The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-01-24
THURSDAY, JANUARY "A. 1901.

The General Assembly Of North
Carolina on Tuesday formally elected
Hon. F. NJ. Simmons United States
Senator to succeed Marion Butler for
the term Of six years beginning March
18th, 1901.
ADJuTANT General Il. 5. Register i.
re-appointed by Gov. Aycock. Well
done The State Guard was never in
a more efficient or flourishing condi-
ton than it has been under hi. all
ministratiOn
Nix. Charles H. NOVEL; becomes
owner and editor Of the Rocky Mount
Argonaut The paper has been under
his management for the past year.
Continued success to him and his
paper, an institution which has done
much for Rocky Mount and the sur
rounding country, and which deserves
well at the hands OF its people.
FRIENDS Of Hon. +. NJ. SimmOn.
throughout the State will sympathize
with him most deeply in the death OF
his mother which occurred al her
home in Jones county last Saturday.
She was in the 18th year of her age.
Mrs. Simmons was devoted member
OF the Baptist church and Il woman Of
beautiful character, loved and ad-
mired by all who knew her.
The whole civilized world stands
with bowed head and heart fall 81
sorrow at the death of Queen Victoria.
noble sovereign. a npbler woman
has passed away. The dead Queen
was 81 years and $ months old and
had ruled over the destinics OF the
British Empire G3 years and I months.
A most remarkable reign and re-
mark a BILE life indec,,.
\ friend of ours expresses surprise
that the GOLD LEAF should have had
trouble with the Roval Baking Pow
der Company. From a concern that
makes such constant use Of the term
purity he would naturally expect
nothing but pure motives and una
dnlterated dealings in their business
conduct. But things are not always
what they seem and we are some
times deceived even by those who are
most persistent in their professions
Of virtue.
WHAT Henderson needs i. more
manufacturing enterprises - some
thing to make the population of the
town more seif-sustaining- and full
appreciation of the Importance of pat
ronizing home people. Let us then
exercise every energy along the drec-
ton Of securing permanent, self
sustaining, independent, productive
municipality. This concerns every
property owner, merchant profess
sional man, producer and consumer,
and everybody else who is or should
be interested in the growth and pros
perity Of the town.
WE learn from private source that
Gov. Aycock ha. re-appointed our
townsman. Col. Francis A. Macon,
Quartsrmaster General of the State
Guard, and that the appointment will
be announced today. A we'll merited
recognition of efficient service faith
fully performed. Col Macon is an
enthusiastic Guardsman and that he
has made most admirable official
conducting the affairs of his depart
ment intelligently and successfully
the numerous strong endorsements
he had from the officers and men in
the service who asked for his APP
pointment abundantly testify.
The recent current rumOr that Mr..
John SHELTON Williams. president of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway Com
pany, had bought controlling inter
est in the Richmond Dispatch (the
stock held by the late Col. Charles
OBJ. Cowardin, long time editor of the
paper is not true. Sundays issue of
the Dispatch says
Two or three Virginia and North
Carolina papers have given currency
Dispatch has passed into new hands.
Our friends are mistaken. Every
share of the Dispatch Company
stock is held by the Cowardin and
Ellyson families. There has been no
change in ownership or control
absolutely none.
Our old acquaintance, the bill pro-
viding that the school taxes raised
from white people should be devoted
to white schools, and those from
colored taxes to colored schools, has
bobbed up, of course, in the Legisla,
ture. Even if there were no Supreme
Court decision which rendered this
division Of taxes impossible, it would
be defeated by the present Legisla.
ture, because it is wrong in itself