The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-06-20
OcRAcOKE PERSONALS

epidemic of bone-breaking in the
Village. Mrs. Maude Fulcher start
ed it by falling and breaking three
foot bones; Mrs. Sarah Ellen Gas
kill broke an arm; David Esham
fell and broke hand bone; and
Miss Grace Keeney fell up steps
and broke a leg-bone. All are at
home except Miss Keeney, who is
hospitalized at Sea Level but hopes
to get back to Ocracoke this week
end.
Mrs. ellis Riddick and son,
Mike, spent the week end with
her mother, Mrs. Maude Fulcher.
Miss Fannie Pearl Fulcher is home
from Raleigh for the summer
months.
Mrs. Ray Riddick and Mrs. Alice
Scott Barber of Scotland Neck
spent the week end here. They
have recently bought the Warren
Scarborough home and are getting
it ready for. summer occupancy
They are sisters, daughters of Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph B. Scott, deceased,
of Atlanta, Georgia, who owned a
summer home "Sea Breeze Cot
tage" for many years. When the
Navy Base was built here in World
War II, the cottage was torn
down. Mrs. Riddick and Mrs. Bar
Der are delighted to acquire their
new summer home on Ocracoke.
Silverlake Hotel entertained a
number of young boys this past
week when Mr.. and Mrs. John
Yates with three boys, Donald
Brandt with two boys and Donald
Ness with two boys, all of York,
Pennsylvania, visited Ocracoke.
Willie Williams, father of Mrs.
Frank Teeter, is hospitalized at
the Veterans Hospital in Rich
mond, Va.
A representative of the radio
program Monitor, Paul Mason,
was registered at Silverlake Hotel
last week and while here inter-
viewed Capt. Thurston Gaskill
about the wonderful catches of
cobia which sportsfishermen are
making here at this time. In a
previous interview for monitor"
Mr.. Mason talked with Danny
Garrish at the Community Store.
Recent inquiries to the Ocracoke
Civic Club have mentioned the fact
that many people learned of the
Island through this program.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Tate and
daughter of Southern Pines visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Ryder this
past week end, bringing Bob Ry-
der who will be here with his
parents during their summer stay.
The Ryders moved into the Marvin
Howard cottage on the Village
Street in early June.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Styron and
family arrived last week from Will
mington. Mrs. .Styron and Belinda
will be here all during the summer
months. Miss Aida Vann O'Neal,
who had been visiting them, re-
turned home with them.
Edward C. O'Neal, recent grad
uate of Ocracoke High School, left
for Norfolk today to further in
vestigate the possibility of joining
the Coast Guard.
Harold Wahab is home from
Washington, D. c., with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Wahab.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin O'Neal
and son, Douglas, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Needham Simpson went to
Richmond last week. The O'Neals
returned on Sunday afternoon. Mr..
and Mrs. Simpson will spend
several days with their daughter,
Mrs. Elsie Pronobis and her fam
lily there.
Wahab Village Hotel enjoyed a
visit from ten Girl Scouts from
Raleigh, under the chaperonage of
Mrs. Dean w. Coward, Mrs. Har-
old Pitzer, and Mrs. Ben Mccoy.
1t was their first trip to the Is
land and they enjoyed it very
much. Back at the hotel recently
were Mr.. and Mrs. Gillies Brown
of Durham, Milton Sides and party
of Winston-Salem, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Starr of Gastonia, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lamar Northup of Winston
Salem, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Bunt-
ing and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Glover, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lem Enclair, all of Frankford,
Delaware.
So far this summer the Spencer
summer apartments have been
occupied with doctors and their
families, and two more doctor fam
lilies are expected. There this past
week were DR.. and Mrs. Stevens
Saunders and family of Spring
vile, NJ Y. and DR.. and Mrs. NAL
colin Crump and Mr.. and. Mrs
Clarke Apologize of Milford, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Allen of
Chicago are spending two weeks
at tl,o pnndtbo1ar onftona Mr. opd