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DARE COUNTY TIMES % lOL. V; NO. 18 MANTEO, N. C., NOVEMBER 3, 1939 Single Copy 5c kVE LINDQUIST >IAY MOVE INTO DARE COUNTY CIRCULATION MANAGER DARE COUNTY TIMES BOTH SAME AGE Iwedish Engineer and Wife ] Consider Taking Up Caro lina Resodence David Lindquist, the vigorous i ‘ief engineer of the Otis Elevator •'O', of New York and his wife, are | jonsidering coming to Dare County make their home, so friends oe- leve—that is, if and when Ivir. 'indquist retires. The Lindquists their 3,000 acre Bodie Island ihooting property very much, and 'D. Lindquist for many years has 'een one of Dare County’s most aithful taxpayers and unknown to general public, has assisted 'any worthy causes. Shunning publicity, and living j [much to themselves because they extremely busy people, the | Lindquists now welcome a chance' get away for a rest. They will come to Dare County the day be fore the hunting season opens, No vember 13, and will remain until S ends. While at Bodie Island, fhey are usually visited by many frienus, and Mr. Lindquist usually comes 'fo Manteo to dine with some of his local acquaintances. Both he anu Mrs. Lindquist express themselves as being delighted with the cour- f®sy and cooperation that have been accorded them in Dare County. They say they enjoy their Bodie Island trips fully as much as in their own Westchester County (N. Y) home, \vhere their big stone house set in its beautiful 25 acre grounds is one of the most inter esting residences in that richest of all residential areas in America. But the Lindquists live modestly, hke all truly great people. There is no ridiculous show of extrava gance. Mf. Lindquist chops wood for exercise and his wife will be fpund busy with sewing and knit ting. She is as capable and re sourceful no doubt as her Swedish ancestors who looked well after their own households with spinning ivheel and loom. And she spends much time in social activities in Westchester County, while Mr. Lindquist is in New York busy at' The Hooker Clock and the purchaser's daughter, Mrs. Nancy Meekins of Manteo, are both the same age, 73, and both are still, going strong. Mrs. Leone George of Norfolk has written a letter to the Times about this old clock. Read it in this week’s Mailbag, and write us a letter yourself about old times or new ideas, or write to tell us what you like about our newspaper and what you don’t like. We enjoy hearing from our readers. MAN BADLY CUT SATURDAY NIGHT PERRY ARRESTED Collington Boy Charged With Slashing WPA Camp Man GUY LENNON TO BUILD MODERN TOURIST PLACE MISS CO-Ra BARKSDALE this week takes over the management of circulation and advertising for the [Plans 21 Room Facility, With Restaurant North of Nags Head If plans that have recently been D^re County Timeran^wlirTravel!^ for H Lennon of Man- through the counties of Currituck, 1‘eo go through without any hitches, Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell in the in terest of The Times and The Hyde County Herald, its companion news paper. Miss Barksdale comes to this the finest tourist center on the North Carolina coast will shortly be built on the beach just north of Nags Head, and near the Parkersoii . .i.»A10KP W —~ newspaper from the Wilson Daily | o e . Times. She has had much experi-1 Mr. Lennon plans to build 21 ence in advertising work, having i rooms in a group of tourist cot- been either advertising manager tages, with private bath, and ^team or saleswoman for three broadcast- heat for year round use. They will ing stations, and was two years in be grouped about a large and at- circulation and advertising on the tractive dining room, wdth concrete Decatur Daily, an Alabama news-j parking facilities. The group of paper in a town of 15,000 people.' cottages will compare with the late She is a native of Alabama, has' type houses now appearing along taught salesmanship, studied jour- the country’s main highways, and nalism and advertising and took ■ are comparable with accommoda- courses under an editor of the Bir- tions in the best of hotels, mingham News Age-Herald, a The public is not content to stop newspaper of 110,000 circulation. at the outmoded type of board — [houses one finds at many filling ' stations these days. Hence Mr. I Lennon’s faith in making a large investment in giving the counTy LISTING OF TAXES BEGINS JANUARY UNDER NEW LAW Under the new state law, list- . . •. I ing of real estate and personal - office, or f^JLing to engmeermg i property, heretofore as of April 1 year, will take place during the month of January. accommodations to help^iare for its growing tourist business. “MERCIFUL COURT” LAST WEEK IN DARE COUNTY folk about mathematical problems. How he got to be chief engineer of the Otis Elevator, where he be- gan work some 30 years ago, and himself eventually boss of the fuan who fired him three times in a V’eek, is a most interesting story. But now in his sixties he is still go- ’Ug strong and can do as much Work with a gun as any sportsman who comes to Dare County to .hunt. SOMEBODY TOOK MY PANTS 'No Conviction by Jury; Nol Pros I Entered in Two Cases of I Nuisance Charges Herbert Ambrose dies List takers for Dare County will be appointed at the meeting of the | term of court in Dare Couu- Dare County Commissioners in ^vhich concluded last Friday has December. There is ‘ ' some talk this year of appointing apprais-jjjj cases nol pros entries were ers to go to every place in the ■ and in three cases county and fairly value the prop- ^fendants were found not erty, as there is much need of this ixirere were no convictions. the ffe- guilty. Shirley (Red) Johnson of WPA Camp Duck is in Camp Wright Hospital, Roanoke Island, badly slashed from “yur to ^ur” as the saying goes. Raymond Perry, Collington man, fisherman who has two small children, and expects another soon, is charged with cutting Johnson in an affray. at Morrisette’s filling station at' the Currituck bridge Saturday j night. I Perry was arrested Tuesday in a warrant sworn out on complaint made to the Sheriff, and admitted to Deputy E. S. Wise he did the cutting. He said he was set upon by several others and defended himself as best he could. Involved in the affray were Wal ter and Joe Midgett along with several others. 'I'he case will be heard before Judge Baum Tuesday. Johnson and a companion, Charlie Moore, both Camp Duck workers, found that the “Welcome” sign painted on a sh£d near the Currituck bridge didn't mean what it said. Moore became in volved in an argument about who was the better sailor, or a marine, and in the course of the argument he tossed the man who disagreed with him into the sound. Whether it was this same man or another who attacked “Red” Johnson, Moore does not know, but shortly after the ducking, an assailant slashed through Moore’s coat and shirt sleeve and cut a deep gash in “Red” Johnson’s cheek, although Johnson had had no part in the argument. Moore said that most of the men on the grounds had been drinking. There is no hospital at Camp Duck, so Moore had his injured companion taken about 30 miles to the hospital at Camp Wright. Johnson was bleeding badly and Moore held a shirt against his cheek to help stop the flow, but the injured man fainted a num ber of times before the hospital was reached, 'When they came to Manteo late that night, Nell Hardison, Camp Wright nurse, was summoned .and she with two assistants, sewed up the gash. Whoever took my pants from the back seat of my car last Saturday night can have the matching coat and vest by coming to the Dare County Times office for them. The coat and vest are no good to me without the pants, and if you need a suit that bad I want to donate the rest of it. Just show' me the pants for identification and you can have the coat and vest with no questions asked. HARRY BROOKS. LOCAL PEOPLE LOUD IN CONDEMNING STONES AS AN UNMITIGATED FAKE Georgia Professor’s “Find” Laughed at As Being Too Ridiculous For an Idiot to Con sider; Wondering What Colleges Are Com ing to When Its Leaders Give Consideration to Preposterous Claims BOXER DANIELS FIGHTS RABIN IN NORFOLK MONDAY IS MANAGING EDITOR DARE COUNTY TIMES ON WAY TO A DOCTOR being done, due to improper listing, causing the county to lose a great deal each year in untaxed proper ty. Herbert M. Ambrose, who w'as 38 years old, died Tuesday while Lis brother George w'as taking him to a doctor. He lived at Buffalo Gity and was a State Game Ward- He had served also as list taker and judge of elections. Strick- suddenly with a heart attack, he ''’as being taken to Elizabeth City, ^nd died near Sligo. He was the son of the late Webb and Victoria Ambrose of Buffalo pty, Dare County. He is survived Ly the follow’ing brothers and sis ters: Geo. W. and Lee Ambrose of Buffalo City, Mrs: Bennie Basnight Elizabeth City and Mrs. Delever Sawyer of Columbia. Funeral and interment were at East Lake Methodist churchyard Thursday afternoon. 'VAVES MERCHANT RECOVERS FAIRFIELD SCHOOL CLOSED BECAUSE SCARLET FEVER Upon the advice of Dr. N. P. Fitts, assistant district health of ficer, the Fairfield school w’as closed Had Ras Westcott pleaded not guilty, to a charge of operating illegal slot machines, he would Maynard Daniels • fans in this section will have a chance to see the Wanchese heavyweight fight Nick Rabin In Norfolk next Mon day night. In another part of the Times is a letter from Eddie Ross, Daniels’ manager, in which he sums up the chances of Dan iels and his opponent. Since he has turned professional the 22-year-old North Carolina fighter has won many of his fights by early knockouts. Of 13 recent, four have gone to eight rounds and been won by decis ions in Daniels’ favor. These were with Nick Habin, his opponent next Monday, Jim Schwimmer, Tom Vetra and Mickey Dugan. Daniels knocked out Howard Landgraffe in the sixth round, Jim Costello in the fifth, Joe Cas par and Joe Sofi in the third, Billi Marion, Joe Jackson and Jim Ferrara in the second, and Jim Williams and Jake Friedman in the first. The 196-pound North Carolina bo.xer is being groomed for an eventual ring clash wdth Patrick Edward Cominsky, according to manager Eddie Ross. Cominsky is a New York favorites at the present time. Arrangements were made for a Daniels-Cominsky fight last week, but a change of promoters for Cominsky altered plans. A BELOVED FRIEND OF ' DARE COUNTY PASSES A beloved friend of Dare County have been found not guilty had the died Tuesday night. Dr. Robert jury run true to form during the Brent Drane, D. D., known to Roan- rest of the term. But believing oke Islanders for half a century be- several highway patrolmen were cause of his interest in the history going to swear they had operated of the Raleigh settlements, died at illegal machines belonging to the age of 88, in Watts Hospital, Mr. Westcott, his attorney entered Durham. a plea of nolo contendre, which is 1 Dr. Drane was the- remaining one Goods lost on the road While destined to the store of C. A- Midgett, merchant of Waves (South Rodanthe), N. C., Friday, a amount of goods fell off the of a truck, and was picked up some Currituck boys named Grain who had been down the beach Selling potatoes. They left a bag of sugar at Ore- Son Inlet Coast Guard station, and Upon a report being issued that ’'dore stuff was missing a call wms ®6nt the Sheriff at Manteo, who Sent Officer Dowdy to await the arrival of the truck at the Whale bone Filling Station as the boys eame up the beach. _ They turned over to .him a good Sized box of merchandise, which "’as shipped that night to Mr. Mid gett. The goods recovered was as follows: Eiye boxes assorted candies, one carton rooster snuff, 2 cartons star Soda crackers, 8 cans Old Dutch cleanser, one package lunch biscuit, half gross Prince Albert tobacco, °ae package Dentyne gum; one package fish .hook tobacco, tw’o packages spark plug' tobacco, one Lox of cigars. One package of candy showed several bars missing, ptherwise the packages appeared intact. ■A. search of the truck revealed Ho other merchandise. No arrests "’ere made. this week due to the presence in the community of tw'o cases of scarlet fever. Two other cases were recently reported in the Sladesville section. The closing of the Fairfield school was suggested as a means of caution as Dr. Fitts says scarlet fever is extremely contagious and frequently is followed by serious complications. Dr. Fitts advises everyone to ob- serve the utmost care in visiting! g ‘’xitty Hawk congested areas or places during manslaughter was the next few weeks. “If anyone complains of a sore throat or of a skin rash on the body, they should report to their family doctor at once. Also,” he urged, “if there is any suspicion that the ailment is contagious, re port it to the health department at Swan Quarter.” the same as saying guilty, but with j of ,a group of old timers w.ho form- no means of defense. So he was ed the Roanoke Colony Memorial fined $50 and costs. The judge said Association, bought and marked if he operated another illegal ma- [ the site of Fort Raleigh. He was chine within three years, it would distinguished because of his 66 call for a three months’ road sen-[years of service as the Rector of fence. | Old St. Paul’s Episcopal church in In the face of a strong battle on ' Edenton, his only charge during his the part of the state, juries found ! entire career. His funeral at Eden- “not guilty” in three cases; Eph. ,t°n largely attended.^ Mann, of Nags Head, charged with] He was likewise distinguished driving while drunk; Linwood Til- hecau.se of his family. He is sur- lett of Kitty Hawk the same. Carl vived by the following sons and charged daughters: Brent S. Drane .of also ac- Washington, D. C., IMrs. J. C. Webb quitted. ' of Hillsboro, Mrs. Trank P. Gra- Cases against Billy Tillett of ham of Chapel Hill, Dr. Robt. Wanchese, and Mrs. Mary Midgett Drane of Savannah, Mrs. Bennett of Manns Harbor were nol prossed; H. Perry of Henderson, Rev. Fred which means the prosecution may Drane of Monroe. His wife was be taken up at any time later. Miss Mary Skinner of Edenton, should there be further complaints di^ about 18 yoar^ agm that the places are disorderly. QUINN’S TO HOLD A BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT PARTY Elizabeth City Store to Give Away Merchandise Worth $500 December 21st Of much interest to Dare County people is the announcement by the Quinn Furniture Company, well known firm headed by a Dare County man, S. W. Twiford, and employing many people from this section, will give away $500 worth of merchandise at its Christmas gift party planned for December 21st at the Elizabeth City store. The gifts include one all porce lain cooking range, a Sellers kit chen cabinet, a five-piece dinette suite, one solid mahogany colonial rocker, two 9x12 Gold Seal Con- goleum rugs, one Brandt Cocktail table and one Ezra Storm mat tress. By clipping the ad which appear ed in the Dare County Times, and sending it with name and address to Quinn’s one may participate in the drawing of gifts. IMISS ELAINE JOHNSON, who [falls short of the quarter century jmark is now the managing editor of the Dare County Times, and general manager of the Times [Printing Company business at (Manteo. Miss Johnson came to ; the Times Printing Company in the [spring of this year from Minne- ;apolis, Minnesota, because she 'wrote a letter with no words mis- ' spelled. That is a feat to appeal to [anyone in the printing business. ; W.hen she landed in Manteo with I its customs much different from the i lands of .her Austrian, English and (Scandinavian ancestry, and the re- igion of its adoption, she quickly adapted herself to it. She soon liked [the country and the people of North ■Carolina, .and being level-headed, land industrious, and capable, s.he ,had no trouble in holding her job ihere. Miss Johnson filled a much I needed gap in the printing plant, at khe time of the illness of Mrs. Vic tor Meekins, when she came wit' ' uUe business about May 1 and took Ihold. She was born on August [18th, Virginia Dare’s birthday. She [studied journalism at the Univer sity of Minnesota, advertising eopy- w-riting at the Y. M. C. A. evening school, and typography at the Minneapolis School of Art. She gained her first practical experi ence with the Minneapolis Journal, a large daily newspaper, where she [did society reuorting, book review ing, and library work. She is an entertaining writer and her work I has appeared in several newspa- 'pers and magazines. She majored [in history and Engiis’n at Macales BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES LITERARY SOCIETY OFFICERS ELECTED Officers for the Manteo hig’n school literary society were elected this morning. Miss Dorothy Meek ins is the new president; Natlian Payne is vice-president; Rhoda Cudworth, secretary treasurer, Mrs. G. T. 'Westcott, chaplain; Miss Helen Evans, critic; and Miss Hol land Westcott, music director. Dolan Gaskill of F.atteras was awarded a divorce from Agnes Gaskill, and is required to support his son in the amount of $25 a month. Judge Baum’s ruling with respect to the case of Reuben Eth The passing of Dr. Drane is uni versally mourned. Held For Murder Rocky Mount—A Nash County coroner’s jury ordered Short A. eridge was sustained to the extent: Stickland held in connection with of $20 a month which he must pay the death of his wife by a shot gun for the support of his child in Nor- .October 11. folk. Mrs. Elmer Midgette entertained NAGS HEAD SCENE WINS PRIZE FOR MRS. SELDEN A linoleum cut of a scene at Nags Headj entitled “The Old Pir ate’s House,” won a first prize for Mrs. Samuel Selden in the art di vision of the State fair at Raleigh. Mrs. Selden also won another first prize for a water color por trait of Wilnah Lambeth of Elon College, who is the artist’s sister. Miss Sadie Hendley returned re- the bridge club Wednesday night, cently from Cedar Hill where she and served chicken salad with ttended the funeral of her mother, crackers and cheese and hot c.hoco- Mrs. Mary Gaddy Hendley. | late. Present were: Mrs., Frank ^ ' White, Mrs. Raymond Wescott, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hayman had Mrs. McCoy Tillett, Mrs. Vernon the following week end guests: Davis, Mrs. Alice May Etheridge, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Basnight, New and Misses Delnoy Burrus and York City, C. J. Barnard and Mae Mary Mann Evans. Mrs. Davis Yule, Atlantic Beach, L. I., Mrs. B. won head prize, a set of Madeira H. Cartwright and Mrs. Alice Bar- napkins; Camden, N. C. nard. Mrs. E. K. Richardson is visiting friends in Suffolk, Va. Swap Miss Lida Wilkinson left today for Richmond and plans to return Monday. [ The Federal Surplus Commod'- ! ties Corporation has been author- Mrs. Sam Shiller spent the week ized to buy corn meal and grits end in Norfolk visiting her hus- from processors who agree to buy band, who returned to his work an equivalent amount of loan corn there after spending the previous from the Commodity Credit Cor- week end in Manteo. jporation. Manteo: Council meeting to night at 7:30 for study course. Bible School Sunday morning at 10 o’clock and followed at 11:00 o’clock with worship service. B. T. U. at 6:30 P. M. Choir practice Tuesday evening at 7 and 8 o’clock. Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 7:30. The week following the 12th of this month Dr. Fi-ank T. Woodard, a returned mission ary from China will be here to conduct a school of missions. This series of services should touch every age group. We want you to hear Dr. Woodardi Roanoke Island: Sunday morn ing, Bible School at 10 o’clock. B. T. U. at 6:30 P. M. Worship service at 7:30 P. M. We invite you to all our services. C. C. PERRY, Pastor. ter College, St. Paul. When you have been long bedeviled and plagued by the things that are in cident to all country newspaper of fices, you can readily appreciate having a gal like Miss Johnson get [on the job. BRADFORD FEARING IMPROVING RAPIDLY “OPEN WIDE” SEASON REOPENED WEDNESDAY After two months without a den tist, Manteo is to be visited weekly again by Dr. H. E. Butler, of Eliza beth City, who will have his office in Room' 111 of the Hotel Fort Raleigh. Dr. Butler’s Manteo practice will start again ■-Wednes day. The fire in September burned down Dr. J. C. Weeks’ office, where Dr. Butler had been treating his patients. When a reporter phoned Senator D. Bradford Pearing’s house short ly before this paper went to press, Mr. Fearing answered the tele phone himself and informed us that he was feeling better all the time and was eager to get down town and catch up with the new’s again. He expressed himself as appreciating the many cards sent him ' and being very grateful for all the expressions of interest in his condition. U. S. ARMY BUGLE FREE FOR A LITTLE WORK Any boy who desires a new U. S. regulation Army bug’e, the kind that sells for up to eight dollars, may obtain one free for a little work. If he ■'vill get $10 worth of sub.scripti,ons, among his friends and neighbors, to either the Dare Coun tv Times or the Hyde County Herald, send them in promptly, the bugle will be sent po.stpaid by re turn mail. Now is the time for the scouts to get busy. (Please turn to Page Eight) [he Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing^ the Cape Hatteras National Seashore | An Associated Press report dated from Gainesville, Georgia, is being hooted in Northeastern North Carolina this week. It is a repetition of an old story that the Lost Colony, including Eleanor Dare went from Roanoke Island to Georgia, and a number of stones with inscriptions purporting to tell the story are coming forth under the auspices of President H. J. Pearce of Brenau College, and his Junior son of Emory University. A total of 24 stones are said to have been found, carved with in formation about the Lost Colony. Victor Meekins, who said he saw the first Georgia stone at the Geor gia exhibit in the New York World Pair, thinks the stone a crude hoax by which the amiable professor was taken in. Other local people express mystification at a college professor being so gullible. “Had the colony ever gone to Georgia, or South Carolina,” they argue, “it doesn’t seem reasonable they would have lugged along en gravers and stones. Neither would they have assumed that other Englishmen would have chanced upon them in forests so remote And anyway, why go so far, and how, on foot and destitute?” We do not consider the story worth further comment, but are reprinting the ridiculous story to show what lengths people will go in order to get publicity. Gainesville, Ga., Oct. 28—AP— A crudely cut diary in stone, pur portedly left by the mother of Virginia Dare, led historians to North Georgia’s mountains today to hunt solution to the mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh’s vanished col ony of Roanoke Island. President H. J. Pearce, of Bre nau College, and his son, Dr. H. J. Pearce, Jr., Emory University pro fessor of history, disclosed discov ery of 10 new stones bearing on the lost colony, bringing to 24 the. total number found in three States since September. 1937. If authentic, the historians said, the newly discovered stones indi cate that seven survivors of the colony, ihcluding Eleanor Dare, daughter of the colony’s governor, John W’hite, migrated from a pre vious site near the Saluda River in Greenville County, S. C., where 13 other stones were found, to the Chattahooche River in North Georgia, where they lived at least two years. The last stones bear dates of 1591, 1592 and 1593. The Saluda River stones, which indicated burial of 64 persons slain by Indians, mentioned intention of the surviving colonists to proceed southwe.stward. The Shattahoochee stones, like those on the Saluda, are soapstone ' and granite, with lettering, spell- [ ing and idiom conforming to i Elizabethan times. , Ciioi okce Village Existe'I I Each stone is signed by Eleanor i Dare, whose daughter, Virghjia, was the first white child bom in [ America. On one she instructs I her father to “looke 5 dae backe I trale” for buried colonists. This 1 the historians estimatn, would ! have been about the site of the ‘ Saluda River stones. I On another stone, Eleanor in structs her father to show mercy to the savages “west of hill where Ananias (her husband) and Vir ginia slayne.” But she tells him on another that “thee accurse .sav- ' age ease (east) of the hil they hab I slayne al save seaven,” and a.sks her father for revenge. Virginia , apparently was four years old at the time of the massilcre. Historical records show existence of a Cherokee village on the west and a Sioux village on the east of the Greenville County site. White left Roanoke Island Au- guest 27. 1587. and it was not un’il Augu,st 15, 1580. that he was able to return. He found only a de serted stockade with the word “Cvoatan” cut on the doorway. No other trace of the lost group ever was found until 1937, wljsn a tourist discovered a granite slab in North Carolina mirpnrting to be a mesage from Eleanor to I't father, saying savages had slain all but seven. Perhaps the most poignant me.s- i or hase ^hen very iten> used [ft, ath’s I have I 5 r old and is K -r*7 iiin^Tun.
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