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22854
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The Greenville Bottling Company, a beer company established by S. M. Schwartz in 1883, was Greenville's first known first bottling company. J. H. Shelburn established another beer bottling company in 1884. In 1892, Ed. H. Shelburn & Co. began a bottling company for carbonated drinks, the first to sell Coca-Cola in 1893. J. W. Bryan invented the drink, Euvita, and in 1903, established the Euvita Bottling Co. In 1908, T. M. Hooker and W. A. Teel, Jr. began the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company. The Burton Soda Water and Ice Cream Works opened in 1906 bottling Seven Springs Mineral Water. W. J. Hardee, C. M. Warren, and R. T. Cox began the Greenville Chero-Cola Bottling Company in 1915. In 1916, James M. Hines opened the Coca-Cola Bottling Works. The Orange Crush Bottling Company opened in 1923. J. Carroll Waldrop started the Nehi Bottling Company in 1933. The Double Cola Bottling Company started in 1939. The Gary Beverage Company of Charlotte, NC established the Greenville Tip Company in 1940.
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Bottling companies--Greenville; The Greenville Bottling Company; Ed. H. Shelburn & Co.; Burton Soda Water and Ice Cream Works; Chero-Cola Bottling Company (Greenville); Orange Crush Bottling Company; Nehi Bottling Company; Double Cola Bottling Company; Gary Beverage Company (Greenville); Euvita Bottling Co.; Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
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22855
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This group of local stories includes a tale about a black man named Issac Staton who named his kids "Get All," "Will Have It," and "Save All." M.C.S. Cherry, Jr. had two hound dog puppies named Sullivan and Kilrain, named for noted pugilists. There is a 1904 announcement from the newspaper by parents of young ladies stating the girls cannot attend dances if there escort is not there to pick them up by nine o’clock. In 1835, John Buck raised 2000 pumpkins, the largest weighing 156 pounds. In 1903, Mrs. D. D. Haskett raised a lemon weighing one and a half pounds, measuring 12 ½ inches in circumference. There is a tale from 1900 about George B. King, Greenville postmaster, having challenges trying to get the mail to the train on time. In 1901, government surveyors put a tablet on the Court House stating that Greenville was 68 feet above sea level. The tablet was destroyed in the Court house fire of 1910. In another story, the Standard Oil Company tanks blew up on Dickinson Avenue in 1933, causing tremendous damage. And lastly, there are details of a Prophecy Party given by Mrs. R. W. King in 1900.
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22856
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This group of local tales includes the story of G. M. Mooring, Pitt county Legislator, who received four grandchildren in one week in 1912. Another tale concerns a school shooting at the Bell-Arthur High School principal in 1930. In 1900, there was a feud between the Jesse James family and the E. S. Lewis family. After a terrible shootout, Jesse James stole E. S. Lewis’ daughter and married her anyway. There seems to have been a problem in 1933 that people would crash into the barricades on the end of Pitt Street. The bridge had been taken down, but being creatures of habit, forgot that the bridge was gone. And lastly, there is a funny story about a fox hunt at Red Oak which went terribly wrong.
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22857
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This article describes some important events and lists some important dates pertaining to long-forgotten towns in the county. Redalia was a small town that had a post office sporadically from April 19, 1853 until April 28, 1894. Renston was a small town with a post office from March 20, 1891 until October 15, 1902. There was a post office in Ridge Springs from May 14, 1844, until December 11, 1866, and August 15, 1867, until January 1886. Roundtree was another small town in Pitt County. It grew around the plantation of Jesse Roundtree (1765-1831). A post office operated there from June 1, 1888, until October 2, 1902. The ancestral home of Pitt County's Blount family and their original plantation started by Jacob Blount (1726-1789) had a post office from January 15, 1833, until September 6, 1833. A very small town called Clayroot had a post office from February 10, 1894, until June 6, 1901. A prominent man by the name of Asa Garris lived at Littlefield.
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22858
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A map on the cover of this issue indicates where some of these forgotten towns were located. Johnson's Mill, named after Frederick Johnston's gristmill, had a post office from December 13, 1837, until July 13, 1903. Quinerly, named after W.A. Quinerly, had a post office from February 9, 1894, until January 13, 1904. Gardnersville was a small town consisting of many family members of the John A. Gardner clan. It had a post office from June 6, 1894 until May 24, 1901. A very small town called Pullet also operated a post office under Franklin Jackson (May 21, 1886-February 1, 1888). The small towns of Hanrahan and Centreville also have disappeared.
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22859
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Kammerer tells local stories that include a "Historical Castle," a museum set up on Dickinson Avenue in 1930 that sounded like Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. That in 1934, the Welcome to Greenville sign was a broken down mess. In 1933, the world famous Prof. and Madam Nemar, noted magicians and tricksters, came to Greenville and put on a blindfolded drive through the crowded streets of Greenville and a magic show at the Greenville High School. In 1933 there was a Greenville campaign to get rid of hobos and there were numerous dairies in Pitt County in 1940. And lastly, Preston Pierce, former police chief and now tax collector in 1933, was cleaning his gun in his office in the Court House and it accidently fired which lead to panic and mayhem.
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22860
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In this group of local stories, Vernon Parrish showed a piece of wedding cake in 1935 originally served on January 1, 1854 in Baltimore, MD. In 1940, Deputy Sheriffs investigated a supposed murder at Gardner’s Bridge on the Pitt Craven line. In 1926, "Dare Devil Vee” gave a thrilling show of leaping on speeding cars. On Aug. 28, 1936 the largest dirigible passed over Greenville. Dirigibles and airplanes that flew over Greenville were becoming a nuisance on Sundays interrupting church services. In 1937, Hoot Gibson, the cowboy actor, came to Greenville with the circus. And lastly, the story of Greenville residents witnessing flying saucers on April 11, 1950, and July 27, 1967.
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22861
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In this group of local stories, marl and cottonseed were used as fertilizers. Benjamin Briley was the first man in Pitt County to find marl on his farm, followed by Josiah Barrett and Benjamin Streeter. Joshua Patrick was the first person to use cotton seed as fertilizer. About 1825, there were two cotton gins in Greenville, one standing along what is now Dickinson Avenue. The Tar River's big freezes are also discussed. In 1876-1877, a big snow of eighteen to twenty inches remained on the ground from around Christmas until mid-January. On February 11, 1889, Greenville received ten and one-half inches of snow with a temperature of eleven degrees; two days later, the temperature dropped to two degrees below zero. In 1899, there was a line of tornados which swept through northern Pitt County leaving a trail of wreckage. And lastly, the story from 1898 of the runaway horse and wagon of J. D. Carroll and all the mayhem it caused.
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22862
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Dueling used to be a popular way to settle disputes. One duel changed the fate of two Pitt County men forever. On October 1, 1847, Henry Ferdinand Harris (b. 1814) dueled against the county legislator and lawyer Edward C. Yellowley. Yellowley apparently made some rather inappropriate comments about Harris after his 1846 election win. A higher official ordered the men to keep peace for one year. They did. However, they met at the Great Dismal Swamp Canal on October 1, 1847. Harris was killed, and Yellowley participated in another duel years later.
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22863
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As early as 1908, Ben Higgs got a 99 year lease of the Greenville riverfront for developing a waterway with a terminal at Greenville. Efforts were being made to transform Greenville into a port. The Tar River was dredged from Washington to Hardee’s Creek in 1939, 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The Port Terminal Commission acquired 45 acres on Hardees Creek for a warehouse beside the landing. The first freighter, The Eldora, from Savannah with sugar, landed at Port Terminal on October 12, 1940. Port Terminal operated until March 1942. The channel was re-dredged in 1949.
In 1908, Greenville citizens attempted to establish a port. Port Terminal, located on the Tar River near Hardee's Creek, later became the site of the port, opening on October 12, 1940, and operating until March 1942.
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22864
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The Tar River was the lifeline of Greenville and many other Eastern North Carolina towns. To open it to more boat traffic and to increase economic growth, efforts were made to convert the Tar River into a locked river by building dams. In 1848/49 NC Legislature passed an appropriation of $25,000 to clean out the Tar River. A Colonel W.B. Thompson in 1853 stated that the river needed low dams and locks--at Sycamore Shoal, Bryant's Creek, Walston's Landing, and a half-mile from Sparta. In 1854 Colonel Thompson began building the locks, but the work was suspended in 1857. Another partial dam was built through the low grounds North of the river to the bridge in 1892.
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22865
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These tales include the story of how J. A. Hyman found a fish fallen from the sky in 1894. Of how Mrs. E. B. Higgs lost her diamond ring in a coffee bag in 1894 and later ground it up in the coffee mill. J. L. Hearne had a comedy of terrible successive household accidents in 1898. In 1899, a one horse medicine man rolled into Greenville and attracted with his stuffed rattler, and a live coach whip snake and woodchuck. A 1899 description of the first desk phone in Greenville owned by W. B. Wilson. An Ola Forbes tale about a deer hunt gone wrong from 1898. And lastly, the unusual feats of strength by a woman at the Opera House, who could not be moved by any means and could lift three men at once.
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22866
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This group of stories tell how farmers were complaining in 1886 of sturgeons eating all their corn during floods. In 1889, Mrs. George Newton of Falkland Township.gave birth by the side of the road. The child died and she buried it there. Her husband, upon learning of the event, went and dug up the child to see if it was mulatto, which it was not. In 1889, Andrew Joyner told a funny story about a frog in a churn making butter. And lastly, all the events of Christmas week 1871 with its parades, mummers, parties, jousting tournament and Coronation Ball.
Stories include a description of Christmas in 1871, damage to corn crops by sturgeons following a flood in 1886, and the 1889 death of Mrs. George Newton's infant in Falkland Township.
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22867
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This group of local stories includes the story of Job Moore and A. J. Moye winning agricultural awards at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. A funny story from 1944 about a hen house being robbed and a parrot catching the thief. A story about the tobacco cloth of Billie Branch of near Winterville being caught up by the wind in 1944 and making an unusual journey. In 1938, ball lightning went down the main street of Falkland. There is the obituary of a cow from 1890, known as "The Town Terror" of Greenville. In 1928 the Greenville fathers got rid of the last three horse troughs in Greenville. The story of the terrible shooting in 1908 in a café in Greenville of A. B. Kittrell and C. F. White, which ended with both their deaths. And finally a story from 1942, of how a newsboy saved the life of J. Francis Bowen from death in H. A. Whites Office in Greenville.
Stories include \"Henhouse Huckster,\" \"The Town Terror,\" and \"Horse Troughs.\"
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22868
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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.
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