The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-05


ent railroad officials for running ex
cursion trains from all points near
/ Ellington, at q cheap rate. ID. III.
Mclean is chairman of this commit
| tee and excursions will likely be run
from Wilmington, Red Springs Fay
| etteville, Selma, Raleigh, Durham and
other points.
This celebration will bring together
| HarnettS sons who are scattered
abroad, and those who remain at
home, as we'll as thousands of others
| who will go to Ellington to take part
in this great celebration.
| The Committee on Invitation of
| Speakers has about completed its
work. Governor Glenn has given the
positive assurance of his attendance
and will deliver an address. Mr.. J.
Allison Hodges, of Richmond, Va,
| one of Harnetts most distinguished
| sons as We'll as one of the most promi-
nent physicians of the South, has ac-
| cepted an invitation to return to his
native heath and enjoy the day with
us. He will speak on The Present:
It's Duties and Privileges Mr.. w. ].
Peel OF Raleigh, will deliver an adj
| dress on Cornelius Harnett. Capt.
| Ashe, of Raleigh has also been invited
and will deliver an address. His sub
| ject has not yet been announced.
Several prominent speakers have ac-
cepted invitations to speak or differ
ent historical subjects, which relate to
| the early formation Of number of
our central and eastern counties.
1T is Wen known historical fact.
/ that under the second chatter of
Charles the Second, Carolina en-
braced over a million square mnes. 1t
! included all the land on the North
American continent between g de-
| grAes and &c degrees, 80 minutes
North latitude. The Northern buun-
| dairy line, afterwards became the line
| of the famous Missouri Compromise
In this belt lies all the cotton growing
| States of the Union. also New Mexico.
! Arizona, the southern half of Cali
| fornia and northern part of Mexico.
| The first political division in this ter
! ritory was the Government of Ai0c>
| marie, established about 1868. The
second was at Clarendon, and a fe,v
years later Bath was erected. Har-
nett is a part of Clarendon. Claren-
| don became New Hanover in 1928
Hon. John d. Bellamy, of New Han
over, has accepted the invitation of the
committee to deliver an Grafton on
The History of Clarendon and the
| founding of New Hanover county, also
| on General Ellington, distinguished
| son of New Hanover, after whom Lii
| lington, the county town of Harnett,
| was named.
/ New Hanover embraced a vast ex-
| tent of territory and Bladen was
| founded from the territory of New
/ Hanover in 1884. State Senator f..
| f. McCulloch of Bladen, has been
| invited to speak on the Origin and
| Formation of Bladen County. Cum
| berland was formed from Bladen In
1924. Hon. II. l.. Cook, of Fayette-
! Vile, will deliver an address on
| the early history of Cumberland to
| the date of the organization of Har-
| nett county. The origin of Harnett
| was from Cumberland, and it was
formed from Cumberland territory,
lin 1855. Hon. Dan Hugh Mclean,
| The Silver Tongued Orator of Har-
| nett, will deliver an Grafton on the
| History of Harnett county from the
| date of its founding to the present
Ex- Representative Thomas w. Har-
| rington, the Poet Laurate, of Harnett,
| viii read an original poem on our
COUNT.
Mr.. j. NJ Hodges is the chief mar
shall for the occasion, and has APP
| pointed about two hundred assistants,
| from the different townships. Mr.. j.
| G. Clifford. assisted by Representa-
| tive W. A. Stewart and others, will
introduce the speakers. All the
| speeches will be published in pamph-
| let form and will become a part of
the history of the State.
"Harnett county is today one of the
most prosperous counties in the State.
For a number of years after the for
nation of the county We labOred
| under serious disadvantages because
we had no transportation facilities
and our people We're cut off from the
outside world, but with all it's dis
advantages, while il did not get rich,
&.
tue and in patriotism We're not sur
passed by the people of any other
county in the State. Within the past
few years Harnett has come to en-
joy exceptional transportation facili-
ties. 1t is on the main line of the
great Atlantic Coast Line; it is ira
versed in the Southern portion of the
county by the Atlantic and Yadkin;
the Duke road runs from Dunn to
Apex and is being extended to Dur
ham, giving connection with the Sea-
board Air Line, Southern and Nor
folk and Western; the Raleigh and
Southport puts Raleigh and Lilling-
ton in close touch, and that road is
being extended through the entire
length of the county. Mr. Edwards
and associates are building a railroad
from Jonesboro to Ellington, and
there is talk of extending the Duke
road from Dunn to Goldsboro to con-
meet with the Atlantic and North Car
DINA road. A large and fiourishing
manufacturing town, Duke, has been
built in the heart of the pine forests
and near abundant water power, and
it and other industries are making
Harnett prosperous, while the inteIi-
gent cultivation of the soil and con-
venient transportation have made
agriculture more remunerative."