The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-11-01
MANY INTERESTING
NEWS HAPPENINGS
AT OcRACOKE ISLE

Ocracoke, Oct. 2S.-The P.T.A.
will sponsor it's annual Halloween
Carnival on Friday night, z pm,
at the schoolhouse. A variety of
fun has been planned for old and
young: darts, bingo, hit the bottle,
movie cartoons, fish and shrimp
ponds, hot dogs and cold drinks
will all make up the evenings en-
tertainment. Proceeds of the Car
nival go to the P.T.A. treasury.
On Monday, Nov. 4th, special
courses in Home Nursing will be
given to high school students, a
total of fourteen hours being re-
quired to complete the course.
These will be given by Mrs. Mabel
Gaskill, Mrs. Alice Belle Williams,
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Howard, and
Mrs. Dora Jane Garrish, who were
trained last Spring by Red Cross
officials to do this work. They plan
to offer similar course to adults
next spring.
On Tuesday night, Nov. 9th,
Circle 1 of the Woman's Society
will hold it's meeting at the Church
Recreation Hall.
Capt. Walter C. O'Neal, Sr. re-
ports that parties staying at his
home have had luck surf casting.
A party from Savannah, Georgia,
caught 6 large drum and blues
and founders. Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Arthur Love of Norwood, Pa, who
come to Ocracoke every fall for
fishing have also had good luck.
Mr.. Love landed a Sab. channel
bass; his wife had to be satisfied
with a So lb. one. Mr.. and Mrs.
C. L. Gilbert of Smithville, Texas,
are also here for their fall fish
ing. They make the long trek each
fall from Texas to Ocracoke.
Burgess Howard and daughter,
and his brother, Charles Howard,
both of Hampton, Va, sons of the
late Bradford Howard, native of
Ocracoke, spent several days re-
Gently at Wahab Village Hotel and
visited relatives and friends while
here.
Mrs. Mary F. O'Neal has gone
north to visit her daughters, Mrs.
Stacy Simpson of Wilmington,
Delaware, and Mrs. Robert Swenk
of Port Jefferson, New York.
Eph Esham went north to visit
his father, King Esham, and his
sister, Mrs. Hayworth Richards, at
Upper Darby, Pa. He made the
trip with Lafayette Howard and
Manuel Williams, who had been
visiting here.
Rev. Frank Treet Fulcher of
Richmond, Va, who is visiting his
sister, Mrs. Lena Bragg, preached
at the evening service at the
Methodist Church on Sunday night.
He also gave delightful sermon
cite to the school children at a
special get-together in the school
library last week.
Mrs. H. j. Williams is visiting
relatives in Norfolk and enroute
home plans to visit in Durham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Danny Garrish and
son spent several days in Norfolk
last week, visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N. Overton. Calvin
O'Neal visited Larry Williams in
Norfolk.
Mrs. Lola Williams has returned
home from Norfolk. Mrs. Russell
Williams, of Norfolk, is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Elnora Balance.
Mrs. David Keppel of Washing
ton, D. C. and Mrs. Agnes Fowler
of Salisbury, Connecticut, are
spending a week at one of the Old
Homestead cottages. Mrs. Keppel
has many, many friends here, made
during the years when she and
Mr.. Keppel came to the Island at
least once each year. The Keppels
owned an attractive summer cot
tage, made from an old house
boat used years ago by the author,
Rex Beach, who hunted and fished
and wrote here. Five or six years
ago the Keppel property was sold
to A. S. Wikstrom of Skaneateles,
New York. After her husbands
death, Mrs. Keppel gave several of
their wild pony herd to the local
boy scouts under a trusteeship ar
rangement. This is Mrs. Fowler's
first trip to Ocracoke. Like Mrs.
Keppel,, she is delighted with the
new highway and charmed with
Ocracoke Village and its friendly
people.
| C. F. Boyette has gone to Nor
folk to meet his daughter, Mrs.
LAME Wynn, and children, who
will spend the winter here at
Ocracole. For the past three or
four years Mr.. Wynn, in the U. S,
Navy, has been stationed at
Hawaii, but is now transferred to
the western coast. The Wynns plan
to occupy the Rondthaler cottage,
which is just across the highway
from Wahab Hotel, and close home
| for Boyettes and Wynns.