The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-23

brief illness. William, the infant son
OF Mi. and Mrs. j. w. Beck. died
Friday evening. The remains were
taken to Petersburg. their former home.
where they had already buried one
bright and pretty little boy, their oldest.
A wooden floor is being put in the
basement Of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Heretofore there has only
peen coating of cement on which the
carpet rested but as the room was i'll
ciined TO dampness and mould it neces-
states the improvement mentioned.
MIR. X. K. Pinkston is doing the work.
Mr.. Alex. Cheek, one of Henderson,s
most popular young men, who has
been here undergoing treatment for
overstralned eyes, returned home YES
terday evening. We are glad to know
that his eyes are much improved, and
nope In the near future TO hear of his
entire overy.-Raleigh State Chron-
icle.
We suppose the County Commits
sloners at their next meeting will ap-
point some one to take charge of the
work of getting up Vance countv's
exhibit tor the Southern Exposition.
No time should be lost if full Justice
and creditable showing is given the
county. Let competent man be Sc
iected and started to work right away.
Forty-three inches of solid new adj
yertlsements this week, not counting
Rarnng aIth e. -, u
change but an old contract, shows
which way the wind blows-or where
business men go with their announce
ments when they desire to reach the
people OF this section. And this does
not include full half column of paid
locals.
The Wilmington Messenger of Sat
urday says:
Rev. Alexander Sprunt, who arrived
here with the Vance Guards Friday
night, was called away last night by
a telegram announcing the death of
Mrs. Sprunt's sister, at Hampden-Sid-
ney, Miss George C. Peck. Though
Miss Peck had been in i'll health for
some years, her death was unexpected.
An editor needs to be a cool-headed,
conservative man, not quick and i'm
petuous fire brand, eager for sensations
and ready to manufacture them when
he has not the facts to build them on.
Such man might maintain some in
terest in his paper for while but the
community in which his paper is pub
llshed is going to suffer sooner or
later from his indiscretion. Winston
Sentinel,
We had a call Monday from Mr.. J.
Levy, of South Boston, Va, who in
formed us that Levy Bros. y Berman,
of Baltimore, will open branch store
OF their business in Henderson about
the first of September. They have
rented the store room in the Charles
Watkins building next to Daniel & Co.'S
hardware store, and will open with a
s25, 900 stock of clothing and dry
goods.
We are pleased to learn of the success
full beginning ofMessrs. Davis& Gregory
in their new undertaking in Richmond.
The Southern Tobacconist of that city
says:
More tobacco men have been at
tracted to Richmond by our loose
breaks than we have had for months
previously. The day will come when
Davis & Gregory will deserve a monu-
ment from the trade of Richmond.
Lewis W. Barnes, of the enterprising
and successful clothing and gents fur
nishing goods firm of Barnes, Stain
back Il Co., says there was slight
error in the announcement last week
that they had purchased $1O,O worth
of neckwear. 1t should have been
SIS, 200. eyes SIR he added, ''a15,-
900 in neckwear alone, and this does
not include collars and cuffs to be
bought later on.''
Mr.. w. A. Davis, of the we'll known
tobacco warehouse firm of Davis &
Gregory, late of Oxford, but now of
Richmond, was here for Il short while
Monday. He informed us that his sue
cess so far has been all that he could
desire. This was to have been ex-
pected. There are no more stirring,
intelligent and reliable men in the
trade, and their remarkable success
and rapid progress show the hold they
have upon the confidence and patron
age of the planters throughout Virginia
and North Carolina.
The big advertisement in the GOLD
LEAF this week shows that the tobacco
warehousemen and buyers Of Oxford
mean business. They are going in
with renewed vigor and determination
to handle their share of the next crop
and they are going to do it. And it
shows another thing, and that is they
endorse the method Of curing tobacco
off the stalk and want especially Snow
Wire cured, for which they offer the
highest price. If the Snow Wire Stick
and Modern Barn were without merit
this would not be so.
1t was good days work for Oxford
when it secured the removal of the
Snow Modern Tobacco Barn Company
to that place. Already the good eff
fects of such an institution are felt in
the community. And they have just
commenced. The Richmond Southern
Tobacconist says this:
The Modern Barn Co. will have
5000, 900 in the smoking tobacco bust
ness and buy their own tobacco, and
5000, 900 in the barn and stick business
besides. They buy their tobacco from
the farmer who buys their appliances
and sticks and barns.