At the Hotel Claiborne a banquet
was given complimentary to the edit
ors at which there were a number of
invited guests besides the members of
the Commonwealth Club and other
leading citizens of the town. A more
elegant and enjoyable affair we have
not participated in. President Carr
presided as Master of Ceremonies, and
after the vast company seated around
the several tables running the full
length of the spacious dining hall,
haddone ample justice to the sub
stantiate and delicacies set before
them, he arose and stated that the
time had come tor him to call the
assembled guests from pleasure to
duty, to invite them from a " feast of
reason and a flow of soul," to a feast
of speaking and a flow of wit, and an-
have so crenerouslv nnd
promptly extended the Association
transportation facilities."
The rain Friday interlered with the
proposed visit to the liennett place,
the scene of Johnston's surrender to
Sherman, and the picnic to be given
by the Blackwell Durham Co-operative
Tobacco Company, but the edi
tors had been so feted and entertained
in every other way that this did not
mar their pleasure or enjoyment in the
least. The hospitable and big hearted
gentleman who had planned and was
to provide this feature of the program
was, we dare say, more sorely disap
pointed than any one else. We had
already been too royally treated to
feel that anything was lacking to make
our visit to Durham one of the most
memorable of all our pleasant annual
gatherings.
The following is a list of officers
elected for the ensuing year: Presi
dent, J. P. Caldwell, Statesville Land
mark; Vice-Presidents: ist, Capt. S.
