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PAGE TWO GLIMPSES OF THE PAST By CAROLYN LLOYD March is a month of many anni versaries, so if any one is looking for an excuse for a celebration all he has to do is take his pick. Among the many possibilities are Alamo Day, sacred to Texans and all Davy Crockett fans; the anni versary of the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor; Arbcr Day, combined with the birthday of Luther Burbank; Girl Scout Week; St. Patrick’s Day; and Red Cross Month. The aniversary which really af fects most of us to the greatest ex tent is that of the United States Postal Service, created in March, 1789. My civics class observed the day by making a trip to the 'local post office, where the postmaster explained the process of handling the mail and answered many ques tions. Teacher learned a little something, too; for instance, one of the extra services performed by rural carriers is counting the doves siting on wires along their routes. At first I was a little skeptical, since the postmaster has been known to stretch a good story, but it seems that the carriers really do count the birds for the Wildlife Service, or somebody. Every job, I suppose, has its peculiarities. ♦ Queer things happen in the of fice, too, it seems. There is the story about the man who, having heard all aliens advised to get a card from the nearest post office, asked for “one of them ailing cards.” He had been ailing for some time, he said . My students also learned last | week some of the historical facts about the service we take so much for granted today; for instance, postage was originally figured by the distance a letter was to travel and the number of pages it con tained, adhesive stamps were in troduced in 1847, and for a number of years the weight limit on parcel post packages was four pounds. They found it amusing that the postoffice was once a sort of social center where people visited as they waited for the mail to be sorted. Before the days of free delivery, the visit to the office was daily ritual in most towns. There moth ers chatted as they’waited for a letter from a son or daughter away from home and young girls gath ered in giggling groups trying not to show the anxiety with which they waited for a letter with the stamp turned upside down to indi cate “I love you.” Business men waited impatiently for their mail, and any boys present pretended that they had been sent by Mama. The government hopes to inau gurate a plan, we were told, by which one day service to any point in the United States will become the order. Won’t that be some thing! The whole history of our country might be summed up in the contrast between the Pony Ex- 1956 Ford Fairlane, 4-door loaded, like new 1955 Chrysler, 4-door, Loaded 1955 Chevrolet, 4-door Sedan 1955 Ford 4-door, 6 cyl. # 1954 Ford, 4-door 1954 Plymouth, 4-door 1953 Ford 4-door 1953 Chrysler Windsor 4-door 1953 Plymouth, 4-door 1952 Chevrolet 2-door 1952 Ford Ranch Wagon, V 8 1952 Willis 6 cyl. 2-door, 27 miles per gallon 1952 Ford Victoria, loaded licensed 1951 Buick 4-door, R&H 1951 Oldsmobile, Super 88, 4-door 1951 Studebaker Champion, 2-door 1951 Chevrolet 4-door, R&H . 1950 Mercury, 4-door 1950 Mercury, 2-door, R&H, O.D. 1950 Oldsmobile, 4-door 1950 Ford 2-door 1950 Studebaker Champion, 4-door 1949 Ford V 8 coupe, R&H, good tires 1939 Chevrolet, 2-door, runs good, $75.00 TRUCKS 1955 Ford >4-ton Pickup 1952 Chevrolet, 1-ton Panel, Used Parts */i off Used tubes 90( up R. D. SAWYER MOTOR COMPANY Your FORD Dealer Phone 116 Manteo N. C. License No. 1969 Salesmen: Julian Snow, Powells Point Bill Rogers, Kitty Hawk WANCHESE PERSONALS Mrs. Ralph Fleming of Ports mouth, spent the week end here with her mothr, Mrs. Mollie Baum. Mrs. Sibyl Sawyer of Norfolk was the week end guests of her mother, Mrs. Emma Daniels. Preston Rawls of Arapaho and Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Murray of Greenville spent the week end with Mrs. Murray’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. William Forbes and son, Irving of Norfolk were week end guests of Mrs. Forbes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theof Wes cott. Mrs. Woodrow Stetson and Mrs. Harry Baum and daughter Jo Ann spent Monday in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Van Gray and daughter Imogene of Norfolk visit ed Mrs. Gray’s brother and sister in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Ether idge Sunday. Mrs. Ralph Johnson, Mrs. Wil lett Tillett and Mrs. Victor Dan iels were in Norfolk Monday. Jimmy Williams of the Navy spent the week end here with his family. Arthur Harris has returned home from the Hospital. A. P. Tillett and son Tedrick are patients in the Marine Hospital, Norfolk. Mrs. Elton Gallop, Mrs. Fulton Whidbee and daughter and Mrs. Jimmy Williams and daughter visited in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Daniels spent the week end in Elizabeth City with their son and daughter in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dan iels Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Rogers and granddaughter, Jacky Ray and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Rogers and daughter of Norfolk were here for the week end. Laura Joan Daniels of E.C.C., Greenville, spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels. Margaret Jean Tillett of Greens boro College, was the week end guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Toby Tillett. Mrs. Dora Davis is a patient at the Marine Hospital in Norfolk. She was accompanied by her son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Lance Montague of Norfolk spent a few days here with Mr. Montague’s sister and mother, Mrs. Ophelia Daniels an<L Mrs. Lucetta Montague. Mrs. Mattie Melson and Miss Lena Johnston are visiting Mrs. Melson’s daughter, Mrs. Rola Daughtery in Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Marshall and Mrs. Missouri Williams of Ports mouth visited friends here Sunday. Mrs. Vance Cudworth and daugh ter, Louis, Mrs. Dell Saunders and Mrs. Bernice Midgett visited the infant baby of Sandra and Shelby Hines who is a patient in the Elizabeth City hospital. Edward Green of Elizabeth City spent Saturday night with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Green. W. C. (Buck) Saunders is ill at his home with pneumonia. press and a jet plane streaking across the continent That, too, will be history some day, but a mail service faster than that by jet defies the imagination. Everything is moving faster —even March is streaking by on lightning wings of time. Before we know it, the Girl Scouts will be around selling cookies again. $2.45 pt. $3.85 4/5 qt. ik»li | 3 ■ I c \ 6 YEAR OLD CENTURY CLUB STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY \ / NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODS. CORP., NX STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. 86 PROOF OCRACOKE GIRL'S ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED *******' : K";;' -.? x a;.. 1— -jB Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Ballance of Ocracoke, announce the engage ment of their daughter, Martha Lorena, to Mr. Charles Morris O’Neal of Ocracoke and Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. O ? Neal is the son of Mrs. Charles M. O’Neal and. the late Mr. O’Neal of Ocracoke. Miss Ballance is employed by Strawbridge and Clothier. Mr. O’Neal is with the U. S. Coips, of Army Engineers of Wilmington. A spring wedding is planned. Mrs. Gage Williams is in Nor folk under medical care. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Parker and children of Elizabeth City spent Tuesday with Mrs. Parker’s moth er, Mrs. Ophelia Daniels. Mrs. Wilbur Rogers and children of Norfolk spent the week end pvith Mrs. Roger’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rogers and children of St. Brides, Va. visited Mrs. Rogers’ mother, Mrs. Ann Saunders. Mrs. Nell Tillett and children are visiting her parents in Norfolk. Miss Eloise Tillett has gone to Raleigh for treatment. She was accompanied by her mother and sister, Mrs. Bob Scarborough and Mrs. Elaine Tillett Mrs. Sallie Daniels has been sick for three weeks. Rev. Clarence Warren has re turned from a homecoming in his home town near Wilmington, N. C. Wanchese is to get new resi dents as the Woodard Peele fam ily of Hatteras, will move in the former Titus Tillett homeplace on the west side of the island. Mr. Peele has brought the property from a daughter of the late Mr. Tillett, Mrs. Mabel Gray of Nor folk. MANTEO LAY SPEAKERS TO BE IN HYDE PULPITS Continuing the “No Silent Pul pits” speaking program in the Mattamuskeet Charge Methodist Churches, on Sunday, March 17, Stanford White of Manns Harbor spoke at the Engelhard church and Ray Spencer- of Sladesville spoke at Wason’s Chapel. The visiting lay speakers this coming Sunday, March 24, will be the following: Charles R. Olson of Manteo speak ing at Amity Church, G. H. Crees of Manteo at Watson’s Chapel, and Wallace McCown of Manteo at Bethany Church, Gulrock. This mon can give you dependable delivery of IxSK the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE \ monitor * international J <*ny Z newspaper Housewives, businessmen, teachers, ond students all over the world read ond enjoy this international newspaper, pub lished doily in Boston. World famous for constructive news stories and penetrating editorials. Special features for the whole family. The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Moss. Send your newspaper for the time checked. Enclosed find my check or money order. 1 yeor sl6 6 months $8 3 months $4 Name ■ Address City ione it ate •M-B THE COASTLAND.TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. OCRACOKERS HEAR RETIRED NATIVE SON PREACH SUNDAY Rev. Frank Treet Fulcher, re tired Methodist minister who is visiting his niece, Mrs. Irving Forbes and Mr. Forbes, preached at the Sunday morning service at the Ocracoke Methodist Church. Rev. Fulcher is a native of Ocracoke, bom here in the year 1878. At the age of twelve he shipped out on a schooner, at the age of nineteen he was sailing the Seven Seas. In 1905 he became an evangelist, and later trained at Drew Theological Seminary and Emory UnivelSity. Now retired, he and Mrs. Fulcher live at the Hermitage, a home for Methodist ministers, in Richmond, Virginia. His visits to Ocracoke are always enjoyed, and his ser mon was much appreciated by friends of his own Ocracoke days and those of more recent days, who have come to know him. Mr. Fulcher paid a visit to Man teo this week with Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Wahab, and spent the night at the Fort Raleigh Hotel. He plans to leave for Rocky Mount Thursday to visit his daughter, and from there will return to Rich mond. During his visit he told friends of the Hermitage, the Methodist retreat where he and Mrs. Fulcher reside in Richmond, which houses some 104 women, and eight men. On this property some two mil lion dollars has been spent to pro- Hid you know this fiKHTSTn fyctabout... WflWlUw Before long you will see this scene re-enacted through out North Carolina. The roadside park is one of the growing attractions popular with highway travellers throughout our State. Not to be confused with our ex tensive State Park system, the roadside parks are oper ated by the State Highway Commission, and have caught on with a rush. The malt beverage industry salutes the system of road side parks, and heartily endorses the efforts of “Keep America Beautiful” to make these facilities more pleas ant and attractive for relaxation. North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. OCRACOKE PERSONALS Lafayette Howard of Haddon Heights, N. J. spent last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Howard. Mr. and Mrs. John Midgette have been visiting his mother in Beaufort. Camelle Midgette has joined them there. Mr. and Mrs. Corkey Mason and Mrs. Owen Gaskill visited in At lantic last week. Mrs. Molly Bragg, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Tol son, returned to Virginia Beach on Saturday. Mrs. Ruth Howard and family have moved to Baltimore, Mary land. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Preston made a trip to Washington, this past week. Mrs. Felix Flieg of Newport’ News is spending several days at her Ocracoke home. Mrs. Carlson O’Neal‘inade a trip to Beaufort this past week. Mrs. Alice Austin of Buxton preached the Sunday morning and Sunday evening services at the Assembly of God Church. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John O’Neal, while here. At the Howard Tourist Home last week were Harry Carlson of New Rochelle, New York, and Duke Bidle of Raleigh. Mr. Bidle is the Safety Engineer, who makes check-ups on all REA Electric plants, and made the trip over to inspect the Ocracoke plant and of fer any advice on safety measures. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. John T. O’Neal and family this week are her sister, Mrs. Viola White, and Esther Hoggard, both of Windsor. Mrs. Laura Bragg reutmed home last Friday from an extended visit with her son, Stacy Bragg and family, in Wilmington. Pfc. Kenneth Tillett, U. S. Marines, returned to his base at Camp Lejeune this past week, after a furlough here with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McWilliams. DANISH ENGINEER, PARK OFFICIALS VISIT OCRACOKE Dr. Per Bruun, consultant with the U. S. Engineers and the Na tional Park Service, on hydro graphic problems, Roy King, of the Cape Hatteras Seashore Park, specialist on dunes, and Fred Ley, Jr., also of the Cape Hatteras Sea shore, in charge of maintenance and beautification, both of Manteo, visited Ocracoke last week, and were shown the Ocracoke Park area by Ranger Hazen Brooks during their one-day stay here. They spent the night at Sound Front Inn. Dr. Bruun is a native of Denmark, now living in Phila delphia. He is very much interest ed in problems of erosion control. OCRACOKE COUPLE HAVE BEEN MARRIED 50 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. O’Neal, Sr. celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on March 6th. They had planned to be at home here for the celebration, but strange to say, they found themselves on that day in Atlantic, exactly where they were when they returned from their marriage in Beaufort fifty years ago. So they celebrated there instead with Noel Fulcher provid ing lemon pie and ice cream. Later when they reached Ocracoke, they enjoyed a quiet celebration with vide exceptional living quarters for aged people at nominal cost. It was originally the gift of a wealthy citizen of Richmond. BUXTON PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson and children of Elizabeth City spent the week end here with her parents, Capt. and Mrs. U. B. Jen nette. Mrs. Retta Quidley is a patient in De Paul Hospital, Norfolk. Her children are staying in Avon with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Williams Sr., while she is away. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hassell of Suffolk visited Mrs. Hassell’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Dixon during the week end. Mrs. Laura Hooper of the Cape Hatteras School faculty has return ed to duty after being away a month recuperating from an oper ation. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Midgett .and Mrs. Jamie Williams returned to Elizabeth City Sunday after visiting relatives here. Kenneth Wilkerson was hospital ized in the Norfolk De Paul Hos pital and visited by his mother, Mrs. Gladys Dickerson. Mrs. Dick erson returned home last week. Mrs. Iva Gray McAdams and family of Winston-Salem were here recently visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Gray. Mr. and Mrs. John Anslow and son Johnnie of Norfolk spent some time here at their home last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Lourie re turned frdm a week’s trip to Nor folk, where they finished selling their business and property. They are establishing their residence in Buxton. 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IN LESS TIME I ITS THE PROVEN COLDS MEDICINE TYPEWRITERS WE UNDERSELL MAIL ORDER CATALOG PRICES We sell all makes typewriters in good condition at bargain prices. Me now have Royal, Underwood, Woodstock in stock. Some of these sell at one fourth to one third the cost of today’s machines. TIMES PRINTING CO.. Inc. Phone 44 MANTEO, N. C. BELHAVEN Office Phone 382-1
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