The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

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GOLD LEAF mailed to your friends by
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The gainesville tO.) Democrat says:
patches are no disgrace, but they
don't look well. Pay for your home
paper in advance
Keep the cellar clean. Allow no
smells in it. The cellar is such fertile
source of disease, unless watched, that
warning in regard to it is always in
order
Tobacco planters can get no purer
or more reliable seeds than those grown
by Maj. Ragland. See his advertise
ment in this paper and supply yourself
at once.
Master John 7. Stone, lately an
esteemed employee of the GOLD LEAF,
on Monday accepted a position Oh the
Henderson Daily. Printer" has our
best wishes.
1t would be a good idea to start the
new year by subscribing to your local
paper. If your name is on our books
already, then get your friends to sub
scribe to the GOLD LEAF.
We present a number of new adver-
tisements in this issue, to all Of which
we would invite special attention.
Space will not admit Of mention being
made of each ono separately.
Do you want to reach steady and
liberal purchasers i'll this part of the
country? We have advertising space
for sale at reasonable, not cheap"
rates. Advertising properly discharged
always hits the mark.
The time of many of our subscribers
expires with the old year, and we ex-
tend cordial invitation to all such to
promptly renew. Examine the date
stand. lin arrears your remittance
will be acceptable.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment Of +. S. Hogan, offering a valu-
able farm for sale, or will exchange for
town property. This is fertile, well
timbered tract, and is very desirable
property. For particulars, &C., see
advertisement in another column.
2. 7. Barnum has spent as high as
$4OO, 900 year in advertising. To-day
it takes seven figures to tell his fortune.
The moral is: Keep your business, and.
incidentally, yourself, before the public.
Don't depend on them to discover you.
-American Press association.
Remember the reduction IN the price
of subscription to the GOLD LEAF only
applies When paid IN adrdnce. If the
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you by keeping the whole amount until
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you now, then pay the 81 so in advance
and save it.
Desiring to make this paper more
useful vehicle of thought and commune
cation among our readers in the
country, we renew the invitation so
often given before. for farmers and ALI
ance men to contribute to its columns
and feel at liberty to use it to express
their views and opinions on topics of
local or public interest. Will you do it?
Mr.. w. s. Foster. the young Boston
drummer, who has been so critically
sick with typhoid fever here for some
time, was able to be moved from his
room in the Young Block, next door to
Drs. W. I. and \. Cheatham's office,
to Massenburg's Hotel, Monday. He
hopes soon TO be well enough to leave
for his home. Mr.. Foster had close
call, and it was only the very best med
ical attention and careful nursing that
brought him through. 1t is hardly
worth while 10 say he has not lacked
for anything since he has been in Hen
derSOn.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. c.
A. Lewis, which has been so very sick
the past six weeks. is thought to be
i'll dying condition at this writing. 1t
has pneumonia coupled with whooping
cough. aud the tenaclty with which it
has held on to life has been remarkable.
1t is beautiful. finely developed little
girl three months old. and it is very
sad to have to lose it now.
Since the above was put in type the
little child has dide. having breathed
its last at 10 O'Clock last night. The
parents have the sympathy of their
friends. The funeral will be conducted
from the Presbyterian church at $3.50
O'Clock this afternoon. Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
Cooper & Mitchell are still selling the
well-known Clipper, Daisy, Dixie and Car
olina Flows, the best on the market.
Go and see them before you buy. l.
English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard. soft or caloused Jumps and blemlshes
from horses, blood spavinS, curbs, Splnts.
Sweeny, ling-bone, STILES. Sprains, all swol-
en- threats, coughs, etc. Save $50 dollars
by use OF one bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful blemish cnre ever known. Sold
by Melville Dorsey, druggist, Henderson,
y. y. apr. 10 1c.