The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-10-02
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AMI
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

LOCAL LAcoNIcS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.
Be sure to register between now and
the 25th of October, or else you can
not vote.
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Davis returned
home from their Northern bridal tour
Saturday.
There will be a meeting of the To-
bacco Board of Trade Monday for the
purpose of electingofficers for the ensu-
ing year.
Maids who dote on treats O. nights,
Are never feeling blue,
For when the ice cream season Is DER,
They cheer on oyster stew.
-Berhtey GraphSc.
J. l.. Currin, city tax collector, gives
notice that the tax books for the year
1890 are now in his hands, and he is
ready to receive your taxes.
1t is said "a man never becomes so
homely that he is not handsome to the
woman he is good to-" What profound
comfort must that be to some married
men we know.
Register. Register. Every man Of
YOU register, if you desire to vote in
the November election. The books
will soon be closed and your chance to
vote will be gone.
The date fixed for inaugurating the
Southwestern fast train on the Rich
mOnd & Danville Railroad, between
Washington and Atlanta, has been
postponed until October 18th, on ac-
count of delay in securing equipments.
Tennyson & Dawson's Grand Gift
Carnival and Vaudeville Company, to
play here next Monday night, is pro-
nounced by the press one of the best
combinations out this season. See else
where what the Raleigh papers say
Of it.
With the compliments of the Chuck
Itch German Club. of Oxford, we have
received a handsome card of invitation
to German to be given compliment
airy to the stockholders of the Oxford
Land, Improvement and Manufacture
Ing Company, Friday evening, Octo-
Der 10th.
Occasional loads of fragrant crab
grass hay are being hauled in from the
country. There is no better feed, good
clean oats excepted, and farmers would
do well to pay more attention to the
saving of grass. Few people we think
value crab grass hay at its proper
worth.
The Colored Aristocracy Company
did not &" show" up Tuesday night &C
cOrding to announcement. They fail
ed TO make connection at Greensboro
and could not get here They tele-
graphed Manager Burwell that they
would fill date here later, some time
after the 18th.
Henderson loses another one of her
best and most popular young men in
the person of Mr.. Joe r. Estes, who
left this week to make his home in
the far Southwest. He goes first to
Texas, and expects to locate perma-
nently in New Mexico. The best wish
Is of great many friends go with him.
Badger Burroughs has been appoint
ed to position at the Raleigh Il Gas
ton Railroad freight depot, in place of
John NJ. Wester promoted to the agen-
cy of the Georgia. Carolina & North
ern Railway at Greenwood, S. c. Bad
ger is good business boy, intelligent
and Industrious. and the GOLD LEAF
is pleased to note this recognition of
his merits
If those of our friends who each
week read the messages of our business
men in the columns of the GOLD LEAF,
will make it a point to mention the
fact that they have seen the advertise
ment when writing to or dealing with
them, the favor will be greatly appre-
clated. Of course we need not sug-
gest that you give them your trade.
1t is to your interest to do that. The
liberal advertiser is the liberal dealer
always.
\ reception was given Mr.. and Mrs.
Owen Davis at the elegant home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Davis, Tuesday
evening. The supper which was al
exceedingly brilliant affair was spread
beneath the spacious and hospitable
roof tree of Mr.. and Mrs. n. II. Cha.
vase, saying which no further evil
dence is necessary to testify to its sur
passing excellence or the very enjoya-
BILE nature of the occasion. Only the
immediate connections of the family
were present.
We were pleased to have a call this
morning from Mr.. Albert Fairbrother
late of the Omaha, Nebraska, Bee. who
has come to North Carolina to engage
In journalism, He will take charge OF
the Durham Daily Globe, which paper
Mr.. L. B. Eldridge has conducted with
such signal ability since reviving it
some months ago. We gladly welcome
Mr.. Fairbrother to the ranks of North
carolina journalism, while hoping we
are not to lose the services of Mr.. Ell
bridge.
fdre house paints at
apr. 4-5 o. j. w. ANDERSON & Co.'s.