Jake Wool of Edenton, well known in Elizabeth City, is about to realize the ambition of a life time. Jake Woold is going to forsake the haunts of busy bodies and settle down for the rest of his life at Nags Head, where he will sell groceries to the summer cottagers in summer and fish in the fall and spring. In the winter he will not fish.
Jake Wool was in Elizabeth City the other day making preparations for his going into exile. He says he has been going to Nags Head ever since he was eight years old and it has been his ambition always to spend his life at that good old resort. For 15 years while an engineer on the Norfolk Southern R.R., he prayed every night for the Lord to see him safely thru the night’s run for Nags Head’s sake. After making up his fourteenth wreck on the Norfolk Southern two years ago Mr. Wool quit while the quitting was good and took a position in the Norfolk Navy Yard. Disarmament talk put an end to a lot of Navy Yard work and Nags Head again came in for consideration. Happily for Jake, he married a girl who likes Nags Head too. Mrs. Wool, who was Miss Goldie Kramer of this city, will be an enthusiastic pal in the Utopian adventure.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
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