Pender County NcArchives News.....Pender's Stock Law Troubles 1916
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Charlotte Daily Observer 1916
21 May 1916

Pender County Hog Mad

In some of the eastern counties, some of the citizens are about ready to 
establish a reign of anarchy on account of the stock law. Dr. F.D. Owen, the 
hog cholera expert of the State Department of Agriculture, had an appointment 
at a Pender County school house to demonstrate the efficiency of hog cholera 
treatment.

The citizens evidently believed that Doctor Owen was going to inject some 
stock law talk along with the cholrea treatment, for when he got to the school 
house, he found the place deserted, notwithstanding the appointment had been 
well advertised. 

In addition Doctor Owen found a notice posted warning him to keep away. The 
Pender Representative in the Legislature, who lived near the school house, 
refused to accompany Doctor Owen to the appointment, saying they had a man who 
could cure hog cholera.

At another appointment in the same county, where Doctor Owen had been assured 
by the chairman of the Pender board of commissioners that he would have a 
crowd, he found nobody to hear him. 

Evidently a bad state of affairs in Pender.

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