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This group of local stories tells of a rat drinking whiskey till he dies and of a still found three blocks from the Court House. In the 1940s, Bob Rankin owned a pet terrier, called “Rufus the Terror” who patrolled Fifth Street killing rats and howling to music. In 1945, a black couple named their son Tojo Hitler Mills to be unique. But the county pressured them to change the name to Odell Mills. A hilarious story is told of the mayhem caused by a hog that fell off the back of a truck north of the bridge. Another funny story is told of a panther that was causing alarm in the Winterville community in 1887. One night 24 hunters went out to find and kill it and after scared shooting into the dark woods, it was discovered that it was only an owl making the frightening noise.
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