The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-03-24
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Mr.. w. r. Henry spent Sunday IN
Raleigh.
Mr.. A. c. Zollcof1er is attending
Warren court this week.
Miss Coles of Virginia is the guest
Of the ladies Of Henderson College.
Messrs. W. T. Meadows and Hugh
Davis. Of Oxford. were here Tuesday.
Mrs. Amelia Young, Of Philadel-
phia. is the guest of Mrs. Bette n.
Young. at Mistletoe Villa.
LAWYER II. T. Watkins is attending
Warren court this week. appearing in
number of important cases for trial
there.
Mrs. Geo. w. Watts and Miss Watts,
of Durham passed through Henderson
last week on their way home from
Europe.
Mr.. S. +. 1eiser has returned from
a trip to tie Northern markets where
he has been buying new goods for the
spring.
Major and Mrs. y. II. Chavasse
spent Sunday and Monday in Weldon.
the guests of Captain and Mrs. T. IL.
Chavasse.
Mr.. d. Y. Cooper left for Philadel-
phia Wednesday with his little son
Master Alex. where the latter goes
for surgical treatment. DIR. j. II.
Tucker accompanied them.
Col. f. Taylor is at his farm in
Orange county, Va. looking after the
seeding ofgrains and grasses at present.
The Colonel is not only a genial and
accomplished gentleman, but pretty
good farmer as we'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Powell and
little daughter, who have been spend
ing some weeks with relatives in the
city, left this morning for their home
in Henderson. Capt. Powell has suf-
ticiently recovered from the very severe
attack of typhoid fever with which he
was confined for three months last fall
to resume his position with the r. &
d. railroad. Raleigh Erening Tisitor,
22nd.
Messrs. Percy Rainey and V. O..
Vaughan, Of Virginia, who have been
getting out trade review for different
towns, were here this week prospect
ING with a view to starting a daily
paper. They did not find the outlook
as flattering as they had expected, and
not having a superabundance of cash
to blow in on such an experiment,
abandoned the idea and departed for
greener pastures and more fruitful
fields. Both are intelligent and enter
prising young men and appeared to be
hustlers.
The editor of the GOLD LEAF &C
knowledges the receipt Of an invitation
card from Mrs. Robert Tannahill, of
New York City, to attend the marriage
of her daughter, Miss Lizzie Tannahill,
to Mr.. George V. Boyd, of Warrenton,
Wednesday, March 23rd. The bride
is an attractive and accomplished young
lady who has spent much Of her sum-
mers in North Carolina, and has many
friends among our readers. The groom
is a son of Mr.. VIM. II. Boyd, Of
Vance county, and is young gentle
man of sterling qualities and personal
worth.
Our good friends Messrs. Spotswood
Burwell and John Mcmillan, of this
county. who called the same day this
week to pay up for another years sub
scription to GOLD LEAF, informed us
that there is on the plantations of each,
an inexaustible quantity Of very
supesior quality of granite, both in easy
access of railroad facilities. Mr.. Bur-
wells is near the Raleigh & CASTOR
railroad and Mr.. McMillan's within
half mile of the Oxford Il Henderson
road. Here is an opportunity for
enterprising capitalists to develop some
very desirable property.
Messrs. VIII Wallet and Harry
Loughlin have been exercising them
selves lately practicing for the coming
season. Both are accomplished riders,
tumblers and gymnasts and have closed
contracts with J. T. McCaddon, pro-
prietor of the great Adam Forepaugh
Shows, which they will join at its
winter headquarters in Philadelphia
about the first of April. Mr.. Wallet
has Just returned from England where
he worked with some of the biggest
circuses Of that country last summer
and fall, and is at present stopping
in Henderson with his sister Mrs. D.
c. Loughlin.
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is that they spoil the appetite, weaken