The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-04-10
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

REPORTERS.
The question of better roads is not
receiving the attention it deserves.
Farmers and business men alike would
be benefited.
We shall be pleased to publish AL
lance news, and the secretaries of sub
alliances are requested to send us re-
ports of the growth, etc, of same. Let
us hear from you.
The series of meetings are still in
progress at the Baptist church. Rev.
A. E. Owen, ID. D., of Portsmouth. is
conducting the services, assisted by the
pastor Rev. II. VanDeventef.
We cannot afford to put any but rep
resentative men into our municipal
offices. 1t is the future welfare of the
town as well as the immediate present
that we must consider in matters Of
this kind.
We had the pleasure of a call yester-
day from Mr.. J. r. Bailey, Of Weldon,
who with his family was going to Hes
ter, on the Durham & Henderson Rail-
road, which place they will make their
home in future.
\ very enjoyable dance was held at
Burwell Hall last night, being given
under the auspices of Mr. James Jor-
dan. Notwithstanding the rain there
was good attendance and the young
people had very pleasant time.
Our town has reached that stage in
Its history when we cannot afford to
trlt1e about the matter of its executive
officers. We need to put the best men
forward and elect them. No backward
step must be taken. Forward, is the
watchword.
Postmaster Moss has secured an eX-
ira daily Southern mail for us. The 5
O'Clock fast freight which brings mail
from the North, now takes on a pouch
at Henderson carrying mail for Raleigh
and points South. This is a conven-
fence which will be appreciated by bus
mess men and the public generally.
There is in Vance county. a few
miles out of town on the Durham s.
Henderson Railroad, fine deposit of
sOapstOne, which is worthy of attention.
1t Is OF beautiful color. hard and fine
grained, and would be the very thing
tor making mantels and such things of.
Who will turn their attention towards
its development:
No mans personal ambition should
transcend the bounds of his love of the
town and the welfare of its people, in
the matter of filling the various munic-
ipal offices. Let the general good of
all and the future of Henderson be the
ruling spirit in the nomination and
election OF those who are to serve us
another twelve months.
The Henderson GOLD LEAF is clearly
right when it says:
Every industry that furnishes en-
ployment to the masses is a benefit to
the community in which it is estab-
lished.''
Multiply the industries and thus give
employment to labor in Your midst and
invite other labor. Wilmington Mes
SeRger.
Speaking of whet stones. we have
right here in Vance county as fine
quarry as there is in the country. and
all it needs is developing. The stone
is hard and of fine grain. and makes a
very superior oil stone. We have used
them and know whereof we affirm.
The supply Is said to be inexhaustible.
Here is fine opportunity for some one
to develop a paying industry. 1t would
require but little capital to do so.
Candidates for the Mayoralty do not
seem to be lacking in Henderson. They
are more numerous than we ever knew
before. We had supposed our flourish
ing little city had become so large and
So famous abroad that it was the honor
that was sought after principally. but
we find we are mistaken since it is
openly asserted that it is the money
that attaches to the office that makes it
looked upon with covetous eyes,
The man Parrish whose arrest and
subsequent escape we mentioned last
week, has been picked up again and
now languishes in the Jail here.
His Offense it will be remembered was
was not his wife although he was law
fully welded to another and had four
children besides. He did not belong
in these parts. and subscription was
taken up for the Ganefit of his wife who
was sent home to her father in Frank
lin county.
The general sentiment of the
speeches made at the meeting held in
the court house Tuesday afternoon,
was strongly in favor of railroad
being built from Henderson to Nash
vile, and the organization of bust
ness mems association in the town.
Both matters our people should feel
vitality interested in. Then do not let
US stop here. Talk unsupported by
action, will not accomplish the desir,
ends. We must be up and doing OF the
golden opportunity will be lost.