The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-20
In and Around
Dare County
20 Years Ago
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GAIT. v. ". FEELE OF seventh
District Coast Guard headquarters
in Elizabeth City was at Chinco-
league Island the last week in
July to see the annual roundup
of wild ponies that then roamed
the sandy shores of this island off
the coast of Virginia.
A. w. DRINKWATER, then in
charge of the U. S. Weather Blu
reau, at Manteo, was saying late
in July that he saw no chance of
damage to Dare County from the
hurricane then conferred at Ever
glades City, Fla. In the entire
history of Dare County, Drink
water said, not a single death or
injury from storm had ever been
recorded on the Outer Banks.
CAPT. WALTER G. ETHER
1DGE had just moved his family
to Elizabeth City to live early in
August, 1885.
H. A. AINSLEY of Frying Pan,
near Columbia, caught five foot
long alligator weighing about 80
pounds while fishing in Frying
Pan Bay the first week in August,
fss6.
MRS. PEARL BAUM
SCHARFF'S spirited new march,
"My Native Country" was played
for the first time at meeting of
the Roanoke Island Music Club at
Wanchese on August A, 1886.
DAN CANNADY had blood
hounds in Edenton which were
brought to Dare County the middle
Of August, 1886, to try to track
down the thief who broke into Mrs.
Mary Midgett's store.
R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE was
director of the State Department
of Conservation & Development in
Raleigh where he was organizing
a committee to investigate the
shad fishing industry.
ANNIE LAURIE KEE, baby
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sammy
Kee, was baptized by DR.. R. B.
Drane as the annual celebration
of the birth of Virginia Dare got
under way at Old Fort Raleigh on
August IS twenty years ago.
C. WALLACE .TATEN of Co
lumbia was wiring the State High
way & Public Works Commission
at Raleigh that the Southern
Albemarle Association had just
adopted a resolution calling for
the construction of bridges across
Alligator River and Croatan Sound
and favoring the building of
bridge across Albemarle Sound
from Reeds Point in Perquimans
to Dewey's Pier, in Tyrrell Coun-
ty.
MISS EFFIE READE WEST
COLT was just home from a stay
at Old Point Comfort, Va, where
she had been taking the annual va
cation study course conducted by
the Julliard School of Music of
New York City.
JACK D. NELSON, Dare Coun-
ty surveyor, was at Mashoes set
ting up a .WPA drainage project
for the marshes there which would
aid in building a road from the
schoolhouse to the dock.
C. C. DOWDY of Paul Gaimels
Hill, Willie Midget, of Bodie Is
land, and Jennings Beasley, of
Currituck Beach were named Off
GERS in the new Surfmen's Asso-
citation organized when approx
mately 35 Coast Guardsmen met
in the Dare County Courthouse on
August 80, 1886.
HORACE DOUGH, keeper of
the Wright Memorial at Kill Devil
Hills, had just come back from a
Washington conference with Ma
tional Park Service officials late
in August, 1886, and was hopeful
he would be able to keep the giant
memorial to the first airplane
flights in history visible by flood
lights all winter.
BITS THAT WE'RE NEWS 20
YEARS AGO: Sam Midget, of
Mays Head, was saying dogs were
all right on the beach but not on
"a highway. One sauntered across
the highway two miles south of
Shawboro at 2 am. July 81, 1886
causing his car to turn over four
times fracturing several ribs while
a companion, Dennis Alexander,
of Manteo, was uninjured Peli-
cans, rare sight in Dare County
waters, were reported seen swim
ming in Oregon Inlet by DR.. j. D.
Hathaway and DR.. H. D. Walker,
of Elizabeth City, while on a fish
ing trip there early in August.
1886 -. The recently dredged
channel from Pamlico Sound into
Rodanthe was being marked early
in August, 1886, by four modern
electric beacons placed by the u.
s. Lighthouse Service. Cape Hat
teras' Lighthouse, tallest on the
Atlantic. seaboard, was about to be
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