The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-02-05
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BYO OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

evening.
OF course you will hear Eli Perkins
lecture Tuesday evening.
This year Lent commences February
IL and Easter falls on March 20.
Valentines will soon grace the show
windows of our stationery stores.
Mr. Long. of Warren, has introduced
bill i'm the Legislature to amend the char
ter of the town of Henderson.
Several of the merchants who adver-
tise in the GOLD LEAF are Offering bar
gains that should not be overlooked.
Mr.. Horace Hood, who is student at
Randolph Macon College, Ashland, Va,
has been home few days on o. short va
cation.
The audience was hushed to tears
when Mr.. Perkins stepped aside and
spoke eloquently about temperance.-TO-
peka Capital.
very interesting article, by Mr.. r.
Marston, will be found on the fourth
page of the GOLD LEAF this week. We
are promised another letter for next week
also.
Attention is called to the fact that the
Knight Botanical Company, of 252
Broadway, New York, desire reliable
agent in this locality. Their advertise
ment appears in another column.
Mr.. S. Ohio Wilson, who is travelling
in the interest of the State Alliance bust
ness agency, addressed al audience of
members of that order in the court house
here last Saturday.
''The world owes every man a living"
Granted, if he contracts the debt by in
dustry and enterprise, but our expert
ence has been that it requires a good
deal of persistent dunning to collect it.
We have perhaps said something of the
kind before, but we reiterate that every
citizen OF Henderson should talk and
work for his town. 1t is a public duty,
and one that devolves upon all alike.
Eli Perkins, the philosopher OF wit and
humor, should draw full house at Bur-
we'll Hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 10th.
Tickets so cents. No extra charge for
reserved seats which can now be had at
Cheatham's drug store.
You should not fail to hear Eli Per-
kins Tuesday evening, Feb. 10th. His
lecture will be the richest thing of the
kind our people have vet had the OppOr-
tunity of hearing
fyou would enjoy a fine lecture, inter-
terspersed with wit, humor and phil
osophy, go to hear Eli Perkins, at Bur
well Hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 10th.
Price so cents. No extra charge for re-
served seats.
Rev. W. l.. Cunnnggim will preach in
the Methodist Protestant church next
Sunday night, it being the regular union
services, at 7:3O o'clock. There will not
be any preaching at either the Presbyte
rian, Methodist Episcopal or Baptist
churches.
The first OF the series of lectures to be
given under the auspices of the young
men of the Baptist church will be by Rev
j. ". Carter. ID. H., of Raleigh, at 7:3O
o'clock Friday evening. The lecture will
be free and the public are cordially in
vited to hear it.
Every man who gives employment to
another is public benefactor, because
he thus adds to the population and bust
Ness of the community. To benefit our
town and insure its growth and prosper
ity the most effective plan is to add to
the number of employees; the result will
follow.
The spring trade is now at hand, and
it is time our merchants were getting
their advertisements in the GOLD LEAF,
setting forth the merits of their goods
and the bargains they have to offer. Get
your name before the people and keep it
there. People move about and soon for
get things, so you must keep on remind
ing them.
The season will soon be at han when
the farmers will come to town with a
load of tobacco or cotton and take
home q load of guano. We have moth
Ing to say against the use of good COM
mercial fertilizers, but may it not be pos
sible that the average farmer does not
pay IA much attention to homemade
manures as he should?
The State Chronicle OF Tuesday contained
the following personal item: Mr.. ID. H
Gill, of Vance county, is here in the in
terest OF the bill pending before the Leg
islaiure to reduce the charges made by
tobacco warehouses upon sales. The
matter will be discussed and both sides
given a hearing by the Committee OF
Agriculture on Wednesday.
Nothing builds up town like goo(
paper; says contemporary. BY way o
completion OF the argument, it may b,
added that nothing contributes so mucl
to make good paper as a good town
Inc o"o SeHeraiS go tOðer-anu
good paper and q good town general,
get better and better as they march alon,
land in hand.-Erehange.
We do not often indulge in apologize
for the appearance OF this paper. dom,
the best we can under the circumstance
always and letting results take care c
themselves. We must apologize for tn
mean quality of a portion of the pape
upon which the present issue is printed
and for the delay in getting it out, W
were imposed upon BY having an inferio
grade sent us, hut it has been shippe
Gack and more ordered
IL you want pair of Warranted HI
Gloves for $1.OO go to John W. Pureioy