The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-12-11


convention at Asheville from 18th to
10Th. We hope the other gentlemen
who have been appointed delegates
will find it convenient to attend also.
As will be seen by advertisement in
another column Mr.. J. A. Kelly offers
the store room now occupied by Mr.. J.
w. Purefoy for rentnext year. Posses
sion given the first of January. This
is good business stand and the rent is
nominal.
In order to keep up with orders for
their justly popular brands of chewing
tobaccos the Burgwyn Bros factory is
now run day and night. For this pur-
pose it is thoroughly lighted by cleo
tricity. This speaks well for their
business.
The sale of horses, mules, farming
implements, household furniture, corn,
fodder, &C., the property of Mrs. J. F.
Harris, will take place at the home of
the late Geo. H. Yancey, near Middle
burg, Tuesday, Dec. 23d. See adver-
tisement elsewhere.
Misses Helen and Mollie Parham,
two pretty and attractive young ladies,
daughters of Mr.. W. G.. Parham, who
have been spending several days very
pleasantly in town, the guests of Mr..
f. W. Watkins. returned to their
home in the country yesterday.
An important notice to parties in
debted to the Clarke's Cove GuanO
Company, for Eddystone guano or any
other fertilizer, is published in this
issue. All accounts must be settled on
or before December Goth, or they will
be advertised in the GOLD LEAF and
sold at public auction. See notice of
John NJ. Green, manager, in another
column.
Always speak good word for your
town. Do not lose any opportunity to
call attention to its advantages and to
attract strangers and capital to the
community. In writing letter to
! parties also. it will be we'll to have
something to say about Henderson.
Mention the character of it's people
what they are doing industrlally, etc.
This is one of the ways of advertising
the place. The newspapers can do a
great deal toward placing a town
prominently before the country, but
| they need the assistance of the citizens
of a place to help them in the manifold
ways in which they are capable.
A young drummer named w. s.
Foster, about "a or 25 years old, who
travels for J. i. Lewis shoe house
Bosten, Mass, lies quite sick in this
place of typhoid fever. Ho came here
sick week ago, having been taken i'll
several days before in Wilmington. He
continued on his route and made a
number of points before reaching Hen.
dersOn. where he had to take his bed
Drs. w. T. and Arch Cheatham are
attending him and he is receiving the
very best attention. He has been q
very sick man and the chances have
been greatly against his recovery, but
at this writing his condition is some
what improved.
| New Goods.
| Just received a nice lot of Piece
Goods. To be sold cheap. Call and
see me before buying elsewhere.
| dec11- H. THOMSON.
At the Ticket Office.
The following dialogue takes place
about seventeen hundred times a day
at the ticket office of the Raleigh &
CASTOR Railroad at this place. A
would-be ticket purchaser generally O.
the ''coon" species) pokes his head in
the window and shouts: Gimme Ell
ticket. What's it wuf?n Mr.. Macy, the
polite, accommodating and patiently for
bearing ticket agent: "You will par.
don me for answering your question
with another, but the solution of the
proposition depends, to a somewhat
broad extent, upon where you want tc
60" Did you ever notice that only
about five persons in hundred ask fol
a ticket to the place they want to go
The agent almost invariably has tC
ask to what point ticket is wanted
| when it is called for?
| Mules and Horses For Sale.
| have for sale several good horses and
| mules which will be sold very low. Per
Sons who may wish to purchase would dc
well to call and see me at once
J. +. HARRIS,
DECD Henderson, n. c.
| At Hymen's Altar.