The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-20
TOWN AND COUNTRY
LOCAL LAcONIcS PICKED UP HERB ANE
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

The Vance Guards are drilling regu-
larly now for the State Encampment.
The wheat crop is reported to be very
good. We are now in the midst Of the
harvest.
'tThe smile il the same in all lam
9uages'' But smile is not the same
N all liquors.
Peaches are in market Mr.. Geo. F.
Workman is delivering them from his
place near town.
The sweet girl graduate is now at home
and in all probability is swinging on
the front gate flirting with dude.
Call On A. w. Edwards when you want
ice. Sold in small or large quantities.
NeighbOring towns supplied on short
notice.
Let every old Confederate soldier in the
county attend the meeting here on the
4th of July. Dinner will be served for
them.
Always report any failure to receive the
GOLD LEAF promptly. Enough extra
copies are usually printed to supply any
deficiency.
The Methodist Protestant Sunday
school will observe Childrens Day next
Sunday at 3 O'Clock p. M. Public cor
daily invited.
Let the farmers come to hear MIR.
Tracy's address Saturday. All are in
vited, those who are not members of the
Alliance as we'll as those who are.
The excursion to Norfolk July 3rd will
afford the only opportunity to visit that
place and neighboring resorts this sum-
mer at such low rates OF travel. A large
crowd is expected to go.
Ifyou know anything about the bust
ness Of Henderson, glance over our adj
vertising columns and see how many bus
mess men and how many different inter
ests are not represented there.
To be able to buy your goods cheap
and always get one dollars worth for a
hundred cents, you must look over our
advertising columns and see who the live
merchants are. They always tell.
1.-THE guillotine is much more active in
Paris than it was some years ago" Per
haps u new administration is just on anC
they are cutting Off heads of department
in imitation of the United States.
THE man who always pays down ii
never called upon to pay up Wha'
immunity from care and a cOnsumptiv
pocketboOk newspaper publishers wOui'
enjoy if this could be said of every man
Make your preparations for going OF
the big excursion to Norfolk July 3rd. 4
grand time is expected. There are mum
Der of places OF attraction near by: Viz
ginia Beach, Ocean View, Old Point, &c
Ii the people of this country would pre-
,<>f, hot +hnxr InS
of sending to the North and West for II
they would be in a much more indepeI
dent condition. Who says this is no
true?
If YOU are not O subscriber to the COL
LEAF, we ask you to become one. 1t WI
cost YOU but little and this will perhap
be more than saved in the first bill {
goods you purchase OF one OF our live az
vertising merchants.
1t is hardly necessary to call attentiO
to the attractive advertisement OF Brit
Bros. in this paper. 1t speaks for itsel
They mean business and will give yo
solid bargains Call and see them ne,
to Cooper's warehouse.
We want to run our subscription Iii
up to 1000 by the end OF the year, an
are working for it. Will you help us
this by becoming II subscriber yourse
(if YOU are not already One) and inf
encing your neighbor to do the same?
The weather has been remarkably co
10 far. With the exception of a few da
at a time We have had very little OF VIII
the farmers would call good grown
weather The nights especially have be
cool. This has retarded the growth
crops.
The GOID LEAF does not pretend
give all the news of the world but it dc
undertake to publish the local news, a
it always stands by home and labC
earnestly for home enterprises. Is it II
entitled to it's full share of home patrG
age, them
g. DIR. F. $. Harris will be absent from
= i office next week, in attendance upon
meeting of the Dental Association
Greensboro His Office will be in char
of his boy with whom any requests m
be left in his absence. Address, care b
bow Hotel.
The North Carolina State Guard '
encamp at Wrightsville July 9th and
main in camp about ten days. The Va
Guards will be there. Cheap rates will
oiyen on all the railroads. and
crowd will doubtless visit Whining
during the encampment.
TIL ose OF our brethren OF the press '
will be good enough to publish the a
Gle on the editorial page announcing
GOLD LEAF for sale, or it's equivale
viii do US q favor. Webelievei in print
ink and have due appreciation OF ''y'
valuable paper hence this request.
Special attention is called to the l
fessiunal cards on the first page OF
paper. They do not represent all
members of the Henderson Bar in pc
of number, but there is no discount
the intelligence, legal capacity and /
integrity OF the gentlemen who keep t
names before the public.
The Missouri Brunsuicker hits the n
plum when it says this: The prOspe
of town largely depends on united
ton on the part of the citizens. Whel
can Join hands in fostering enterprise
town, that town has "a bright fut
but where there are two or three fact
in a town that stand ready to pull d
everything not proposed or backed
themselves, the town is doomed.
union there is strength, applies especi
TO towns that are hoping TO prosper.