The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-08-27


made until his return, Tuesday next
Ii never occurs to some people that
II requires money to run newspaper.
a statement informing a person that
he owes for paper he has been read
ing tor the past year ought to be suf-
hclent notice for settIement.-High
Point Enterprise.
The newspapers when live and
earnest, help town prodigiously-ar
IN TACT the most important factors in
building up and enriching town.
Live newspapers and excellent hotels
are absolutely essential if there shall
be progress and increase of inhabitants
Ill town. Live towns understand
that perfectly Wilmington MESSENGER.
here is fact which great many
people fail to understand. A promi-
nent publisher says:
In anv lust view of quarter of a
century OF journalistic work the most
prominent feature, and one giving great
satisfaction to respectable publishers,
is that printing a newspaper has be-
come recognized as business and not
a charity.
Don't grope around in the dark like
the foolish, mope-eyed manipulating
"blind-man 's-bluff,'' as it were, with
your business interests, but let the in
candescent light of liberal advertising
reflect your business before the eyes of
the people, that all may see, beyond
peradventure, the article you offer to
sell and where it can be fOund.-Er-
: change.
| The following from the New York
Herald hardly rises to the rank OF
! poetry, but it contains so much wisdom
and solid truth that it would be well
| if every man, woman and child would
memorize and occasionally repeat it
Do your best, and let that end it,
| a III your worry is in vain;
| You can carry an umbrella,
| But you cannot make it rain.
The second number of the Students
Handbook of the University of North
Carolina is now ready for distribution
1t contains much valuable information
concerning the University and will be
of especial help to those contemplating
entering college this fall. Copies ma
be had upon application to w. T. Pat
terson, Bursar, Chapel Hill, NORTH
Carolina.
An exchange volunteers this bit o
advice: Young man, own home
No matter how small, no matter how
modest, no matter if you have to rur
in debt for it. 1t pays you in the Ion!
run. 1t cheers and encourages 20,
every day it makes you feel more lik'
a man, makes you better citizen, add
to the value of property and gives 20,
stimulus that nothing else can.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage, in Wilson, Wednesday, Septem
Der End, of Mr.. William Il. Shaw, o
Weldon, and Miss Lille Gay, one o
Eastern North Cardinals loveliest ant
most accomplished daughters. Thu
ceremony will be performed by Rev
J. II. Gordon, D. D., of Raleigh. W.
congratulate our young friend in ad
vance of the celebration of his nuptial
upon the wisdom of his choice.
Our young foreman, Mr.. E. l.. Tate
received a telegram yesterday morn
ing from his parents at McLainsville
, near Greensboro, calling him home OF
account of the death of his little broth
er. We deeply sympathize with TIN
bereaved family. The going home c
: our young friend, who was devoted.
attached to 1.-The little boy that died,
was sad one; but there is comfort il
the thought that g it well with tn
child.''
:, Mr.. Sam J. Parham, who has 70
, several years been one OF the actlv
and efficient attaches ofCoOper's ware
, house, has resigned his position to tax
= charge of the American Tobacco Com
pany's business as buyer on the Louis
burg market. A good man for th
place. Mr.. Parham has exhibite
> qualities Of rare business tact and juds
: mcnt and in his hands the interest {
. the great concern he represents wi
be quite safe.
To our mind the newspaper shou]
be as free from vulgarty and indecenc
> as the pulpit. 1t breaches in a ditfel
y ent sphere it is true, but it is no les
:. preacher, and it breaches to muc
: larger audience than the most pOpuls
= preacher in the land can cOmman
The thing for us to do is to keep Oh
l. of our pulpits, and out Of our pape
|, such language that "a horse doctor
y could not use with out endangering h
!, life.-Monroe Register.
IS We were pleased to have call We
terday from Mr.. Charles H. Bufor
one of Winston's distinguished al
Is progressive titizens. He was here {
!. a brief visit to his sisters Mrs. Philli
- and Miss Buford, principals of Hende
- son College Mr.. Buford has be-
% MAYOR of his town and his administr
~ ton was characterized by vigoro
'e and commendable policy of public spl1
l and progressiveness to which no lit
. of the present prestige and prosper
IL IL of the place is due.
Mrs. Melissa Long. Mrs. Ell
in Daniel, Mrs. w. w. Faucet and NJ
m Ellen have gone to Henderson, viii
,e place they will make their home.
rs is with regret their friends in this pla
see them leave and their places W
be hard to fill. They will be grea
te missed. Weldon Ne,cs.
nj Weldon's loss is Henderson's ga
IL and the GOLD LEAF welcomes the
$ ladies to our town. They have tax
IN II! Mr.. Dorsey's new dwelling on FL
IL Main street.
Oxford knows good thing when
if sees it. even in the long distance.
was lucky day for her when
Modern Tobacco Barn Co. pitched
es big factory hard by her corporate
ce limits. Oxford is to become the grt
IL central market for wire-cured leaf, a
he this means more than appears at Fl
'SS tbnuuht OXfOrd'S entire tobacco trs