The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-03-12
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LAcoNIcS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS


We still take the much abused silver
dollar on subscription at its face value.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. 7. Watkins re-
turned last night from their Southern
bridal tour.
You should not fail to see Mrs. Gen.
Tom Thumb and her troupe at Bur-
we'll Hall Saturday evening.
Miss Bessie Pretlow, of Southamp-
ton county, Va, is visiting her cousin
Miss Tucker Massenburg, in Hender-
son.
1t may be we'll enough to know
yourself, but keep it to yourself
Other folks will find you out if there is
anything in you worth knowing.
Our townsman, Mr.. T. NJ. Pittman,
was one of the speakers and prominent
leaders at the Baptist State Sunday
school convention at Raleigh last week.
Although he covets it from birth,
and cOvets it through life's brief span.
man never, never gets the earth it is
the earth that gets the man.-Erchange
The McGibeny family at Burwell
Hall next Tuesday evening, promises
to be the first musical combination that
has visited Henderson in long while.
The excessive rains of the past
month or two have retarded farming
operations, but with bright and beauti-
full weather, our Industrious farmers
will soon catch up and be on time.
Advertising is the electric light
whose rays illuminate the field of hui
man effort. Would you have the rays
of success thrown into your business ?
Try the GOLD LEAF as an advertising
medium.
The public sale of land advertised
by T. A. Gloss, trustee, to take place
Monday, was postponed until next
Monday. This is valuable property
and the sale should not fail to attract a
large crowd.
The Paniesville Democrat says when
the preacher hits sin right square be-
won't make your neighbor quit his
meanness, and he probably thinks the
same thing about you.
The farmer who idles away the en-
tire winter will in spring be wonder
ing why he is behind his thrifty neigh
bors in his farm work. But the far
mers hereabouts have had precious little
opportunity for working out doors the
past winter.
The continued wet weather has re-
tarded farming and gardening opera
tons. While you are waiting for the
ground to get in order it would be we'll
enough to look up your tools and see if
they are in proper condition, and get
your seeds ready for planting.
Master Clarence Kerner, son of DIR.
c. Kerner, is now employed at the
Richmond & Danville depot in this
place. He is an apt and intelligent
little fellow and under the training of
Capt. Voorhees, will no doubt make an
expert in the duties devolving upon
him.
Fruit season and preserving time
will come again and we have all item
of interest to industrious housewives.
Chemists say that it takes twice as
much sugar to sweeten preserves,
sauce, etc, if put in when they begin
to cook as it does to sweeten after they
have been cooked.
No season of the year is so prolific
in offers of bargains by traders rs is
this, and bargain hunters are having
all they can do to keep up with them.
Our advertising columns should keep
you posted as to the places where the
best bargains are to be had. Carefully
read the pages for business announce
ments.
Advertising is the motive power
which puts in operation the wheels of
trade when intelligently applied to the
LEAF has advertising space to sell to
good paying responsible people. Try
it and see if iudicious use of its col
umns will not prove beneficial to your
business. We SOW the seed you reap
the harvest.
Master John Hayden, who has for
some time been employed at the Rich
mond & Danville depot in this place,
has taken charge of the telegraph office
at Stovall. on the Oxford & GAINESVILLE
road. John is quite young to assume
the duties of such responsible posi-
ton. but he is bright, intelligent and
capable and we predict will do as &C
ceptahle service as many older persons
could render
The editor of one of our exchanges
sings this tuneful lay !: The editor sat
in his office one day, and thought to
himself in furious way. He threw
down his exchanges and nibbled his
pen and appeared as mad as an old wet
hen, so he invented machine that
turned with a crank-it almost settled
his bill at the bank 1t wrote music
as sweet as the open air vocals, but ii
did mott could MOTT would not
write locals.