The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-02-09

GOLD LEAF more readable and entertain
ing paper than ever this year Will you
not help US to do thiso
handle tue following we'll known brands
of fertilizer this season, which they will
sell for 325 pounds of middiing cotton i
Whann's Pillow Brand, Pacific, Zelrs Owl
Brand and Listers. They have large
lot on hand and are now prepared to sup
ply the demand of the farmers.
For prom ptness and reliability the GOLD
LEAF does not hesitate to recommend
Lehman's Clothing House. Ed Peoples
tells US he took an order for fine suit of
clothes (the exact size wanted not being in
stock) on Wednesday morning after the
train had passed and Friday afternoon the
goods were here from Baltimore.
Mr. W. w. Pergerson, Of Raleigh, has
come to Henderson to engage i'll business,
and has opened nice stock of general
merchandise in one of the stores in the
Kelly & Horner brick building, below
Harris warehouse The GOLD LEAF ex-
tends q cordial welcome to Mr.. Pergerson
and family as citizens OF our town.
Tickets are out announcing the coming
marriage of Mr.. Harry II. Harper, our
popular and good looking young fore
man, aud Miss Maud N. Rodgers, daughter
Of Mr. James Rodgers. The ceremony
will take place at the Episcopal church at
! 1880 O'Clock, Tuesday morning, February
18th The GOLD LEAF is in luck this
month.
Let all he aroused for the good of the
town. Keep working; do not allow your
determination to do good and be of benefit
! to the community to grow cold. Hender-
son has bright future before it, and our
citizens should rightly improve the oppor-
tunities they have Of building up and max
ing larger and more progressive little
! G ~ of our town.
The New York Mirror, the leading drs-
matte paper Of America, says: Levy is,
as he always was and always will be,
the cornet player of the world-whether
for tone, compass or execution, absolutely
| without a rival" Our citizens will have
an opportunity of hearing this great cornet
player on the evening of the 22nd inst
Secure your tickets in time.
MI Espy ii. Goodpaster, of Owingsville,
KY, who spent short time in our town
recently, has returned to his home in the
beautiful Blue Grass region. He made
many friends who regret his departure.
1t is lucky for q certain Henderson beau
that the handsome young kentuckian's stay
was SO short. However, We Macy him
again Transient sojourner in our midst.
Our State exchanges are pretty thor
oughly discussing the public roads. From
one end of North Carolina to the other
comes the complaint that the country roads
are in a dreadful condition and the peo-
pie demand Il ehange-anything that will
DE an Improvement upon the present mode
of repairing them. The man that will sug-
gest some feasible plan for keeping them
in better condition will do great work
for his country.
There is but one person responsible for
the get-up of this paper. We have no as
socate or assistant editor, and whatever
appears i'll these columns other than as q
communication, addressed to the editor OF
the GOLD LEAF and signed in some way
must be charged up to ITS alone, whether
it be creditable or otherwise. We say this
for the beneti. Of those who were curious
to know who wrote the article about the
Leap Year hop.
'bo 4, 81 - 8 a.,
a bit of advice about improving the oppor.
tunities that Leap Year affords them, il
the following manner:
lis Leap Year, girls, put on your smiles
And exercise your arts
Use all those little cunning Wiles
To captiyate the hearts.
! our chance has come, so do your best,
Select the Wisest man,
Then pop the queStion-nOt IN Jest
Ere Leap \ ear comes again.
1t is with sorrow that the GOLD LEAF
learns OF the death of SIR John A. Moore
a prominent member of the Bar OF Halifax
which occurred at his home in Halifax
town last Saturday, of pneumonia. Mr.
Moore was getleman of fine legal abilit,
and was widely known throughout the
State. He was a brother of ex-Juige Moore
and was highly esteemed both as 4 lawyer
and citizen. May he rest we'll after life
ftful dream is ended
The GOLD LEAF insists that more shad
trees be put out on the streets and privat
lots of the town. Shade trees are not onl
: pleasant thing in the hot summer, bu
they add much to the beauty of a town
Now Is good time to plant them, and tn
same amount of money could be expended
TO no better purpose, perhaps. Our mail
streets would be beautited as we'll as mad
comfortable by planting them. Let u
2 have more shade trees
The editor of the GOLD LEAF feels prou
. of the many Kind and complimentary
things said about him by brethren of tn
4 press on the occasion OF his marriage, an
while he knows that he does not measur
up TO the full statue of the high and aobl
qualities that he has been portrayed as til
embodiment of, lie is none the less Pre-
!, foundry appreciative, and it will be hi
i highest endeayor to attain nearer to tn
mark admiring friends have seemed to sc
g for him.
The eclipse of tue moon Saturday ever
ing before last was beautiful astronom
cal exhibition. The sky was clear and tn
y weather so moderate in temperature tia
I. many persons viewed it with interest. TIL
eclipse was total from until Is o'clock an
the effect when the moon began to pull OF
u OF the earth's shadow was beautiful in tll
: extreme. About 8 o'clock the exhibitio