The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-11-22
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.


ann, when you receive your holiday goods.
If you have good tobacco and want good
prices for it come to Henderson every time.
Secure your tickets for Bell * Ellis
HoyaI Marioncttes next Monday evening.
The bagpipe brigade has come and gone,
and sweet peace .hOVcrs once more over the
town.
Pay what You owe, then your ncighbor
Can pay what he owes. and 50 On. This is
the way to make times better.
If Won show this paper to your ncighbor
and ask him to subscribe, you will do Us
favor and yourself a benefit. Try it.
1t raimed dismalIy and almost inces-
sanity Sunday night as if the very heavens
were weeping over the general result.
SAYS the BeIlcfontaine Ernm1mer: If
your doctor pIescribcs quiet and rest, go
and loaf at some store that don't adver-
tisc'
Ask your neighbor to subscribe for the
GOLD LEAF for the coming year. We are
going to try to make it better and more
readable than ever.
If YOU want to subscribe for one Of the
best local papers in this countiy-One that
gives YOU all the home neWo-Walk right
up and give Us your name.
Now is the time to plant trees and Hen
dcraon needs them. Why not put all our
streets in order for the admiration OF your
children and grand children?
"A live town will not live long without
a live paper" The GOLD LEAF is live
paper, published III a live town and the
people are giving it lively support.
The Conference of the Methodist Prot
eotant church is III progress in Henderson
thi, week. Our citizens welcome this body,
ministers and laymen, to the inequalities
of the town.
The Virginia splint is the finest soft coal
III the market. 1t is clean and free from
dit, and its excellent qualities considered
: the cheapest coal sold Parker Il Bur
we'll sell it.
''Thpre are gain7 for all our losses,
Thrre are smile, for all our tears
We were dowucd this time 10y Radical
BOSSES.
But will get there in four more years.
The GOLD LEAF regrets to learn that the
Frank lugton Djxp0tch has suspended pub
location. Nj. Il. +. Morris Offers his en-
tire newspaper outfit for sale. Write 20
him at Frank lington, y. &. for terms, etc.
Don't hold your good tobacco, but sell
while prices are good is the advice Of
those who are i'll position to know. on
have the tobacco; our buyers want it.
Oar merchants have the goods you want
them. Come on.
Don't borrow this paper from friend,
but come up and subscribe for it and have
a copy OF your own. Still we do not Oh
iect to persons reading the GOLD LEAF, no
matter who they are. The more readers
the greater its influence.
The BeIlefontane ErGminer good natur-
eddy remarks that " Democratic editors Of
the country will continue to look wise,
take turnips on subscription, write edito-
rails on tariff reform, and issue their papers
at the same old stands"
Henderson is falling behind her neigh
hOrs in the matter of manufacturing. Oul
moneyed men ought to make some effort tC
establish more factories here. These are
what we want to make the town grow and
prosper as it has not yet done.
Ifyou want coal of any kind whatever
call on MI. IL. IL. Burwell. He has wei
fitted up yard fully stocked with all kinds
of hard and soft coal " hich will be sold a
Richmond prices. His coal is free from
slate and dirt and full weight is guaran
teed.
The coming holiday trade in this place
promises to be the largest for several years
past, and the quality and character o
goods the finest and prettieSt ever shown
here. A we'll displayed advertisement il
the GOLD LEAF will let the public know
what you have.
If you wish to change your place of resi-
dence, you could not dc better than t
come to Henderson, the biggest and busie>
town in the famous yellow tobacco belt 0
North Carolina 1t is one Of the healthie>
and most pleasant places in the STATE
with good water and a delightful climate
Well say it again, notwithstanding til
storm
Three cheers and tiger for tariff reform
-BGil6fOAtdlHC EcuEttHer.
cS, shout the refrain we delight so
hear,
Hurrah for tarig reform, though SHOVE
under this year.
1t is no longer the question who will |
the next President, but where can | bu
the cheapest and best goods for the none
and that place is at IL. ThOmaSons. II
stock is large and very cheap. Money go,
long way at ThomaSon'S. He carries
large stock and is constantly adding to Il
same.
All good grades of tobacco, bright stoC
especially, are in active demand ON OF
market We have plucky corps of bu
ers aud our live and enterprising war
hoHsemen will see that as good prices al
realized here as can be obtained anywher
Indeed, Henderson is always ahead on b
prices.
Commend rather than .ridicule the be
that references his mother and is inf
,ehced by the ties of home SAYS an G.
change: Never sneer at the boy who p
gently remains tied to his mothers apro
"'rlhgs- The boy who submits to such To-
Jug letters will never later in life, fin
himself tied to the end of a rope"