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Roanoke Island News, June 9, 1922

Roanoke Island News Happenings in Brief

The Dare County High School at Manteo is being extensively improved by a fresh coat of paint on the exterior and part of the interior. All window sash will be overhauled and glazed and the frames will be covered with stick-proof wire screening. The repairs will cost about $1,000. John F. Wilson is the contractor.

John Rollins, a veteran crab man of Hampton, was in Manteo last week with a view to erecting another crab factory in the town. Mr. Rollins claims he will try out dredging the shell fish this winter, in the event the new factory is erected in time.

W.A. Basnight of Norfolk, Va., and Webb Ambrose of East Lake were awarded damages of $7,000 in a suit against the Dare Lumber Company in Dare Superior Court last week. Basnight and Webb contracted to furnish the Lumber Company with several hundred thousand cooper logs at five and a half cents apiece and the lumber concern broke the agreement. The court decided the plaintiffs suffered a financial loss equivalent to $7,000.

Crops on Roanoke Island are doing fine and watermelons are expected by the 10th of July this Summer. Early sweets are growing well as a result of frequent rains.

Manteo is enjoying the new electric light plant recently completed by Dr. F.P. Gates a short time before he died. The plant is now being operated by F.H. Gates and H.A. Creef. It furnishes light for practically all the stores in town and lights are being placed in a number of homes.

Manteo’s movie house, “The Pioneer,” recently completed by G.W. Creef and Son, is operating at intervals. One of the pictures shown last week was “The Lost Colony,” filmed on Roanoke Island last summer. The picture still draws a large attendance of Dare County people. The new movie house will seat about 200 people.

Four Roanoke Island school teachers were struck simultaneously with tooth ache and were obliged to consult a dentist in Elizabeth City Monday. Citizens of the North End School District are vigorously protesting against a consolidation of their district school with that of Manteo. North End District has many young pupils who could not well be sent the long distance to Manteo.

“The 49 Club” is contemplating the purchase of a radio set for the entertainment of the members and their families. There is not yet one on the island.

The boat building industry is again booming on the Island. Local railways are busy in spite of broken fishings. W.O. Dough & Sons, leading boatbuilders of the Island, are building the greatest number of boats in years; this firm receiving its orders from all over Northeastern North Carolina and Virginia.

From page 7 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, June 9, 1922

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