North Carolina Newspapers

THE CHATHAM RECORD It A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE GHATfl&l RECORD r Rates of Advertising - ... . " . On Square on miwtSoa One Square, .twQ iwtr&M $1X9 On Square, one month S20 For Larger Achrcrtlsesisnts Liberal Contracts vfitl bo ensde VOL. XXXV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C., JANUARY 22, 1913. NO. 24. l(w MiWWf FOR THE BUSY MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Part of World. Southern. The British steamer Veronese with 138 passengers on board, was wreck ed off Loixoes, the outport of Oporto. Eighty-four of the passengers were saved by life lines from shore, but it is reported that 16 were thrown out of the basket and perished at Vigo, Spain. , Chief of- Police John Gates and Cap tain of Police Rafael Reinosa of Key West, Fla., were suspended by Mayor J. N. Fogarty, after they had refus ed to resign. The action of the may or was the result of disclosures made in an investigation of the police de partment, members of which are al leged to have been receiving graft from illegal resorts and allowing gam bling. Capt. Richard J. Davant was elect ed mayor of Savannah, Ga., by a ma jority of 304 votes over Capt. George P. Walker, the administration candi date. There was more money wager ed on the election than on any half dozen political contests ever held in Savannah. Conservative estimates put the amount at $50,000. The message of Gov. Cole I Blease featured the- opening session of the South Carolina legislature. The gov ernor attacked the cotton mill mer ger as "the cotton mill trust," the Carolina public service corporation as ""ice trust" and a local power com pany as the "power trust" and asked legislation dissolving them. He rec ommended the passage of a 2-cent Tailway rate and the levying of a 1 mill tax for public schools. A crime wave which struck New Orleans, La., two weeks ago reached a climax when two highwaymen held up a negro on a prominent street, robbed him of $27.50 and, after tying his hands together, strung him up to a telephone post. General. Gen. Cipriano Castro, former pres ident of Venezuela, who has been detained at Ellis Island by the immi gration officials for some time, was denied admission to the United States by a special board of inquiry on the ground that in his examina tion he had admitted "the commission of a crime and felony involving mor al turpitude." Immediately after the announcement that he would not be permitted to enter the country, Cas tro declared he would appeal to the secretary of commerce and labor. Cas tro's attorney said that in event of Secretary Xagle upholding the find ing of the board, the case would be taken into the courts. The shifting character of Mexican rebel activities again das demonstrat ed when it became necessary to dis patch the cruiser Denver from San Diego, Cal., to Acapulco, on the south ern Pacific coast of the republic, where American lives are in momen tary danger because of a threatened rebel attack on that city. - - Although suffering from "shaking palsy," and unable to speak above a whisper, William Rockefeller could undergo a "brief examination" before the house money trust committee if his testimony was of "paramount im portance." Governor Wilson In a speech to the New Jersey presidential electors said: "I shall not be acting as a partisan when I pick out progressives and only progressives to aid me," which spirit he said had produced" his election. The Ohio river passed the 60-foot stage at Cincinnati, Ohio, and con tinued to rise steadily at the rate of two inches an hour. In the lower parts of the city and in Dayton, New port and Covingston, suburbs have been made temporarily homeless by the Invading water. In the Ken tucky towns, school houses and churches have been thrown open and are filled With refugees. The prop erty loss will reach into the thou sands. Cincinnati commission mer chants and warehouse owners, whose places of business are along the river front, have suffered heavy loss. In some buildings facing the wharves, the water is up to the second story. The Turkish government notified the powers that it would positively refuse to surrender Adrianople to the "Hies, but would consent to agree to the allies' demand for the Turkish Islands in the Aegean sea. 1 The Infante Ferdinand, a brother-'n-law of King Alfonzo ol Spain, has broken his arm. Once every year Chicago will have a shoe day, when poor children will te given shoes" free. A fund of $5,000' for such a day was left by Mrs. Sa rah Eddy, whose will has been filed. Mrs. Eddy also gave $1,000 for the N'ewsbqys' and Bootblacks' home. Trapped in a water tank of the Pa cific Mail steamer at San. Francisco, into which they had crawled to con Sscate $3 000 worth of smuggled opium, two United States customs men were nearly drowned. MAN Raymond Nicholas Landi y Poin sare, for the past 12 months ' premier of the French cabinet, was elected president of the republic of France by the national assembly, composed of the members of both chambers of parliament, m' succession to. President Armand Fallieres, whose 7 year term expires February 18.,, The will of James R. Kee'ne, veter an stock market operator . and turf man, as filed for trobate-'in New York City, leaves his widow, Sara J. Keene, his entire estate. "Izzy," the painter, head of the New York City's "Mnderword arson trust," came from Sing Sing prison to confess to putting the torch to 200 houses within the past few ifronths. The Turkish cruiser Medjidieh, dur ing a heavy fog, steamed out of the Dardanelles and passed unperceived through the lines of the Greek de stroyers cruising off the straits. She appeared off the island of Sylra, one of the Cyclades, and bombarded the powder magazine and coal depots. These werenot damaged, but the elec trical public .station was wrecked. That the Warren Livestock compa ny, of which Senator Francis E. War ren of Wyoming was the head, was In 1906 "maintaining unlawful inclos ures' of public lands in Wyoming and Colorado, was the substance of a re port adopted by the house committee on expendituresin the interior de partment. A flood of petitions for damages through the los sof the Titanic includ ed one from Mrs. Irene Wallace Har ris, who claims $1,000,000 for loss of her husband, Henry D. Harris, the theatrical manager. This is the heav iest of the 279 claims so far filed. Mrs. May Futrelle of Scituate, Mass., asks $300,000 compensation for the loss o her husband, Jacques Futrelle, author. The claim of Mrs. Lilly B. Millet, the widow . of Francis D. Wil let, a Titanic victim, is $100,000. Alarmed by the approach of the rebel forces and apprehensive of the fate of the Americans in the event of occupation Clement S. Edwards, American consul at Acapulco, Mexi co, in the state of Guerrero, has sgu gested the presence of an American warship at Acapulco. "I hope progressive Democrats will be elected in every state," said Pres ident-elect Wilson, in referring to the contests incident to the "election of United States senators in Maine, New Hampshire, Illinois, Tennessee and South Dakota. In his last message to the New Jersey legislature, Gov ernor Wilson made an appeal for the completion of the program of progres sive legislation for which he declar ed himself when he took office: Fore most among the laws advocated are a radical revision of the statutes gov erning. corporations and better laws in the matter of drawing juries. Almost under the shadow of the city hall and within a stone's throw of the principal hotels and office buildings "a :lone - bandit held up Al bert O. Hunsicker, passenger agent of the Lehigh Valley railroad, and his clerk, E. A. Folkweikler, at the point of a pistol and robbed their of fice of $130. The room where the hold-up occurred is on the street level of .Philadelphia, but a large pic ture in, the window obstructed tbjfi view of hundreds who walked within a few feet of the scene of the rob bery. Policemen were standing on corners less than fifty feet away. The British secretary of state foi foreign affairs, Sir Edward Grey, and the ambassadors of the powers have made representations to Rechad Pa sha regarding the projected departure of the Turkish delegates. Waihineton. After striking out of the omnibus war claims bill practically . all person al claims for cotton and the like, the senate adopted that measure as it passed the house. The French spo liation claims, amounting to $3,000, 000, were offered as amendments to the bill, but were -rejected. Most, of the Southern claims allowed are those of churches. Tbese will be paid when the house accepts - the senate amendment and the president signs the bill. An attempt to revoke . President Taft's recent order placing fourth class postmasters under the classi fied civil service and to remove from classification assistant postmasters and clerks in first and second class postof rices by an amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill, failed in the house. Robert W. Archbald of Scranton, Pa., for twenty-nine years an occu pant of judicial positions upon the Pennsylvania state bench . and the United States commerce court, was adiudeed fcuilty by the United States senate of "high crimes and misde meanors," was . stripped of his of fice and forever disqualified from holding positions of public honor or public trust. Upon five of the. thirteen sep arate charges brought against him by the house of representatives Judge Archbald was found guilty. The legal fight was In the hands or seven mem bers of the house. Secretary of the Navy Meyer be fore the house naval affairs "commit tee urged - appropriations for three hattleshins. despite the one battleship appropriation of last year and the movement now on foot to restrict the authorization to the same num ber. Secretary Meyer told the com- mittee that on compieuuu ji iu ppari harbor naval station in Hawaii the United . States will, have practi cally unprotected what is intended to be the most important naval station in the world. Secretary Meyer urged, the house committee to authorize lib eral increases in the other branches. MIIOFM GENERAL ASSEMBLY NTRODUCE BILL TO MAKE EDU CATION COMPULSORY IN NORTH CAROLINA. OTHER BILLS INTRODUCED Compulsory Bill Understood to Have Endorsement of the State Depart ment Fixes Ages at 8 to 14. In troduced by Representative Ray. Senate Monday. Bills were introduced by the follow Ing Senators: Stubbs, Jones. Lovin good and Peterson. Two roll-call bills passed third reading: Senator Jones' bill to auth orize the commissioners of Forsyth county to issue bonds to pay the pres ent floating debt of the county and Senator Phillips bill to ratify the bonds issued by Lexington township, Davidson county, under Chapter 681, Public Laws of 1909. The Senate passed V without discus sion Senator Peterson's bill to exempt active members of the National Guard from road and jury duty. - House Monday. Bills and resolutions were introduc ed by the following legislators: Tur ner, Kellura, Rodman, Williams, Mil ler and Sykes. ' The following bills passed: To authorize Asheville to vote bonds to raise floating indebtedness. Senate bill to authorize bonds by Forsyth County. Senate bill exempting members of the National Guard from road and jury duty.- Speaker Connor announced his ap pointment of a portion of the standing committees as subjoined to this -report. N The House members of the Joint Committee on Inauguration were voted leaves of absence for Tuesday to meet Goevrnor-elect Craig and es cort him to the city for the inaugura tion Wednesday. Senate Tuesday The Senate and House in joint ses sion canvassed the vote for .state of ficers in the general election and de clared those elected, the vote for Gov ernor being Craig 149,925; Settle, Taft Republican, 43,625; and Meares, Bull Moose 49,393. The Senate adopted the Watts reso lution ratifying the Federal constitu tional amendment for the election of Senators by vote of the people, Sena tor Mason declared he voted for It with the conviction that it will not remedy the evils complained of by the people. House Tuesday. In the House Murphy introduced a bill to amend section 28 of the public laws of 1905 to empower corporations purchasing franchises and other cor porations to exercise the powers thereof. A bill by Miller requires boots and shoes not made entirely of leather to be so stamped. Carlton of Rowan introduced a bill to provide six months school terms the state over. Also a bill to require mortages and trustees in deeds of trust to file receipts and disburse ments in foreclosure sales. At the request of Chairman Justice the committee on constitutional amendments was empowered to inves tigate needs for constitutional amend ments and advisability of separate merits. Senate Wednesday. Both branches of the State Gen eral Assembly held very brief ses . sions Wednesday on account of the inaugural ceremonies.. Messages were received in the Senate from Governor Kitchin transmitting his report of par dons granted during the past ' four years and a report from' the State Building' Commission, in which . the recommendation was made that about $70,000 be provided with which to paint the interior of the new fire-proof state building now being completed and to furnish the building. The Governor recommended that this whole matter" be assigned to the State Building Commission that has so signally succeeded in providing the state with the new fire-proof building to be ready for occupancy early in February. Governor Kitchin received 1,175 applications for pardons and granted 400. President Newland called the Sen ate to order for the last time, and ap pointed an escort to bring Lieutenant Governor Daughtridge to the chair Lieutenant Governor Daughtridgoj solicited co-operation of the Sena tors. Speaking of taxation he said there must be some plan adopted by which the burden of taxation wuTrest Recommendation of Commissioners. The Board of County Commission ers of Gaston at an adjourned meet ing at Gastonia, recommended the establishment of a recorder's court for Gastonia township and adopted a resolution pledging the county to con tribute annually the sum of $300 to ward the. maintenance of such a jel court provided the recorder is given jurisdiction in cases of misdemeanor and pety larceny declared to be a mis demeanor, so that such" recorder, may enforce punishment for as much as two years on the county roads. evenly and uniformly, upon all the people. On motion of Senator Ward- of Craven, the speech of . the Lieutenant Governor was ordered spread upon the journal. House Wednesday. The. House put in commission Wed nesday the three locked boxes, into which members are to be required now, under the rules, to deposit all bills to be introduced. Senate Thursday. One bill was ratified by the chair, the Senate bill to amend the Revisal, relative to pay of jurors in Warren county. Bills were intduced as follows: Gilliam, by request: For the estab lishment of a board 7of commissioners for the1 protection of game birds and fish. Hobgood: To authorize the Com-, missioners of Guilford county and Greensboro to make appropriation for a monument to the Confederate dead. Hobgood: To change the name 6f Greensboro Female College. Hannah: To require all officers pay ing over money into school funds to take a receipt from the Board of Education." House Thursday. A joint resolution was received f rom the Senate ratifying the seven teenth amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States. The courtesies of the floor were ex tended to numerous former members. New bills were introduced as fol lows: Gibbs : Regulating pay of jurors in Pamlico county. Haymore: For relief of former Sheriff Haynes of Surry. Martin of Cherokee : Amend chap ter 143, Public Local Laws of 1911. Muller: To amend chapter 444, Public Laws 1909, and chapter 101, Public Laws of 1911. Marshburn: To amend chapter 274, Public Laws 1911. Senate Friday. ' Leaves of absence until Monday were granted to a number of Sena tors. -A number of bills and resolutions were introduced in tne senate. The following bills were passed on final reading: House bill amending Chapter 27'. Public Local Laws o. 1911, relative to salaries of public officials in Gaston. Senate bill to pay special veniremen in Davidson county L a day. , Senate bill to res i fct? pay of coun ty commissioners in Davidson county. Senate bill to chani-? name of Greensboro Fp.iuile College to Gnror.s boro College for Womn. Srate bill to amenl Obapter I'P, Public Laws o 1311, it being an act to provide addiMoual :s'- tai-ce in , the Governo.' I'ffic-j. House Friday. The report of the State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis was received in the house. Mr. Murphy reported to the, house that in printing the ruler, of the house the Committee on Liquor Trai fic had been omitted. Among bills and lesolutions sati ned was the resolution recommending Josephus Daniels for Postmaster Gen eral in President Wilson's Cabinet. Representative D. M. Clark of Pitt county has fired the first gun for wo man's suffrage in this Legislature. . A number of other bills were intro duced in the house. Senate Saturday. Bills were Introduced as follows: Council: To amend section 3242, Revisal so to prevent multiplicity of indictments. Gilliam: To promote the manufac ture of anti-hog-cholera serum. The following bills were passed on third reading: Senate bills to consolidate the towns of Winston and Salem. Senate bill to create a highway com mission for county of Forsyth. House bill to authorize the city of Asheville to issue bonds to fund its floating debt. Senate bill to validate elections held in Craven county and township No. 1, Craven county, for the issue of $25,000 and $10,000 bonds, respective ly for a farm life school. House Saturday. The following bills reported from the Senate and referred to House committees: . To provide pay for special venue ment; to provide better pay for com missioners of Davidson county; Nto change the name of Greensboro Fe male College to Greensboro College for Women; to adjust the clerical force in the executive office of the Governor by abolishing the position of stenographer and saving $150 a year; to amend the charters of the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage, Mer edith College and Wake Forest Col lege, as to boards of trustees; to ex tend the powers of commissioners of Catawba county; to validate bonds of Lexington township. i Only one bill was reported from the enrolling office as ready for ratifica tion. This was relative to officials of Gaston county. State Forestry Association. The North , Carolina Forestry Asso ciation adopted resolutions urging the Legislature to provide State Fair Wardens, so that, with Federal aid, there can be more adequate1 protec tion from forest fires. Also resolu tions were")adopted . insisting that the state is in great need of a state-wide stock law. The association heard Congressman J. H. Small in a stirring address, in which he urged that these problems of ' forest protection are state and not' local problems and that the state must solve them. PARTI PROGRAMS ? BLOCKED BY WILSON PRESIDENT-ELECT REFUSES TO TAKE PART IN ANY SCHEME OF REORGANIZATION. TO BE NO FACTIONAL FIGHTS Routine Legislation is Expected to Oc cupy the Attention of , Congress Throughout the Next Week or Jen Days. Other Work to Be Done. Washington. President-elect Wil son's refusal to allow himself to be committed to any definite plans of re organization or to outline publicly. through Senators or Congressmen, dp- tails of his legislative plans ha-j had a marked influence on congressional activity. Plans that promised to en gross the session in political fights at both ends of the Capitol about the more routine work ot legislation, in- vestigation and tariff bill hearings are being delayed. Democratic leaders from both houses have made pilgrimages to New Jer sey since Christmas to talk over the new Administration's work with the incoming President. The general re- suit of these conferences, however, nas been to hold up for the time beine any concerted reorganization scheme in the Senate and House and to re strain the activity of the Democratic forces that would have launched sev eral important political and legisla tive programs had President-elect Wilson given definite encouragement to the partially outlined schemes, j Tc the majorities of those, who have vis ited him, Governor Wilson has given little indication of his plans. Thj few to whom he has confided definite ions have been pledged to secrecy and nave been unable to use the President elect's influence to aid their own dans or to support any general program ol action. The reorganization fights in th Senate, which promised sensational developments in December, has shown little activity durine Uhe last twn weeks. The efforts of Democratic leaders now are directed toward brin ing about an outcome that will leave no dissatisfied faction in the party. Electral Returns Slow. Washington. To comply witn the law, it will be necessary for all the states to get all their electoral re turns to Washington by the beginning of next week. The requirement is that all the returns shall be in the hands of the president of the Senate by Monday, January 27. and a warn ing was sent out from the offices of the president of the Senate that ii the reports were not returnod by that date the states failing would be in danger of losing their votes. Have Changed Plans. Washington. As the result of a re port made at the Army War College plans for the proposed fortifications at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay have undergone some Important alterations On account of the Increased range of modern armament an dthe increased draft of vessels, the idea ot makm an artificial island at tn-i entrance of the bay has been abandoned and now it is contemplated to confine the for tifications to Cape Henry. Turks Refuse to Cede Adrianople. London. Turkey's decision as indi cated by dispatches from Constant! nople, refusing to cede Adrianople and the Aegan Islands, it is believed here,, will lead to a resumption of the Turkish-Balkan War within week. The Balkan Allies, after con sidering the whole situation among themselves earlier In the day, already had decided to wait until the middle of the week for an answer from the Porte to the joint note of the Powers and if then the reply was not receiv ed or was unsatisfactory, to address a communication to the Turkish dele gation in the form of a definite ulti matum, allowing Turkey 48 or 72 hours for a final decision. ' ' The Inaugural Parade. Washington. From the South will be drawn the only regiment of regu lar infantry to participate in the in augural parade. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood announced; that the regiment was the Seventeenth! Infantry at Fort McPherson, Ga. West Point cadets maj, not march down Pennsylvania avenue in the inaugural parade. A point of order, made by Representa tive Foster struck out the military ap propriation bill a clause for subsist ence of cadets to the inaugural cele bration. Mexican Officers Are Removed. Washington. Gen. Beltran, com mander of the Mexican federal forces at Vera Cruz and Commander Azueta in charge of the arsenal there have been removed. Beltran commanded the federal - forces which put down the uprising led by Gen. Felix Diaz, now a prisoner in Vera Cruz. Dis patches to the state department tell of " rumors of a threatened revolt in Vera Cruz, having for its object the release of Diaz, but-contains no rea son for the removal of Beltran and Azueta. " , - FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE Latest News of General Interest That Has' Been Collected" From Many Towns and Counties. Raleigh. Governor Craig commis sioned Maj. L. W. Young of Asheville as Adjutant General to succeed Adj. Gen. Gordon Smith, who was recently appointed by Governor Kitchin to suc ceed the late Gen. R. L. Leinster. Gen eral Young entered the military ser vice in 1898, and has won steady pro motion. Lexington. Col. H. B. Varner, president of the North Carolina Good Roads Association, has gone to Dan- bury, Stokes county, to make a good roads speech. Col. Varner fires the first gun in a big campaign for a bond issue to build roads in Stokes. Goldsboro. Clifton Pearson Is lying in a critical condition at the home of his sister, Mrs. Andrews, at Scotts ville, three miles north of this city.1 He left here on the fast train to spend a day with his sister. Scottsville is a flag station. He was found in the ditch by a negro, Arthur Barnes pass ing along the track, within a short distance from the station. . He was unconscious. Durham. Pearl, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Steph enson, was seriously and probably fa tally burned. The child was lying on the bed sleeping, and the mother step ped out of the room to attend to some household duties. She had been gone but a few minutes when she- heard the child screaming. Rushing into the room the mother was horrified to find the girl wrapped in flames. Charlotte. The farmers of the county have taken excellent advan tage of the fine weather that pre vailed 'throughout the autumn months and have as a consequence done a great deal more work and are much better prepared for aggressive spring work than they have been in many years. This is the testimony of farmers from all sections of the coun ty. Dunn. The inhabitants of the pro posed new county, with Dunn as the county seat, seem to be determined to have a try at a new. county, and arrangements have been made to have' 'a meeting of the citizens and take definite steps to organize and put the matter before the present session of the legislature. The people from Sampson and the lower end of John- ston are reported as -highly favoring the proposed new county. Greensboro. The City of Greens boro through the Board of Commis sioners has just closed a deal with J. A. Odell for a tract of land covering 339 acres on Sandy Fork and Horse Pen Creek and adjoining the city's present lands at the water works plant. The price paid Mr. Odell for the land was $8,000. The land is to be used for the extension and main tenance of the city waterworks sys tem. WinstonrSaiem.w Deputy Marshall S. H. Harkrader, who was assaulted and badly disfigured recently while en route to Surry county jail with a "moonshine" distiller, will, lose the sight of one eye as a result of the at tack which resulted in the prisoner's being taken away from thex officers and released. This information was received here direct from the moun tain section where the . assault was made. Waynesville. Walter Messer, of Dillsboro, flagman on w.ork train when the Goldsboro train was back inginto the yard preparing to start towards Asheville, was run over and mangled and crushed under the wheels. One of his legs and one of his arms were practically cut off. The railroad surgeon, Dr. Way, was called, who dressed the wounds and prepared the unfortunate victim for the trip to Asheville, where he was placed in a hospital. Norwood. Norwood wants to be .considered as on the map and, having in sight a position on four lines of railroad, she is a part, and a large one at that, of North Carolina geog raphy, Since the town is the terminous of the: Yadkin branch of the South ern, on the main line of the Winston Salem Southbound, which connects with the A. C. L. and" N. & W., the new road from Norfolk to Charlotte will let the outside w.orld in Nor wood people have no desire to get out. Salisbury. At a meeting of the Rowan County Board of Health two new members, Dr. H. T. Trantham and Dr. W. L. Crump, were elected. Dr, E. W. Currie was elected county su perintendent of health. Greenville. The Henry Clay Debat ing Society of this . city, has entered the state-wide debating union, and will debate the societies of Wilson and Kinston on the subject of woman suffrage. The members chosen to represent Greenville are Robert Hum ber, Johnny Humber, Milton Pugh and David Whichard. - The debates take place the latter part of February, .Burlington. At . a recent meeting of the Board of Aldermen it was decided to petition the Legislature to give Burlington a commission form of gov ernment. This movement-, meets . the approval, of a large number of our citizens. - Whitsett. The county road force has just completed building a mile of sand clay road through Whitsett con necting this place with the macadam road from Greensboro , to Gibsonville. This piece of road has been badly needed for a long time.. It is a .great Improvement over the old road. NEW GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA TAKES . OATH OF OFFICE AT STATE CAPITAL. -A LARGE . CROWD ASSEMBLED. THE POLICY TO BE PURSUED The New Administration Has Taken Over Reins of State Government. Euthusiastic For, Many Changes of Industrial and Conservative Nature. Raleigh. With throngs of people from every part of the state outnum bering any crowd ever before gath- ered to - participate m sucn an event In North Carolina and perfect weath er conditions, the inauguration of m . XA Locke Craig as governor, was ac complished Wednesday with cere monies eminently befitting the occa- - sion. The" inaugural parade including 14 military companies, moved at ' 11 : 15 o'clock - headed by , the Third jaegi- ment band and proceeded via Capital Square, Morgan,, Wilmington and North streets to. the governor's man sion where Governor Kitchin formal ly received and greeted ' Governor- elect Craig and accompanied thejpro cession to the new auditorium. The inaugural ceremonies began with the stirring strains of "Dixie"- by the Third Regiment band. There was a fervent prayer by Dr. R. T. Vann, president of Meredith College and then the singing of "America" by : the Raleigh Choral . Society. Thereafter Chief Justice Walter Clark administered the oath of office to the state officers in their turn. When these oaths had been admin istered and subscribed to "The Old North State" was sung by the choral society and Hon. W. W. Kitchin, re tiring governor, fittingly presented Governor Craig to the audience amid wildesf applause and the inaugural address followed. The Address of Craig. ' Governor Craig had little difficult in reaching everybody with his inaug ural address. For each person who came out to hear the message and retired, there were three who pushed for a seat This momentary dembr alization kept the speaker's first w.ords from the great bulk. The first mani festation of applause was the climaa to nis BlDlicai picture or me leaven ing loaf. "In this time of difficultj and hope the nation turns for guidance to the Democratic party," was the' sen timent that spread widely. Again, when Craig quoted the dic tum of Vance, that it ought to b more tolerable for Sodom and Gomor rah in the day of judgment than foi the exploiters of the people, the au dience burst into terrific applause. The review of the military forces after the inauguration was an impos ing event. Governor Craig and mem bers of the personal staff of Governor Kitchin and the chiefs of staff of the National Guard, headed by Brig. Gen P. S. Royster, constituted the party for the review. They stood on the bal cony of the Yarborough as the com panies filed by in splendid form. The military feature of the inau-. gural exercises is prominent. More troops of the ' National Guard were here than at any inauguration in re cent years. The First Regiment is represented by its Colonel J. T Gard ner of Shelby, and Lt. Col. J. C. Bes sent of Winston-Salem, Major Young of Asheville, the First Regiment Band of Ashe vilie, and Company K of Ashe ville. From the Second Regiment Col. W. C. Rodman of Washington and Maj. C. M.'Faircloth of Clinton. The Third Regiment was here in the persons of-its Colonel, J. N. Craig of Reidsville, Lt. Col. S. W. Minor 61 Oxford, Maj. J. J. Bernard of Ral eigh, who was chairman of the mill; tary commitee for this occasion, Maj. R. M. Albright of Raleigh and Capt.. Don E. Scott of Durham. The Coast Artillery Corps was rep resented by its commander, Lt. Col. Max L. Barker of Salisbury the Third Company of Greensboro and the Coast Artillery Band of Salisbury and the Fourth Company of Salisbury. The Ambulance Corps of Raleigh was also In the parade. Colonel Craig of the Third Regi ment was in command, with a num ber of visiting officers acting on his staff. Immediately after the troops had passed in review before Governor Craig and staff, the Governor and 'hie party, state officers, legislative and citizens were entertained at the man sion at luncheon. The ladies in charge adopted the. old-fasiohed 'bountiful style, and the table in the tastefully decorated din ing room was .fairly loaded with good things, chiefly among which were a whole roast pig and a'huge roast tur key. The evergreen decorations were all North Carolina grown. The inaugural ball In the Audi torium was an event of brilliant social Importance. , The spacious arena which has a fine polished and waxed ffDor was reserved entirely for the .dancers, the spectators being in the Iress circle and the eallori-