The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-02-16
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LOCAL LACONICS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.
Henderson Lodge, No. 90,

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Meets FIST and third Tuesday nights in
each month al 10 p III. Reavis Hall.
A small german was held in Parker's
Hall Monday night.
Burning tobacco plant beds is the
order of the day on the farms now.
The next legal holiday will be Wash
ington's Birthday, Wednesday, Feb.
22nd.
Mr.. Jim Jordan is erecting a hand
some dwelling in the Southern edge
OF town near the college.
The roads are beginning to assume
an old-time and familiar appearance,
but none the less disagreeable.
Vance county Superior court will
convene next Monday. Judge Shuford
viii preside.
Some one has beautifully said that
happiness is the interest we receive
from capital invested in doing good.
Some interesting communications,
On live and important subjects, are
published i'll this paper. Read them.
1t may freeze, it may burst-the
water pipc-if it will, but at the end of
the month, Just the same there's the
bill.
The Tarboro ,S0antherner says no
town can prosper where there is Il class
of citizens who are determined to rule
or ruin.
1t is safe to say there are more can
didatcs out of office than there will be
office holders in when the roll is finally
made up.
Hight. the Jeweler, can now be
found next door to the Bank of Hen
dcrson. Stephens old stand. Sign of
the Big Watch.
The Sunday schedule on the o. & H.
r. r. has been changed. The train
now leaves for Oxford at 2:25 p. M,
instead of $50. as formerly.
Those who would be up with times
and keep i'll style should commence
now to paint houses and brush up their
yards. Spring will soon be here.
ENHS nave DtcI SCUlCC pliSCs
high, but the hens have evidently been
reading the market reports, and are
beginning to resume business again
The excessive rains the latter part
of last week and the first Of this have
put the land in such condition as to re-
!. tard farming operations considerably.
The meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce at Parker's Hall tomorrow
(Friday) night should be we'll attended.
Do not forget it and be sure to be on
hand.
Let there be general cleaning up
of back streets and private lots before
Spring. 1t is we'll to prepare in time
to guard against sickness during the
summer months.
The Davis & Gregory Company,
proprietors ofthe Planters Warehouse,
Richmond. Va. have an announcement
in this issue of the GOLD LEAF which
speaks for itself. Read it.
The farmers are getting down to
work and in Il short while it will pay
one to ride about the country and see
W HIT al tiiC iiC
on the face Of tie earth.
St. Valentines day was taken but
little notice of in Henderson. Have
all the young people got married and
other folks ceased to end fun i'll the
comic valentine? 1t would appear so.
The editor has enquiries from a
friend who wishes to buy some genuine
i Bronze turkeys. Any person having
them may be able to sell a pair or
. more by reporting the fact at this
office.
Mr.. Thacker retres from the Herald,
leaving Mr.. Newell as sole editor. The
paper will be published weekly in
future. The semi-weekly edition has
been discontinued as the experiment
did not pay.
Experience has shown us that two
or three chronic kickers" in a COM
munlty can many times do more harm
than a score of earnest workers can
overcome, says an eXchapge. There
is no poetry in that. 1t is all truth.
owing to the rain Saturday which
prevailed all during the forenoon, the
meeting to be held at the court house
in the interest of better roads did not
take place. \ later date will be fixed
we suppose due notice of which will be
given.
No PERSONS education is ever COM
pleted. Something can be learned
every day as long as you live" Still
there are people who never learn that
the editor of a country newspaper is
not il the business just for the fun Of
the thing.