Record #:

22867

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

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.\"

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Oct 25-Nov 7 1989, p7

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History