The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-12-06
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LAcoNIcS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

The merry Christmas time comes Oh
apace.
Our merchants are looking forward to an
immense holiday trade.
Democrats who bet on the national cleo
ton are still wearing their old hats.
The columns Of your local paper is where
the buying public will GO for information.
Watch the columns of the GOLD LEAF.
aud find out where dollar will buy the
most goods.
Our Infant industries" appear to be in
fiouri>hing condition. A number of new
babies have arrived in town lately.
If you show this paper to your ncighbor
and ask him to subscribe, you will do Us
favor and yourself benefit. Try it,
Have you gfudge against the country
editor? Well. the best way to get oven
with him is to pay him what you owe him.
The editor of the GOLD LEAF has been
elected one of the vice z residents of the
Roanoke * Tar River Agricultural Society,
Weldon.
Ask your neighbor 10 Subscribe for the
GOLD LEAF for the coming year. We are
going to try to make it better and more
readable than ever.
Every merchant in town should adver-
tise in the GOLD LEAF, and let the people
know what they have and what they intend
TO have for Christmas.
What are you doing to boom you town?
Wake up and look around you. Do some
filing if it is nothing but step on your neigh
bor's toes to wake him up.
Rev. VI. V. McDufiic writes an interest
inG letter from New Brunswick, New Jer-
sry, which will be found on the first page
of the GOLD LEAF this week.
Don't he backward about sending the
GOLD LEAF the news from your section.
You can help US to make the paper great
deal more newsy If you will.
Everyone should help us in our endeayor
to give the people of this section a live
newspaper. Show the GOLD LEAF to your
neiglbOr and get him to subscribe for it.
If you are pleased with the GOLD LEAF
You can greatly help us to increase our cir
culati0n by telling your neighbors of its
%alue as live local paper aud urging them
TO become subscribers.
secure your tickets for Miss Lavinia
ShannOns performance Monday evening.
She is one of The finest emotional actresses
ON the stage, and lady of the highest
social worth and culture.
Every deg has his day. ana those
needy chaps who go around looking for
something to turn up, may now turn up
their coat collars. The cold chilly winds
of December are upon us.
Some of our subscribers may not get to
Ire President of these United States, or even
Minister to foreign country. but it can be
said of many of them that they are very
promising men for all that.
Let US sill unite and put our shoulders to
the wheel aud boom and build up 1Iender-
SON. Wake up and do something. Work
is the watchword. Did you ever see a
town built up any other way?
Says the gainesville Democrat: "There
are many new trusts being formed in al
most every conceivable product than can
be cOrnered, but the old familiar trust of
the country newspaper out-dates them all"
Mr.. J. b. Owen, of South Boston, Va, is
here this week making arrangements to
open the new bank. Some of our leading
business men will be interested i'm the new
enterprise and it will start out under IA
vOrable auspices
Christmas is fast approaching. and tur-
keyS are already bcginuiag to look over
tiieIr shoulders every time they stoOp to
pick up grain of corn. Those left over
from thanksgiving have not recovered from
their scare at such a close call then.
Do not forget the claims of our adver-
tiserS. The person who never reads the
advertising columns of clean, nicely
printed paper misses more than he or she
thinks. Our patrons are reliable, and for
your interests, their interests, and our in
terests, we ask yox not to ignore them.
Milt g. Barlow, the king of burnt cork
artists, at Burwell Hall Tuesday evening.
George Wilson and the renowned Dock
stader will diyidethe hOnOrs with him. This
is strong team if there was not another
member of the company, and lovers of
good ninstrelss shoRld not fail to see them
1OHl DuilStob. CoAoitu, d "cli hhoN
young barber of this place, died Wednes-
day evening of last week after a short i'll
ness of pneumonia. He was very respect
able boy, polite and accommodating, and
liked by all who knew him. Deceased was
10 years old. lie was brother of Henry
DunStOn the barber.
Ourpeople don't like the new order OF
things with the trains. The mails come ir.
regular, no connection is made with any OF
the trains at Weldon, going or coming, and
Richmond and Wilmington papers do not
get here until the day after publication
No, we don't like the new schedule, but
what are you going to do about it:
The many friends OF Mr. and Mrs. &. ID.
Ellsworth. late of Henderson, but now OF
Washington City, will sympathize with
them in the recent affiiction that has come
upon them. Their happy home has been
oereft of one of its most cherished Jewels
by the death of their infant son Ralph Lee,
aged about nine months The remains
We're taken to Duplin county for interment
Carpets-large stock and low prices-at
NV. ~. ). & T.. WATKINS.