Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-11
1hs Tong Journey Undertaken by
a Raleigh Girl.
SHE GOES TO UrAt'
VIII Marry Joseph q. Emery. an E,
der ofiho church or tho Latter
Day saints = What tho Morm"ns
nIave Accomplished Ia convcri
Making Hero : Scotland Neck
MOVING Tor cotton MIL.

Raleigh, N. c., Feb. 1o.-A young
Raleigh girl yesterday started alone on
journey of 5000 miles.
At the end of the journey she expects
to marry the man she loves.
lie is n Mormon Elder and has spent
the past twenty eight months in
Raleigh, preaching the Mormon faith.
name is Fife y. Roberts, daughter of
zachariah and Martha Roberts, who
Five on Mckee street.
"Why do you go there to marry
lhim?" asked her, as si.c was about to
leave her home for the station.
Because he cannot come here to
marry me- she replied.
Then she explained that under the
rules of her church only unmarried
men are sent out as missionaries, and
until they retire from the mission field
Nhey must remain single. Hence Elder
emery could not marry here and take
mis- bride back With him. So
wednesday before last, lie LEFT alone
Tor Salt Lake City. Sunday he ar
rived there and Immediately wrote for
MISS Roberts to follow him. AS they
expect to live in Utah it'fould be very
expensive to have returned for her.
And that is why she set out alone on
aa'four days journey of 5000 miles.
MORMONS AT WORK.
For several month now-it must be
more than two years-thc Mormnns
missionaries have been at work in this
country.
Their labors have not been without a
certain sort of reward. If their state
ments arc to be believed, they have
Ese.de many converts here
they claim to have two churches in
tine county-one ut Varipa, south of
mere, and one ut Eagle Rock, north
west OF the city. The Varina church
they say. has thirty members. In
Raleigh they claim Some seven or
eight converts. Three of these are
women and the rest are men. The
women only have been baptized. They
are
Alice Peterson, who lives on Hunter
street and works at Caralclgh mills.
Mary BARLOW. who lives on Hunter
street, and works at Caraleish mills.
Ehla Roberts, who lives on Mckee
street ana works al Caraleigh mills.
1t Will he Observed that these three
lpeoDle live near together in The south
'ern part OF the city nnd all work nj
me same place. The first of them 10
pc converted and baptisei was Alice
PATTERSON. In fact she was the frs;
mormon convert in Raleigh. and she
Is very proud of tho fact and q stout
cicfender of the faith. The two elders
--Cook and B'ake-now In The CITY
preaching the Mormon doctrine snent
much OF their time Mt her home.
The last of the three To be converted
and ba?;srd was Miss Roberts. This
was some three months nrn She wn,s
at the time engaged to Elder Emery.
who was doing missionary work here.
and as above stated she left yeste.d1 y
afternoon on tho Southern train for
SOFT Lake CITY to become his wife.
SCOTLAND NECK's. PROGRESS
A letter from Scotland Neck rein re
che following
Scotland Neck has made another
long stride towards solid and pcr-
manent development. For some time
there has been a purpose on the ma ri
OF number of persons here to organize
cotton mill enterprise Last night
q number of business men and other
citizens met In the Office of the Scot
land Neck bank and made liberal sub
scriptions for the mill
The subscriptions taken last night
amounted to more than forty thousand
dollars. a committee was appointed to
raise this subscription to fifty thousand
by canvassing those citizens of the
town who were not present at tho
meeting. The committee asked for ten
days In which to secure the other ten
thousand.