The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-12
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sibility of line being run to
Buxton to furnish electric
current, are things that will do
much to brighten the future of
the people of that section. The ice
plant will be in operation in the
next few months. The most of the
machinery is already installed and
work of dredging 1000 foot well
in a search for fresh water is un-
derway. This enterprise has been
inaugurated by Thomas S. Eaton,
a young man from Winston-Sal-
EN-, and the business is known as
the Hatteras Development Com
pany. Associated with Mr.. Eaton
are ]. l. Willis and F. L. Peele,
well-known citizens of that place.
The new ice plant is being built
under the direction of Bob Scar
borough, well-known local con-
tractor, in front of the store of
]. l. Willis. Something like $40,-
600, first and last will be invested
in the enterprise.
Over 14OO mullets were taken
in the nets of the fishermen a.
round Powell's Point Tuesday it
was learned here this week. These
fish were bringing a good price
as they were taken from the nets.
Stuart Rogers also reported that
herring were running good when
he took about hundred of them
from parts of his nets Wednes-
day.
1t will come as news to our
readers to learn that a Dare coun-
ty man has the longest circuit
of any preacher in the world, and
has more churches, if they may
be so called, than any preacher in
the world. He is the Rev. George
F. Willis, acting Chaplain of the
us. Coast Guard, whose pastoral
circuit extends from the Bay of
Fundy to Key West, Florida,
where he breaches to the men in
all the lonely Coast Guard sta
tons on the Atlantic coast, and
as a side issue he breaches aboard
the various cutters of the Coast
Guard Service the stations on the
west coast and the Great Lakes.
Dare County's Commissioners
will go in a body with the county
accountant to Raleigh Monday to
confer with the State Highway
Commission and effect final con-
summation of the negotiations for
the transfer of the title of the
Roanoke Sound Bridge to the
state. This action was decided
upon at the regular meeting of
the Commissioners here Tuesday
after a telegram had been receiv-
ed from Capus M. Waynick, chair
man, asking that the Commission
ers appoint a delegation with au-
thority to close the transaction.
The real headquarters of the
Stork is apparently in the Duck
section of Dare county. There
seem to be more four months old
babies at Duck than any other
place in the county. There are a.
bout five or six young babies in
Duck and only &c families in all
live there, including those living
at Paul Gamiel's Hill Station.
Hilton Gray, young man of
Frisco who married Miss Ethel
Whedbee of that place. met his
wife first by correspondence and
courted her by mail, although the
two young people were reared on
ly IL miles apart. Mr.. Gray at
that time was a surfman in a
Coast Guard Station in New Jer-
sey. His old home was at Avon.
With William Miller, another
Avon boy, Gray had enlisted in
the service. Miller was writing to
girl friend at Frisco at the time,
! and he suggested to Gray that he
! write to her chum, Miss Whedbee.
Gray took him at his word and a
lively correspondence ensued. On
his first visit back home, he call
ed upon Miss Whedbee This un-
ique courtship resulted in mar
riage. Mr.. Gray is the son of the
late Tillman P. Gray, a fine old
citizen of Avon, and Miss Whed-
bee parents were the late Mr.. and
Mrs. John B. Whedbee.
Announcements have been re-
ceived here of the marriage of
Miss Hortense Ruth Pittman of
Chapel Hill and Charles Bond of
Manteo. Mrs. Bond is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Minnie Mccormick
Pittman and the late Rev. A. E.
! C. Pittman. The groom is the son
of Mrs. Rebecca Bond and the
late Charles Bond of Windsor and
for the past five months has been
managing editor of the Dare
County Times.
If you have any loaded glass
work in your church or in your
home, the chances are that Ar.
thur w. Flack designed it, and he
is right here in Dare County