Record #:

22835

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

The author gives several interesting stories including when Richard Ficke and Newman Jones of Grifton made a presidential bet in 1932. Ficke lost and he had to push Jones in a wheelbarrow from the artesian well in Grifton to Five Points in Greenville. They started the 20 mile trek at 8:20 am and finished at 1:10 pm. Another bet of the same nature occurred in Farmville when Bill Whitley lost to Eugene Hobgood. Their wheelbarrow joyride went 12 miles to Saratoga. In 1931, Ross Cannon ran over a fox and he took it home to give his wife a fox stole. During Prohibition, a 15 year old boy was arrested for making moonshine in 1932. The Judge ordered the Sheriff to give him a sound spanking and return him home. In 1931 there was a funny lost dog announcement in the newspaper, G. O. Vanderford raised a 61 pound watermelon and R. L. Manning owned a freak mule that gave milk. In 1932, Miss Grace Hunter, first grade teacher of West Greenville School, organized 30 youngsters into a toy band. In June 1932, the Toy Band gave a concert in Raleigh where it was broadcast over Radio Station WPTF.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Dec 4-17 1991, p5

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History