The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-04-16

pantaloons differ in color and design.
| This OF course does not apply to the
editor. The rules are suspended in his
case and he can continue to wear his
| old suit of solid color without being
an object Of ridicule.
| Advertising gives character and
standing to a firm. Go into any COM
munity, as an entire stranger, and
pick up the daily papers published
there. Look for the largest advertisers
and you can invariably depend upon
the fact that you have found the most
reliable and desirable firms in that
community. Journalist.
Town election will soon be at hand,
but SO far very little interest seems TO
be manifested in it. A few days before
nominations are made candidates
numerous will doubtless spring up and
politics will be lively for awhile. Under
the new charter there will be eight
instead of five commissioners as here
tofore, two from each of the four wards.
n. Lehman was in the Northern
markets last week buying new stock
says he has surpassed all previous efforts
in the selections he made of fine ready
made clothing, gents furnishing goods,
hats, shoes, furniture, carpets and
house furnishing goods, having bought
a larger and better stock at lower
figures.
We had a short but pleasant call
from Mr.. B. F. Frazier, from the Oak
Hill section of Granville county. Tues
day morning, his business being to
order the GOLD LEAF sent to his ad-
dress in future. Mr.. Frazier is a
successful farmer and merchant doing
business at Milestone, and having
recently succeeded in getting post
office established at his place, he is
postmaster also.
! Mr.. G.. j. Bobbitt, of Vance county,
gives notice by advertisement in this
paper that he forbids any person hiring
Bob Foote, colored, he having engaged
him by the year. A short while back
Foote left Mr.. Bobbitt's employment
without provocation, and he takes this
method of notifying his neighbors and
| others that he will hold them to account
under the law if they hire him.
Edgar Marvin Hight, the six-year-
old son of Mr.. E. E. Hight, the jeweler.
is the most skilful draughtsman of his
age we know. We have seen some
work of his-a locomotive engine
| drawn from memory, with nothing to
go by, that is really a very creditable
piece of work indeed If this talent IS
properly cultivated we predict a useful
| and successful career as great artist
| or mechanical draughtsman for Master
Edgar.
Bat Parham says the photograph
shown in his watkins ciothing) adver-
tisement is taken from life-but not
Of himself. If you want to see the
| original, as large as life and twice as
| numerous, ask for Jim Elan or Hiream
| Goodrich, either Of whom will be
pleased to wait on you if he is busy
| at the time-and he most always is,
for he is selling more clothing. hats.
| shoes and gents furnishing goods this
season than he has ever done before
We take it as compliment to our
intelligent and enterprising associate
editors-the advertisers-when we are
! told that the most interesting feature of
the GOLD LEAF is its advertising COL
umns. When people talk about the
advertisements and look for the paper
| to see what new thing the merchant
has to say and in what attractive and
''catchy" manner his announcement is
| set forth by the printer, then that
| mans advertisement is effectually get
| ting in its work.
The GOLD LEvF has nothing to
| brag about particularly, and it is not
| in its nature to do so if it had. but it
simply rises to remark that four new
subscribers and seven renewals was
its record Monday-all voluntary. As
| to its advertising patronage our columns
show for themselves. The more readers
the paper has, of an intelligent, we'll
TODD class, the more valuable it is as
an advertising medium, and the better
money so spent pays the investor the
greater the number ard more liberal
become the advertisers. Observant,
intelligent business men are quick to
recognize such things.
The case of Col. Rurgwyn against
jenkins and Hall stands in statu quo.
For several days they have been en-
gagged examining the books, but the
investigation has been temporarily sus-
pended for the present-not because
Col. Burgwyn refuses to let his books
be looked into any further, though, as
has been reported. AS we understand
it he simply declines to rurrender such
books as the private accounts of his
patrons are kept in, and which have
nothing to do with the case at issue.
Indeed, he has no right whatever. to
expose the private affairs ofhis patrons,
even if he was disposed to do so.
People should not be too ready to
believe everything they hear.
The nobbiest and cheapest straw hats
are at Puresoy's.