The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-07-28

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\ prOtracted meeting is being held
at Union Chapel, near town.
The Educational picnic will be held
tomorrow in the old Henderson Hotel
yard and promises to be an enjoyable
occasion.
The editor left Tuesday for Charlotte
to attend the North Carolina Press
Association, which met i'll that city
yesterday.
The Warrenton Guards, Al men
enlisted, passed through last Thursday
morning Ell route to the Wrightsville
encampmcnt.
The thermometer registered o. de-
grees i'll the coolest spot Of Rowland x
PowelI's store Tuesday afternoon at
$50 O'Clock.
We publish in this issue of the GOLD
LEAF poem by Miss Sadie Gillian
Baird. of Orlando, Florida, dedicated to
the "FlOrida Confederate Veterans -
and taken from the Orlando Reporter.
The young lady is well known in IIender-
son and has many friends throughout
this section.
The Seaboard Air Line will, on July
10Th, sell round trip tickets to Wash
ington, ID. c., Richmond, Va, and
Charlottesville, Va, for one first class
fare. These tickets will be on iron
clad signature form, limited to con-
tinuous passage in each direction and
will be good for ten days from date OF
sale.
We take pleasure in calling atten-
ton to the advertisement of Littleton
High School and Business Institute, l..
w. Bagley, a. b., Principal. Prof
Bagley has good school, and those
having boys to educate would do we'll
to patronize him. The number of
students at this popular school was 80
per cent larger the past session than
ever before. Send for catalogue.
Young Stephen Gill, living about
eight miles from town, was here Tues
day accompanied by his sister Miss
Mollie Gill, who was attending the
Teachers Institute. When he was
ready to return home, he found that
the collar had been stolen from his
mule. Steve said he was sorry they
did not steal the mule instead as
there would be more fun i'll finding the
mule and the thief than in driving
home without collar.
Assistant Postmaster w. +. Moss.
has invented machine by which he
can ride around the office and serve the
people i'll a most comfortable and
pleasant manner. The cOntrivance
consists of a post running parallel with
the ceiling and a large round table to
which is attached a seat somewhat on
the order of a dentist or BARRIERS chair,
enabling him to wait on the general
delivery and then wheel back to the
stamp window without dismounting.
.Woman's ways is IL heading very
often used i'll newspapers that devote Il
column to items supposed to be of
interest to the gentler sex. The subjects
chosen are frequently of n light and in
siped nature which underate Il sensible
woman's mental faculties. How very
much better it is to tell them that they
can get then finest and best corsets by
referring To the advertising columns of
the GOLD LEAF. Get the best and
strongest. The life OF IL Rockingham
girl. attacked by Il vicious cow. was
recently saved, says Il Reidsville
paper. by wearing IL corset made OF the
best material NJ. {. Cooper sells good
one and 50 does :. K c. Watkins
Chief Moses Peace, of the Hender-
son Fire Department No. ,, was out
with his company Tuesday afternoon
practicing to take part in the contest
of the Firemens' Tournament of the
ColOred State Firemens' Association
to be held at Raleigh August 9th and
10th They did some creditable work
and with little practice will be Of
great service to our town in case of
fire. The neighboring residents were
very much delighted with the cooling
effect produced by copious sprinkling
OF their houses. front yards and flower
gardens They will be out for another
practice tomorrow evening.
An exchange thus defines moss
back: A mossback. gentle reader, is
a cross between the fifty century and
the fifteenth. He is found in fossil
lied form in cry city in the United
States and III lives. He raises his
rents, detests boom. loves to have
others bear all the taxes. hates a new
enterprise. despises anything that
sn-acks of progress and helps paper
boom its town. They are as the
drones to a hive of industrious bees.
ard like the bees the live business men
should avoid the drones and patronize
those who are an advantage to the