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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance ccord THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - .- $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. xxxix. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JANUARY 17, 1917. NO. 24. (Chatham IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OYER Happening ef This and Other Matins Fir Seven Days Are Given THE NEWS JF THE SOUTH vv-st Is Taking Place in the South, land Will Be Found (n Brief Paragraph. Washington Tiw attitude of President Wilson to ward the replies of the warring na tions to his suggestion that an oppor tunity be given for comparing peace ternr remained undetermined up to January 13. It is suggested in Washington that one or more European neutrals may urge Germany and her allies to make public their peace terms, and others think it possible that a voluntary statement may be forthcoming from Berlin after the text of the entente reply has been handed to the foreign office for its information by Ambassa dor Gerard. Tfce entente allies, replying to Pres ident Wilson's peace note in a joint comciunication, express the belief that it is impossible at the present moment to attain a peace that will .v ire them reparation, restitution and such guarantees as they consider essectial. In a separate peace note the Bel gian government expresses a desire for peace, but declares it could only ac cept a settlement which would assure it reparation and security in the fu ture The next move to be made by, the United States in dealing with the de facto government will be announced by President Wilson shortly. Withdrawal of the Pershing expedi- ion across the American border and the sending of Ambassador Fletcher to Mexico City are the next moves that official Washington is said to be con templating. It is reported by the bureau of la bor and commerce that at least one million men have received increases in wages. Half of the raises were vol untary and the other half were won through strikes. F:na! agreement on the annual riv ers and harbors appropriation bill has been reached by the house committee. The measure carries $38,155,339, of which something over ten million dol lars is for new projects, and the re mainder for continuing or maintain ing existing projects. A new issue of $1 and $2 green backs of Civil war days, discontinued under the Cleveland administration, win be put into circulation probably about February L The issue is de cided upon because the ordinary sil ver certificates for $1 and $2 could not be issued under the law in sufficient quantity to meet the demand. Col. Spencer Cosby, military at tache of the American embassy at Paris, has been ordered to return to Washington. He is succeeded by Capt. Carl Boyd, now connected with the em bassy. In the most sweeping of all decisions upholding prohibition laws, the , Su preme court upholds as constitutional and valid the Webb-Kenyon law, pro hibiting shipments of liquor from"wet" ;o "dry" states. It also sustained West Virginia's recent amendment to her law prohibiting importation in in terstate commerce of liquor for per sonal use. Approval of President Wilson's re quest for a statement of peace terms from the European belligerents was voted by the senate at the conclusion of three days of stirring debate. Domestic The plant of the Canadian Car and Foundry company, a short distance east of Kingsland, N. J., in which was stored hundreds of thousand of three inch shells destined for the Russian government, was destroyed by fire and a series of explosions. So far as can be learned there was none killed, but seventeen are reported missing. The loss will probably reach a million dol lar. Pour thousand pounds of powder were destroyed by fire and explosions a' the Haskell, N. J., plant of the Du Pont Powder company, December 12. Only two men are reported missing. No estimate of the logs nag been ma(je public. Pour automobile bandits made a raid on the First National Bank of Harrah, Okla., held the president and cashier of the bank at pistol point ar-d escaped with $3,500. The bandits w?re pursued by a posse. Ten per cent increase in salaries of ai' national agricultural department employees paid $1,200 a year or less, and 5 per cent for those who get from to $1,800, is authorized in the arf'ual appropriation bill for the agri cultural department passed by the na tional house. ? Harry K. Thaw, of world-wide fame for having killed the artist, Stanford White, has been indicted in New York Cly on the charge of kidnaping a 19-year-old boy and then giving him an unmerciful beating. Sergeant Crawford, attached to the Pensacola, Fla., aviation station, was painfully but not seriously injured in an airplane wreck which occurred just over the bay. An unknown number of negro pris oners were saved by the use of dyna mite when they were cut off from es cape by fire in the state reformatory at Frankfort, Ky. A Tallahassee, Fla,, dispatch an nounces that Governor Catts has ap pointed J. B. Christian of Tallahassee as adjutant general of Florida, suc ceeding Gen. J. C. R. Foster, who has been at the head of Florida military affairs for many years. Buffalo Bill (Col. William Frederick Cody) is dead at the heme of his sis ter in Denver, Col. He is the last of the great plainsmen, and his death is mourned by the whole country, es pecially by the youth. Franz Bopp, German consul at San Francisco, and four of his attaches or employees were found guilty in the United States district court of having violated American neutrality. The charge upon which they were convict ed was that they had planned to blow UP munition plants in America and Canada, steamships carrying anything te the entente allies, railroad bridges and military trains. A New York dispatch announces tha a German raider was met in the Atlantic and sunk by a British cruiser. The identity of the vessels engaged as well as the vessel reported sunk, is not known. Dry times are ahead for the city Washington. The bill calling for pro hibition for the District of Columbia passed the senate by a big majority, and it is stated that the majority in the house will be a large one. The test cast to determine the con stitutionality of the Adamson law en acted by congress last September, when a general railroad strike threat ened, is now before the Supreme trib unal of the country. Washington, D. C, is all agog over a speech recently delivered in the sen ate in which the passage of a consti tutional amendment to limit a presi dent to one six-year term, elect him by direct vote of the people and changing the date of inauguration was stated to be a movement of as much importance as any issue before the American people. Mexican Carranza forces now occupy Jiminez, Santa Rosalia and Parral while Fran cisco Villa and his staff have fled to the state of Duraago over the branch l ail toad from Parral to El Doro. Government agents at El Paso, Tex as, had been loath to accept the Car ranza reports of the victory of Villa at Jiminez and of Villa's reported re treat to Parral, but now admit that the battle of Jiminez ended in a com plete rout of the Villa forces. A high government official at El Paso says that he believes that the de facto government of Mexico has at last won "a sweeping victory over Villa." Four Mexican filibusterers were kill ed or badly wounded in an encounter with troops of the First New Hamp shire infantry at Zapata, Texas, ac cording to a report emanating from Laredo, Texas. European War The sinking of the Italian battleship Regina Margherita, of 13,00 tons, on December 11, with the loss of 675 men, is offflcially announced by the Italian government. A British cruiser of the Juno type, measuring 5,600 tons, was sunk by Turkish gun fire on the Island of Kas telorizo in the eastern Mediterranean. In the western war theater fighting is reported on the Ancre river in France between the Germans and the British. The British are reported to be mak ing successful raids north of Arras, France. The French report having captured a considerable number of prisoners in a sortie in the Vosges sector. Greece's reply accepting the terms of the ultimatum of the entente allies has been delivered, according to a Lon don dispatch. One thousand yards of Turkish trenches on the Kut-el-Amara (Garden of Eden) have been captured by the British. The Turkish trenches at Sannayat were bombarded by the British . and successfully raided in three places. British cotton manufacturing con cerns, despite the high price of cot ton and increased costs due to the war made money in 1916, some of them having declared dividends as high as twelve per cent. The invasion of Roumania by the troops of the central powers contin ues to progress, and the Russians and Roumanians seem powerless to hold them back. Field Marshal von Mackensen, driv ing northward in Moldavia, has won additional ground, reaching the Putna river sector. The Germans report that they have taken over five thousand prisoners in the fighting around the Putna river sector, together with guns and ten machine guns. It is reported that 33,970 British of ficers have been wounded since the beginning of hostilities, but it is stated by the war minister that a large pro portion of them have returned to the fighting zones. Count Ignatieff, minister of Russian public instruction, has resigned. In spite of the snow and extremely cold weather the Germans and Aus trians are pressing the Russians and Roumanians backward. On the Kassina river the Teutons are driving the Russians backward, road in northern Russia. The British army has lost 53,122 officers in killed, wounded and miss ing since the beginning of the Euro pean war. Admission is made by Petrograd that the Russians and Roumanians on the upper reaches of the Suchitza riv er retired before the advancing Teu tons. Berlin reports that the Russians and Roumanians have been pushed further back toward the plains from the Oituz and Putna valleys. CDNGRESSW0RK5T0 EM MEET MEMBERS ARE DOWN TO HARD WORK IN EFFORT TO FINISH LEGISLATION. LEAK" PROBE HAS INTEREST Senate is Considering Water Power Leasing Bill. District of Columbia Prohibition Bill, Passed By Senate, May Strike a Snag in the House. Washington. While public inter est in Congress is centered upon the so-called "leak" investigation, the leg islative machinery of both houses is grinding away, and members have settled down to hard work in an earn est effort to clear the decks and avoid an extra session. The senate still is considering the public lands waterlpower land leasing bill, but it may be side-tracked any day for either the legislative or In dian appropriation bill. Hearings on the nominees for the shipping board continues before the commerce committee. When the nominations reach the floor. Senator LaFollette will protest against some of the shipping ideas of Bernard H. Baker, the Baltimore nominee. The Interstate Commerce Commit tee is preparing to report on the President's railway legislation pro gram after holding extensive hear ings. The so-called "compulsory ar bitration" feature of the bills will be modified, if it is reported at all, it is understood. The senate bill for prohibition in tin District of Columbia, passed re cently, is about to be considered by the District Committee of the house. Sentiment in the- committee is said to be unfavorable to it unless there is a provision for a referendum vote in the District. House leaders say, how ever, there will be a vote on the bill regardless of what may be the action of the District Committee. SAILORS ARE COMPELLED TO ABANDON U. S. CRUISER Three Hundred Jack Tars Fought for Lives Against Heavy Sea on California Coast. Eureka, Cal. Shortly after 8 o'clock at night the last member of the crew of the cruiser Milwaukee, which went ashore near here early in the day, was landed on the beach. Not a life was lost, and but one man was hurt in the rescue of the hundreds aboard the stranded vessel. In a fight for their lives against a heavy sea, more than three hundred United States sailors were brought ashore in breeches buoys from the Milwaukee, which rolled in the surf, with possibility of being a total loss, on the northern California coast where she struck shore in a fog. Breakers were spraying over the warship's superstructure, and the in cessant pounding of the waves was driving the vessel further ashore in the sand. The Milwaukee false bot tom was flooded in an effort to anchor her against the wash of the sea. Na val officers ashore said it was hardly possible that the cruiser would ever float again. The Milwaukee is stuck on the sand only a few hundred yards form the submarine H-3, which grounded a month ago. near the entrance to Hum boldt bay. The cruiser was attempting to salvage the submersible at the time of the accident. Within forty or fifty miles on this part of the coast, six oth er vessels have struck shore during the last fear years, and none of them have been saved. CENTRAL POWERS HAVE WELL-DEFINED GOAL. Berlin, via Calville. Further com ment on the note of the Entente Pow ers to President Wilson lays empha sis on the decisive character of the declrations which clear the air, the newspapers say, and give the Central Powers a well-defined goal defense against the plan of their opponents for re-making the map o" Europe. VILLA CHIEFTAIN AND FORTY MEN KILLED. Chihuahua City, Mex The Villa Chief Morena and sixty followers were killed in the fight January 10, 140 miles north of Parral, according to details of that action received from Gen. Pablo Gonzales, com manding the Government troops in the field. The Carranza treops lost Col Lozano and three officers and eight men killed besides a number of wounded. They captured a small number of prisoners. FORMER OFFICERS OF VILLA ARMY IS SHOT. Mexico City. Marcelo Caraveo, a former Villa general, who was impris oned in Chihuahua City by General Trexino and liberated when Villa at tacked the town last September, was shot at Teotitlan, del Gamino, Oaxaca. General Caraveo, soon after being lib erated by Villa, surrendered to the Oarranza authorities and was brought to Mexico City and confined in the penitentiary. He had escaped from the penitentiary last week. AVOID EXPLOSION WRECKS MUNITIONS PLANT MILLIONS IN MUNITIONS AND POWDER ARE LOST IN bIG Fl Rt. j TWELVE INJURED. 2 MISSING Plant of DuPont Company at Haskell, N. J., is Almost Totally Destroyed. No Estimate of the Loss is Ob tainable. New York. Four hundred thousand pounds of powder was destroyed by fire and explosion at the Haskell, N. J., plant of the du Pont Powder Com pany. Officials of the company de clared, after checking up the mem bers of the night shift at the works, that only two men were missing. Twelve others were cut' by flying debris, but none of them was serious ly hurt. No estimate of the loss was obtainable. Until investigation is completed no further statement will be made as to what evidences of incendiarism have been found, an officer of the com pany said. It was explained that the danger of fire or of explosions from purely ac cidental causes was reduced to a min imum by the fact that no completed ordinance was on hand at the plant. The officers said the propelling charges for the shells were not at tached until they reached the battle field, and that the same was true as to the detonating caps by which the trinitrotuluol in the shell bod;es is exploded. The statement said the Kingsland plant was used for the assembling, packing and preparing of these shells for shipment. Large quantities of these shells have been shipped to Russia. "The buildings destroyed were val ued at $750,000. The value of the contents destroyed amounted approxi mately to $16,000,000, of which $6, 000,000 belonged to the company. The company was- protected to the amount of about $3,000,000 in insurance on buildings and contents. The rest is a total loss. "So far as we have been able to as certain, no one was killed or seriously injured as a result of the fire and sub sequent explosions. "An examination into the circum stances attending the origin of the fire in building No. 30 has created the impression that it is possible, if not probable, that the fire was of incen diary origin." SITUATION AS TO PEACE UP AT SESSION OF CABINET. ' Entente Reply Gone Over in Detail. In President is Only Hope of Peace. Washington. At the Cabinet meet ing the peace negotiations were dis cussed only in general terms, but afterward Secretary Lansing remained for a conference with the President, and it was understood they went over the Entente reply in detail. The attitude of President Wilson toward the replies of the warring nations to his suggestion htat an op portunity be given for comparing peace terms remained undetermined. Preliminary discussion of the ques tion was begun at the cabinet meet ing and at conferences between the President and Secretary Lansing and between the President and Col. E. M. House, who spent the day at the White House. Informally, officials expressed the opinion that the problem facing the President is how to reconcile the con flicting attitude of the Central Pow ers and the Entente Allies on the question of comparing terms. The Central Powers having offered to dis cuss peace at a conference of repre sentatives of the belligerents and the Entente Powers, though virtually de clining to agree to a conference, have given their broad terms publicity, it was suggested that the President might seek a new method of having terms compared. SILENT SUFFRAGE "SENTINELS" SALUTE PRESIDENT WILSON Washington. Although the temper ature was 11 degrees below freezing and a cold wind was blowing, the 12 suffrage "silent sentinels' 'again took up their picketing of the White House to impress their cuase upon President Wilson. When P-esident Wilson re turned from golf, the silent sentinels stood at salute with their right hands raised to their hats. The president smilingly returned the salute. REMOVAL OF THAW TO NEW YORK TO BE FOUGHT Philadelhpia. Plans for the remov al to New York of Harry K. Thaw, who recently attempted to commit sui cide as he was about to be surrender ed to the New York authorities on charges of kidnapping and assaulting Frederick Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, as soon as he is able to leave the hos pital, were discused at a conference here between counsel for Oliver A. Brower End representatives . pt the Thaw interests. BIGKETT DELIVERS INAUGURAL ADDRESS GOVERNOR CRAIG TURNS OVER GREAT SEAL OF NORTH CAR OLINA TO SUCCESSOR. ITH THE STATE LAWMAKERS Resume of the Doings of the General Assembly During the Past Week Told in a Brief and Interesting Way. or Our Miny Readers. Raleigh. In his inaugural address. Gov. Bickett stated that the activities of his administration would be along con structive lines. A large portion of his address was devoted to plans for im proving the conditions of the farm and the farmer and the education of boys and girls in agricutlure. "If there is a man in North Carolina," said the Governor, "who desires to drain a swamp or terrace a hillside; if there be a farmer who is struggling to es cape from the crop lien's deadly clutch; if there be a tenant who hun gers for a vine and fig tree he may call his own, I want all such to know I that the Governor of the State will count it honor and joy to rise up at midnight and lend a helping hand." Among the important legislation that the Governor will make an effort to have enacted during his term of of fice and recommended in his address were the following: Six months school term for every child. Enlarged health work. Fields tilled by men who own and love them. Harvests free from crop liens. Modern conveniences and whole some diversions within reach of every county home. Freeing of State from ignorance. An acre of ground to be cultivated i by every school. j The bridling of the water powers, j Telephones in every rural home. Levy of maintenance tax for roads 1 built by issue of bonds. Improvements for manufacturing industry. The short ballot. Rotation of office. All state hospitals controlled by board of seven. Prison reform. SENATE. Hon. E. L. Daughtridge, the retiring Lieutanant Governor, formally turn ed the Senate gavel as presiding offi cer, over to Hon. O. Max Gardner, the new Lieutenant Governor, and spoke feelingly of his retirement and his appreciation for the consideration of the Senators. He presented Mr. Gard ner as "young in years but old in experience and service." Lieutenant Gov. Gardner was escorted into the Senate chamber by Senators Long of Alamance and Holdiness of Edge combe. This ceremony was preced ed by the adoption of resolutions ap preciative of the service of Mr. Daughtridge. Senator Jones of Bun combe presided and the resolutions were offered by Senator Oates. Mr. Gardner declared that he could pay Mr. Daughtridge no higher com pliment, or set himself any higher ideal, than to endeavor to discharge the duties of the office with the same ability and fairness that character ized his predecessor. He pledged his best efforts foi the enactment of the progressive legislation outlined by Governor Bickett in his inauguaral address. After the Justice and Parker amend ments were voted down the bill offer ed by Senator Scales to increase the salary of the Governor to $7,500 a year was passed after a lively debate. The bill increasing the salaries of the constitutional officers of the state Secretary of State, Treasurer, Audi tor, Attorney-General and Superinten dent of Public Instruction to $4,500 a year passed its third reading after amendment making salaries $4,000. A resolution was offered by Jones of Buncombe to ratify the action of Governor Craig and the directors of the state's prison in distributing $4,060 in alotments of $10 each to the de pendent families of convicts. Sena tor Jones expressed the view that the action of the Governor and directors was most commendable and was en dorsed by the people. Person of Franklin wanted to know if there was any law or precedent for such action and Senator Jones replied that there was njrte. A motion by Warren of Beaufort prevailed refer ing the resolution to the appropria tions committee. A resolution offered by Senator Brenizer, of Charlotte, to have the committee which is to make an inves tigation into the advisability , of creat- More stringent game laws, the ap pointment of a state game commis sion and a tax on. both resident and non-resident hunters of North CaJ lina will be some of the things the State Audubon Society will ask in a bill to be presented to the general as sembly at this session In addition, the legislature will be asked to pass an act prohibiting the sale of game in the state, making a bag limit of 15 quail for a day's hunt and to make all these measures uniform and ap plicable to the state at large. ing a central purchasing agency for the state to consider also the advis ability of establishing a board of con trol, etc., and if they thought such measure advisable to draft a bill and present it at this session of the leg islature, was adopted. A stringent State-wide bill for the registration and regulation of the bar ber business in the state was the most interesting piece of proposed legisla tion that was thrown into the hopper of the senate. The measure was in troduced by Senator Jones, of Bun combe. The bill would make it un lawful for any person to engage in the occupation of barber in any town of 1,000 population or more without first having obtained a certificate of registration. Two bills went to the table in the senate when unfavorable reports were made on them by committees. One of these was the bill to repeal the stock law, which was passed at the extra session of the general assembly of 1913 for Pender county. The bill originated and passed the house be fore the delegation from Pender got here to be heard on it. However, they had their say on it before the senate committee on Friday afternoon and the committee put a black mark on it. The other bill that got an un favorable report after a delegation of about 100 from Washington county, including those for and against it, had appeared before a committee was the bill introduced by Senator Daven port to allow the people of Washing ton county to vote on the question as to whether the new court house, which is to be erected, would be locat ed at Plymouth, the present county seat, or at Roper. HOUSE. The House resolution to invite Wil liam Jennings Bryan to address a joint session of the Senate and House at his convenience, came up and was amended to extend a similar invitation to Secretary jf the Navy Josephus Daniels, expected to be here at the same time. Objection was raised by Senator Brenizer for the reason that he considered such ac tion the establishment of a bad pre cedent in such matters. He believed such a course would detract from the dignity of the Assembly to have pri vate citizens and others come before the body and present their acuses. There was hearty agreement on the part of Senator Little of Anson and others, the view seeming to pervade a number of the opposition remarks that the burden of the address by Mr. Bryan would be the prohibition cause. The objection to the resolution raised by Senator Brenizer and Sena tor Justice were withdrawn and the resolution passed unanimously and was ordered enrolled for ratification. The salary of the Governor of North Carolina is to be $6,500 a year instead of $7,500, as the upper house of the General Assembly voted it should be, the increase being from $5,000. The final contest over the issue came in the house, when the commit tee bill for the $6,500 salary was put through, after a hard fight, 61 to 48, after amendments fixing $6,000 and for the original $7,500, had been voted down. Unconstitutionality and inex pediency of raising the salary close on the heels of the great western Caro lina flood were the chief objections set up by Ray of Macon, Clark of Pitt and other opponents of the bill. Turning from the passage of Gov ernor's salary bill, the house, however, killed the companion senate bill carry ing raises to $4,000 each in the salar ies of the secretary of state, state treasurer and auditor. No roll call was demanded, and very few represen tatives voted for the bill. The house voted down a bill to make the salary of the state superintendent of public instruction and that of the attorney general $3,500 instead of $3,000. This would put these consti tutional officers on an equal fotting with their associates. County Farm for Women. The establishment of a county farm in each county of North Carolina to which female vagrants and minor male offenders may be sentenced is the ob ject of a bill to be introduced some time during the week in the house of representatives. D. E. Henderson, presidential elector and county attor ney of Craven, is the author of the idea. He will draft the bill. Repres entative Dail, of Craven, will probably be the introducer. While no allusion was made to the bigger measures to come before the house while that body was in session, they were freely talked of around the lobbies and hotels. One bill dis cussed perhaps more than any other is that prepared by Rev. R. Lee Davis, superintendent of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon League. This bill as it stands now is said to offer no very drastic change in the present law be yond the fact that it absolutely pro hibits any person to have in his pos session more than two quarts of whis key at one time. It is understood that with it in operation the law affecting the receipt of one quart every fifteen days would not be changed. Plymouth in a short time may cease to become the county seat of Wash ington county and the court house and the officials and things that go with it may be moved to the .thriving little town of Roper. At any rate. Roper is trying to . rope it in. There is so much diversity of opinion as to which town should be the county seat that Senator Davenport has introduced a bill for the establishment of the coun ty seat, which measure will allow the people of the county to vote on the question and settle it. NEW GOVERNOR IS INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR BICKETT ATTENDED BY BRIL LIANT CEREMONY. Oath of Office Administered By Chief Justice Clark. Inaugural Address Followed By Luncheon, and Recep tion. All State Officers Present. Raleigh. Thursday was truly an epochal day for Raleigh and North Carolina, marking as it did the pass ing of the Craig Administration and the induction into the high office of Governor Thomas W. Bickett and the adjustment of the state legislature to the new conditions as to legislation brought about by the immediate opera tion of the constitutional amendment ratified at the last election. The Craig Administration passed out with its record of road building and general business progress, and Mr. Bickett, the new transition of tenants into landlords, makiug country life as comfortable as town life and an appeal to sustain interest in every worthy individual and collective enterprise. The inaugural ceremonies were most successful in every detail, closing with a brilliant reception at the Man sion by Governor and Mrs. Bickett and the other state officers and their wives to members of the General Assembly and citizens in general, and the all in the auditorium, the pleasures of which were shared by hundreds of society folk from every quarter of the state and from neigh boring states. Retiring Governor Departs. Governor Craig went to the union station Thursday afternoon, escorted by members of his personal military staff, and bidding them and hosts of other friends good-bye, boarded the westbound Southern Railway train for Asheville. The others returned to the Capitol apd at 7:30 o'clock, re ported at the Governor's Mansion as military aides for the reception grac ing the advent of the Bickett adminis tration. tration. After luncheon at the Mansion there was a rest period for Governor and Mrs. Biskett and party, and then from 8:30 to 11 o'clock there was a brilliant reception, which Governor and Mrs. Biqkett, other state officers and their wives in the receiving line. Taking the oath of office in the presence of noarly 10,000 people and delivering his inaugural address in most eloquent and forceful manner, the induction of Hon. Thomas Walter Bickett into the governorship of North Carolina was most successful in every detail. The special train from Louisburg bearing the Governor-elect and his party and hundreds of citizens of Louisburg and section reached the city on schedule time, and was met by the local committee appointed for tiie purpose. A procession was quick ly formed and proceeded to the Gov ernor's Mansion, where Gov. Locke Craig and the state officers and oth ers awaited them. From the Mansion the procession moved to the Yar borough Hotel and thence to the city Auditorium. At the Auditorium. The party then proceeded to the Auditorium, which was filled to stand ing room capacity, except for the top most galleries. The immense ros trum was occupied by the inaugural party and distinguished citizens. The A. & M. band was in the pit and ren dered music, most notable of this be ing "Auld Lang Syne," played sweetly Just after the oath of office had been administered to Lieut. Gov. Max Gard ner, who is an alumnus of A. & M., of whom that institution is especially propd. The oath of office was administered to the state officers, with the excep tion of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, by Associate Justice W. A. Hoke, of the Supreme Court, starting with Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young and concluding with Secertary of State J. Bryan Grimes. Then Chief Justice Walter Clark re lieved Judge Hoke. Announcements of the various officials and their elec tion were made by Chairman J. K. Pegram, of the committee on inaugu ration. When the announcement of Gover nor T. W. Bickett was reached. Chair man Pegram introduced Governor Craig and he declared the election of Mr. Bickett as Governor, and called on the Chief Justice to administer the oath of office. This was done most impressively. The new Governor ad; vanced to the speaker's stand and began his inaugural address, speak ing in distinct, measured and force fu Itones, and electing outbursts of thunderous applause as he proclaimed one and another of the great devel opments that he proposes for the whole people of the state. The big auditorium stood when Gov ernor Craig was presented to intro duce the new Governor and when Mr. Bickett came forward to take the oath of office and reveive at the hand s of Governor Craig the Great Seal of State Chairman J. R. Pegram and his committee scored a success in every detail of the ceremonies. On the committee were Senators Person, Scales, Holderness and Representa tives Beasley, Holding, Newell, Rob erts. of Buncombe and Winbprne. INAUGURATED
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