The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-01-10
HENDERSON GOLD LEAF-THURsDAY, JANUARY TO- 1901.
SUPPORT OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS.
of fore Vital Importance to
A Community Than the Protection
and Building Up of Its Local News

Nothing of fore Vital Importance to
A Community Than the Protection
and Building Up of Its Local News
paper.
The local newspaper is not a charit-
able institution, but local industry,
just as much as a cotton mill or any
manufacturing enterprise.
1t has just as much right to de-
mand of its people their individual
and united patronage, as does the
local merchant, who will complain if
any person goes away from town to
buy the goods he has for sale.
The citizens of the town will ccm-
plain of the small size of their local
newspaper and the paucity of its
news, and never think that the real
cause of its smallness is due to them
selves, their meager support of it.
The newspaper, its editing and
publication, and the cost of issuing
it, is business proposition for its
proprietor, as much so as is the sale
OF goods to any merchant in the town,
only the support Of the local news
paper is Of far more Importance to a
town, than is the proposition that
every person shall give full support
to every local merchant.
No local matter is of such vital i'm
portance in any community as the
protection and building up of its
local newspaper.-New Bern Journal.
A LudicrOus Error.
Our good friend DR.. Hufham has
frequently complimented the GOLD
LEAF upon it's freedom from typo
graphical errors, declaring the best
proof reading was done on it Of any
paper in the State. And as an old
editor and proof reader himself he
claimed to be competent to Judge he
said. But if we allow many more
such ludicrous errors to pass unchal-
lenged as one that escaped us last
week. we fear the Doctor will have to
revise his opinion.
In commenting on the sermon
preached by our young townsman
Mr. Thomas Watkins in the Pesbyte-
rian church the Sunday previous we
wrote that he was student at Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond. BY
some alchemy known only to the
printer himself he changed our Spen-
cerian chirography into something
entirely different and put our young
friend at Union ''Theatrical' Semi
nary instead. And we fully thought
we had him properly located until
after the paper was printed. No, Mr..
Watkins does propose to become an
actor although we doubt not he will
act we'll his part in life.
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