The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-02-23
OUR APPRECIATION TO OUR FRIENDS.

In taking note OF occupancy OF the new building now
housing the printing plant of Coastland Newspapers we
wish to especially thank and all who by their steady
patronage through the years have encouraged go for
ward Our gratitude many subscribers our
advertisers and printing customers-to wewishers
everywhere.
This business was begun with little other than the
desire to render public service to this section of the state
alton than it had been receiving With desk and type
writer and rented office began its first July 1885,
selling enough advertising locally to the cost of the
first issue. The editor far north New York to
sell Advertising travelled the dirt roads of Dare Hyde
Tyrrel and Curruck even after daytime working hours
found advertising patronage in Elizabeth City, Norfolk and
Washington brought new money into this area and de-
veloped home industry small tho it that nobody
ward whatever.
There was only the belief the business would eventu
ally succeed There the dream that would help this
longnegected region and if it succeeded there the
hope that it would offer employment at home for two little
boys age four and half and two years. of the editor
If material rewards have been scant there is mmeas
approaching manhood took to the printing business
like ducks to water and with little instruction became
sufficiently skilled at the trade that in their teens
they go out ourneymen they draw the of
efficient printers anywhere Through his part time work at
the printing trade of them is paying his through
college without aid from home The younger is the
mainstay of the mechanical department of the business
and has stuck to it with uneXceed devotion loyalty and
determination. Naturally, hearts swell with gladness
that they may be able to carry on the enterprise into great
fields of service beyond the few days remaining for us
who began the business.
This business could not have carried through many
of the years without the loyalty and sesacrice of the
editors wife She been the who hung through
discouragements who labored nightly with the business
going when men might have abandoned the field.
The only thing the editor take pride in that
his dream The great work has been done by Others
and would be rank ngratude not to and to give
full credit to those who deserve it. They have done the
work. they deserve the rewards and any in the
future let them go to those who merit them They have
carried the wife and boys in the face of all the hard
ships of running country and against
the handcaps imposed bv the editor himself who
considers the cash box when he embarks upon crusade
for what he believes is right.
We cordially invite our friends and customers to visit
plant We like to have students of the schools
drop in to hoy newspaper is made We welcome the
suggestions of all for Improvement We also recommend
those people who have furnished materials and services in
construction of this building We have found them fair
enable and enent and call your attention to their
advertising in this number of the paper.
Two of the most important institutions in helping us
along have been the Bank of Maneo and the First Cit
liens National Bank of Elizabeth City We thought
assuring them good customer when asked them for
help but isn't always easy to convince bank of what
you are sure of yourself They have been most helpful
have rendered valuable financial assistance in these and
several other of undertakings through the We
grateful and wish them the continued and
progress which they richly deserve
Throughout the years there have been numerous
respondents and agents who have written the for
found subscribers and other business for There
many and have passed and is impossible
to enumerate them here but they special place in
hearts