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COUNTY TIMES Friday, February 24, (Continued from page one) At one o’clock on Monday, three days after the mishap, his boat had drifted up on Howard’s Reef, with in four miles of Ocraooke village. Came by a fisherman in a sailboat, one who was frightened at this strange sight. He got Capt. Quid- ley aboard. This 0^coke fisher- battle with the sea, who had 81 in January, knew he was going patiently discuss the ages of the to die. Those old men who have various rows of vegetables, seen the fulfillment of all their And then a few days ago he took hopes, the completion of all their sick. Surrounded by faithful chil- tasks, their children in manhood’s dren, his comforts were well cared full estate and surrounded by their for. He said he was prepared in own households, have no great re grets, and no worldly dreams to .:pur them on. His own helpmeet had been gone for nearly 20 years. And he, who had fought many a man was busy with his mind and soul for the final sum mons. He sent for his oldest neighbors and friends of the vil lage and chatted with them about the neighborhood news and told them of his new ooffin. In fact he recommended the builder. Ivy ^ j 11. T, i - wrested his meat and his bread .— Capt. Qmdley steered the boat in. briny deep, and helped to Austin, and Capt. Homer Styron When he got to the landing^at Oc- g^yg many a life in the old days in was impressed. He says he is going Coast Guard, knew as young to have his built too, because in men cannot ever know, that the keeping with ancient custom on the gentle road to the end of the jour-. coast, he has had some fine sea- racoke he fainted away. They cut his leather boots from his feet, re vived him with stimulant, sent him home next day in fair shape. Once home he succumbed bo the reaction, and was crippled for weeks before he fully recovered from his dread ful experience. Nearly two months later, on March 22nd, they found the body of Filmore Gaskill. It had drifted to the northward, and was at Gull Shoals, many miles away, the body was identified only by an oyster license in his pocket. He was buried at Hatteras on March 24. He was a brother of Tom and Joe Gaskill of Wanchese. 'The old flat-boat belonged to A. J. Stowe & Brother, fishermen and mer chants of Hatteras. And so it is with many a man on Hatteras. Time after time great adventures have befallen them, and in many an instance one may BLUEBERRIES Ordinarily, You Don’t Associate the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company With the Cultivation of Blue- berries, But That’s Exactly What’s Happening in Dare Countv WILL YOU SMILE? Profane Broadcast Your son has taken up golfing. Yes, sowing his wild oats. ney, misty with sustaining hops and faith holds greater lure than anything of worldly flavor. At 81 he had disposed of his be longings by dividing them among his children. Before the end of the year he had arranged with a neighbor to build him a coffin quite to his owm liking. Occasionally he would go to the workshop where this completed product remained, to admire it reverently, appreciatively and affectionately. soned lumber put aside for many years for this purpose. Uncle Hiram predicted about the would die. By WM. KEITH SAUNDERS Did you know that the Metropoli tan Life Insurance Company is ope rating a blueberry farm in North Carolina, and that this farm is one of the pet projects of this titan of the insurance world? No? Well, here’s the story of that blueberry farm. About 25 years ago there was a gigantic timber and lumber concern The Martyr Yes, said the bankrupt, I lost my fortune reaching for an ideal. How noble! And what was the went to work on the idea at once. He sold his company on the idea: ideal. of establishing a blueberry experi-j A larger fortune than I had. ment project near Stumpy Point,'. which the company did in 1931. I Steadfast Sam sense as uncanny as that ' nearly all his neighbors. All his five, fine upstanding children and his grandchildren were gathered about him. At would come to wants. Son Crawford, keeper of the lighthouse at Ocracoke, dropped in shortly before his death: I “How is the fishing today?’’ the j Old Man asked. Elizabeth City which operated simply review his past and find many another adventure fantastic or thrilling, but at any rate fully as amazing, and for above the com monplace things of today. by which an unlettered but experi-, ^ n j „ j enced seaman predicts the approach ‘ f ” ^ ^ of a distant storm, he had predicted, dollars to the boat, the early end of his days. A few “Too bad; too bad, the old man weeks before, he had taken his be- , said meditatively, loved old fiddle, the last reminder When the blackness of the night of the worldliness to which he thril-. had faded out, and gold and rosy led in earlier days, and breaking tints came down the beach from under the name of the Dare Lum ber Company. This company’s vast timber holdings included a tract of all hours they j from 40,000 to 60,000 acres of minister to his! swa.mpy lowland in Dare and Hyde counties, most of which was in the vicinity of Stumpy Point and East Lake. Haw it Came About When the Dare Lumber Com pany failed, two speculators organ ized a stock company and bought that land. 'Then, through a series of financial manipulations they Death at Hatteras Somehow Uncle Hiram the priceless treasure into bits had '• the rising sun and gilded every hill buried it deep in the sands of Hat- and softened ,the harshness of the teras, back of the home he lived in. dying oaks that fringe the shore. His remaining days were devoted the old man sipped a glass of to tending the garden, which was orange juice, slowly put the empty his pride and joy. With great glass aside with steady hand, reverence he would call in .his leaned back with a comfortable neighbors to see his garden, and sigh and went to sleep forever. o^/9^9/ ;__THE MEW Tir^sionc CHAMPION The Only Tire Made with the NEW SAFETY-LOCK CORD BODY and NEW GEAR-GRIP TREAD... jNeVER before in our experience has a tire met with such instant and unanimous approval as the new Firestone Champion Tire. It’s the Safety Sensation of 1939! Our customers have started a word-of-mouth campaign that is making this the biggest selling tire we’ve ever had. Motor car manufacturers have been so impressed by its superior performance that they have adopted itfortheir 1939niodels. Why? Because the Firestone Champion Tire is an entirely new achievement in safety engineering. Stronger Cord Body. 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Thus they com- ONE OF THE WORL'^ LARGEST farms UNDER WATER MATTAMUSKEET LAK® (Baltimore Sun) , One of the largest farms world now lies at the botto® lake in eastern North Cardiff Some fifteen years ago ^ Mattamuskeet, in Hyde CO largest lake in the State ed in an effort to reclaim 000 acres of rich farm land ’ lake bed. A complete settk was established—a twenty'^ room hotel, houses, barns, ways, bridges. A “New S®* rose beneath the level of The largest pumping the world was built to pump 'L out of the lake bed into the T mand a good price on the New In Conference York market, the price ranging C. T. writes: “In an office re- from a minimum of 56 cents a cently I asked one of the filing quart to a maximum of 76 cents a j girls who the old gentleman was __ quart. And when you consider the | who was muttering to himself.’’) ^he unusually fact that the yield per acre is ap-! She replied, “That’s the silent ^ produced bumper harvest®', ” proximately 1,006 quarts, it is partner of the firm, he’s in confer- $17(500 000 was sped’”' simple enough to figure out that an ence.’ ’ ’ ' ‘ acre of blueberries will, on an aver- swapped mo.st of their stock for a age, bring in around $660 in cash. Unselfish or Forehanded Which is nothing short of astound- Customer—I want to buy three ing in comparison with the aver- j lawn mowers, age gross cash return from an| Dealer—-You must have a acre planted in tobacco, .cotton, pea- place. LOUIS MEYER Only Three-Tlme Winner Annuel Indianapolis SOO-Mlle Race Champion race drivers* whose lives and chances of victory depend on tire safety, fenotv tire construction and that is why they select and buy Firestone Tires for their cars. More Non-Skid Mileage. 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And among the assets of the company were those bonds, which were se cured only by some 40,060 acres of virtually worthless .swampland, from which practically all the mar ketable timber had been cut or de stroyed by fire. So the Metropolitan found itself with something of a white elephant on its hands. But the Metropoli tan is a big company, with plenty of brains and money behind it, so it hadn’t had this white elep.hant in its possession for many years before it decided to try to change the color of the animal. About eight years ago, Mr Frank Ewing, assistant general counsel of the Metropolitan in nuts, .snap beans or thing else you .might care to name. The cultivation of blueberries is fairly easy. The main essentials are that you have the right sort of cuttings or young plants to begin with, and that the land on which you plant them is suitable for growing blueberries. Fortunately, all land is not suitable, else farm ers all over the country would grow them and the price would tumble to 15 cents a quart. As a matter of fact, there are only a few places in this country that have soil and climate in which blueber ries will grow and thrive—^^and the Stumpy Point section is one of those places. Customer—No neighbors. Better Chance Lawyer—I suppose you would like to be tried by a jury of your peers. Bootlegger—No; of my patrons. Envious radio a wonderful Isn’t 1 thing ? Marvelous! My wife listens to it. prodigious effort to reclaim® submerged land. Scientists; » neers, soil experts all cooper* the attempt. j Water Overtaxes Pump* But the sea was not ^ i easily shunted off. The | pumping spstem capable of Pjj ing a million and a quarter of water a minute proved a* ^ to the task of keeping out th*’ Water seeped in and cover* , crops a foot deep. Mud and ^ , collected over everything. j J stood in the lobby of the T' Homes and farms were slo^rO undated: Man proved no eq**^ the remorseless sea. Mattamusk**^, Today Lake reclaimed its own. The Holland” that was born of man’s dream is no more. N®®!" remains of the vast attemP On the (Permanent) Wave Mother (severely)—Myra, did I see that young man stroking your j wrest the rich farm-lands ture’s grasp except a few de® highways winding disconS® hair on the piazza last night ? Daughter—It’s a mere habit with The Metropolitan is well pleased mother. He used to stroke on with its blueberry experiment to varsity eight, date, even though it has invested A Careful Girl You must have had chances a sum of money said to rim into six digits. The farm is under the charge of real estate, paid a visit | supervision of Capt. Ed Hancock' to the Stumpy Point section. As of Elizabeth City, who has made| plenty, but you see I’m not timberland, the company’s tract an extensive study of blueberry (^^king any chances, was almost worthless; for purposes culture and spent siome time at one of agriculture it was no good at all. So Mr. Ewing began to worry. He had over 40,000 acres of land which lis company was anxious to get rid of, tbuit if people couldn’t cut timber from it, raise crops on it or build homes on it, he would have a mighty slim chance of selling it. The problem was to discover some profitable use to which this land could be put, so that people could be persuaded to buy it. Struck With an Idea In rambling over the property, Mr. Ewing ran across a good many large “high bush” huckleberries growing wild. He sampled them and found that they were very sweet and tasty. Then an idea struck .him. Why not grow blue berries on the company’s lowland- The blueberry had just come on the market at that time and the berries were much in demand and com manded a fancy nrice. Mt. Fwinrr of the country’s foremost bogs in New Jersey learning .something about the growing of these deli cious berries. As soon as the Metropolitan is thoroughly satisfied with the re-i^ fortune, sulits of its experiment and has a set of impressive figures dealing with the cost lof production of blue berries in the Stumpy Point area, the company will probably launch a campaign to interest various Heard on an English Qflirt Counsel—Was the plaintiff ex pensively garbed? Affable Witness—She was hin- deed. ’Er garbage must ’ave cost down into the lake. . Lake Mattamuskeet is n®j. Federal migratory wild fowl ri —the home of thousands of ® | and wild geese—and is *’ with an overabundant supp'^ bass and other fish. It is P , cally unexcelled as a hunting fishing ground. But She Got a Ticket Fair Speeder (chased by motor cycle cop)—Officer, there’s a man following me. Traffic Officer—Don’t worry. people in buying acreage from its large holdings for the purpose of, THE ANSWER^ cultivating the berries. Or it is just possible that the Metropolitan! build houses a portion its land and settle a regular colqny of blueberry growers there. Of one thing you can be certain. 'The Metropolitan is not going to leave any stone unturned in its ef forts to make its 40,000 acres of GLEANED THOUGHTS IN RHYME 1. In the U. S. about $5,500'*' 2. About 7,000,000. 3. No; often they hatch eari)' are destroyed. 4. About one-third. 5. Not yet. 6. Many observers think s®’ 7. Yes. 8. One estimate: 7,500,00® in 5 years. 9. As a general rule, no. 10. About 300,000. His Attraction Judge—But, madam, how could you marry a man you knew to be a burgler? Witness—Oh, your honor, he was so quiet in the house. You say “I think” ten times a day. Or fifteen times, or twenty And even more. 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