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Joe M. Butterworth, a merchant in Bethel in the 1960s, was a WWII navy buddy of President John F. Kennedy. Serving together on \"PT\" boats in the Pacific, Butterworth remembers Kennedy as \"just a fine officer and a fine all round fellow.\" Following the war, Butterworth and Kennedy kept in touch and Butterworth greeted the presidential hopeful when he visited Greenville in 1960.\r\nIn 1891, a trophy was created for the 1890 Baseball Club of Greenville to commemorate their previous season's play. The trophy, constructed by Robert Humber, was made up of a tripod of miniature baseball bats with a game - winning ball suspended beneath it. Mollie Rouse painted each of the players' names on the ball. To this day no one knows what became of the trophy.\r\nIn 1887, the Pitt County jail saw a unique business proposition come its way in the form of horse - trading. An inmate in the jail traded his horse, in the custody of the prison, for the horse of an interested party on the outside.\r\nIn 1903, the local newspaper in Greenville contained an editorial that commented on the lack of manners among the youth of the town. The unknown author, after mentioning several observations as to how Greenville's youth incorrectly acted towards one another, stated that \"we would like to see the present generation of 18 and 20 year olds acquire some of the gentility, grace and dignity of other days.\"\r\n
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