The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-17
Those Enterprising Oxonians.

Those EnterprisinG Ox0nians.
Our good friends of the Oxford Pub
Tic Ledger announce that the illustrated |
trade edition of their paper will |
soon appear. They will make it q |
credit and a lasting benefit to their |
town and county. 1t will be fully il |
Illustrated we are told, showing cuts Of
the principal business streets, store
houses, churches, tobacco warehouses,
prize houses, residences, &C.,
&c. It will contain full write-up of
the business and enterprises of the
town, and will contain such other in
about Oxford and Granville
county as will make it q valuable me-
dunn in drawing attention from the
outside world to that section.
The citizens and business men of the
town we are told are alive to the value
and importance of the work undertaken
by Messrs. Collins & Britt, and will
show it by helping them to make this
special issue of their splendid paper the
crowning glory of Oxford's public spirit
and enterprise. There are some lib
eral, broad-minded, public spirited men
over there who never lose an opportu-
nifty to further the interest of their
beautiful little town, and they see in
this the biggest opportunity yet offered
them. And they are the people to
grasp it and make the most of it too.
Such enterprise and public spirit de-
serves the fullest measure of successful
reward and the GOLD LEAF wishes
them nothing less.
1t is push, pluck and perseverance,
coupled with public spirit and liberal
purse on the part Of her business and
moneyed men that has made Oxford
what she is to-day. Her people want
new enterprises and they work to Sc
cure them; they desire more popula-
ton and they try to get it; they invite
capital and hold out inducements for it
to seek investment in their midst.
They 60 about such things in sensi-
BILE, business like way by working to-
gether for a common cause. That is
the idea. What affects the town con-
Germs all her people. Oxford does not
rely wholly upon her Tobacco Board Of
Trade or her town government to do
all the public cork. She has her Or
ganization in the shape of the Com
monwealth Club-a sort of Board of
Commerce, or Chamber of Industry
where her business men and citizens
come together and work in concert for
the public good. In this way they
have been able to accomplish more in
the way of advertising the town, in
augurating new enterprises and pro-
noting the growth and prosperity of
the place than could ever be done by
individual effort. The whole thing is
summed up in the following paragraph
from the Day, and what applies to OK
ford as a tobacco market is especially
true of it in other respects. 1t says:
A tobacco market such as ours is only
possible where the business men have the
git, energy, backbone, money and iber-
atty which distinguish those of Oxford.
Cooper & Mitchell are Offering genuine
bargains in towels. A large stock and the
biggest and cheapest in tow The ladies
are invited to call and inspect these ele-
giant goods.
A Gem Set in the Fertile Bright To-
baccO Region.
Mr.. II. E. Harmon, the energetic
and intelligent young editor of the Dan
vile Tobacco Journal, never comes to
Henderson without having something
pleasant to say of our market in his
paper. He was here recently and goes
home and talks this way about US. He
says:
After visit to Oxford, Friday morn
| ing the writer was on the Henderson
breaks at an early hour and if anything
found even more life among the tobacco
trade. Henderson is gem set in the
fertile bright tobacco region of Eastern
North Carolina. The business outlook OF
the place was never better. The mer-
chants are busy, the builders are busy
and the warehousemen have more than
they can do.
| A hasty look through the big factory
OF Messrs. Strause & Raab showed that
this enterprising firm is buying largely Of
the new crop. A cleverer young man is
not in the tobacco trade than Mr.. Nathan
Strause who has charge OF the Henderson
business.
Mr.. w. 9. GaFy has purchased largely
of the new crop and his large factory il
nearly full of new stock.
NJ. Paul Cary is now building largt
leaf factory in town which will be com
plete in few weeks.
TIE honor of having the largest lea
factory in Henderson belongs to genia
Jack Taylor. He is having q Common
Sense Dryer put in under the supervision
of Mr.. 8. P. Mayo of Richmond.
i Messrs. Walker & Rowland are busy II
their plug factory, and will soon have 6
fine line of brands on the market.
The immense factory of Col. Burgwyr
is nearing completion, and will be q credit
to The town.
i The Henderson SMOKING Tobacco Com
pany is moving into larger quarters *
meet the demands of the trade. Wide
awake H. T. jenkins is pushing things *
the FROM.
We found our good friend W. E. Gar.
absent in Richmond, but learn that he i
! still one Of HendersOn's largest dealers
and as popular az ever with the trade.
. Mr.. D. Y. Cooper, the champion ware
houseman of the State, has beat all com
, petitors in the sale o. leaf tobacco thi
season.
1t is significant fact that there is no
q leaf house for rent in Henderson, an
, numerous applications for factories whic
cannot be Supplied. -.
Messrs. w. n. Smoot & Co. are buyin
lively Of the new leaf.
Good natured Thad Moaning and til
Indispensable GOLD LEAF are still holt
, ing forth at the old Observation-Disclosures
= ing the recent steps taken for q divorce
t The Iomahaus is making chips Fly IN Q
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