The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-02-28


mond Tuesday on business.
Quo Vadis will be the attraction at
Cooper Opera House March 18th.
DO your shopping before $50
o'clock p. m. All the stores will
close at that hour hereafter.
Perhaps tho most painful thing
about some Jokes is that you have TO
explain the point afterwards.
Attorney W. NJ. Person. OF Louis
buro. came over Tuesday to attend
to some business in court here.
Remember the stores Of the town
l.1cepting OF course, the drug stores),
will be closed at 6:30 O'Clock begin
ming March LIST.
The condition Of Mrs. w. A. Hunt.
who has been very sick for several
weeks. remains about the same. She
improve, but little we regret to
say
All not gold that glitters, neither
is all grippe that snerzes. When one
has genuine case he is apt to lind
that it is more than a cold in the
head.
There are several ways to run a
business. but the successful way IS
to advertise your goods and let the
buying public know that yon want
their onage.-Greensboro Record.
Mr.. Joe w Davis died at his home
at the Henderson Cotton Mills last
~, .ini-
weeks with typhoid fever. A more
extended notice will be printed next
next week.
Bear in mind the sale OF real estate
and personal property by Andre" d.
Harris, trustee, Monday, March 4th.
This. is valuable property and tho sale
should attract more than ordinary
attention.
Mrs. w. o. Shannon returned Sun
day from Washington where she had
been attending the Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. She was accompanied by her
dauuhter Miss Leila Shannon.
Capt. Joe Dunn, Of the Norfolk
Western Railroad. with headquarters
at Ceredo. w. Va. is home for week
or ten DAYS He came on account OF
the critical sickness OF his father
whose condition remains unimproNed.
..Brother Clack" evidently thinks
it is Il poor joke that won't work both
WAYS The Joke he intended for
somebody else he finds is upon him
self. the syllabus of which there is Is
little in as the svllabub he didn't
sat.
Former Judge Jacob Battle, Of
Rocky Mount. was here on profession
o. business last week. Genial and
clever gentleman that he is his hosts
Of Henderson friends regret that he
does not come oftener and stay
longer.
Mrs. W. j. Judd remains quite
sick and her sons Messrs. Will and
julius Judd have come home to be
with her. Mr.. Claud Judd who was
travelling somewhere in Florida could
not be located up to the first part of
the week.
DO YOU want to change your bust
ployment ut another and possibly
better paving business? II so write
to G. II. Robinson IL Co.. Charlotte,
y. c. See their reader elsewhere IN
this paper.
The Durham Sun with truth and
force SAY. the newspaper. which goes
right TO the home, IS taken in to
every member Of the family. saved
until every member of the family has
read ii. il the only true and effective
method OF reaching the people.
There was a very nice fall Of snow
Saturdav-ii one who is out of wood.
out OF coal, out of money can
see anything nice about it. And
MANY there were who found them
selves in very much the condition de-
scribed when the fleecy flakes COM
mcnceG to fall.
Whitmel Blount Chapter, Daughters
OF be American Revolution, offers q
prize to the school children Of Hen
derson for the best essay on North
CsrDlina history. Another prize open
to the State is offered for the best
article dealing with the period Of the
American Revolution.
Mr. Lewis W. Barnes is sporting s
hands.ms set Of gold shirt studs pre-
sented him bv friends among the
saleSmen a. mark Of appreciation
O. his efforts in the early closing
movement That he values the gift
far above intrinsic worth need not b'
told either in Gath or the GoLl
LEAF
Capt 0. r. Smith makes the state
ment. based upon observation ant
newspaper reports. that there arr
in our country more deaths than mar
riages. and more marriages thar
births. II this condition OF thing
keeps up long enough the inevitable
result must be decrease instead
increase in population.
The birthday anniversary Of thu
father of hi. country did not Gu
much figure in Henderson. Outsid
OF the post office being closed bust
ness went on As usual Friday; not
nag was displayed, not speech wa
said, not cannon WAS doomed, not
tear WAS shed. And just to thin
that when we have been dead NOR
than one hundred years it will
The same way with US.