The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-01-08
MANY SPEND HOLIDAYS
HOME AT OCRACOkE
Much Visiting Back and Forth, And
!, Numerous Illnesses Re
ported

Ocracoke, Jan. 4. - Ocracokers
home for the Christmas and New
Years holiday season enjoyed
visits here with relatives and
friends, but have by this time re-
turned to their work or homes
off the island. Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter c. O'Neal, ST., and Mr.. and
Mrs. Van Henry O'Neal and fam
lily motored to Edenton when
Corp. Walter c. O'Neaps furlough
was over, and from there drove
north to Philadelphia where they
visited Mr.. and Mrs. John O'Neal
and to Delanco, N. j., where they
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
O'Neal. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Anderson, visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Styron, re-
turned to Frankfort, Indiana, to-
day, Monday. Mrs. James Rober-
son and Emma Bagwell, visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bragg, have
returned to Washington, D. C..
All of the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. 2. S. Williams, home for
part of the holidays, have return
ed, Larry to his teaching in the
Wilmington High School, N. c.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Troy Williams to
Reidsville, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Williams and daughter, Patsey,
to Norfolk, Mrs. Janice Taylor
and son, Billy Wahab Taylor, to
Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wampler and
Miss Margaret Vann visited at
the home of Mrs. Elicia Garrish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chesley Austin and
children of Winston-Salem spent
the New Years week with his
mother, Mrs. Harvey Wahab and
Mr.. Wahab. Alpheus Gaskins,
Charlie Morris, John Putt o.
Neal, Elmer Gray Midget, Mr..
and Mrs. David Styron and
daughter, Belinda, and Ikey D.
O'Neal have returned North to
their respective work and homes.
Miss Virginia Howard, who visit
ed in her brothers. home, Mr.. and
Mrs. Taft Howard, has returned
to Norfolk. Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
Howard and family of Columbia,
S. c., who visited his mother,
Mrs. Tressie Howard, have re-
turned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Howard
left on Monday with their son,
DIN Howard, to visit him and
his family in Norfolk, and from
there will go to Winston-Salem
to visit their daughter, Mrs. Ken
nedy and family. They plan to
spend a month or more there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lennie Morris OF
Beaufort, and Mr.. and Mrs. Gray
Willis of Harker's Island, visited
during the holidays with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Wells, but have now re-
turned home.
Mrs. r. S. Wahab spent part OF
the holiday season with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James M.
Edwards of Belhaven, but she has
now returned to Ocracoke. Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Rondthaler,
spent ten days of the vacation
with Bishop Howard E. Rond-
thaler in Winston-S Salem, and
their daughter, Katherine, of
Duke University, was also with
them there. They returned to
Ocracoke on December 10Th. Miss
Nora Edmondson, primary teach
er, who flew to Tyler, Texas, for
the holidays, returned on Sunday;
Miss Marie Hodges, who visited
her relatives in Hodges, S. c., re-
turned on Saturday. School open
ed this morning, Monday, with
Albert Styron, Jr., substituting
for Mrs. Selma Spencer, who was
seriously i'll at Sealevel Hospital
for ten days during Christmas
holidays. Mrs. Spencer returned
home today by plane, but will
need a period of rest and recuper-
alton before resuming her teach
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dix Daughtery of
Chinquapin, N. c., announce the
birth of a daughter, Lori Jean,
on December 21st, at Morehead
City Hospital. Due to illness the
infant had to remain at the hos
pital and Mrs. Daughtery has
been staying at a nearby home in
Morehead City. Her aunt, Mrs.
Helena Merrill, has been with her
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Thorpe and
children, Fay and Tommie, of
Hawthorne, California, who visit