Ed Hinton of Dunn Has First Cotton Blossom Again This Year, June 30, 1924

Dunn, June 23—Ed Hinton, negro tenant on the farm of Arthur Pope of Dunn, is again the first to report cotton blossoms. He gathered a blossom on Saturday, June 21, and sent it to Dunn today. The square had not been punctured by a boll weevil. Hinton brought in the first cotton blossom last year.

From the front page of the Lincoln County News, Lincolnton, N.C., June 30, 1924