Those scores of Wilmingtonians who made the trek to Elizabethtown yesterday to take part in the Bi-Centennial celebration of our Bladen neighbors, were not disappointed, but we imagine more than one learned more of the illustrious history of this county that he ever dreamed was written into the records 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 existence have been honorable and progressive and this newspaper heartily congratulates the people of Bladen not only on their great record but on appropriate and colorful exercises which commemorated the occation (sic.).--Wilmington Star.

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THE BLADEN JOURNAL
???day, Month?? ??, 19??

(It seems that this Bi-Centennial was when Ehringhaus was Governor of North Carolina, most likely in 1934. --Ed.)
(John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus. Governor, 1933-37)