The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-10-17
BOND ISSUES REDiVIOCs

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New Berne has reconsidered its recent
action in calling oil the bond election
there and the Board of Aldermen have
ordered an election to be held December
Bird. Conditions are getting SO bad that
the municipal authorities were forced to
take this action, as supplying the only
available remedy, to substitute light for
darkness High Point also orders Il
$50, 900 bond election for November 9th
to provide for q first-class water system,
and was told bya Well-informed gentle
man at Greensboro last week that the
good-rOads bond issue matter was by no
means dead there. BY the way, Green's
bOrO is unquestionabiy the fastest grow
ing town in North Carolina. Poor Old
Raleigh is just now standing about us
still as | have seen it during q lifetime.
Permanent improvements stopped. no
bond money to carry them on, and there
fore considerable enforced idIeness among
labOring people. some ef whom had eE-
pected to be Kept busy all winter Oh the
expenditure OF the $50, 900 OF bond
money Raleigh didn't get; Others who
voted themselves out OF work are now re-
penting of it in sackcloth and ashes.
STATE FAIR NEXT WEEK
mere !cliI,ttitS btiU cIIC WIN II ON tLii'1
date to the opening Of the State FAIR.
which begins October DIST and lasts a
week as usual The railroads have
! made reduced rates.
| have carefully looked into the pros
poets OF the Forthcoming exhibition, and
can candidly and truthfully assure every
reader 0f these letters that he or she who
comes to the Fair this year will be de-
lighted There are q number Of unusual
and especially meritOriOus attractions,
! and the ostrich races alone are worth
the price and the trip to Raleigh. Your
friends will all be here this year again, as
usual and the annual reunion" will be
as enjoyable as eVer-a trifle more so,
perhaps. Then, come; stand not upon
the order Of your coming, but come-0ll
at once, il you prefer, and We'll take care
Of YOU all.
OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Ex-Treasurer Worth last Friday paid
over the last payment in making good
the defalcation OF his late clerk Martin.
now serving a term in the penitentiary.
He has now entered suit against Martin S
bondsmen.
Raleigh is to have arState Chrysanthe-
mum Fair on November 18th.
/ 1t is learned that Mr.. f. r. Mcclellan,
OF Cumberland. will be candidate for
. Solicitor Of the Seventh judicial District,
contesting for the Democratic nominal
ton with Colin Mclean, the present IN
cumbent.
The third railroad wreck within two
weeks on the Seaboard Air Line occurred
last Friday near Henderson. No lives
were lost, but the two engines We're
smashed irto each other.
President George T. Winston, OF the
!. & NJ. College, celebrated the forty
ninth anniversary OF his birth by enter
tanning the faculty and their wives and
the Senior Class at dinner given at the
Marlboro House. DR.. WinstOn's host OF
friends hope that he may as happily celc-
brate many more such anniversaries.
Governor Aycock will deliver the adj
dress at the Weldon Fair on Thursday,
October 31st The Greensboro Fair.
pulled off last week, is said to have been
successful and satisfactory to the man
ragement.