The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-07-18
TOWN AND COUNTRY
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

The OF leaving OF the Oxford train has
been changed from to 7:3O p. IN.
The wheat crop has been saved in good
condition notwithstanding the late con-
tinuOus rains.
Some of the Vance Guards have return
ed from the encampment. The company
will be home tonight.
Justice s. H. Allen isable to be on the
streets again after being confined to his
home the past few weeks with sickness.
When times are dull advertise to make
business When times are good adver-
tise to make more business Always adj
vertise.
Making bricks without straw-editing a
paper without exchanges Wilmington
Messenger. And many q paper is made
without hay-or very limited forage at
least, for the editor.
The frame work of both the storage
warehouse and Walker & ROwland's fac
tory is up. Work is progressing rapidly
Oh J. T. Taylor 4 Co.'S large stemmery,
and also on Col. Burgwyn's factory build
ing.
Our friend, WilmOt Wood, the jeweller,
is the champion raddish grower as far as
heard from. He has presented us with a
mammoth one that weighs exactly one
pound and three ounces. Who can beat
it?
Mr. Robert Baecom, one of our most
Industrious and successful farmers, tells
us the crop outlook is very promising out
his way. He does not think the late heavy
rains did as much damage as at first sup
posed.
Mr.. j. W. Gregory is having built a
handsome residence on his lot near Mr..
Arch Davis place on William street. 1t
is an addition to the house in which he
has been living for some time, with two
story front.
Is the back yard so clean and neat that
you would not be ashamed to have visi-
tors see it? 1t ought to be, both for de-
cency's sake and the safety of your own,
your family's and your neighbours health.
The TOisnOt Rurai Home has dOnned
new suit and is now one OF the neatest
and best printed papers we get. 1t is
doing good work in behalf of the farmers
especially, and deserves a liberal support.
Mr.. Robert Baecom, Jr., has gone to
Seattle, Washington Territory, to settle
up to the affairs of bis brother Henry,
whose accidental death has been mention
ed in these columns. He will perhaps be
away some weeks.
The editor of the GOLD LEAF will be
away next week attending the meeting of
the North Carolina Press Association, Of
which distinguished body he has the honor
OF being President. The convention meets
this year in Lenoir
The best evidence OF the prosperity of Il
town is the advertising columns of a news
paper This criterion is the stranger $
way of finding us out. He knows that Il
town in this age of ink that does not adj
vertise is doing nothing.-Sdntord Express.
Col. ThOs. l.. Jones, has sent to the
GOLD LEAF household some of the finest
Irish potatoes we have seen this season. A
single one is not so large that it will not
go in a peck measure, nor is it quite as
heavy as a Georgia watermelon, but they
are fine ones,
We call attention to the advertisement
OF the University of North Carolina, which
appears in this issue OF the GOLD LEAF.
1t is thoroughly equipped for the best
work, and offers to our boys as good
an education as can be procured for the
same money anywhere in America.
Mrs. Sallie Cabell Lewis, of Danville, Va,
with her three little sons, is visiting friends
and relatives in Henderson. Mrs. Lewis
is Ii daughter of Hon. Geo. c. Cabell, who
represented the Danville district in Con
gress many years, and her husband is a
son of DIR. Willis Lewis, OF this place.
The Fall River journal says: ado not
swear There is no occasion to swear
outside of printing Office. 1t is usefu
in proof reading, andindispensible in get
ting forms to press, and has also beer
known to assist i'll looking over the paper
after it is printed, but otherwise it is &
very disgusting habit.
The crop prospect throughout this sec
tion is quiteprOmisinga at this time. Will
the exception of damage by the rain tt
tobacco and oats in low places, there has
been but little to retard the growth ant
decrease the yield or quality. \ goot
crop of wheat has been harvested, and l
nothing happens from now out the farm
erS will be in good shape after next fall
The GOLD LEAF says at least five tObac
60 warehouses will be built in that pro
gressiye town this summer.-Rocky Mouh
Ihonir. A slight mistake, brother. Th
GOLD LEAF said five new tobacco pria
ready five warehouses, all large and full
equipped for the handling of the vas
amount OF leaf tobacco sold in this maj
ket:
Some one has stolen or misplaced til
GOLD LEAFS associate editor. Our scis
sors were gone when we came to our Offic
Monday morning, nor have they bee
found. No we'll regulated newspaper o
flee can get along without pair OF thes
very essential implements OF editorls
warfare, and the loss OF Ours must a.
count for all short comings in the COL
LEAF this week.
Mr.. John d. Stallings, the very polit
and accomoda ting young clerk at ".
Reayis' store, returned some days ag
from his home near Cedar Rock. Mas
county, where he had been to recuperat
but had to take his bed the next da.
being still too feeble to attend to bushes
His many friends who miss his pleasin
smile and obliging manner, hope til
young man will soon be well and at HI
accustomed place again.
Nails. builders hardware, lead oils ant
paints at WATKINS.
july II.