The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-23
WHAT. WAS GOING ON
ALONG THE COAST
ONLY 10 YEARS AGO
BY We olde Scribe

II MISS SADIE hENDLE1, VINO
: was Dare County's home demon
stration agent, had moved from
the Fort Raleigh Hotel to the
Brinkley Apartments where she
was keeping house.
| REV. ANDREW PRICE, of
Avon, was celebrating his 18th
birthday anniversary at his home
at Avon, Hatteras Banks on April
| l, 1887.
FRANK STICK, who had just
begun to develop Dare County
beaches had just come back from
Myrtle Beach, S. C. with many
new suggestions for the improve
ment of the Dare seashore. Said
Stick: at is a plain statement of
regrettable truth that up to this
time (1937) our coastal develop
ment here in Dare County leaves
much to be desired, has in fact
done nothing to enhance the at
Effectiveness of our section. This is
particularly regrettable because of
the obviously and generally recog-
nized fact that from standpoint
of natural attractiveness, recrea-
tional advantages, climatic condi-
tions, accessibility and healthful
location, no section on the Atlantic
coast has more to offer :"
MISS HAZEL HOOPER of
Stumpy Point was in Manteo visit
ing Miss Helen Duvall.
MRS. ALMA MEEKINS LEWIS
was supervisor of National Youth
Administration activities in Dare
County where she had three
acre garden project under way by
school children at Kitty Hawk.
MISS THELMA MIDGETT,
daughter of Mr.. and. Mrs. Rudolph
Midget, of Rodanthe, and John A.
Meekins, also of Rodanthe, who
suffered painful personal injuries
in an automobile accident near
Norfolk, Va. on December IL, 1886,
wer seeking $4,000 damages in
Dare County Superior Court from
Swift & Co. and the driver of a
truck which collided with their
automobile.
NEAL AND DAISY MIDGETT
of Sand Ridge Lodge, Rodanthe,
on May 1, 1887 had just acquired
LeRoy's Seaside Inn, popular 60
room beach hotel near Mays Head
and rumor had it that the purchase
price was in the neighborhood of
$25, 900.
MISS ADDYE GOULD, Mrs. H.
B. Hines, Alexander Mathis, Gene
German, Mrs. Pearl Baum Scharff
and Mrs. Alpheus w. Drinkwater
were active members of the Ro-
anoke Island Music Club.
ROBERT H. ATKINSON, who
for six years had been the popular
and efficient administrator of Dare
County's public school system had
just been selected to a third term
of office by members of the Dare
County Board of Education which
then consisted of C. E. Payne, of
Stumpy Point, chairman; Richard
H. Gray, of Wanchese; E. P.
White, of Buxton, and R. E. Bur-
rus, of Manns Harbor.
ROSCOE CRARY the 7O-year-
old former president of the Dare
Lumber Company of Elizabeth
City died on April 2, 1887 in Chi
cago, Ill. He was well-known in
practically all of the communities
on the Dare County mainland,
where his company once owned
vast acreage in timber.
EBER R. WESCOTT had shoe
repair shop located opposite the
Fort Raleigh Hotel.
t. A. BAUM was manager of
the Roanoke Ferry Company,
whose rates between Roanoke Is
land and Manns Harbor were $1.OO
for car and driver and Is cents
for each additional passenger.
L. Y. Gray of Salvo was Red
Cross chairman for the Hatteras
Banks and was busy thanking
friends and neighbors for their
generous support of the flood re-
lief fund made necessary by a
severe storm in 1887. A total of
$134.50 was collected in the vari-
Gus communities along the South
banks by Mrs. Calvin Midget, of
Rodanthe; Mrs. L. Y. Gray, of Sal
vo; Mrs. Willie Gray, of Avon;
Mrs. Maude White of Buxton; Mrs.
D. E. Fulcher, of Frisco, and the
Rev. John r. Poe, of Hatteras.
MRS. CORA M. MIDGETT had
qualified as administrative of the
estate of the late Ignatius S. Mid
gett, of Rodanthe.
| JUSTIN TUNE, popular red
headed music maker on Roanoke
Island nearly 20 years ago was in
Elizabeth City, listening to a con-
\ cert of Russian Imperial singers.
| MRS. BELVA DANIELS of
Manteo was mighty proud of pos
sessing the only Judas tree in full
bloom on Roanoke Island.