THE DARE
The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing: the Cape Hatteras National Seashore
VOL. V; NO. 26
MANTEO, N. C.. DECEMBER 29. 1939
Single Copy 5c
PROPOSED FISH
LAW POINTS TO
FED’RAL CONTROL
WARREN WATSON NAMED |
FOR HYDE CENSUS WORK!
A MIGHTY COMFORTING THING TO AMERICA THESE DAYS
All Fish Would Be- Graded by
Federal Agents; Plan to
Save Undersize Fish
A step toward the long feared
Federal control of the fisheries,
which would mean uniform laws en
forced in all states, and protection
for species srarce, or threatened
with extinction, is being planned
early in January, according to the
following announcement from
Washington:
A long-discussed .move to estab
lish a Government-operated system
of compulsory inspection and vol
untary grading of fish and fishery
products will be argued in Congress
next session.
The House Merchant Marine
committee, headed by representa
tive Bland (D.-Va.), has called a
public hearing for January 16 on a
bill for the purpose offered by Rep
resentative McCormack (D.-Mass.).
The bill would set up the inspec
tion and grading service under the
Federal Bureau of Fisheries, and
the service
W. WARREN WATSON, promi
nent Hyde County man, former
I hairman of the County Commis
sioners, and former State Presi-1
(lent of the Association of County |
Commissioners has been named to j
would apply to “fish,|compile the business census in 17,.T" ^
fishery products, fishery by-prod- County.
ucts, shellfish, crustacea, seaweeds | D. W. Lupton, District Super-
and all other forms of animal and | visor of the Census of the I it-,
vegetable life and the products and Census or Congressional Distiict|
by-products thereof,” in interstate
or foreign commerce.
Bureau inspectors would be re
quired to examine all fishery prod
ucts before they were admitted to
any processing plant whose prod
ucts move in interstate commerce,
and all products found unfit for hu
man consumption would be con
demned and destroyed or used for
fertilizer or non-food purposes.
The inspectors would also have
announced that his office had com
pleted preparations for the taking]
of the business census in Januaiv |
The Bureau of the Census onl\ al
lotted 12 people to do this woik in
the entire district and selec tions
have been made as follows:
Pitt—Frank Brooks, Green\ file ,
and Mrs. John Andrews, Ayde,,.
Beaufort—Ruffin O’Neal, Wash
ington and R. H. Paul, Jr., Edward.
Martin—Claude T. Smith, Rober-
MANY TKOUSAr^DS SOUGHT
IN SUITS TO BE TRIED
IN DARE COURT JAN. 2
Special Term With Jucjgre W. H. S. Burgwyn
of Jackson to Preside; Court Begins Tuies-
day, January 2, Because of the Holiday;
Participants Notifier
ENGELHARD TO
GET 2ND DAILY
MAIL JULY 1ST
Bids Being Received For Ex
tra Round Trip From Wash
ington Postmaster Says
I) \i;i
to the
adthority to enforce sanitation | gonyiHe.
standards to be established by the | Pasquotank—J. J. Hughes, Eliza-
bureau in the processing plants, ibgth City.
of it than any other county in America, and it is a mighty comforting thing
lajs, to know that the fears and horrors of w'ar cannot readily overstep our!
man\ unhappy countries of Europe today. Three thousand miles away , ^jj^g
( (• I \ I 'i >1 is more
Cnited States these
eastei n boundai> as is the
little children and old people, and .others who are helpless, are wounded
in
Engelhard is to get a daily two
round trip .mail service from Wash
ington after July 1, instead of the
one trip service at present, it has
been announced by Mrs. M. A.
Matthews, postmaster at Engel
hard. Mrs. Matthews said that
when the tw'o round trips become
effective the trip now' being made
to Middletown by the mail carrier
from Washington w'ouid be discon
tinued with a new messenger route
probably being instituted from En
gelhard to Middletown.
Bids are being received this
month, Mrs. Matthews said, for the
Washington-Engelhard routes.
The announcement this week cul
minates efforts being made by En-
to
and starving. People in still , ^n extra mail from Wash
The special term of Superior
Court for the trial of a number of
Civil cases in Dare County will not
begin until January 2 at 10 o’clock
instead of January 1. Judge W. H.
S. Burgwyn, of Jackson, doesn’t
wish to hold court on a holiday,
and jurors ahd other participants
have been notified not to be present
until Tuesday of next week.
The suits to be tried are of long
standing, and involve a considerable
amount of money. Some of them
have been on the books as long as
12 years. FiFrst to be tried is the'
cae of J. D. Hayman, Sr., heir to
the Hattie Dough etate, against A.
D. Etheridge, which involves the
ome place of the late Ashley Dough
on Roanoke Island.
Catherine Latham, a negro wo
man is sueing the Imperial Life In
surance Co., for $1,000 due on en
insurance policy on the life .of Da
vid Latham, killed in an automobile
wreck.
One $24,000 Suit
Estelle Perry, a child of Kitty
Hawk is suing through Dempsey
Perry for $25,000 damages alleged
done by a truck. The Miles 'Truck
other countries are dreading each new day for what it wdll' bring forth. But w'e in America are co.m- | ington each
forted mightily because of the Atlantic which guards our frint door, and w-e don’t fear it. We do not j comparable
day giving service i Line and Charlie Gray are defend-
to that received at I ^nts in this suit, which grew out
wish that it shall ever grow narrow'er.
iSw'an Quarter.
The bill would not apply to any ^ Dyje—W. W. Watson, Lake
Man-
fish taken by any individual fisher-,
man and sold directly to consumers Dare—Mrs. Vivian Ryder,
or to retail dealers. ^ |teo. i
The bill would also prohibit the Camden and Currituck—James
importation of fishery products I Taylor, Maple,
which failed tp meet the same spec-. 'Washington and Tyrrell—Delbert
ifications to be established by the j Alien, Plymouth. |
inspection service under te bill. | Hertford and Gates—W. A. Me-,
The grading service to be estab-; Murfreesboro.
CHIT-CHAT ABOUT DARE COUNTY’S
ADOPTED SONS AND DAUGHTERS
By our New York Correspondent TOM FEARINfj
Now, with the last of that glori-j thirty-eight day cruise to
ous Dare County sun-tan hav'ing'Aires, S. A., this week end.
faded, and feet, which enjoyed a
Buenos
She is
Brazr,
i singing aboard the S. S.
(Cabin first class, no less) and will
a
REAL ESTATE
ACTIVITY BREEDS
NEW LAW SUITS
WANCHESE METHODIST
CHURCH
of an automobile accident.
The Virginia Dare Transporta
tion Company is suing Habit Bros.,
Edenton concern, for violation of a
contract to sell them their freight
line. N. C. Self-Help (iorp., against-
Thos. P. Midgett Sues Lennon'
Twice; Aileeies Store on |
Hic Land
A Day of Prayer and Watch Night
Services Brinkley is a suit involving
I title to a strip of land on which the
Sunday, December 31 l]\f q Fisheries plant is located,
^th the belie" that the churches j Adam Etheridge Jr., is suing Ray
mond Rogers for damages sus-
of Dare County art going to be in
terested in what a united Method
ism can do, spiritually, in 1940, the
first year of the united church, the
Out of the recent building boom; Wanchese church is calling all
lished under the bill would be en-1 Chowan and Perquimans—R. 4- three month respite tram snoes,; tiablv take nart in a muslca'I I
tirely voluntary on the part of the.Bj.inn, Hertford. . hntv. nrd ^ a ^ rf ™usica. consequent .activity in down'Christians to a Day of Prayer for
processor, and upon the processor’s Thege enumerators v^ll be in con-. again accustomed to both shoes and production on B’way after X’mas. town real estate has arisen two law;
application, the bureau, in coopera-1 tgj-ence during the week with Mr. pavements, members of the Lost , Johnnie Walker, who gave us thelggjts which may be long drawn out, |
tion with other .agencies of the. lupton and the Assistant Super- Colony cast take time out from snlendid lighting effects m the ^Lost i Both of them were brought by
Federal State or local governments, -cjgor, W. A. Everett, of Edenton. i various jobs, position, and other Colony is hrmly
Would supply certificates of class,
quality and condition of fishery
products offered for shipment.
out
and other Colony is firmly entrenched in
" mV LuptoiT stated that the farm headaches, to give an account-of , Throckmorton’s office as business
and population census would not themselves in this citie of Bright. manager, and yet finds time to im-
be taken until April and that enu-| Lights and Remarks. Ipart some theatrical knowledge, on
merators Tor that work would not] Russell Collins (‘‘Toupee John”|the side, to the dashing debutantes
D4NIELSES SPENDING be selected until the latter part of Borden) seems to head the list in:who are enrolled in the ‘‘Fincn
HONEYMOON IN FLORIDA i March. Noinformaion has yet .accomplishment, with an excellent, m a 'Rap company, of Skakes-
[been given him as to how many part in ‘‘Mornings at Seven,” which Fella!
Mr. and Mrs. Monde Lee Daniels, enumerators will be assigned to opened here last month amid gen-. Whitney Haley (Bill ‘‘Magnolia
Jr., left Sunday for a Florida wed- each county and those who do the erally good reviews. The play is a'Hall” Shakespeare), landed a job
ding trip. Mrs. Daniels is the for-1 work must successfully pass a test. Paul Osborn comedy ^ with^ Jean jn a ‘‘Rep”’company, of Shakes- )
nier Miss Muriel Green, daughter | Enumerators do not receive any Adair,
of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Green o
Wanchere.
tained when struck by the defeaid-
ant’s car.
Several other suits of minor in
terest are on the docket.
ALBEMAUI.E MAN OUT
FOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR
The marriage took place Tues
day, December 19, in IJjforfolk. Fol
lowing their return, the young
couple will live with Mr. and Mrs.
M. L. Daniels, Sr., until spring
when they plan to build a stone
house of their own on County
street.
with
John A.lexander, Thomas
' salary nor travelling expenses and, Chalmers, and Russ Collins, which
are paid fees for their work.
MRS. CARRIE CLARK, 80,
DIES IN ELIZABETH CITY
The death of Mrs. Carrie M.
BETTER FRUITS ARE
AIM OF MANY PEOPLE ;
shows Russ off to a good advant
age. (The reported salary would
raise your eyebrows.)
Janie Barratt, of the “Fish Net
who shed the most sorrow-
T. n f n.w,. nv^bardlsts are leaving Manteo, has Metropblitan Opera
Dare County home orchardists are ^ jackpot with her beautiful
interest in better
showing more — ----- . voice,
home fruits, pruning demonstra-,
tions and plant propagation demon-1
strations being conducted by the ^
County Agent, C.’W. Overman. j
Bunch grape pruning demon- j
strations were conducted with
M.
and is returning from a
Clark, who was almost 80 years of, Claude Jones of M^teo and M.
age. at the Elizabeth City hospital I Sawyer of Manns Harbor A hg
Friday morning is of more than tree pruning demons ^ "
conducted with Tom Midgett oi
passing interest in this section.
Mrs. Clark was the widow of the
late Carey 'C. Clark, captain of a,
tank steamer that plied up and
down the waters of Eastern Caro
lina and who was blow up with his
vessel in 1918. She was the mother
of Miles Clark, and Mrs. Howard
Kramer of Elizabeth City, and has
two living sisters, Mrs. Fleet Ray
of Sheffield, W., and Mrs. T. E.
Coulter of Lorraine, Ohio. For
niore than 20 years she had taught
a Methodist Sunday school class.
She v'as a native of Oil City, Pa.
Elizabeth City loses a citizen
FAITHFUL HANNAH CHURCH
Colored Church Twice Destroyed by Elements Complete
Again Despite Prayers of Erstwhile Minister
By THOMAS E. SPENCER
a spiritual advance in all churches
in Dare County.
Provided there are no services
Capt. Thos. P. Midgett, veteran 8,!- ;j,j your church at the hours named,
year-old business man, against R. ' extend to our friends at Manteo
B. Lennon, well known merchant. Land Kitty Hawk an urgent invita-
Through his attorney, Herbert R.jtion to come and worship with us.
Leary of Edenton, Capt. Midgett j ip A. M. Church School—C. S.
asks a thousand dollars damages Meekins, general superintendent,
against Lennon, alleging that he Special prayers for the Metho-
prevented the sale of a piece of' jjjst advance.
land on Highway street claiming to n A. M. Morning Worship—Ser-
own a strip of land across it, and ujon ‘‘Are Ye Able” by pastor,
threatening prospective buyers i Baptism of infants and children,
pearean intent, and has been on the g lawsuit. Capt. Midgett says! HegQgnition service for teachers
road since October. Is said to be be had arranged a sale for $3,000 i and students in high schools and
doing a mighty fine piece of play- f ^bat entire lot, back of the jail,'colleges.
actin’^ and we hope the job runs.ggj opposite the Pioneer Theatre, j g p. M. Watch night services.
fortv we^eks. Igjjjj gg g result of defendant’s ac- Devotional. AduR choir Reception ^ ^g^ ^be School,
‘Our Boy Joe” Mackie, one of the tions, lost the sale. The answer of members. The Methodist Ad-]
bearded twins, (Fearing-Mackie) is has not been filed by Mr. Lennon. vance as it relates itself to the
In a second suit brought this Board of Stewards, Board of Lay 1 ^grms
week, Capt. Midgett asks $300 rent, Activities, Board of Trustees—C. S. -
and demands that Mr. Lennon re- Meekins and B. H. Davis. The •
move the southwest comer of his “Why” of the watch night services!
brick store building, which the —pastor. Missions and the Metho-
plaintiff contends extends over on Jist Advance—Mrs. B. H. Davis,
his land a distance of three feet at Mrs. Horace Hayman, Mrs. Kalb
the rear and shortens distance on Daniels.
the front. | 9 P. M. Young People’s Hour;
A few weeks ago, Capt. Midgett Devotional—By Young People’s
sold Mr. Lennon a piece of land Division. The Young People’s Di
Albemarle, Dec. 18.—W. Erskine
Smith, prominent Albemarle citi
zen and President Pro Tern of the
North Carolina Senate, announced
j that he is a candidate for Lieuten-
I ant Governor of North Carolina,
subject to the action of the Demo
cratic party in the primary to be
held on May 25, 1940.
The candidate for Lieutenant
Governor is a gra luate of the Duke
University Law School, having com
pleted his law course there in 1921
when the institution was Trinity
College, and When Dr. Samuel Pox
He was first elected to the Sen-
(Please turn to Page 4)
as a member of that body.
His services as President Pro Tern
of the Senate of 1939 mark him
as an able legislator and execu
tive.
About a quarter of a mile north' started constructing a larger one
of the business section of Middle- in its place, but before much work
town, with its steeple towering had bepn done, a wind of a whirl-
above all the buildings in its vicin- wind ’nhture blew it down. Not to
ity, stands the Faithful Hannah be daunted by the mishap, the
Manns Harbor. Preston Twiford
] of Manns Harbor was shown some
of the principles of home orcharo
pruning. M. M. Sawyer, C. D.
Mann and Tom Midgett of Manns u ni, i, tv, v, v, , u ^ tv, v, i.
Harbor were started on propagat- Negro Baptist Church—the church faithful members of the church
ing figs and bunch grapes by cut-j that for the past 64 years has done again, raised money and built a
® * its part in converting the Negroes large building. This house stood
of this section to the Christian for several years and was the scene
faith. The building has just been of many revival meetings and gala
completed, having been destroyed affairs, but in 1933 a storm struck
twice in the past two decades by the Hyde county coast, destroying
freaks of nature which many of its many buildings—among them was
neighbors and members believe to Faithful Hannah,
have been acts of God, as was pre- Nature, through these violent
dieted in the early twenties by Sam acts, seemed resolved that this
Spencer, minister of the church, church would not stand as was pre-
who was opposed to a majority of dieted by Elder Sam, and gossip
tings.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Midgett ot
Manns Harbor report excellent pro
duction from their laying flock.
Their flock .of thirty-six purebred
white leghorns are laying an aver
age of twenty-five eggs per day.
The agent spotted two cull,'' in the
Universally beloved. She was gen-. flock. A balanced Leedin^p^^gram
Loveu. one was — „ - . j
erous, gracious, and kind, and few I of a good laying mash, ^ai
people were more affectionately re- green feed is giving good results,
garded. I
MANTEO PERSONALS
Rev. and Mrs. M. W. Maness
visited relatives at Stumpy Point
some forty feet wide on County vision and the Methodist Advance— und Roland during the holidays,
street adjoining his store, and Mr.! Mrs. Dallas Tillett, Supt. Young | Thomas Fearing, of New York
Lennon is erecting a brick building j People’s Division. | City, visited his parents, Mr. and
on it. I Devotional—By Dare County Mrs. M. K.'Fearing, last week end.
The suits will probably be long | Union of Methodist YP, statement | Mrs. Leonard Midgett, who has
drawn out, and as a result of this of objtctives for 1940 by Miss been ill with pneumonia, is re-
deadlock, it may Lie many years Helen Evans, adult counsellor. I covering nicely.
before any improvement can be
made to the property.
Crusade and the | ^ t. Dowdy returned recently
Methodist Advance, by ’ from Delaware and has accepted a
Maness, pastor Manteo M^t;hodist Mother Vineyard.
church. Mrs. Dan Meekins remains ill af
Vocal solo (Title to be an-
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
Manteo: Sunday, Bible school
at 10 a. m. Worship service at 11
a. m. B. T. U. at 6:30 p. m. 'There
■will not be prayer meeting Wed
nesday evening, Jan. 3. Regular
quarterly conference 'of the church
will be held Friday evening, Jan. 5.
Roanoke Island: Sunday, Bible^
School at 10 a. m. B. T. U. at 6:30
P- m., followed by worship service
'at 7:30.
We invite you to our services.
C. C. PERRY, Pastor.
Wiley Johnston, who is a student
at the Asheville School for Boys,
is visiting is parents, Dr. and Mrs.
LY. W. Johnston.
Signs Injunction
the congregation’s desire, to con
struct a new and larger building to the superstitious colored folk that
THE TOUGHER THEY ARE
THE HARDER THEY FALI
nounced) by Mrs. M. W
Wynne Dough, the splendid; Manteo.
young fellow who hated w.omen isii0:30 P. M. Fellowship Hour,
married. Once a pretty girl offered
Maness of
her home near Manteo.
him a ride to his home, four miles,
if he would Kiss her. But he de
clined, saying he would prefer to
went around thick and fast among 'walk.
take care of the church’s growing God had turned His wrath upon I to Miss Rosa Flowers, the pretty gupt. adult division.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. B.
membership. the members of the church for con-
The church in its infancy was a structing a new house of worship,
small structure, but like most But the more enlightened mem-
e-
Charlotte—U. S. District Judge
Isaac M. Meekins signed injunc
tions at ^^Yettevil^ perman ^ churches of that period grew rap- bers of the congregation were
restraining three North ^^ntil it would not house the solved to have the building re-
ai-os from viol^iine- the fair fast growing congregation. There- erected. They held socials, took spe-
fruit crates from violating the fair collections, and campaigned
be best to tear down the small for money to rebuild their church,
building and construct a larger one Today, after much hard and pa
in its place. The minister, Sam tient work, they have at last com-
Spencer, was opposed to this pro- pleted their building. Its green
gressive move and was dismissed steeple towers many feet in the
from his ministry of the church for air as a symbol of success. These
this reason. To retaliate, he is said colored people have thought church,
to have prayed a prayer that no talked church, hoped church a.nd
newohurch building would stand. now they have a church,
Nevertheless, the congregation makes us think of
labor standards act, it was an
nounced by the Charlotte office of
the wage and hour division of the
labor department.
Accepts Building
Raleigh—Governor Hoey and the
members of the council of st?te in
spected and .accepted the new $235,-
000 Caswell office building, virtu
ally a gift from the federal govern
ment.
Mrs. N. E. Gould had as her
guests for Christmas Miss Natalie'-
11.00 P. M. The Church School ] Gould, and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
and the Methodist Advance, C. S. i Hayman and daughter^ Gloria, of
Meekins, Gen’l Supt.; Mrs. C. S. i Williamson.
Meekins, Supt. children’s division; j Miss Effie Westcott of Hamlet, is
Mrs. Dallas Tillett, Supt- Young j spending the holidays with her
Saturday night he got married ^people’ division; Mrs. B. H. Davis, (father and sisters, G. T. Westcott,
:Sr., and Misses Holland and Hettie
Christian literature and ‘the Westcott.
Methodist Advance, C. S. Meekins, I Adrian and Wiley Bi'own have re-
Gen’l Supt; Melvin Daniels. Gen’l ^ turned to their home at Yancey-
Sec’y. The o,rganized classes of the ville after viiting George Greet
church school and the Methodist j and other friends for several days*.-
.Advance, Mrs. Pete Daniels; George Creef and Leslie Austin,
Charles Tillett, Mrs. Carrie Gr^n,'of Campbell College, and Billy
Tarklngton, of Guilford College, are
Flowers, qf Florence, Pamlico
County. Mr. Dough met Miss
Flowers last summer while she was
here visiting her brother, J. Purdy
Flowers. 'They were married in
Suffolk and moke their home near
Fort Raleigh. Mr. Dough is em
ployed by the National Park Ser
vice at Kill Devil Hills.
Governor Lauds Program
Raleigh—Governor Hoey told
state department of agriculture
employees that he was “looking
which I forward to a great year” for agri-
the words of | culture as a result of‘‘the finest co
raised the money and in 1923 they Emerson, “Every thought is a pray-I opera tion” of all farm agencies in
tore down the little church and er and every prayer is answered.” behalf of all growers.
1
Mrs. Gertie Simpson, Reggie Til-
'ett. Fellowship .of evangelism:
Our obiectives for 1940, by Ward
W. Daniels.
11:30 P. M. Consecration and re
dedication service—Pastor.
Mr. and Mrs. Carson W. Davis
had as their guests for the holidays
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr.'here.
spending the holidays with their
parents.
Miss Doris Jones, who is a stu
dent at East Carolina Teachers
College at Greenville, is visiting
her father, O. J. Jonts.
Mrs. Marshall Smith, of Wash
ington, D. C., is visiting relatives
and Mrs. Roddy Meikle, of Roanoke Miss Isabelle Lennon was a visit-
Rapids. or in Norfolk last Thursday.
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