The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
Bladenboro

Bladenboro visitor for a couple of
DAYS the past week. He was a guest
at the Hilburn family reunion on
| Sunday and returned to his home
in the afternoon. - Among college
students coming home for the holi-
days are Miss Eta Belle Kelly, Miss
| Cathleen Frink, Miss Ola Grace
Frink, and David Britt, all of Mars
Hill college; Clarence Bridger and
Henry James White, Wake Forest
college; Eby Frink, State college;
Miss Josephine Bridger, Converse
college; Miss Bette Elmore, Queens
college. Mrs. J. D. Edwards, Mrs.
Mary Apple Herring, Mrs. Allan Ed
wards, Miss Adeiine Herring and
Charles Herring visited their daugh-
ter and relative, Mrs. Dewey Lyt-
ton, of Elizabethtown, now a patient
in a Lumberton hospital. - Mr..
and Mrs. J. 3. Kelly and children
visited relatives in Raleigh on Sun
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Simeon Sim
mons and children and Mr.. and Mrs.
! Leo Ezzell visited relatives in High
Point and Winston-salem Sunday.
r. L. Seasons who has made his
home in Virginia for several months
is spending a short time with his
family at Richardson. - Mrs. D. Il.
Bridger, Miss Ann and Master Dew
ey Bridger spent several days last
week with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. W. Dickson in Wake Forest. -
DR.. and Mrs. Alec Nance were week
end guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
T. Harris at Carolina Beach. Will
liam Ward will go the last of this
week to Carolina Beach where he
will be employed for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. T. Gibson had
as their guests for the weekend
her father, ]. w. Tyson, H. 1. Ell
lerbe and Miss Florence Mcintyre,
ali of Bennettsville, S. C. DR.. and
Mrs. D. H. Bridger attended the
medical meeting in Pinehurst re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L, Bridger went
to Spartanburg, S. c., Saturday to
attend graduating exercises on Mon
day when their daughter, Miss Jo-
sephine, was graduated.
A called meeting of the Baden
boro Chapter of the Red Cross was
held in the community house on
last Wednesday night and plans for
mulated to push the drive for funds
asked for by the national organiza-
ton. Bladenboro chapter is headed
by DR.. S. S. Hutchinson, chairman,
L.. c. Bridger, treasurer, and Mrs.
H. c. Bridger, secretary. The chap
ter has been allotted $500 in this
drive.
An effort was made to reach all
churches in the Bladenboro chapter
which includes Bladenboro, Abbotts-
burg, to the Columbus county line
on the south, to Buffers on the
west, to Hickory Grove, Center
Roads, Sandy Grove, Zion Hill, Sha-
dy Grove and Galead section. A call
to all these sections (and If there
are others not named, these, too,
are included) to contribute. Give to
your church chairman, to your local
chapter chairman or go direct to
the Bank of Bladenboro, where the
treasurer. L. C. Bridger, will receive
funds and give receipts for all do
nations.
w. P. A. open house was obserV-
ed in Bladenporo last week with
Mrs. Mary Eliza Hilburn hostess IN
the school library. Reading has been
the popular sport for the young
people especially. Mrs. Hilburn, May
or T. A. P. Bridger, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. White, Mr.. and Mrs. B. y.
Ward were among invited guests
to represent Bladenboro at h din
ner in Elizabethtown last week,
onenins the w. P. A. celebration.
r. C. Bridger was honor guest at
a birthday dinner on Saturday night
when Mrs. Bridger n all othef
members of the r. C. BridSer lam
ilv were gathered at the Fort Fisher
BeaC mouse Ill Ills llollol' "A 81
decorated cake with lighted candles
was the centerpiece for the dinner
table. and many attractive gifts were
received by the honoree.
Isaac F. Hilburn was honored on
tho occasion of his 18th birthday.
anniversary on Sunday, May 26,
when his family gathered from over
the state and from Florida to honor
him. - The home was made ready
NV Mrs. Hilburn, for the 62 guests
who were invited. This number in
cluded his children and their Com
nanions, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Hill
burn, Mr.. and Mrs. James Hiiburn,
Mr., and Mrs. M. M. Hester, Guy
Hilburn, Mr.. and Mrs. 7. A. But
Ter. MI. and Mrs. Arthur Allen, Mr..
and Mrs. June Singletary, all of
This place; Mrs. Shelton Shaw, of
C1arkton; o. F. Hilburn, of Plant
City. Fla; Mr.. and Mrs. James Phil
Inns. Misses Deborah and Elizabeth
Hfburn, all of Lumberton; Mr.. and
Mrs. M. A. Hilburn, of Rockingham.
There were 81 grandchildren and
three great grandchildren present.