The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-08-23
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
.coNIcs PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.
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70 get rid OF some men it is best to pay
them.
Rev Alex Sprunt has gone to staunton'
Va, for awhile.
Mrs. :. W. Coc has gone to visit friends
IN Halifax county.
pev ! ID. Arnold is enjoying a brief
r..t in the mountains of Virginia.
Dr Dixon. of Oxford will preach at the
n = church next Sunday morning and
night
AR. DIR. F. S. Harris is visiting friends
,rd relations at Brinkleyvillc, Halifax
county.
w. Barnes and L. d. Stainback left
Monday for New York to purchase a ne"
fall stock.
Rev. r. Van Dcventer left yesterday for
fin. eastern part Of the State to enjoy
brief resting spell.
The bloody shirt is seeking its place Ill
oblivion, but the red bandanna continues
to huttcr in the breeze. .
The market is now fairly open for new
here at very satisfactory prices.
Capt and Mrs Ed Crichton, of Norfolk,
after ,pendin: few days with friends in
Henderson, returned home Monday.
The Warrcnton brass band will furnish
rpu,jc at Jones Spring next Wednesday,
The Louisburg band is also expected.
Refreshing rains fell the first part Of the
week. and while crops may not be bene-
fitted a great deal now it did much good.
Let road ovcrscers not forget that they
are required by State law to put up sign
boards. This is an often neglected duty.
Durham had $4,000 fire last Sunday.
Insurance So 2iS Henderson sympathizeS
with her sister town She has been there
herself.
"Brutus was an honorable man." lie
never read his county paper two years and
then cheated the editor out of the price of
subscription.
Rev. s. 2. J. Harris occupied the pulpit
at the VI. Z. church in the absence OF the
pastor Rev 5. w. Coe last Sunday, morn
ing and night.
There is great deal of truth in the
trr>e remark of the Buffalo Express that a
GOOD man gone wrong" is usually bad
man found out.
Young man. don't swear. 1t is possible
10 I've emphatic without using profane lam
guage 1t sounds much better and has a
great deal more effect.
II nF
preached an interesting sermon at the Bap-
ti~t church in this place Sunday night. lie
preached again last night also.
4 fine portrait of the late Secretary
Manning adornS the new $50 silver GER
tfcatrS. These portraits come high, and
very few country editors can afford one.
Good speaking, good music, good eatin.
and pretty ladies will be the order of the
day at the big picnic at Jones Spring mex
Wednesday. A large crowd is expected.
I'm exchange says the man who sits dOwr
and waits to b" appreciated will find him
self among unca lled-ror baggage. To sue
coed in this life a man must get up ant
hustle.
The gainesville Democrat is authorit,
for the statement that twenty drops of car
bolic acid evapOratcd on shovel viii
Danish the icS from room quicker thar
all the fly paper in existence.
An immense crowd is expected to at
tend the big Democratic mass meeting ant
picnic at Jones Spring next Wednesday
The beauty and gallantry of Franklin
Vance and Warren will be there.
This paper is published "for rcvcnu
only" Gold not glory is what we ar
working for. We say this for the benet
of those who think a newspaper is pull
lished simply for the fim Ct' the thing.
The first through train on the Oxford ,
Durham railroad passed over Tuesday
Trains will soon be running on rCguls,
schedule. This places another feather i
Oxford soap and she is justly proud thereat
henderson ought to have more shad
trees, along the principal streets espe
cially. y walk about town these war;
days is convincing evidence. and shoul
cause every pedestrian to interest himsel
in the matter.
The Bcllcfontaine Examiner SAYS: "'T1
sort Of farewell which this world Civ,
tn man when he dies is of much less COZ
sequence to him than the sort Of a receDtL0
that Is accorded him in the world wheI
he has eoAe"
We are glad to bC able to state that Mi
Ahce SiallingS who has been quite 81,
VIVA NphoId fever is improving somewha
''"'t DAYS az" She was in a very critic
e"h'h''on, but now hopes are entertain,
ot her recovery.
We were pleased to see Mr. Char,
watkins, of Richmond, here this WOO
lie still carries his arm in sling not II.
Ing recovered from the injury sustain
while surf bathing at Virginia Beach
month or SO ago.
>. Z. Watkins are having a partiti
put III their store. This will give III,
the advantage of double row of shell,
win which to better display their GOO
besides enabling them more uniformly
classify their stock.
our esteemed friend of the Oxfo
1"'eA"gh throws us this refreshing h,
quet OF encouragement and commendati,
Inc efforts of our esteemed contam,
nary, tile Henderson GOLD Lar 49,,
VIC, aha We hope are, highly endorsed
pun helghb0rs in Henderson. for IT. :,
l ISht work i'll behalf of that beautifni to'.
,l meie Is not more energetic or n 1T
Monpaper man in fbe State than III