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THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
FRIDAY, JUNE 17. 1938
DARE CODNTY’S FIRST FARN TODR
By C. W. OVERMAN, County Agent
where poultry work is taught in
practice.
At W. iil. Jolliff’s we obsencJ
I a garden tractor in operation.
.r....'e. Here we nb.'ened a \i‘r>
ee.iiHinmalU bu It house and a fine
flock of young Ithode Island Heils
Mrs. Addy Midgett's strawberry
Dare County pc ]i e 'vn . a e r t>-r-
ested in agr cultu.e are gne i
chance to observe some jf the var
ious types of demonstrations that
are being conducted under the sup-
ervision of their farm and home patch at Wanchese was our second
stop. Here we saw about a guar-
The first agricultural tour to be' fcr b--re of strawberries which
conducted in Dare County was Mrs. MidgeU had in wonderful
held on Wednesday, May .S. A bus sibnpe and has sold over »2t)U.OO
furnished by Camp Wrignt pro- worth oi berries to date this sea-
vided free transportation and e’.i , ^oii
abled the group of 23 people to
Where there is insufficient land to
keep a horse we are finding the
garden tractor ideal.
IJeturning to Manteo at 4;(I0
o’clock our tour was con'jilete. .-All
members if the tour seemed to
feel that the day had been well
spent.
BOOK WRITTEN
AT HATTERAS IS
A BIG SUCCESS
FULL ENROLLMENT OF
CAMPERS AT SEATONE
Mitchell- Hedger’ “Battling
With Sea Monsters,”
Coes Over Big
Aliss Louise .Ellis, Dance Instruc
tor Itetiiriiing ifor Fourth
Season; Opens' June 23
WANCHESE HAS
GIVEN COUNTY j
MANY LEADERS
tnavel together.
Leaving Manteo at 9:15 A. M.,;
we visited Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Wil
liams’ broiler proje-n at Wan-
When in Norfolk
Stop at the
HOTEL FAIRFAX
r ✓(I
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 $3.50, others with
bath privileges, $2. Cof
fee Shop, Dining Room,
Beverage Boom. Garage
Cat* vSd*A.
HUGH F. CALVIN
Pres, and Cen’l Mgr.
Back to 'Manteo we visited Mrs.
Woodson Fearings modern kitchen.
Mrs. Fearing had all necessary
modern conveniences and the
equipment was very conveniently
arranged.
At -Manteo we also visited Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Smith’s home
ganieii. Th.s garden was in fine
.shape and contained a goodly var
iety of vegetables. By successive
planting the Smiths have a con
tinuous supply of vegetables the
year aroung.
On the Xorth End of Roanoke
Island we vis.ted -Mrs. R. Bruee
Ktheridge’s Home. The house was
constructed over 100 years ago and
was of the type with no closets,
Mrs. Etheridge has installeil a
Its Native Sons Hold Nine
Important County Offices '
In Daro County
Wanchese, progressive fishing
oommunity on Roanokke Island,
so called the “Souih-end,’’ by
folks North of it, who live on i
what is referred to as the “North-,
end,” has furnished much out- j
standing leadership in the history j
of Dare County, and today, eight,
of its sons hold important county
offices.
Roy Davis, Representative; W.
F. Baum Recorder’s Judge; Mel
vin Daniels, Register of Deeds, C.
S. Meekins, Clerk of the Court;
"Battling Sea Monsters,” pub-
lioheu by Uuckwortli of London,
written by F. A. -Mitcned-Heugcs
during his stay at Hatteras nas
had a big success and apart irom
Us pubiu4Uion III Ameiicu and
England it will shortly appear in
(jei-iiiaiiy, Fraine and Italy. .-An
earlier book, “riitl’ios with Giant
F-sn, ’ reached u, arge ngune of
over 5U,i)iiO coj s in Germany.
The ne.\ boos nas over -10 e.v-
eeediiigly ente-
illustrated with
eluding those o:'
1 ni-ig chapters
pl’.v.ographs, in-
►•ig'it new world
records. The sc le is in the tro
pics, off the sh fcs I f Honduras,
I. 1*. Davis, County Wellare Offi-
closet in each room and has made 1 ce ; Jake Daniels, County Commis
‘n- sioner; J. B. Hooker , of the Boar:l
of Elections; M. L. Daniels, who
• othe' dianges which make the
I home more comfortable and con
venient. The lawn and landscap
ing of this place is nicely arranged
and well kept.
At Jluther A'ineyard Inc. we ob
served the Mother Scuppeniong
grape vine. Under the supervision
of F -ank Correll, manager, a won
derful piece of work has been done
in renovating the old grape vines.
Approximately 55 acres have been
set to new scuppernong vines
which are doing nicely.
The Virginia Dare C. C. C. Camp
furnished us a nice d’nner at 25c
per person. During the lunch houi.
Captain Ratcliff welcomed us to
the Camp. B. Troy Ferguson, H.
R. Niswonger and Lewis P. Wat
son, Extension Specialists, made
interesting talks.
Follovvlng lunch, we made a gen
eral tour of the camp under the
leadership of Captain Ratcliff. The
people seemed to be very well
impressed with the educational
work being conducted and especi
ally the modern poultry houses
f.
BIGGEST RAZOR BLADE
VALUE EVER OFFERED
4 PR0BAK 1/%^
JUNIOR ■■
BLADES IW
has served as County Commission
er. Chairman of the Board of El
ections, and is now Democratic
County Chairntan, all aye native
sons of Wanchese. Mrs. Pete Dan
iels has served on the Board of
Welfare.
Richard H. Gray of Wanchese
is also a member of the County
School board. A few years ago
Mrs. Evelyn Davis served on the
School Board.
in former years at various times
its citizens filled many public
places. Men like F R. Daniels.
S. C. Pugh, Stewart Daniels,
Spence Davie, Will Baum, Joe Hay-
man, Ben Daniels. A long list of
men from Wanchese have gone
forth to highly important fields
in the maritime world. Other no
tables have gained eminence in
business, the ministry, and law.
MORE DITCHES SOUGHT
FOR FOUR COUNTIES
District Health Officer Indicates
Need For -Mosquito Control
in Southern Albemarle
Ry N. P. Fitts, .M. D. Assistant
Health Officer For Tyrrell, Hyde
and Dare and, and AA ashingtoii
• You’ll get better shaves for your money if
you ask for Probak Jr. Why take chances when
you can have tlie known quality of these
world-famous blades at this amazingly low
price? Only lOd for 4 double-edge blades—
buy a package from your dealer today.
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JUNIOR
BLADES
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 &
TELEGRAPH CO.
Manteo—Elizabeth City—Edenton
Giving Dare County People
THE LATEST AND BEST
Furniture Service
Mr. Gage Williams, well known to the Furni
ture Trade in your county represents us. The
mercl andise he sells is backed by many years
of capable, responsible dealing. Our furniture
customers number thousands in many northeast
ern North Carolina Counties, as ’//ell as in Vir
ginia.
Just send Mr. Williams word at Wanchese and
let him make you acquainted with our furniture
stocks, our low prices, our good terms, and our
service.
a 1. JAFFE FURNITURE CO-
189 to 199 Washington St.
SUFFOLK, VA.
Since the advent of A\'. P A. ii
H.vde County, some s''” mile> "i
ditching and recutting diti In?
of land and .swamp areas has been
done. Also work has been going
steadily forward in the construc
tion of sanitary pit privie.s which
is of prime importaiic in the con
trol of Typhoid Fever.
Drainage and the establish
ment of shore lines so that al' the
ditches containing w.ater can bo
effectively bathed with sunlight
are two necessary steps in break
ing up mosquito breeding places,
especially places that tend to breed
the Anopheles or malarial mos
quito. While we still have mos
quitoes and probably always will
h.ave them, many citizens have
been gi-atified that the mosquitos
have been far less active in the
pa.st year or two.
Funds from the AA^ P. A. could
be put to no better use other than
ill suppressing the breeding of
mosquit .es by draining and pro
moting sanitation by building sani
tary pit privies. The Health De
partment vigorously protests the
deviation of W. P. A. funds for
road work or any other project
that is not directly conducive to
the sanitation of Hyde County
or of the entire district embracing
Dara Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washing
ton Counties.
Further, the Health Depart
ment sincerely hopes the work for
sanitation will continue, for many
more projects at>? necessary for
drainage and construction of pit
privies to complete the present
program, which will certainly in
sure better health and safety of
our citizens from the spread of
malarial fever or a possible out
break of Typhoid Fever with ex-
piosiv'e violence.
The Health Department desires
that all our citizens will continue
to cooperate as tliey have so will
ingly done and urgz that the work
of the W. P. A. will not be Ievi-
ated from its present scope and
program which is sanitation, for
sanitation means safty.
Remember: "Every ounce of
prevention is worth another pound
of cure.”
an extruirditiarv region which
scientists have sub...tantiatcd as
being the remnai t of a continent
75 miles out in ihe ocean, where
one may walk L i tour and a .half
miles with watei not above one’s
knees.
J^hotographs .-h ov the author
with some of his catches—an £>13-
pouii". .-'ciish; a 1 i'o.i-pound Tiger
Shark; a 590- j.und Jewfish; a
Oyu-pound Leopai'i Ray; a 370-
pound Death Kav, the fish whose
sting kills in five minutes; a 700-
pound Green Tun 7; a IJOO-pcund
Man Eating Sbiir^ a 1,500 pound
Shovelnose; a Si-.'o-pound Great
Manta, and man) others. It also
shows some of ll’ nuge creatures
caught by his seentary, Jane Har
vey' Houlson, including a 15 foot
Hammerhead Shu k
The reading ma ter is highly in
teresting, but the best of it may
be summed up it. .e author’s own
w’ords at the end of the introduc
tion:
"After a time 'tie conies to
know the habits of the denizens
of the deep; the way the mighty
sharks feed, and a thousand other
things. To combat their cunning
when one meets th'-in on their own
battleground calls ^ >r muscle and
a keen mtelligern' Many and
crafty are the way ■ 'f a great fish
fighting for its freedom.
"But when once t ou have fought
for hours and ultimately landed a
creature weighing • ■ er a thousand
pounds; when youi liands stink of
fish and y»ur c! enes are wet
through and slimy when the boat
is smothered in blu d and guts and
your muscl.-- ach- ironi head to
foot, then you hat. done a man's
job a:id wii! rema'ii lorevei a big-
game fish'.t.g entli last.
"You may da n your t)-n
hands, swear iiC' ir to set f.-ot
again iii a oinall boa. to be bru;.-,;‘d
and battered by heavy seas; you
may' curse the flies, heat, sweat,
and manana of the tropics. But
return you must.’’
And as he dictated the final
chapters at his home in Frisco,
where Jesse Tolson’.s family now
lives, he said:
The CAR.A lies, a wreck, be
neath the waters off the coast of
Yucatan.
Joe, th) deadliest killer in Cent
ral American, was shot down and
then cut to pieces with a machete
ill front of liis women and children.
Poor old Hurts has maimed his
hand terribly in battling a great
shark off Taboguilla.
A great fisliormen has angled
successfully in the turbulent
waters of politics, ami has again
landed the Presidency of the
United States.
The sharks are playing hell with
the small fry in Wall Street and
Throgmorton Street.
And I’m dashed of Jane hasn’t
married a fisi.v..man!
A smell of frying fish is wafted
from the kitchen—I am surrounded
by a conspiracy shrieking “Fish!”
from every’ direction. And the
reefs and islands are calling—last
ni{^it in my home here on the isl
and of Hatteras I could have sworn
I heard the boom of Manta from
Camp Seatone-on-Roanoke Is-
Island opens iu fourth season
on June 23rd, receiving on tiiat
date ten campers from Alabama
and on the lollowing date the fuli
quota of thirty children provided
for in the camp buildings. On
Saturday afternoon, June 25th thr
children from Manteo and the vi
cinity of the camp are invited foi
a swimming party at three o’clock,
-At this tme they are to enroll for
craft, swiniining and dancing class
es.
On the counselor and teaching
staff of the camp arc Miss Lois
Beck of Birmingham, Alabama,
who is returning for the third
summer and will act in the capac
ity of accompanist and game di
rector as well as general counsel
or, Miss Louise Ellis of Colum
bia, Alabama, who has been with
the camp since its opening in
1935, will continue her work as
dance instructor ami counselor.
Paul Creel, of Sylacauga, .Ala.,
will act as junior counselor and
bugler. The changes made in the
staff of counselors are the addi
tion of a registered nurse and die-
tition and a change in swimming
instructor.
Jlr. Karl Thelander of Birming
ham, physical education instructor
in the J’hillips High School of
Birmingham will be physical edu
cation director and swimming in-
.structor. Mr. Thelander has had
nine years of experience in child
ren’s camps and is a very popular
young instructor.
Miss Berta Mae Rhodes, of Tal
ladega, Alabama during the win
ter months is head nurse in the
Alabama School for the Deaf
and has had experience with
children’s camps for the past
three summers. .Aliss Rhodes has
a most winning personality. She
will act as nurse and dietician at
Seatone.
Miss Mabel Evans of Manteo, di
rector and owner of the camp ha.s
recently returned from Alabama
where .she is a supen’isor of
schools and is actively getting the
camp ready for the arrival of the
counselors and young ccampers.
Miss Evans who was at one time
County Superintendent of Schools
in Dare County and later Super-
I’isor of Northampton Schools has
had long and happy experience
in directing the training of child
ren. Seatone is the outcome of
Mi-ss Evans’ vison of young boys
and girls playing on the shores of
Roan.ike Island in the way that
she and tier brothers did at one
tiino.
Seatmie is equipped with craft
room, sail and row boats, ponies,
numerous game devices and is nest
led amm-n wooded hills that give
the adventure of secret pathways
to young c imb.^rs. The shore line
has golden sands and shallow or
deep water as suits the camper.
Among the entertaining features
of the summer's program will be a
water carnival plannod and pro
duced by t-ie campers and counsel
ors.
The craft room will he open to
town children who are entered as
day students at the camp and an
hour of instruction will he given
to each child daily. The toy boat
races can be entered by day hoys
who are enrolled cither as all lime
campers or day campers. A tiny
silver loving cup awaits the win
ner. Each boy must build his own
boat.
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the far Pacific. Its no use kicking
against the pricks.
Adios, my brother sportsmen
I’m off; back to the Pearl Islands,
back to battle the monsters of the
deep.
VERSATILE
“A wonderful actor, you say?"
“Yes, he played Hamlet and
played the devil at the tame time.”
THE CHANCE OF
A LIFETIME
For getting 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 been
given you. This set may be used anywhere elec
tric current is available.
Just send in $30 worth of subscriptions and
get this set. Address;
THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
BOX 55 MANTEO, N. C.
Small boy—“I’m not afraid of
going to the hospital, mother. I’ll
be brave and take my medicins,
but I ain’t going to let them jialm
off a babby on me like they did
on you. I want a pup.”
ELIZABETH CITY
LEADING FIRMS WHO SERVE
THE BEACH TRADE
This handy list is for the convenience of shoppers
wlio 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
PHONE 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 GROCERIFS
TRY
GARRETT’S QUALITY
FOOD STORE
PHONES 1127 & 1128 MAIN & ROAD STS.
REFRESHMENT
BOTTLED
IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUMMER COMFORT
JEWELRY
BRIGHT JEWELRY CO., INCi,
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
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