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Before December 15. 1940. few
Onslow duelling doors were latched at
nights, residents led a leisurely and
pleasant existence, went fishing any
lime of day and night in bass-filled
streams, croaker-laden rivers and guts,
and drum-inhabited sloughs (rout
Hogue to New River inlets. Nights
they hunted alligator, too, In the fall,
quail, rabbit, squirrel, dove, duck»,
and deer fell before sportsmen from
within and without North Carolina,
who had found Onslow u hunter’s
paradise.
Before December. 1940. even
private businesses had offices in
the public courthouse, because
the public business didn’t require
the space except dining court
weeks.
Ihoma, G. Sa inworth, the firearms
expert, resided at Marines, a coastal
community, and came to town only
during court, took his seat on benches
on the courthouse lawn and cussed out
everybody, the President, the local
druggist and the courthouse janitor.
That year G. L. (Kat) Mat¬
tocks had a cafe on one corner
and a poolroom on live other.
When business was rushing, he
had to dash between his two loca¬
tions to round up change for 55.
J. B. Scott had the other cafe and
did a bigger business because he
sold hot dogs and fed the 10-
member Kiwunis Club once
weekly.
lhat year. too. the
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man was operating the celebrated
Riverview If ole I and trying to carry
on the dining room tradition set by
Mrs. Humphrey, whose tables were so
laden with fluid that Wilmmgtoniins
and New Bermans in year, before had
ridden to Jacksonville on the train jusi
to put their feet under her bountiful
table.
The street lights went out at
midnight, and the Coke truck
went no farther cast or southeast
ili-in Paul Wynn’s stoic at Pincy
Green. Storekeepers of Marines
and Onslow Beach area had to
drive to Piney Green to claim
their stock of soft drinks.
(’apt. and Mrs. Janies Harker, now
ill Markers Island, were running the
Tarry more Hotel at Swansboro and
taking out fishing parties. The fare:
SI5 per trip, including a hot seafood
supper aboard boat.
Onslow and Hurst beaches, located
on as fine a strand as exist' on the At¬
lantic Seaboard, were fast developing
in spite of a slow outboard-motor-
driven ferry that sometimes broke
down and left folks stranded on one
side or the other of the Inland Water¬
way.
Woody Simpson ran the hotel at
Paradise Point, a favorite of High
Point residents, principally. He had a
breed jack named Prince Moran. The
word quickly spread every time Prince
was slated to become king, and Jack¬
sonville was almost emptied of its male
population.
Agricultural income was S4,-
000.000 from tobacco. corn, pea¬
nuts. and hams The Ondow
County Ham was famed far and
wide. The fishing industry was
comparably profitable. New Riv¬
er and Courthouse Bay oysters
were as popular as Lyrmhavera.
and. for our money, more pa¬
latable
Farmer» living along the river or
sound, or Inland Waterway supplc-
incntcd their table fare with fresh sea¬
food or game they took themselves.
Mr. ami Mrs rictcher Marine op¬
erated the New River Lodge in Jack¬
sonville, .i popular sportsman’s resi¬
dence.
In Richlands Louis Sylvester
could he heard all over the vil¬
lage as he expounded on any
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m front of his store; Huch
Ragsdale propelled hi, thin hulk
in and out of the garage; the
Mills. Steeds. Kussetis. Venters ct
ah. and Dr. C. W So lion were
other true Rich Under, And the
KichUnds Woman, Club was the
laigcd civic organisation in the
county. From it started county
libraries, music contcsu. health
centers.
Best known Character of Fulcher’s
Landing was Cupt. Buddy Ramp
Lew., who bragged that in his day lie
had "wrong more seu water out of the
seat of my drawers than any uplandcr
has sailed over."
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I W. Summcrsill, a former
Stale Senator who relumed to the body-
in January ’54. was being mentioned
II, a possible candidate for Congress,
and J. II Annin offered Zack Gur-
ganus 520.000 for hi, farm only two
miles south of town on U S. High¬
way 17.
George W. Gillette, a native
Onslow an. was colonel and chief
of the U. S. Army Engineers and
doing his best to develop the eco¬
nomic interests of commercial and
spoils fishermen along the North
Carolina Coast, more especially
the Onslow Coast, because he
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