Those scores of Wilmingtonians
who made the trek to Elizabethtown
yesterday to take part in the Bi-
Centennial celebration of our Bla-
den neighbors, were not disappoint-
ed, but we imagine more than one
learned more of the illustrious his-
tory of this county that he ever
dreamed was written into the rec-
ords of North Carolina.
Bladen is one of those counties
that bore the brunt of the hardships
of revolutionary days, and which
again had its baptism of trouble in
the stirring times of reconstruction.
Nor has its valor been proved in
battle and in hardship alone, for
its statesmen have also ranked high.
Its two hundred years of exist-
ence have been honorable and pro-
gressive and this newspaper heart-
ily congratulates the people of Bla-
den not only on their great record
but on appropriate and colorful ex-
ercises which commemorated the oc-
cation (sic).--Wilmington Star.
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THE BLADEN JOURNAL
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