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23484
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Mrs. T. E. Hooker and friends organized the \"First Friday Afternoon Musical Club\" for interested women in the town of Greenville, limiting it to 20 members. An elaborate German (dance) took place in Perkins Hall on a Friday night in December 1908. Lanterns and American flags from Ellsworth of New York decorated the hall. Walter Wilson, Jr. and Miss Nell Skinner, along with others led the German dance. Mr. W. H. Strum and Miss Ada Norris applied for a marriage license at the Register of Deeds office in Pitt County during October 1893. Ms. Norris's parents objected to the marriage, vowing to stop the wedding. Mr. Strum waited for his chance, and he and Ms. Norris were married within 30 feet of the bride's father, without him even knowing of the union.
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Samples of trivia include: The East Carolina Band was organized in 1938; the Industrial Arts department was established in 1937; the Commerce Department was organized in 1936; "Beans," was the campus mascot of the 1940s; the first football season was in 1932 and the first football victory was in 1933 over Campbell; the transformation of the college hog lot into a lake and a beautification program; Sylvan Theatre built in the 1950s; the Men’s Glee Club was started in 1952; a small cannon fired at ECU football games in the 1960s; and the history of the student "Y" store.
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Kammerer provides a description of Greenville's 61st market year in the selling of tobacco in 1951, where the bidding for a tobacco pile started at 39 cents. There were 17 tobacco warehouses in Greenville, where farmers offered their crop to the highest bidder. The life of a tobacco farmer was a gamble; one that the farmer hoped would pay off at the market.
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J. H. Rose, a Pitt County educator, principal, and superintendent, wanted to be a railroad man, but Rose's professor at Trinity College (now Duke) persuaded him to take a position in education in Kinston. Later, he came to Pitt County, remaining for the rest of his life. Because of his involvement with his students, Rose missed the announcement of his appointment as superintendent because he was on a trip with students. Rose was active in Jarvis Memorial Church and in statewide civic organizations.
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23489
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Dr. Cecil Garrenton (born 1883) educated at the Medical College in Richmond, VA and the Orthopedic Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, moved to Bethel, NC in 1913. In WWI he served as an orthopedic surgeon in the US Medical Corps. Dr. Garrenton, who was active in numerous civic, medical and fraternal organizations, was a stockholder and director of the Pitt County Community Hospital in Greenville, NC.
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Dubbed as "Greenville's greatest contribution to the world," Robert Lee Humber, Jr. (1898-1970) single-handedly launched a "movement" for World Federation. Because of that movement, the NC General Assembly passed his resolution in 1941, becoming the first legislative body in history to endorse World Federation. Humber traveled to other states over a period of ten years, and as a result, his resolution was adopted by 16 more states. In his studies abroad and at home, Humber developed an appreciation for the arts, and established the NC Museum of Art. He served on dozens of councils and commissions, helped establish the NC Community College system, the NC Symphony, and was President of the Pitt County Historical Society from 1964 to 1968.
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The son of George Eliot of Lower Little River, Cumberland County, NC, John "Ghost" Eliot taught throughout eastern North Carolina for 52 years. Eliot was a classmate of President James K. Polk at the University of North Carolina, and is remembered for his excellence in teaching Latin, geometry, algebra, chemistry, mineralogy, surveying and the classics. Eliot died at Johnson's Mills in Pitt County on November 13, 1881. He was buried in the yard of the Salem Church of Christ. His gravestone, which includes an incorrect date, was discovered in October 2001 on the east side of St. John's Episcopal Church. It is unknown who moved the stone from its original site.
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Kammerer recounts local stories, including those of a shooting at a church in Swift Creek township in October 1887 between Frank Moore and John Coward and an instance of hogs getting into the home of Simon Moye of Winterville. Other stories told are about Joe C. Boyd,a local farmer who walked 12,496 miles to and from his farm over a period of 45 years and a silver cup awarded to a local child with "perfect" teeth in 1926. The Greenville Cotillion Club held the first series of dances in 1902. And lastly, an old mule, claimed by his owner Charles Case to be over 30 years old, that was brought into town in 1901.
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23493
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The village of Hanrahan, located southwest of Greenville, was first known as “Pleasant Hill” and later as “Hanrahan’s Mills.” It was named after James A. Hanrahan (1831-1891) who had a store there. A post office was established there called “Hanrahan,” with Sarah R. Collins as first postmaster. After the railroad came through in 1890, James A. Hanrahan and his brother-in-law, J. T. Worthington erected grist mills and a cotton gin. The business was called the “Hanrahan Milling Company.” The business died sometime after 1910.
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The author gives a series of varied stories from Pitt County such as the 1938 order from the Town Clerk, J. O. Duval warning “all persons owning turtles are requested to keep them from running at large on the streets of Greenville.” In 1937 seven Moore children from Fountain married into three families. There was an unusual missing dog advertisement from 1931 and in 1932, Loonis R. McGlohon, of Ayden, was a musical prodigy at eleven years old. In 1935, David L. (Jesse) James, of Wintervlle, NC, was an US Army soldier stationed in Hawaii. He was honored for making history when he pitched the first no-hit, no run game ever hurled in league competition in Honolulu. There is a funny poem from 1932 about gossiping and an episode from 1932 about a 15 year old boy captured for having a still and the judge sentencing him to a sound spanking. In 1937, Pitt County ABC officials poured 339 gallons of bootleg whisky down the sewer on 10th Street. The sewer probably went into Greene Mill Run which led to drunken critters. In 1937, Mrs. J. D. Copeland had a hen that adopted nine little puppies And lastly, in 1933 there was Court House pandemonium when Preston Pierce, City Tax Collector, was cleaning his gun in his office, when it discharged unexpectedly. The bullet went through his office door, through the corridor and lodged in the top of the door of the Register of Deeds office.
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Kammerer gives a number of interesting short tales such as the impatient couple, W. L. Butts and Cynthia A. Spain, who got married in R. H. Horne’s Millinery Shop and after tying the knot, the husband went straight to a bar. In 1886, G. W. Gay of Falkland township was a local thug and terror, sent to the penitentiary. Whiskey and evil associations brought him to ruin. In 1886, John Slaughter became demented and committed suicide. A beautiful crazy quilt made by Miss Sue McClure, was raffled off for the benefit of the Episcopal Church. The winner was Master Willie Arnheim and another boy said he rubbed his rabbit foot for all it was worth, but it failed to charm the dice. In 1892, Edgar Buck and W. B. James put on a big fish fry at the seine four miles down the river. In 1881 it was reported that H. F. Albritton of Greene County weighed 120 pounds and his wife weighed 120 pounds and had a ten year old daughter that weighed 60 pounds and an eight year old daughter that weighed only 27 pounds. There were other large families in Greene County and a man weighed 500 pounds.In 1902, a black man named Isaac McGowan, ran down and killed a 176 pound deer with his bare hands on Dickinson Avenue. A hail storm in 1915, left eight inches of hail on Greenville streets. In 1948, the John Flanagan Buggy Company became dealers for two English built cars made by the Ford Company of England. In 1901, hogs got into the home of Simon Moye and wrecked the place.In 1883, W. L. Blount of Grifton had a prize 16 year old Coon Dog. And finally in 1901, Charles Case had a 30 year old mule.
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The author presents an editorial from 1959 that appeared in the local newspaper by J. H. Rose, Superintendent of Pitt County Schools and Director of Civil Defense for Pitt County. The editorial gives the feelings of the time during the Cold War. Civil Defense began after the outbreak of WWI with the formation of the Aircraft Warning Service. There is a National Survival Plan, created to prevent panic, which gives information as to Fall-out dangers in various parts of each State resulting from atomic bomb blasts. In Pitt County there is a director of Civil Defense for the entire county and this director works under an executive committee composed of the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners and the mayors of each municipality in the county.
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Kammerer gives a variety of unusual stories from Pitt County that include the marriage in 1908 of Henry Mills and Ella Bullock. She married without her father’s consent and he took Mills to court for obtaining the license falsely. Also in 1908, Mack Mobley and Mrs. Chrissie Baker married in Martin County because the marriage license was cheaper in Martin County. This was the groom’s second wife and the bride’s third husband. . In 1900, a shooting scrape occurred near Stokes at a young folk’s party at James S. Whitehurst’s. A certain William Bryan incurred the displeasure of Mr. Whitehurst and was asked to leave. Bryan didn’t leave fast enough and received buckshot in his butt. In 1935, there was a 94th birthday celebration held for Hardy J. Stokes, Civil war veteran and probably the last veteran in Pitt County. In 1910, there were a large number of cigar dealers in Greenville and in 1894, John F. Whichard was troubled by a mink killing his pigs. And lastly, Miss Maude Evans, daughter of M. A. Evans, won the “Founder’s Medal” in 1908 from the Southern Female College in Petersburg, VA.
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The author shows that former NC Governor’s did everything they could to promote NC Apple Brandy. Gov. Zebulon Vance and later, Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis advertised the brandy of R. A. Bynum of Pitt County in the Raleigh Observer in 1879.
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In an interview in 1974, two Pactolus residents, sisters Miss Pattie and Miss Sydney Davenport, recalled the days of their youth in Pactolus at the turn of the century. They recalled the steamboats and river traffic; tar beds at Yankee Hall; and early education. Their father, James R. Davenport, was a leading merchant in Pactolus and had a blacksmiths shop. The ladies recalled early entertainment and picnics at Yankee Hall. In the early 1900s, there were five and six doctors in Pactolus. They also recalled coming to Greenville to shop and the mud coming over the axle of the buggy on Main Street.
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