed in historical back-
1 ground, by the glamour that sur
rounds the great Wright Memor
ial, the wrecked hulk of the tiiree
masted schooner Inna has never
theless held its place these past
few years as one of the show-
points of the Dare County
I beaches.
I Grounded in 1925 the ship re-
j mained almost intact for five
■ years, but the >5tonns of 1931 were
' too much for her, and they did
away with a greater portion of
the sturdy old vessel, leaving only
her stent and a portion of her
foreward hull above water even at
low tide.
Since the first toufi.st drove over
Dare County’s ocean highway the
wreck of the Irma has been a fa
vorite stopping place for visitors,
with her stern rising up high on
the beach and what remains of
her bow dipping into the succes
sive breakers she made a picture
that seemed to coincide with her
surroundings.
When the Griggs built their Cro-
atan hotel'in back of the wreck
the number of admirers was
greatly increased until now a
small village is centered around
the Croatan and the Irma.
But the Iiina wasn’t destined to
remain a tourist attraction forever.
n,:,
EAT AT
CENTRAL CAPE
• Manteo, N. C.
■" ~ For
REAL PLEASURE — GOOD FOOD
EFFICIENT SERVICE
CHEERFUL ATMOSPHERE
—MENUS CHANGED DAILY—
JOHN HAYMAN, Proprietor
FURNITURE
AT^ BARGAIN PRICES
Get acquainted with our new plan whereby you -in
buy furniture at Bargain Prices nd EASY TERMS—
CASH or CREDIT.
WE TRUST YOU
MR. FRANK FACCHINI
Who is now in charge of this territory may be reach
ed at the Fort Raleigh Hotel on the following dates:
THE 6th AND 21st OF EACH MONTH
A.J.Legum Furniture Co.
The Furniture Man With a Conscience
SS6-338 Church Street NORFOLK, VIRGINXA
Best Local and Long Distance
TELEPHONE SERVICE
To Nags Head and Kitty Hawk Beaches,
Roanoke Island and Other Dare
County Points
Use The Telephone Often and Enjoy Your Trips
to and From Dare County
NORFOLK & CAROLINA TELEPHONE &
TELEGRArH CO.
Manteo—Elizabeth City—Edenton
Giving Dare County People
THE LATEST AND BEST
Furniture Service
Mr. Cage Williams, well known to the Furni
ture Trade in your county represents us. The
mercliandise he sells is backed by many years
of capable, responsible dealing. Our furniture
customers number thousands in many northeast
ern North Carolina Counties, as well as in Vir
ginia.
Just send Mr. Williams word at Wanchese and
'ct htm make you acquainted with our furniture
stu Vs, our low prices, our good terms, and our
service.
a I. JAFFE FURNITURE CO*
189 to 199 Washington St. SUFFOLK, VA.
Her liull was sturdy, but it was
inevitable that some day whet) the
waves got a little too strong and
the water canie in a little too far
tile remains of the three masted
Irma would be scattered up and
down the beach.
’That day came in the fail of lust
year when the Irma, unable to con
tinue resisting the fores that hud
been heating on her for -so long,
broke up.
Pieces of the Irma’s hulk will
for many years dot the beach in
the .icinity of t)ie Croatan, leav
ing a reminder of the sturdy ship
that mocked the sea for over
twelve years. ^Yhereas in the past,
interest in the Irma has been in
the material side of her; in seeing
her battered stern outlined against
the horizon, and in scrambling
•over her liole and jautny poop-
deck, it is hoped tliat the sight of
her remains dotting the beach will
revive anotlier interest; an inter
est in the story of the wreck of
the schooner Irma.
Patrolling tlie beach a mile
north of the Kill Devil Hills sta
tion at J:4o on the .morning of
-4pril SD, 1925, coast guardsman
Marvin Midgett sighted a three
masted schooner aground not far
fram shore.
Hurrying back bo the station
Midgett roused the Kill Devil
guardsmen and at 2:45 they ar-
ri\-ed at the wreck. Within an
hour they had landed the ships
crew of seven men, including the
master, and 45 minutes later the
survivors of the ill-fated Irma
were drinking hot coffee in the
kitchen of the station.
Th rescue of the crew -was a
rush job; the actual shipwreck was
even faster.
Bound south to Georgia for a
load of pine the Irma had run
into a storm off the Virginia Capes
on the night of April 28, 1925.
Biding empty with a strong
north-east wind at her tail the ship
made good time, and confident that
he was at least fifty miles off
shore the skipper let her run.
Consequently it was as much a
surprise for the master and his
ciww as it had been for Midgett
•and the other Kill Devil Hill
guardsmen to find the Irma hard
agrourd iii th. Dare Couir.y
banks at 1 45 the next morning.
The rescue had been easy, dc-
-“lite the driving ram, a high surf,
and strong winds, but floating the
Irma was a bird of another color,
ao the next afternoon when under
writers agent Theodore S Meekins
took over the Irma, he sold her at
public auction.
Within a month the junkers had
stripped the Irma of all remova
bles; two month later the beacli
ouilt out to her baran hulk ami
soon after the masts and most of
her decking were hauled away.
For live years the Irma stood,
resisting the elements; for seven
more her stern sat up on the beach,
laughing at the waves that beat
at the moss, covered but sturdy
p'anks that had been part of her
bow.
For twalve years, too, she must
have rejoiced at the tliought that
her primitive wooden hull had out
lasted modern steel; for a mile
north of her final resting place, at
about tile same time that she had
come in, a steel tanker had been
wrecked and left to the mercy of
the sea. Two summers ago, in a
storm that the Irma withstood, the
tanker went to pieces.
The Irma is gone now and all
that is left of her is a story of her
■wrecking and a few of her pieces
scattered about the beach. But
dead and buried though she is the
three masted Irma remains a sym
bol of her period.
Flnt Private Cold Ceia
The first private gold coin in
America was struck by Ephraim
Brasher, a New York jeweler, la
1787. ne figures are crude, tha
design amateurish; but it is a rare
and precious relic of our nation'i
early days.
FOR GOOD
HEALTHY
CHICKENS
Use the Famous
Elmira
Poultry Conditioner
and the
“Three-minute
Delouser”
On Sale At
The Following Merchants:
EVANS BROS., Manteo
H. L. DAVIS, Wanchese
A. M. CAHOON, East Lake
M. L. MIDGETT, Manns Har
bor
ELMIRA POULTRY
SUPPLY CO.
Elmira, N^w York —.
W. r. A. Federal Theatre of
Iljaoke Island -nil present The
Elizabethan Flayeis in the well
known comedy. “011 Man Minick,’’
which had. some yi ars ago, a long
run on Broadway st.nrring O. 1’.
Heggie, and inc luliiig Thomas
M-eighan and Sidney Booth.
It has been c nsidered one of
George ICaufmn I’s be.st plays.
This playwright la' never had a
failure.
The leading olayers of this
well-known drama group of the Is
land will be seen .n the produc
tion. Martiii K lJ--gg and Mary
Davis Westcott playing the young
er leads with Der Murpphy in the
name part of OM Man Miinck,
about whom all tl,e "ild hullaba
loo starts aid cairies on.
Other proi mem players include
such local favorites as Louis-i
M-eekins, Mr • ilyii Daniels, Bilbert
Mister, Hovard Twyne, Alvey
Midgett, Carrie Carter Vaiinote
and Beck '-itueridge, both new
comers to the group.
This play 'las not a dull moment
from the tin i it begins to the end.
It is full . f strong action and
loads of fui -makiiig lines.
It will b-- produced straight
through without any curtain drops
although a full length three act
play; thus doing away with any
tedious waits between acts. Mrs.
Mathis, the Director, has made this
arrangement, believing most folks
dislike Hi's long waits betweens
acts.
The proceeds from this play will
go to aid the High School Curtain
for the new stage.
Mrs. G. T. Westcott, Ji., has
charge of financial and ticket
plans.
7M Uefealed by 5,IM
Seven hundred Texans defeated
5,000 Mexican soldiers in 18 minutes
at the battle of Sac Jacinto in 1836.
Like to Give Ad-vice
Jud Tunkins sa.'-s roost folks are
like doctors who like to give advice
without taking any themselves.
Converted By Holiness, He
Destroys Liquor and Now
Preaches
Converted recently by the Holi-
ne.ss revival at Manns Harbor,
Bev. 1/20 Twi/ord, one time
Free Will Baptist minister ot
East Lake and Pitt County,
has returned to tiie business
of preaching the Gospel, and
holds forth each Sunday at
the -old Company store back in the
woods of Buffalo City, Dare
County.
Bev. Mr. Twiford who went
home from the mourners bench at
Manns Harbor and destroyed 110
pints i^f bootleg stock by which he
made his living, has fared lorth
without purse or script. Hej
preached a powerful sermon at
Buffalo the past Sunday his sub
ject being “The Wages of Sin is-;
Death.” In the 7th and Sth verses
of the loth eliapter of Acts will
be found his text.
Here on the Banks of Mill Tail
Creek where •only a few year.s
ago the fabulous profits from
moonshine put two cars at near!}
every home, they seldom had
time to build a garage, Rev. Leo
holds forth. Times have not been
so good lately and most of the
folks now, have cume under the
wing of the great Roosevelt beni-
ficence and they lean heavily on
the preaching at the old store.
The house is packed each Sunday
with young and old, and there
will be seen people from Stumpy
Point, Manns Harbor, Manteo,
and other places.
“I have put sin behind me,”
says Rev. Leo. “I am preparing
to go up yonder.”
“Me too,” said three of his
converts who stood behind him.
“God speed him on his work,”
said an aged woman, “If he can
make any one try to lead a better
life, and treat his fellowman bel
ter, he is doing good, God will
bless him.”
Ford Exliibit At New York World’s Fiur
T he theme' ot the Ford Motor
Company's exhibit bnilding at
the New York World's Fair In 1939
-will be prophetic of the advances
America may expect in transporta
tion in coming decades, according to
an announcement by Edsel Ford,
president of the company.
Based upon an exposition of the
institutional character of the Ford
company and the fundamental pol
icies which have directed Its growth
during the past 35 years, the fair
exhibit will reach its clhnax in “The
Road of Tomorrow,” an elevated
highway more than half a mile long,
-rising upon a series of spiral ramps,
traversing the borders of a patio
and Anally circling the main hnild-
ing on a deep setback at the top of
the walls.
The exhibit, in fonr rather dis
tinct parts, will include an entrance
rotunda facing the main -west gate,
a spacious Manufacturing Hall,
a patio, with pools, playing foun
tains and large real areas, and the
elevated road. From the west aide
of the patio, steps -will rise to a
broad mezzanine. There Ford VS
and Lincoln-Zephyr cars will load
passengers tor the ride over “The
Uoad of Tomorrow.”
From the loading platform th-
cars'will pass to the south, enter th* |
spiral ramps, climbing to the upperl
level and following the elevat*ai
highway as it passes over the mow
zanine, west along the south wad
of Manufacturing Hall, through a
tunnel lined with photomurols;
thence circling the top of the build
ing, through a glass tunnel high ia
the Rotunda; down the ramp to tlw
second level, around the patio ana
back to the starting point.
At night flood lighting will faS
upon the cars as they circle the
highway- high on the walls ot Manu
facturing Hall, playing moving sba
dows on the building walls, in full
sight of the whole fair grounds. Tha
bnilding will occupy the highest i»
cation on the grounds. It will b«
decorated In white, red and blue
'and will be floodlighted at night.
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A LIFETIME
For gotting only $30 worth of subscriptions
to the Dare County Times at the regular rates,
we will give you
FREE RADIO MADE BY PHILCO
A five tube AC set to hook in your light cur>
rent socket. Never before has such an offer Lxion
given you. This set may be used anywhere elec
tric current is available.
Just send in $30 worth of subscriptions and
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THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
BOX 55 MANTEO, N. C.
ELIZABETH CITY
LEADING FIRMS WHO SERVE
THE BEACH TRADE
This handy list is for the convenience of shoppers
who want the best service. We have prepared our
selves especially to cater to the needs of the beach
trade this summer.
BEAUTY SERVICE
IN EVERY FIELD BY
EXPERT OPERATORS
MILADY’S BEAUTY SALON
CAROLINA BLDG.
PHONE 905
BEAR FRAME WHEEL AND AXLE
ALIGNMENT
TOWING
CAROLINA DUCO COMPANY
PHONE 837
DRY CLEANING
FOR EFFICIENT WORK AND PROMPT
SERVICE SEND YOUR CLOTHES TO
COOPER CLEANING WORKS
PHONE 280
DRUGS AND PRESCRIPTIONS
■ DRUGS WITH A REPUTATION
EXPERT PRESCRIPTION SERVICE
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION
OVERMAN & STEVENSON
PH'^NE 321
FLOWERS
FOR EVERY OCCASION
MILDRED’S FLORIST SHOPPE
PHONE 82
NIGHT PHONE 264-W
FURNITURE—SECOND HAND
ALL STYLES AND TYPES
MRS. CALLIE MEIGGS
PHONE 250-J
FANCY GROCERIES
TRY
GARRETT’S QUALITY
FOOD STORE
PHONES 1127 & 1128 MAIN £ kC.\D STS.
REFRESHMENT
BOTTLED
IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUMMER COMFORT
JEWELRY
BRIGHT JEWELRY CO., INC.,
WATCHES DIAMONDS JEWELRY
AND SILVERWARE
—EXPERT REPAIR WORK—
A. G. JAMES, Mgr.
RUCKER & SHEELY COMPANY
ELIZABETH CITY’S BEST STORE
TIRES
BUY FIRESTONE
TEXACO PRODUCTS
STEVENS TIRE STORE
CORNER WATER & FEARING STREETS