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The author gives several interesting stories including a story from 1892 about a “Neck Tie Party,” a fundraising event hosted by the young ladies of the Baptist Church. It seems the young girls would create a basket of goodies and place a necktie in it to match their dress. Men would draw out the baskets from behind a curtain and see to which girl it belonged. Each young man had had to pay for the basket they drew by paying one half cent for each pond by weight of the young lady. The young man then became the escort for the young lady for the night. Apparently the airlines never had the monopoly on lost luggage. There is a frustrating story from 1888 about the wandering trunk of Miss Meta Chestnutt. In 1889, it was reported that Robert Moye, while hunting in the low grounds north of the river, killed three white herons and one blue one. The blue one stood six feet tall. In 1882, it was reported that Major A. W. Blount of Chocowinity had a year or two before sent a fiddler to the cotton fields to make the hands hoe cotton faster. Then recently, the work hands had run the fiddler out of the fields because they had found religion. There was an unusual story from 1884 about a hot air balloon with a basket falling out of the sky and nearly striking the chimney of the residence of B. W. Brown. And lastly, in 1885 Alex Speight, Greenville Police Chief, had an old-time rat killing at the Greenville Market House killing 58 rats weighing a total of 28 pounds.
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