The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-05-17

IL ioi uouo4c It's cost IL lie cOuid not get
another. lie thinks it paid for itself by US
ing it once on his plant beds before the rains
came. There is nothing like it for water
ing Or fertilizing plants, flowers, sprnk ling
yards, etc. Price $500. Call at the GOLD
LEAF Office and see one
Commenting upon the statement that a
Salisbury merchant recently took in FIVE
dollar bill across the back of which was
written: This is the last of $40, 900; beware
of wine and women" the Asheville Sun
says this, and we fully agree with it: He
had better have written. Il have been a
fool and drunkard.' Wise men do not
drink wine to excess, if they drink it atalI
and they find in the love of good women
the chiefest charm of life. -
Reports from all over the country are to
the effect that rains have been heavy, lust
the thing the farmer has been needing.
Ample opportunity has been afforded for
planting out tobacco and il goes without
saying that every advantage has been taken
thereof. Gratifying intelligence comes of
the encouraging outlook of the crops gener-
ally, considering the backward season for
planting. Corn and cotton are growing
finely, while wheat and oats ale promis-
ing.
At meeting of the Board of Town Com
missioners held Monday afternoon, an APP
proprietor of 500 was voted to the Vance
Guards. This act will be generally COM
mended by the tax payers of the town.
Now let there be generous response on
the part of the citizens when private sub
scriptionS are asked for. Besides the forty
odd members of the company taxing them
selves $1,000 each, and the $3.50 from the
county and town, they are yet behind about
$3.50.
Work has been commenced on the shops
of the Henderson Building and Manufac-
turing Company, located near Mr.. CroZier's
place in the northeastern edge of town.
1t will be brick, 4ox6o feet, and two stories
high 1t is expected that the building will
be finished this week. Thus another i'm
portant enterprise will soon be added to
our town. Mr.. l.. l.. Hamacher, superior
mechanic and very competent man for
the place, will be superintendent of the
shops.
There will be no commencement exer-
cises at Middleburg Male School at the
close of the present term. This was due
to no lack of full school, however. We
are assured that creditable commence
ment could have been gotten up, but out
side circumstances prevented. The pat
rons of the school, we are told, are we'll
MI with r1D
teacher, and the patronage Of the school
since he took charge of it has been such as
to warrant the truth of this.
Our young friend and townsman DR..
Arch Cheatham, who recently graduated
from the leading medical college in
Baltimore, passed a successful examination
before the State Board Of Medical
Examiners at Fayetteville last week, and
will practice in Henderson with his father,
DR.. W. L. Cheatham. He came of mighty
good stock, and to say that lie is chip of
the old block, is to say that there is a
successful future before him. We note the
fact that he has been elected surgeon of the
| Vance Guards also.
The Richm ond trains, we are told, viii
not run so as to make connection with the
Raleigh & CASTOR trains. They will run
| to and from their new depot, passengers
getting on and off there. This will have
| the effect of bringing that part of the town
into greater prominence, doubtless, and il
will not be long before we may expect tC
see business houses going up in that locality
The GOLD LEAF would like to see large
hotel erected in Captain Young's grove
Here now is an opportunity for some ono
to make wise investment.
Mr.. George NJ. Newell tells us he had nc
trouble in entering his safety car stove a
the Patent Office and expects soon to be il
possession of the papers granting the patent
He received much encouragement from
the chief inspector who assured him tina
his invention was practical and that ht
would have no trouble in securing paten
on it. Mr.. Newell is having a large work
ing size model made with which he cal
demonstrate the working of his discovery
The GOLD LEAF hopes there may be mil
lions in it " for the inventor.
i Mrs Bette McDuffie, wife of Rev. II
". McDufie, formerly pastor of the Bap
fist church in Henderson, but now il
charge OF a fourshing church in New
Brunswick, New Jersey, arrived in tow:
Saturday afternoon accompanied by he
three interesting children. She was TIN
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. W. t. Stainback
and stopped until Monday evening wheI
she went to visit her fathers family il
Franklin county. This was Mrs. McDuffie'
first visit since leaving Henderson nearl
two years ago. Brother Nc" will com
out in June
MARRIED. AT the residence of tn
brides father, Captain j. B. White, i
Henderson, at 10 o'clock. a. NJ, Miss Far