The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-04
RION HI. BUTLER.

HION HI. BUTLER.
AS | said, when you are down in
the Sound country and figure On going
any where like enough you cross
bridge and then turn to the right or
LETT. After the doctor had looked at
the fish until he was heartbroken he
returned to the train, and instead OF
going on in the direction we were
heading we backed down the road
some distance and caught the swing
for the bridge. When we crossed it
rather than turn to the dry country
we headed up the Tar river for Green
vile. Everybody knows Greenville. 1t
Is the first tune that you learn to sing
when YOU start into cultivate your
voice at the cross roads singing school.
"AIi. mi, re, do do" try it on the piano
and YOU will recognize it. Doc knew
the town as soon as saw saw it. lie
is an amateur musician.
Greenville is picturesque and
pleasant little city, showing up at
tractively from the car window, and
able to give a good account of itself,
for it is a seat of learning of cOnSe-
quence, and the capital of a mighty
thrifty county, Pitt, named for the
great Englishman, the Earl of Chat
ham, a friend Of the colonies in their
troubled days. One Of the things l
like about North Carolina is that about
any old place you drop down In the
inhabitants are ready to show you that
before the Declaration of Independ-
ence at Philadelphia in 1776 the
grouchy patriots in the North Caro-
lima county had been holding meet
ings and declaring something for
themselves. Pitt is no exception.
Marlborough, July 1, 1775, is the
date when Pitt came into action. The
I way these old daddies went at the
thing is refreshing. AS rule they
|, started out by announcing that 1--WE
|, the freeholders and inhabitants re-
II solve that we will pay all due allie
4 glance to his majesty King George
Il Ill and about the time they get thai
i far they begin to work their knives
around from behind their backs and
4 announce that they are "determineo
\ never to become slaves of any power
on EARTH
The Pitt county resolutions were
signed by John Simpson, chairman
and go others and to clinch the thing
they issued another document IL
August following signed by n OF thu
lnsurrectiOnists. When the time cam'
these men were on hand to shov
cause. Pitt has been on the map eve
since.
Iut Dig lIlUSS.
Pitt is a good farming county. To
bacco is one Of the big crops, ten mil
lion pounds being the census figure
Tor the county. What it could do II
tobacco if it had the people, woul'
make the anti-cigarette folks unhappy
BUT Pitt also makes other things. !
rs one of the good cotton counties o
the state, and it knows what to d
when complaining time comes, for
pulls down the big end of milliO
bushels of corn, and that will max
an awful lot of pone trimmings TO
the green's and jowl. A couple of hun
ured thousand bushels of potatoes,
similar supply of peanuts, half a mil
hon pounds Of grapes, forty or fift
thousand bushels of fruit, three {
Tour million eggs, and that kind {
stun is what they make in Pitt count
When they are not at work in the te
bacco and cotton fields. We left tn
sounds behind us when we came owe
INTO Pitt, but the fine farms visib
all along the road made up for
Fit county is a pleasing territory
watch scurrying backward past tf
car windows. The Grimes plantatiC
brought up the question of the b
things of the earlier days, and tn;
started the history of the neighbo
mood and the big men that have CON
from down in the vicinity and befol
We knew it the Doctor was crosse,
amining a neighbor in the car abo
the training school out across the tow
at Greenville.
Hustling Wilson.
We were so much taken up with tt
school and the town and variO
things that we permitted the Tar riv