The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-06-21

fourteen pounds Of milk-or one gallon
and three quarters. Nj. YOung's COW is a
Jersey.
The amount realized from the entertain .
ment for the benefit of the miIitery COM
pany. after payingall expenses, was SJ2.65. /
Gross receipts were s60,9j. This Will fill /
up good size hole in the. cOmpany'S in /,
and they feel under very great .
to the ladies and gentlemen I,
who so kindly interested themselves in !
their behalf.
We regret to learn that Rev. Mr.. Law,
of South Carolina, district superintendent
of the American Bible Society, will not
be here Sunday, rs announced. 1t had
been given ont that lie would preach at The
Presbyterian church, in the absence OF MI
Sprunt. but he nOw writes that he cannot
come. However, we hope he may find it
convenient to visit our town later.
MI. l.. l.. Dunton has come bac., to Hen
derson to engage in the bakery and confec-
tionerv business. He has rented one Of
the store rooms in the Young building OPP
no.jte Watkins store and will soon be
ready for business. He is now bUsily ell
gagged getting his bake oven, etc, arranged
Mr.. Dunton is very superior baker and
candy maker and should receive liberal
patronage from our people.
The family of Mr. Matt Duke who lives
some miles from Henderson, is sOrely af-
hicted Yesterday afternoon child OF his
was buried in the cemetery here and this
morning we learn that Mr.. Duke himself
died last night His wife and another Child
are lying at the point Of death and not eX-
pected to live Mrs. Duke is daughter Of
Col T. W. Goodrich of Henderson.
The Boston daily GLo5e says this of the
Hungarian Quartette to play at Burwell
Hall Saturday evening The charm Of the
playing Of these people is that they play
With their souls in their work, all the tell
derness, passion, and fire in their natures
is expressed through their instruments.
Nothing 50 taking" in instrumental
music has been heard i'll Boston as this
music.
MI. w. W. BriscOe, Of the Henderson
Tobacco Co., is back frsm an extended
trip in the interest of his popular brands Of
tobacco. lie was on the train Oh the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail
road beyond Richmond that ran into
freight train, partially side-tracked, last
Saturday. He says it was bad wreck,
but no one was killed. The engineer and
fireman together with one or two passen-
gers were hurt, but none seriously.
SOP 49,
CLUB UATs-White beavers are beCom
ing quite popular. This is the regulation
Cleveland and Fowle hat, and numbers
Of them are to be seen Oh the streets of our
town. 1t is a very stylish and becoming
hat, and is destined to be all the rage ere
long. To keep up with the procession"
our enterprising shoe and hat merchant, A.
<. Angela, has just received a large lot Of
these hats which he is selling at the low
price of $3.50.
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Buy your cigars and tobacco at Harris
| Drugstore. June Il.
HIT HEN IN THE WRONG PLACE TO KILL.
| HIM.-The boy Morris Baptist who was so
severely hurt by being struck on the head
| with a shovel by Annanias BARLEY at
| Rowiand's brick yard some days ago, is out
| again. He received deep cut on the fore
head fracturing the skull, and i'll place Of
a piece Of the bone something like an inch
in length which DR.. Cheatham took oct,
he now wears silver dollar. The wound
has healed up nicely and with the cXcep-
ton of scar no one would suspect him of
carrying so much silver thus concealed
about his person. Both are c0lOred.
For hammOcks, white beavers, straw
hats, cOlored shirts, ncCkwear, etc, go to
Anglca'S He has the largest stock OF
summer goods in town.
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| DEATH OF CAPT. JOHN BOOTH. The
GOLD LEAF is called upon to chronicle the
death of another one of our citizens this
week. At twenty-seven minutes after one
o'clock this morning, Capt. John Booth
breathcd his last at his home in this place
For several months he had been troubled
with a complication of diseases and had
been slowly declining until few weeks
ago when he took his bed permanently.
| Capt. Booth was we'll known in this com
munity and as man and citizen was held
in high esteem lie was kind, warm
|
ceased was GA years old.
The burial will take place from the Fpis
cOpal church at 10o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
Everybody likes it. everybody wants If
and everybody drinks it, Frui-NiH, tin
finest beverage in the world. Dispense
by W. 1. Cheatlam Il Co, druggists
June It'll.
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\ COOP ARTICLE OF BUTrER.-Person.
who wish to take good butter regularl,
should apply to Mr.. P Wyckoff. lie cal
, supply % or so pounds week, and it i
, strictly tirst-class in every respect IL
keeps a number of cows at his place a
Ridgeway and here at home, and the butte
Is looked after in the most careful manner
As to its quality that speaks for itself. Nj
e Wyckoff took the $50 90 premium on butte
at Raleigh four years ago, and no doub
would have borne off the highest honOrs
l second time but he was ruled out becaus
his cows were not in the thoroughbred class
Il lhe writer knows whereof he speaks whe1
) he recommends Mr.. Wyckof's butter.
l has been regularly used in our family 70
the past few months
A SUPERIOR WHITEw ASH.-Tha follow
- ing receipt is sent out by the United State
Treasury Department to all ljchthous
4 keepers, that is said to answer on wood
! oi'cN OF stone, nearly as we'll as oi
:, paint ana Is much cheaper: Slack half
. ousheI OF unsiacked lime with boilin