Record #:

22868

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

The tales begin with a "pork roundup" in June 1883, when the chief of police arrested all the pigs on the streets in Greenville. In 1897, G. N. Crawford had a dog that could “worm” tobacco. In 1902, a speaker at the Ayden Methodist Church gave a humorous lecture on “The World is a Big Tater Patch.” In 1967, Oral Roberts University named a building for East Carolina College President John D. Messick. There is a story of undying love from 1900 between Edward Sugg and Ada Hearne. In 1874, a great circus was advertised to appear in Marlboro; but what showed up was a big funny mess. There is a story from 1884 about a barber in jail cutting patron’s hair through the jail window. And lastly, the story about the Thomas J. Jarvis Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy Masquerade Ball in the Opera House in 1902.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Oct 11-24 1989, p10

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History