Record #:

22881

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

This group of local stories includes tale of Adam Corbett, the noted miser of Falkland twsp., and his hidden gold. In 1881, Walter Pollard, age 12 and Johnnie Nance, age 11, eloped because of ideas from paperback novels. In 1898, there is a story of a turkey loose in C. T. Munford’s Store in Greenville. Also in 1898, O. R. Simpkins had a “possum” dog that bagged 39 of them in one week. In 1897 a no-smoking law was instituted in Bethel. In 1893, there was a strange cloud phenomenon which caused many to be believe it was judgement day. Kammerer also gives a funny story from 1923 of the pranks of the Ayden Masonic Lodge.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Nov 23-Dec 6 1988, p8

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History