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This article contains a collection of different stories, including a number of snake tales from 1911. Edward W. Hearne killed a snake on a street with a chair and Sheriff Dudley had a milk cow with a large black snake dangling from each horn. The snakes had tried to eat each horn. In 1905, Mrs. H. A. White owned the first bath tub in Greenville. She was also one of the first to have a car and the modern convenience of a radio, a Victrola, oil heat and electric lights. The people of Greenville could not understand how the electric lights could burn without oil. Until the novelty wore off, people walked through Mrs. White’s house day and night, switching the lights on and off, screwing the bulbs out and sticking their fingers into the sockets. There is a funny story of how a cat and rat fight destroyed the garage of the Hines Motor Company in 1923. There was a Anti-Rat Campaign waged in Pitt County in 1923. Leland Forlines of Winterville won with 114 rat tails and Jim Dupree turned in 56 rat tails. The children winning the highest Greenville prize were: Jim Tucker, 51; Downell Elks, 40; Louise Barnett, 38; Leroy Coward, 37; and J. B. Eastman, 14..
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