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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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