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23469
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On October 28, 1901, Mr. and Mrs. R.W. King of Greenville celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary by hosting a large party in their home on Dickinson Avenue. The party was a great success with many attendees including Senator F.G. James and Dr. J.L. Wooten.\r\nIn 1898, a ladies' group by the name of \"Sub Rosa\" was formed in Greenville. Some of the first members were Bettie Tyson, Rosalind Rountree, Annie Perkins and Rosa Hooker. In February of the next year, the group put on a fabulous masquerade ball at Germania Hall.\r\nThe \"Twenty - Five Club\" was formed in Greenville in 1945 at the Olde Towne Inn by businessmen Dick Stokes, Jack Nobles and Royce Jones in order to promote an annual dance.\r\n
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Opened in 1924, the Pitt Drug Company was owned by W.H. Norris, a prominent Greenville citizen and member of the Board of Aldermen. The Wayside Tea Room and Gift Shop was opened in Greenville in 1922 by Mrs. Travis Hooker at what is now the intersection of Dickinson and Memorial. Established near Greenville by Drs. O.J. Allen and Charles Laughinghouse, the Blount's Dairy received its name in 1927 when it was purchased by Marvin O. Blount and Sons of Bethel. The Kelvinator Company was located in Greenville in the 1930s. Dealing with electrical refrigeration and "Philco" radios, the company was led by E.G. Flanagan. J.G. "Scrappy" Proctor was a major player in the Greenville men's clothing business. He was associated with W.L. Nesbit in 1939, Curtis Perkins in 1946 and opened his own store, Proctor Limited, in 1964. Wilbur Hardee started the Port Terminal Inn in 1948. Located on the old Washington Highway, it was the home of "Hardee's Barbeque." The Independent Market, located on Dickinson Avenue, was in business from 1931 to 1958. Operated by Charles J. Cannon, the interesting thing about the store is that it never sold any tobacco or alcohol. Mr. J.D. Parker and his wife opened the New Pirra Restaurant and Oyster Bar in August 1954. The restaurant was a replacement for an older one of the same name, which had been destroyed by fire. In the 1950s the Greenville Golf Range and Miniature Golf Course was located on Memorial Drive. It was operated by Simon Moye and Charlie Bill Moye and was completely re-modeled in 1965.
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23471
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Retiring in 1937, Dr. Jenness Morrill of Falkland had served as a Pitt County physician for nearly 50 years. Throughout most of his long years of service, Dr. Morrill was the only physician in Pitt County and as such was visited frequently by patients and made numerous house calls all across the county. Several interesting events occurred during his travels, such as his saving a young girl from an unceasing nosebleed through the use of adrenaline. One of his patients accidentally drank from a bottle of tincture of cayenne pepper. During his 50 years in practice in Falkland, Dr. Morrill prescribed over a quarter - million remedies, traveled nearly half a million miles to visit patients, and delivered 1,400 babies.
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In 1982, David Lawrence Morrill of Falkland had in his living room a prized antique rocking chair. The story of this chair goes back to the late 18th Century, when Morrill's ancestor, Rev. Issac Morrill of Massachusetts, purchased it; it has stayed in the family ever since. According to family legend, the Marquis de Lafayette, while in the home of Governor David Morrill of New Hampshire, sat in this chair in 1824 during his tour of the United States. In 1877, following the death of the governor, his widow moved to Marlboro, N.C., now part of Farmville, to be near her two sons, William Henry Morrill and Dr. Samuel Morrill. In this way the chair was eventually handed down to David Lawrence Morrill of Falkland, where it hopefully still resides.
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In February 1871 a tournament was held in Falkland - - an event involving \"tilting\" or non - combat forms of Knightly exercises. Tournaments such as these were actually one of the most popular types of entertainment in Eastern North Carolina following the Civil War. This tournament in Falkland involved not only several ring competitions, in which sixteen knights from the surrounding counties participated, but also a lavish dinner and a nighttime ball. The tournament, organized by O.L.C. Pitt, W.B.F. Newton, John Harris, and Charles V. Newton, was a great success with many fully costumed participants and numerous spectators.
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The following was a portion of a talk given by Mrs. Henrietta Williamson to the Farmville Literary Club in 1961.She features several Farmville personalities which included Mrs. Lucy Bryant Davis, wife of Francis Marion Davis; Mrs. Della Kearney Clements, wife of Lloyd Smith and Miss Tabitha DeVisconti. Other ladies mentioned were Mrs. Carl Turnage, Mrs. Emily Turnage Monk and Mrs. Annie Phillips Lang.
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The following was taken from a feature article from 1959 about Mrs. Lula Fleming (1878-1967) was the daughter of Capt. Charles A. White and Louisa Amanda Corey, and the widow of James Lawson Fleming (1867-1909) former legislator who helped push the bill to establish what is now East Carolina University. Mrs. Fleming was an organist and was a member of numerous civic and historical organizations. She recalled the first one-room school house she went to on the corner of Washington and Fourth Streets, which later became the first telephone office. She spoke of the steamboats, dances and parties. She said…”in my youth no young people would think of going out unchaperoned. Such a thing as a night ride could have ostracized you.”
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In 1915, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Confederate veteran, lawyer, legislator, governor and minister to Brazil, died in Greenville. Over his years of public service, Jarvis did much to help the people of North Carolina. As governor in the early 1880s, Jarvis had compiled many achievements in public education and industrialization. For the city of Greenville, Thomas Jordan Jarvis is best remembered as the man most responsible for the establishment of the East Carolina Teachers Training School in 1907, later to become East Carolina University. At his death, the people of Greenville, and eastern North Carolina as a whole, honored him with lavish flower arrangements. In March, 2003, a plaque was placed at his grave in Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville.
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In 1917, the Batchelor brothers, Roy and Ed, established a men's clothing store in Greenville. They were known for keeping up an excellent stock of men's apparel and for being active in numerous civic activities, including the Greenville Golf and Country Club. Roy died in 1928 and Ed sold the business in 1956 to George Coffman, whose men's store is still one of Greenville's most renowned establishments.
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Local stories told from the past include a Dokie Ceremony held in May 1923 in Ayden and an effort to recruit Babe Ruth to be the manager of the Greenville baseball club. Other gleanings from the past are the cleanest man and the sleepiest man to hold office; the invention of a \"Spectro - speedometer\" by D.A. Windham of Greenville; a lost diamond found in a chicken gizzard, and the difference in telephone rates in area towns.
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Tales the author relates include the runaway marriage of Mr. Burton G. Albritton and Miss Bessie Keel in 1903. Bessie went through several travails to escape from her father who was against the match. In 1892, a young lady asked a local clerk if he had any “subdued mouse color?” and he “No, but we have some enraged rat color.” In 1909, a license of $25 was needed to sell “near beer.” In 1912 a tragic story occurred on the Pitt/Craven line in which Mrs. George Adams lost three of her young children in a few minutes to fire and snakebites. In 1900 there was the mysterious poisoning of Mrs. W.H. Mizelle; and lastly, the fatal accident at the McLohorn and Baldree steam mill of Pitt County.in 1881, which killed Allen Kittrell and injured Mr. McLohorn and Mr. Baldree.
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Kammerer offers a compilation of articles regarding area birthday parties and other activities involving the young include the 16th anniversary of Miss Mattie Moye on August 17, 1908; a prophecy party on December 31, 1900 given by Mrs. R. W. King complimentary to her sister, Miss Nannie Moye, of Kinston; and a circus and street parade held by boys on November 2, 1896, with David James leading the procession and blowing a cow horn along the way. These same boys had a large trapeze in Dr. D.L. James' yard and it was heard that they could do \"some smart acting on it.\"\r\nA Dancing Notice dated December 31, 1903 stated that parents of young ladies of the town of Greenville would \"not permit our daughters, or their guests, to attend any dance to be held in said towns, provided, that their escorts are not at our respective residences at an hour not later that nine o'clock p.m. on the evening the dance is to be held.\" Agreement enforced by Charles Skinner and wife; Mrs. M.D. Higgs; Alex L. Blow and wife; J. L. Wooten; Harry Skinner and wife; B. F. Patrick, M. A. Allen, for guest; J. A. Sugg; and F. G. James.\r\n
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William H. Atkinson was born to former slave parents on May 15, 1867, in a log cabin with a dirt floor near Handy Corner, Edgecombe County, NC. He lived in Pitt County around the turn of the century worked for Jeff Fountain on the steamboat, \"Lillian.\" Atkinson worked on the steamboat Shiloh at Centre Bluff Landing near Bruce, Pitt County. Atkinson died on March 23, 1973, at the age of 106.
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Lawrence Ed Tipton, owner of the Ed Tipton Insurance Agency of Greenville, is a former professional boxer who stood for six rounds in a match against Joe Louis and once whipped a heavyweight-boxing champion. After a successful boxing career in and out of the Army, Tipton turned down promising Madison Square Garden bouts to enter the business world.
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During the 1940s, Greenville became a \"liberty town\" for many soldiers. One of the soldiers, Frank Lang, flew a dive-bomber under the Greene Street Bridge in 1943. Buddy Waters and Charles Dudley recall riding in a car over the bridge at the time that the plane was about to fly under them.
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