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THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
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The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore—^
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VOL. V; NO. 3
MANTEO, N. C., JULY 21, 1939
Single Copy 5c
FIRST DISTRICT I. 0. 0. F.
CONVENES WITH LOCAL
FERNANDO FAILS TO DISSUADE COLONISTS
LODGE NEXT MONDAY
Orphans Concert Climaxes Day’s Events;
Singing Class Touring Many Other Towns
in Dare and Adjoining Counties; Many
Notable Oddfellows to Visit Manteo
The Virginia Dare Lodge No. 3,;
•of the I. O. O. F. will be hosts to
representatives of the First Distric.
Odd Fellows of North Carolina
when the group convenes here Mon
day. R. E. White, of Manteo, who
is president of the First District,
will open the convention at 10 a. m.
in the Pioneer Theatre.
Chaplain T. J. Wilder, Edenton,
viil give the scripture reading and
McABEE, FHA DIRECTOR
WELL KNOWN IN DARE
will ijAVV' —
prayer and the visiting members
LOST COLONY’S lOOTH
PERFORMANCE TO COME ^
m
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OFF TOMORROW NIGHT
irt
Bill Sharpe, State News Man, M^rites About
the Miracle of the Success of Paul Green’s
Great Drama Which Has a Success Equal to
a Broadway Performance j
a-
SAYS ISLAND FAR FROM
POVERTY STRICKEN
By
The
will be welcomed by J. E. F^erebee
of Manteo. Responding to his mes-1
sage will be Deputy Grand Mastei
H. V. Beamon of Gatesville.
Afternoon Session
The Rebekahs will hold a sepa
rate business meeting in the^
morning but both gro^ips will meet,
together in the afternoon for ad-,
dresses by Grand Master R. Y •,
Pate, Goldsboro, Grand Secretary;
John W. Clapp, Burlington, and,
Past Grand Secretary H. A. Hoi-1
«tead, Mooresville. Mr. Beamon,!
Past Grand Master C. G. Smith, | ^^BREY G. McCABE, now state
Goldsboro, and M. P. Jennings, ofi the Federal Housing
Elizabeth City also will have parts | Administration wdth offices in
on the program. Mr. Jennings is
the Trustee of the Home for Or
phans at Goldsboro w'.hioh is sup
ported by the I. O. 0. F.
^^Hh consecutive performance of Paul Green’s histoiical drama The Lost Colony at the Waterside
Theatre, Ma.,^g^ Roanoke Island, North Carolina, is marked Saturday, July 22. In the above scene, the
Pilot F'einando „jgg to persuade the colonists not to go to Roanoke Island for Sir Walter Raleigh.
KENNEDY iqME
CHORUS SngS
HERE SUioaY
MEET TOM FEARING ! TWO THOUSAND
AND HIS WHISKERSj COLORED PEOPLE
The Kennedy Home High
chorus, which has broadcast
many of the radio stations of ^
state, is scheduled to sing at eigil
o’clock Sunday evening at the Man
teo Baptist church, but will arrive'
Saturday to take in The Lost Col-|
ony.
The 43-meniber chorus has a i
invit-
Orphans Sing
Ten members of the home will
give an eight o’clock concert in the
Manteo school building as a climax
to the day’s activities. These boys
and girls are expected Sunday to
■see The Lost Colony, which comes
as a break in a full singing sched-
^\_Qrjflini53LItflLlUll v>ini. X flG
Greensboro, North Carolina is well repertoire and has been
remembered by the people of 11 three consecutive years to
the coast country.
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Fishing
and all
Out Doors
-By—
Aycock Brown
Authority on Fishing News
A quarter ox a gj^g'before the annual State Bap-
century ago, when our folks ; tist convention. Miss Verna Blow,
to go to Elizabeth City in their ^ ^ggQjnpanist, has made many of the
boaPsTo buy goods, they became j jjjygjgal arrangements. To give va-
acquainted with this lad, who grew; the program, trio and sex-
up in the store of his father, the | numbers have been planned by
late Jos. T. McCabe, who was one pij-gg^gr pat Alderman, who is also
of the most popular and able mer- j ggoutmaster for one of the home’s
chants of his day. When he was troops. According to j
barely in his majority, the folks of ^ Superintendent J. C. Hough, “Music,
Elizabeth City drafted him to runip^^ scoutinsr have almost removed',
for Mayor, and he served in that major discipline problems from
office from 1924 to 1925. For six institution.” j
years, he was associated as partner | j^^gju^g^ jn the list of numbers
in the business of his father, ^^'Ch group are: “Sanctus”
he sold to the Belk Department «send Out Thy Light” by Gou-
stores in 1935. He then became Heavens Resound” and
connected with the Federal Housing 1, jjg q Qod” by Beethoven,
connected with the Federal Housing q Qod” by Beethoven,
Administration as field representa- Tgrfj-g prayer” Forsyth-Kraft,
,lv.,or E.SI.™ Novtl. Carol,na. " MoS Holy.. FraLt, "Lar-
EXPECTED TODAY
Two thousand Negroes from var-,
ious parts of the country are ex
pected to take part in the observ
ance of second annual Negro Day
of Paul Green’s historical drama
The Lost Colony at the Waterside
Theatre here Friday, July 21, ac
cording to an announcement made
From his home in far away Mis-
.raifc oy. 0..1 f fiouri, whcrc he is a department
by Dr. Janies E Shepherd Presi- University at
dent of tne North Carolina College ^ ttt-h. /-.
for Negroes. , Columbia, Dr. William C. Ether-
The special day set aside at the i^ge, a native of Roanoke Island,
request of leading Carolina figures, writes to take exception to a re
including Governor Clyde R. Hoey, cent reference in Time magazine
is sponsored by a number of Negro about the status of Roanoke Island
leaders in addition to Dr. Shepherd, ,g before Lost Colony began.
They are: Dean J. L. Tilley, of the „ , u- u
reli^on department at Shaw Uni- Etheridge remembers his boy-
versity; Mrs. L. B. Yancey, presi- hood on Roanoke Island, when folks
dent of the State Negro Parent lived neighborly, had plenty of the
Teachers’ Association; and Dr. N. necessities of life, and shared free
_ , —
C. Newbold, director of the division jy ^[tb their friends.
BILL SHARPE
Dare County Is accustomed to
miracles and the celebrations there
of, but on July 22 it will celebrate
one which was forecast, thrice (L .j,
nied, and persevered. 5
On that night Roanoke Island’s
own play, The Lost Colony, will
presented for the 100th time.
One hundred performances /^
major spctacle involving 300 ^ ll
pie constitutes a success even onl
Broadway, with its millions of
clients. On Roanoke Island it be
comes a miracle, matching almost
the story of Virginia Dare itself, or
the miraculous flight of the Wright
Brothers at nearby Kill Devil Hills.
For Roanoke Island is as
from Broadway as any place in this
land can be. It is 75 miles Iron
the nearest town, and it is a good '
90 miles from Norfolk, Virginia,
which ranks as a metropolis in this
scale. Furthermore it is on an Is
land which is just as poor or as
rich as a fishing village can be in
hard times and good.
And yet Roanoke Island’s
which originally was writtei
Paul Green for the 350th Vi.
Dare anniversary celebration, i^_,
compelling, and the staging is so
spectacular, and the setting so be
witching that it would not die.
After the first season—in 1937—
the Islanders, who themselves were
bewitched by the play, decided to
present the performances again in
1938. More people came to the
show in 1938 than in 1937. This
year began the “permanent” per-
icians,
Eliza-
xmbia,
n, and
^ part
Fort
nd an-
•ations
of the
reason
-eld to
repre
judges,
-fleers,
other
.11 offl-
1
.es with
aq altru-
,eir music
the New
jn asked
•e funds,
I body,
it Col-
ingsters
concert,
has _an-
n will be-
While
of the
Associa-
’^he Lost
of Negro education in the state de- jjge doesn’t recall .his homefolks as
hare ree foj-mance of Green’s brilliant play.
Dr. Ether-
, , • J onfpr the “O Lord Most Holy’ Franck, Ear
when he resigned to enter th “Hallelujah Chorus” by
mortgage loan field as correspond- go and Haiiemja
If the guides' and inn keepers
along the coast think they have had
an increase in business this year,
they have a still bigger surprise in
1940, because instead of slacking
up in 1940, the State Division of
Advertising, with its news bureau
under the direction of Bill Sharpe
plan to keep plugging in a big and
bigger way the fishing available in
this state—especially the big game
species off the coast.
If you are a guide and have not
gotten your share of the new busi
ness which involves the big game
and Gulf Stream fishing—^its be
cause you are not properly equipped
to take care of the parties who
want to go off to the blue waters
of the Gulf. Those in the Beau-
fort-Morehead City, Cape Lookout,
Southport, Hatteras and Manteo
areas who are prepared to take
anglers off to the Gulf Stream have
been experiencing one of the best
and most lucrative seasons since
this type of fishing off North Caro
lina first began only a few years
ago.
This week from Bill Sharpe, head
of the State News bureau came, a
request to this columnist asking if
it would be possible to have some
of the boatmen and guides .along
the central Carolina coast equipped
for deep sea fishing to go to the
Southport area and base for awhile.
In the Southport area, Sharpe
wrote, there was a shortage of Gulf
Stream fishing boats—those al-
ent for several insurance compan
ies, maintaining his office in Wil
son, N. C. Mr. McCabe is vice-
president and a member of the
Board of Directors of the Norfolk
& Carolina Telephone & Telegraph
Company, w.hich operates the Man
teo exchange. He was educated at
the Elizabeth City High School and
the University of North Carolina.
The coastal people in whose hearts
the McCabes hold a high place are
much pleased at his advancement.
Handel, “Recessional,” Kipling-De-
Koven, The Oratorio “Redeemer”
Dickinson, “The Crucifixion,” Stain
er, many numbers by Shelley and
several Bach Chorals.
GIRL BORN TO TILLETTS
A nine-anJ^'a^alf pound daugh
ter was bom Sunday evening to
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Tillett of
Wanchese.
CLAM BAKE
Fred Howard and Wheeler Fields
were hosts to 20 of their friends at
,a clam bake Monday night on Nags
Head Beach.
KUNCHS HAVE DAUGHTER
A daughter weighing nine pounds
was bom Monday morning to Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Kunch of Manns
Harbor. Mother and baby are do
ing nicely.
NEGROES involved IN BOLD MOYOCK
BANK ROBBERY STILL ELUDE POLICE
The first Roanoke Islander
take seriously the advice they
■should grow beards and long hair
to play in the Lost Colony, is
Thomas Fearing, the popular son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fearing.
Here he is, playing the part of
Ralph Lane as he prepares to kill
the Indian chief Wingina. Thi.s
shedding of blood started all the
trouble between the whites and the
qatives. From, a scene in Paul
dreen’s historical drama The Lost
Colony which marks its 100th con
secutive performance at the Water-
■side Theatre, Manteo, Roanoke Is
land, North Carolina, Saturday,
July 22. It opened as a non-profit
summer attraction, as part of the
350th anniversary historical cele
bration here, July 4, 1937.
sented nightly, except Monday and
Tuesday, through Sept. 4.)
partment of public instruction. being “obscure and poverty strick-
Four outstanding Negro choruses en” as the “Time” writer \vould
will be featured during the exer- have it. And he cites some very
pes. Two hundred singers will good reasons why the term never
£e from experienced choruses of did apply to our folks. He says: •
anSm, Raleigh, Elizabeth City “Now of course we were obscure
gr,r.fyiteo. They will sing a pro- in the sense of our remoteness and
tales. Negro spirituals and lyric isolation, but \ve certainly were
bv a qui program will be opened iiot poverty-stricken in a relative
Weldon from the late James sense. By comparison with many
Man.” -son’s “Creation of millions of people, particularly
to
share-croppers and tenant farmers
Other spon. ! farm regions, and by com-
include Mrs. L° program industrial work-
Professional andhe Ralston, of gj.g^ along very well even
WPA, Atlanta; Frzice projects^jjgngh jj^d no money. There
gional Director of \^entley. Re-! certainly were no rich among us
Mrs. May E. CampbeLeducation; ^nd very few well-to-do, but in the
tor WPA professiona *“6 direc- native art of living we were very
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morriss,ojects; successful as compared with at
rector of adult education; an di-^ least half of the people of the
Lucille Purser, area supervilrs. United States today. The article in
the adult education prograif ^ question gives the term “poverty-
North Carolina. stricken” an untrue implication
— -hich might well be corrected.”
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A ConneticuO^
J who held Dort issued from the bank yester-
Three Cuni-Iday was $2,245, which amount was
up and ™bbed the Bank of Cum_ day, insurance.
tuck in Moyock of $ , n„pr Sll.OOO. which was in a strong
day morning, were still eluding
police today, although an abandon
ed automobile found in Princess
Anne County in Virginia, Wednes
day, has been identified .as the one
used by the Negroes in their get
away.
The automobile, which had been
reported stolen by A. W. Temples,
of Portsmouth, was identified by
operatives. A bank-
Over $11,000, which was in a strong
box outside the vault and controlled
by a time lock, was left unmolest
ed. Nor was any attempt made
to rob W. H. Creekmore, Moyock
merchant and E. A. Pendleton of
Powells Point, the customers who
.had come into the oank to make
deposits.
Because of the similiarity of
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
Manteo: Bible School Sunday
morning at 9:30. B. T. U. at 7
p m. followed with musical progra.m
given by High School Chorus of the
Kennedy Home of our Baptist Or
phanage. Choir practice each
Tuesday evening at 7 and 8 o’clock.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 8 o’clock. Ordinance of baptism
will be performed Sunday afternoon
at 3 at the Fort.
Roanoke Island: Bible school
Sunday morning at 9:30. No wor
two F B. 1. operatives. .n. pi...- | -— — . . . .i,
note, bearing the legend, “Bank of jing on the case, suspicioned the
Currituck” was understood to have, t^j-ee Negroes who robbed the
been found in the abandoned auto- gf Currituck, as being the ones
mobile. Police are attempting jast Friday afternoon, held
„ - obtain fingerprint evidence from j Norfolk Feed Store and ob-
ready based there being booked for | (^^j^ed a little over $100.
week's aliead. The Central Coast second time in their ex-1 It was at first reported that a
area is experiencing the same situ- Smith, cashier, and fourth Negro had been left wait
ation so we wrote and suggested ^ ^ Thome his assistant, wit-
that he (the State News Bureau)
contact the r and g editors of New
York papers, thinking that perhaps.
Because oi me I Sunday morning in
their tactics, Norfolk police, work- j ^j^g .^vorship hour at the
the deep sea boats which go to
Freeport each year might be avail
able. This Sharpe did—and wheth
er he is getting any encourage
ment Of co-operation from that sec
tor—I do not know.
One of the ways the State Ad
vertising Division tells the world
about the Carteret coast and the
rest of the North Carolina coast
and its fine fishing is through filler
sentences. A current release fol-
lows- ^ ^
ODDS AND ENDS: E. B. Crown
j. R. Thome, his assistant, wit
nessed a holdup when shortly after
11 o’clock on Tuesday three armed
Negroes entered the bank and,
flourishing pistols, ordered Mr.
Smith and Mr. Thorne to lie on the
floor back of the tellers cage. Two
lourxn xvegiu .iicp ppp..
inp- in the car while the three en- npi.ip —- -- -
ternd the bank, but this could not} gette, Sunday, July 16, ^ honor o
be determined definitely. The threei Mr. Midgette s 64th birthday.
who were seen in the bank were' The following children were pr -
described as wearing caps, one tall,Lent: Mr. and Mr^
one of medium height and the third i and Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie Midgette,
Ta litHe less than medium height. | Jr., of Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Win-
Fort.
C. C. Perry, Pastor.
To begin with, we are going to
insist that Victor Meekins print
this, although this little piece may
turn out to be a bit personal so far
as he is concerned. We encounter
ed the good sheriff of Dare County
at the Atlantic View Hotel in Hat
teras, at supper, and immediately
took a liking to him.
Since we had already planned to
come to Manteo to see The Lost
Lost Colony it was most fortunate
to be invited to make the trip up
with him. To those of you who
,1 have not made the ride on the
. ' beach, be assured that you have in
store at least one more experince in
life. Whether you drive on the
beach or in the sand ruts, it s
very fascinating business.
We have found Manteo a very
interesting and forward looking
town that should go places. Of
can pi-
Furth.
setting viiis has been done in
At five o’clock this morning, a
loud bump awoke me. My littlest
boy, age six, had fallen out of bed.
The two boys alternately sleep with
me, their mother being on a visit
with her parents.
The little boy’s consternation was
soon over, and he was sound asleep
But I was awake for the day.
not only realized I bad much to *o,
but that I was 42 years old. So I
got up, meanwhile meditating on
life and its responsibilities.
Forth-two years ago, the Span
ish-American war hadn’t been ' ■
fou^t, and folks remembering *' ' age, he seem-
3 Civil war of 32 years before, we» , had worke*
n was t
tr. 1.. ’ I.
oiks not to
cent after-
, of a man
n the pro-
,f the dis-
resounded
e state, his
lise him and
one thing
ame, and a
ncourage-
to profes-
1 his time,
trengtVi given
ical toil be baa
■er for mans
as the plaswe found as colorful probably saying there wouldn’t be"^'rticular day
feels some pf. Any person who any more war. Some of them are sultry, an'
saying it today, while many nation?
will sense thei our past history
senting this ston drama in pre
bears in the very^ur early fore-
created history cei. where they
The Waterside Ti, ago.
an achievement of itself is
beauty. We think it i&h-hewn
mirably to the presentati..j ^d-
large-scale outdoor producitj^ig
As a play, we do not thin
The Lost Colony is necessarn
This is, however.
are preparing for it and the pros
pects for war never seemed greatr.
Forty-two yars ago, the folks on
this island had no great wealth, but
most of them had a few dollars laid
aside for a rainy day. They were
not in debt, their credit was good
because they didn’t use it much.
Now all of us are in debt, so that a
forced settlement would wipe out
isn’t in
'1 T
ather ‘'“noT
••ares upo
11 an offi-.
.es. I hni
"TlSd'h W'^
.,y iinv'ai
out I'hn.
...oughi bf
...nust feol
ents wi;
masterwork. /[his is, .nowever, .
damning it with faint praise by ai.
means. ^Ye believe that it is de-
^ cidedly a good play with an inspir
ing lyrical quality in the writing.
FAMILY GATHERS TO ,u«.. —. —— = . ti,-
HONOR G. MIDGETTE; course the whole
V'iV'- - *.
community is flavored by the pag-
A family reunion was heia at tne eant performers. This circum
ordinary and makes it interesting
customers,”whr.happened“to enter]Mr. Smith and Mr. Tho™e said
th bank during the ten minutes i they were told they would suffer no
when the robbers were in posses- injury if no resistance were offered.
Sion, were ordered to do the same] In a similar holdup -witnessed by
thing. Expertly the Negroes pro-1 the same two bank officers t-welve
ceeded to rifle the vault and cash] years ago, the bandits also entered
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drawers and immediately escaped
to a waiting automobile, in which
the engine had been left running,
■and headed with all speed toward
Norfolk.
The total amount taken, in a re
in the morning, armed, and got
away with over $1000. They were
caught at the south end of the
Campostella bridge as they drove
into Norfolk immediately after the
robbery.
field W. Ballance of New London,
Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Davis,
just to be here.
Much has been written about tne
performance of The Lost Colony.
We should like to .add our two-cents
worth. Having been to the theatre
123 times on Broadway last season
Mrs Alice M.ae Etheridge and, we speak not as an novitiate.
Mis^ Inez Midgette of Manteo. This production
The erandchildren present were; nitely one of the most interest g
Guthrie^idgette III, Bill Pugh, Jr., experiments that has
Bettv Marie and Robert Oliver in American drama. To explain
Midgette of Norfolk; Carole Bal- j this further, we mean that The Lost
lance of New London, Conn.; Ches-, Colony has brought to a part o
ley Midgette of Buxton; Patrica; the country
Davis and Webb Etheridge, Jr., of (theatre, a sense ^® whmh
Manteo. in-the-flesh performance
It is also an entertaining play, full
of action, laughs and even a love
theme.
The staging represents a good
job as well—the performance moves
at such a fast pace that we had to
keep constantly on the alert to fol
low it all. We think that at some
future date amplifiers might be in
stalled since hearing might be diffi
cult in some of the rear rows.
We’d like to mention the two
■scenes that we thought most mov
ing. One, the death of the Indian
chief which is reproduced on the
cover of the progra,m, and the
other, the slow march of the colon
ists at the finale to join the Croatan
Indians, leaving their home forever.
Personally, we see no reason why
The Lost Colony should not con
tinue to be an annual national insti
tution in the summer time. An
irty-two years ago most anyone
^'.take off a week to attend the
meetings, or to sit up
bor.
up, ai
hind, if
ir night by a sick neigh-
,work was usually kept
help.
folks
Ti;
fellow’s crop got be-
housfe,,
trouble to call in
tice of visiting at
in vogue, anu .^y^s still
or re atives fre
popular and oft
mer more interest
I do not dwell on
hope of calling back^„^^^^
may call the good old
which had many disadvan
would be painfully appare..
now. The thing that runs tlSk
niy mind is how many of the
things of life we are missing
cause everyone has to work so haru
pt! grea
Ac T s
nn I'iim, 'c
mble you
, of Die-'
de of
e lack
who w>
ors or iea
le^
ng. IJ
rbt he
j 1 that t
bp Bplnorq
has done
•aining. d
so, T rer
bein”''!
. And b
d some
courage
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to
ret a living, and even at that
most folks are usually in debt.
As one grows older, be finds the
years more crowded, not only with
I know
hides ai
Y oro n
lies. '
woi
but responsibilities. And
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Age
Si