The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-01-02


Ben Barnes and James Cheatham.
Henderson boys who are now attached
to the United State Marine corps at
Portsmouth, Va, spent the holidays
here with their relatives and friends.
The business man who wants to
reach the people, cannot, from bust
ness point of view, afford to overlook
the merits of the newspaper as an adj
vertising medium. 1t pays to use
printers ink.
No living person will ever again
write any document and put the year
and date upon it without employing
the figure 40" 1t will be 189- for
the next ten years and then comes
1900. Did you ever think of it?
Remember the sale of valuable mill
property and real estate by W. e.
Fleming, administrator of of a. X.
Fleming, to take place next Monday.
7. 7. Hicks, attorney, will give par
ticulars. See notice in this paper.
If some people would use the time
spent wrangling about little church af-
fairs in doing good, there would be
more happiness and more salvation in
this world. What is needed is less
church and more of the religion of
Jesus Christ.
A. J. Dinkins, the excellent young
job printer, who has been with d. E.
AycOck more than year. has gone
with his family to Wilson to live, having
accepted a position as foreman of the
job department: of Elder Colds Nion' s
Landmark office.
We were pleased to have our friend
Mr.. James w. Briggs, of the Danville
Times, with us a while during the hol-
idays. We always feel better for hav-
ing been with the friend of our youth
with whom we first learned to set type
on the Weldon News years ago.
Mr.. Will Young, who will be favor
ably remembered by the many custom
ers of II. Thomson as polite and eff
cient salesman at his store for some
time until the past year, has returned
to his old love where he will be pleased
to see and serve his friends in future.
The GOLD LEAF comes booming
down the corridors of time and enters
upon Il new volume and a new year
with CHEEKY heart and determine
ton to ''spread ITSELF into hand
somer and better sheet and still more
winning ways during the present year.
Major w. T. Manning has been
J made Deputy United States Marshal
| for Alaska, with headquarters at Ju-
neau City. The Majors many friends
in North Dakota will extend the heart
lest congratulations upon his appoint
ment.-Fargo, North Dakota, Argus.
Friend Harris at Dorsey's drug store
says it is not as uncomplimentary to be
called bOw-legged as some people think
| One thousand silver dollars weigh about
seventy-one pounds, and it is not every
man who has the fortune to lug around
that much wealth when he is growing
up.
The public (white) school is open fol
the new year and it is the duty of the
patrons to send their children, punctu
ally and regularly. Two teachers arc
employed and it is their desire that the
patrons of the school take more inter.
est Ill it and see that their children at
tend regularly.
The cutter trade has been dull thus
far this winter, as applies to sleighing
but the cutter trade as applies to Ger
| tain grade of leaf tobacco promises tC
be qui e lively before the cigarette me1
have things entirely their way. The
Alliance men, the warehousemen ant
| buyers are going to make it so.
| Mr.. Henry Hart whose sad accident
in getting his leg broke some weeks
! ago, was recorded i'll these columns
is doing as well as could be expected
under the circumstances. Of a bright
and cheerful disposition by nature he
keeps in good spirits and delights in
! seeing and talking with his friends.
Let the people of Henderson come
up to the support of Congressman
Cheatham in his efforts to secure a
public building for the town, and we
will get it. Don't wait for him to do
every thing, but let us show by our acts
that we want it and endorse his course
in introducing a bill to that effect.
Here is the list of new postage stamps
to beused after January LIST: One cent
ultramarine blue; cent, chocolate;
cent, light brown; cent, vermillion
10 cent, melon green; Is cent, stee
blue 80 cent, black; 90 cent. orange
The old cent stamp will be cut dow
about one-tourth smaller, and be 9
metallic red or carmine color.
Col. Burgwyn's new factory building
just completed, is the best made hous
OF the kind in town. 1t is being thor
oughly fitted up with the most moderl
and improved machinery and every
thing will soon be in readiness to begil
operations. Would that we had man,
more such enterprises in our midst an,
many more such men at the head 0
them.
1t would be we'll if the following ad
vice from the gainesville Democro
should be needed by all. 1t says:
People should be guarded in wha
they say of others, especially concern
ing the young. Gossiping is YER
reprehensible habit at best, and
young life may be blighted by the cir
culation of evil reports which are no
justified by the facts"
The warehousemen of Henderson i'm
dividually and collectively present tn
seasons greetings to the tobacco plant
ers. and pledge anew their best effort
in their behalf during the New Year
1890. They propose in the future a
in the past to sustain the reputation Q
Henderson as the leading market in tn
State and to make it to the interest {
those who sell their tobacco here Al
ways.