The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-09-26
TOWN AND COUNTRY,
LOCAL LAcONIcS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.
Vance court October 18th.

EEPORTERS.
Vance court October 18th.
Do all the good you can while you live,
for you will be a long time dead.
The time has come for the straw hat
and linen breeches to go into retirement.
Slowly but surely Henderson is assum-
ing the proportions of an important
manufacturing town.
OF course you will go to the Warrenton
fair, and you should have something
there on exhibition also.
Sales of tobacco have not been very
large this week on account of the unfav-
Orable condition of the weather.
Remember Cooper & Mitchell will oc-
cupy Parker & Gloss old stand, adjoin-
ing the Burwell building, hereafter.
Mr.. Jas. HI. Lassiter left last week for
Alabama to look after things down there,
where he has large farming interests.
Tax gathering Tax gathering! Look
out for Sheriff Smith He has business
with you if it has not already been at
tended to.
We hope to see Vance county well rep
resented in exhibits as well as i'll the large
attendance of her citizens at the Warren
ton fair next month.
lifelong evenings are coming On apace.
Subscribe for q good paper and spend
your time with your family. How will
the GOLD LEAF fill the bill?
With agricultural fairs, to be held all
around us, the farmers of Vance county
can have no excuse for non-attendance
upon at least one agricultural fair.
The GOLD LEAF is the friend of the
farmer and the laboring man, and the
advocate of their interests. If they don't
know it, that's a loss for them
Henderson keeps steadily onward in
the line of improvements. New enter
prises are constantly being inaugurated
and new buildings are constantly going
up.
The Oxford Day says Dr. Dixon is max
ing very successful canvass for dona-
tiOns to the proposed cotton factory to
be run in connection with the Oxford
Orphan Asylum.
The Alliance smoking tobacco factory
at Dabney is moving right along, and is
proving to be a paying enterprise we are
glad to learn. Samples of their product
have already been placed on the market.
If you want to get the highest market
price for your tobacco, cotton and other
produce, bring it to Henderson. If you
want to buy goods for less money than
they can be obtained elsewhere, come to
Henderson.
If anything was lacking to complete
the impression that summer has fed, the
want is abundantly supplied by the sud
den change in the weather the latter part
of the past week. There has been some
frost but not enough to do any damage
Steam was turned on at Walker
Rowland's new plug tobacco factory yes
terday for the first time. Would that we
might see the smoke curling up from
dozens of smoke stacks connected with
similar establishments all over our town
Mr.. Lee Tilghman has accepted a posi-
ton with the wholesale house of Parke
& Gloss. A good business man and {
fine salesman, clever, Obliging and popu
lar with all who know him, they are for
tunate in securing the services of th
young gentleman.
Secretary Foote writes us that there i
every indication that the Warrenton fai
will far surpass what it was last year.
and We all know how creditable that was
The fair will be held October 9th, lot
and 18th. Henderson and Vance count,
will be well represented.
The Fayetteville Centennial Celebration
will be a grand day and the histori
old town will be full of patriotic son
from all over the South. We hope t,
have Henderson well represented. TIL
Vance Guards will probably be anon;
the military bodies represented.
Col. ". H. Hood, of Southampton
county, Va, arrived Saturday and vii
make Henderson his home in future, a
intimated in the GOLD LEAF week befor
last. Col. Hood is civil engineer an
surveyor and offers his services to tn
people of the town and county.
Messrs. Young & Daingerfield hav
filled their silos at their dairy farm Eea
town. They used horse power cuttin
machine to cut the green corn with.
was put up in fine condition and futur
results are awaited with interest by thos
who have not yet adopted this metho
OF preparing and saving feed for stock
There are many solid chunks of wisdom
and good horse sense in an article write
by the talented and versatile editor O
the Wilmington Messenger. The home pape'
who can estimate it's value? Where j
the good citizen who excuses himself 70
not supporting it ?-Gintoa Cducasion.