Record #:

23494

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

The author gives a series of varied stories from Pitt County such as the 1938 order from the Town Clerk, J. O. Duval warning “all persons owning turtles are requested to keep them from running at large on the streets of Greenville.” In 1937 seven Moore children from Fountain married into three families. There was an unusual missing dog advertisement from 1931 and in 1932, Loonis R. McGlohon, of Ayden, was a musical prodigy at eleven years old. In 1935, David L. (Jesse) James, of Wintervlle, NC, was an US Army soldier stationed in Hawaii. He was honored for making history when he pitched the first no-hit, no run game ever hurled in league competition in Honolulu. There is a funny poem from 1932 about gossiping and an episode from 1932 about a 15 year old boy captured for having a still and the judge sentencing him to a sound spanking. In 1937, Pitt County ABC officials poured 339 gallons of bootleg whisky down the sewer on 10th Street. The sewer probably went into Greene Mill Run which led to drunken critters. In 1937, Mrs. J. D. Copeland had a hen that adopted nine little puppies And lastly, in 1933 there was Court House pandemonium when Preston Pierce, City Tax Collector, was cleaning his gun in his office, when it discharged unexpectedly. The bullet went through his office door, through the corridor and lodged in the top of the door of the Register of Deeds office.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Mar 20-Apr 2 2002, p7

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History