Cantrell-Washburn Wedding, March 30, 1924

Newspaper men were given a pleasing surprise this morning when Mrs. William O. Cantrell called up her employer, Secretary W.N. Everett, and said: “Mr. Everett, have you heard anything about me?”

“Not a –--- thing,” Mr. Everett replied without knowing his interrogator.

“I am married,” the voice said.

“God bless you,” Mr. Everett replied, giving the bride a week off.

She was Miss Fannie Washburn and the groom is the Associated Press day representative in Raleigh. The love affair has been of rapid development. They were married last night by Rev. Dr. T.W. O’Kelley of the First Baptist church, and only the fewest friends knew of it.

From the front page of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924