The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-11
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AMI
THEREBY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

HEHoNi END
The weather clerk has been furnish
ing us with several days Of severe frig-
idity.
The turkey which escaped dissolution
on Thanksgiving has little to boast of,
since Christmas is but little over
two weeks off.
How is this for fair sized porker
Tony Thomas, colored, yesterday
slaughtered a hog which weighed 26O
pounds, at months and 9 days old.
He was half native stock at that.
Young man, lifes discipline and life's
success come from hard work and early
self-denial: and hard earned success is
all the sweeter at the time when old
years climb up on your shoulders.
Readers who are looking around
for something useful and Inexpensive as
Christmas present are reminded that the
GOLD LEAF sent to friend for a year
is an appreciative and constant re-
minder of the donor, and costs but
. $3.50.
Save your money and get you a
home, young man. There's nothing
like having place to rest your weary
head that you can call your own. The
old proverd, 4 mans ''house is his
CASTLE" is true only in its highest sense
when the occupant is the owner Of his
house.
You build up your town and increase
the value of your own property when
you spend your money at home. Do
not go to any other place for your goods
or groceies when what you need can be
bought at home. The practice of shop
ping abroad is saving at the spiggot
and losing at the bunghole.
1t is an easy matter for one to sit as
a spectator and find fault, over any
subject. 1t is equally as easy task
to ridicule the mistakes and mishaps of
our friends, when they are occasionally
thus unfortunate. Without waiting to
strike an average of the result, we are
inclined to condemn, upon one or two
failures, despite dozen successes.
Why is it that some of our people
will buy thier dress goods and other
merchandise out of town when our
merchants can furnish as good goods at
the same price? 1t is often the case
that people will pay cash to out of town
merchants, and then when they want to
get trusted they will go to their home
merchants. If you want to help the
town pay your cash to your home mer-
chants.
Do you want to help the GOLD LEAF
become better paper than it is-and
what we would have it to be-the best
local paper in the State? Every time
you buy of an advertiser mention this
paper and speak good word for it,
Also all other things being equal. al
ways trade with its advertisers. You
will never lose by that for they are al
ways progressive, liberal men.
Why fill store with goods, and then
keep dark about it? 1t costs money
every day and every hour to carry a
stock of goods. Let the public know
what you have to sell. Interest the
people attract them do not allow
them to forget you or your crowded
shelves. Turn on the lights. especially
the brilliant, steady and far-reaching
light of advertising Conn
mercidl- Gazette.
Mr.. Edwin Stephens, of the Hender-
son Book Store, has large and at
tractive stock of holiday goods which
must be seen to be appreciated. Where
there is such variety of articles it is
difficult to name them, but it is enough
to say that he has splendid stock to
select from, and you can easily find
something to make glad some heart by
visiting his store and looking over his
pretty presents.
While we do not rejoice ill the mis-
fortunes of another, in celebrating the
ninth birthday Of the GOLD LEAF. we
are reminded of the fact that during its
brief career it has witnessed the start
ing up and going down of two other
newspapers in the town of Henderson.
field that was regnant with the ruins
of half a dozen similar enterprises
when it ventured upon the uncertain
sea OF Journalism, hopeful yet doubling
what the future had in store for if. Yet
1t has lived and prospered and again
finds itself occupying the field alone.
WIN Inc present issue closes the
ninth yearly volume of the GOLD LEAV.
Nine years old, and enjoying fine
health, thank You. When the paper
was first started few people thou ht it
would live to be nine months old, so
brief and uncertain had been the career
OF all previous efforts in that line. nor.
indeed, could we see as far ahead of us
as we have come. But we have had
good friends to encourage us and help
us In times of need, and to their kind
and generous offices we attribute what
OF success we have attained. rather
than to.any merits ofour own. for all of
which we are duly appreciative and
truly grateful.
are you wearing straw when you can
get derby for a trifie at Davis & Rose s?