The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-04-24
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THEREBY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.
Granville court is in session i'll Oxford
this week.
The beautiful spring-like weather
this week has been thoroughly enjoyed.
Recent frosts have been somewhat
damaging to young crops III this section.
Mr.. ID. II. Mangum has accepted a
position with ). & G.. Watkins as sales
man.
Some of our progressive farmers
hereabouts are setting Out tobacco
plants.
Improve your idle moments by read
ing. Nothing SO improves the mind as
good, pure reading.
o, thou dear delinquent. We need
money-and who does not? = a hint
to the wise is sutficient'-we trust.
Work has been commenced on Swain
and Southerland's livery stables. H..
L.
work.
John W. Anderson & Co., hardware
dealers, have everything you can call
for in their line, and sell at reasonable
figures.
The Vance Guards will 90 to Rich
mnnd to take part i'll the ceremonies i'll
.cident tothc unwilling of the Lee statue,
May Doth.
The Wilmington Star says: No
corn hurts like wOman's scOrn.' 1t
might have added also that no corn
hurts like mans ''corn.''
Hank | hear an Angel sing,
Angels now are on the wing,
And their voices sounding clear,
Tell us that the Spring is here
The regular fourth Sunday children's
meeting will be held at the Methodist
Protestant church Sunday afternoon at
4:30 O'Clock. Ali are invited.
We agree with an exchange when it
says every family should have at least
one newspaper, Bible, a dictionary
and history or two OF some sort.
Mr.. 4. r. Workman announces that
he is not Il candidate for Mayor, having
reconsidered the matter since publish
ing a card to that effect last week.
Radam's Microbe Killer finds ready
sale. Mr.. Dorsey sold ten gallons and
had TO order another supply before he
had been handling the medicine 4 week.
Clean up your premises, and paint
your house and teLce-if it needs it
and you can afford the cost. There is
nothing more attractive than pretty,
clean town.
Claude Hunter. Insurance agent, adj
yertises that he is prepared to issue
cyclone, tornado and wind-storm poll
cies at very low rates. See card in
another column.
\ ride into the country several miles
with Mr.. f. G.. Barnes Tuesday after
noon. revealed the fact that the farm
ers are hard at work and have their
farming operations we'll advanced.
At the Church Of the Holy Innocents
Friday evening at O'Clock, Rev. II.
n. Page, missionary to Japan, will
The public are cordially invited to at
tend
The Wilmington Star of Sunday says:
"Strawberries and green peas were in
market yesterday. The berries sold at
40 cents and the peas at 20 cents per
is oh Of II
derson.
HlnstOn's factories pay out every
day 1886 to employees. Think of it.
That is what makes Winston the live.
prosperous and rapidly growing town
that 1T Is. Let us have more factories
in Henderson.
What is the matter with having an
Ice factory in Henderson? This is
good point for such an enterprise.
There are a number of nearby places
Henderson could supply besides filling
the local demand.
Major \. S. Lanier. one of the best
drilled officers in the State Guard. in
Spected the Henderson Company Friday
1880 AhN -,AoIoi
ranks among the best in the State
Oxford Public Ledger.
The North Carolina Medical Society
will hold its thirty-seventh annual
meeting in Oxford, May 9th to Goth.
1t goes without saying that our friends
over the way will entertain this distin-
gulshed body in fine style.
The bill allowing ali appropriation for
the Henderson public building, has
been favorably reported on by the COM
mittee. The amount has been reduced
from SIS, 900, as provided by the bill. to
$4,000. 1t is very likely this will pass.
MIR. \. Collin Parham. who lives up
on Flat River. in Durham county, was
mere this week, and tells us there is a
great scarcity of tobacco plants in his
section. Some of the farmers are plow-
ing up their tobacco land and putting
1t In corn.