The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-04-18
TOWN AND COUNTRY
LOCAL LAcoNIcS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

Keep your weather eye on henderson.
She is coming-to be big, busy, bustling
city.
If you know anything of interest don't
be slow about telling the editor. That's
what makes the paper.
Secure your seats for the performance
of the Templeton Opera Company at
Burwell Hall this evening.
If times are close and trade slow, don't
growl. Go to work and advertise. Printers
ink is safe remedy for hard times. Try it..
Clean up the back yards, remove all
trash and rubbish from the lots and alleys
and add to the healthfulness and beauty of
the town. Clean up.s Health demands it,.
The Methodist Protestant church will
observe Easter Sunday with appropriate
sermon and service of song. All are cor
daily invited. Services beginning at IL
o'clock a. m.
Read S. & G. Watkins new advertise
nient this week. They treat their readers
to 4 specimen of Spring poetry Of greater
merit and which is intended to serve bet
ter purpose than the average of such eff
fusiOns.
There was universal regret expressed by
our citizens Monday that Mr.. j. S. Carr
was not among the Durham visitors. MI
Carr has many friends and admirers in
Henderson, and others who do not know
him were anxious to meet him.
An exchange says this is the season when
pretty maidens in rural districts inscribe
their addresses on eggs they send to mar
ket, hoping thereby to open up a CORES
pondence with the guileless, susceptible
clerks who handle the hen fruit.
Take a few days Off and visit the open
ing exercises of the Avoca sporting and
pleasure resort, on Albermarle sound,
April Dps Excursion rates very low.
\ round ofpIeasure and amusements from
the opening to the misunderstanding
going on both day and night.
Be sure to let the children go to see the
educated horses tomorrow afternoon.
There is no Objectionable feature whatev-
or about the performance, and ladies and
children may visit the tent unaccOmpa-
MED by male escorts if they wish with
perfect safety and impunity. Admission
% cents.
Mr. J. s. Burwell left US Tuesday morn
ing to make his home in a distant State.
He goes to Kansas City, Mo-, to engage
in business, having had a flattering offer
made him in that prosperous and pro-
gressive city. Joe leaves many friends in
Henderson who will wish him all possible
success. The GOLD LEAF hopes he may
win both fame and fortune il his new
home.
The GOLD LEAF invites the farmers of
this section to'use its columns for the pur-
pose of enlightening each other on ques-
tions of practical Importance to them. We
will be glad to receive and publish notes
of interest from the several Alliance;
in the county. Will not the corresponding
secretary or some member of each let us
hear from them?
Barnes, Stainback & Co. have a handsome
line of neckwear. All the latest and best
styles. You are left without excuse if you
go about with dilapidated collar and
sOiled cravat or tie. Their elegant stock
speaks against you. Ed Young has ''set the
GOLD LEAF up to one of the prettiest in
the whole bunch of elegant scarfs and we
know whereof we speak.
Farmers and gardeners should be ready
to plant according to the season. With
some crops it is quite an item to plant as
early in the spring as the condition of the
soil will admit. This will vary in differ
ent years, and in order to take advantage
of the season, should it be early, care should
be taken to have everything in readiness SC
that at the proper time the work cen be
pushed along.
We are not of the opinion that any form
of tobacco can do as much harm as liquor,
but there can be no question that its use in
the form of cigarettes is doing great in
jury physically, and therefore morally, to
the youth of our land. The cigarette pre-
Sents the tobacco evil to the boys in pc
culiarly enticing form, and the growth OF
the habit among them within the past few
years has been remarkable and really
alarming.-Pdinescilte Democrat.
Wonder how those white men who voted
for Plummer Cheatham and against f. NJ
Simmons for Congress, Cor not voting fol-
him did nothing to defeat him) now feel
1t is given out from Washington that he
intends to appoint as many negroes as he
can to postoffices in his District. He ha:
already had two appointed. 1t may BIZ
that the Henderson Office will be filled(?,
by negro. Who knows?
April brings us quite bunch of big days
The month started off with all fools day
the twenty fourth anniversary of Lee
surrender falls on the 9th Easter Sunday
on the 21st; Shakespeare's birthday on thu
end; the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF the
founding of Odd Fellowship in America OIL
the 26th Emancipation day, April 9th
and the one hundredth anniversary of thi
inauguration of George Washington a
President of the United States ON the 30th
Prof. Burk' college of educated horse
is pronounced by the press to bethemos
remarkable performance OF the kind eve
witnessed. They are said to be well nigl
human in the wonderful intelligence dis
played. The children viii enjoy seems
these educated horses. Let them go AID
mission % cents. Performance at
O'Clock
ENer Tho od:nS