The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-02-13

ing those now in course Of erection.
II i. to be hoped that good roads
will follow the Southern Railways
good road. train and the good roads
convention.
Insurance Commissioner Young
has paid into the Treasury 1888 as
receipts Of his Department for the
month Of January.
WATERBURY,, Connecticut, had
three million dollar fire last week.
The best business portion OF the city
was almost wiped out.
INTEREST in better public highways
is Increasing. Now if interest will
only crystalizc into such form as will
secure good roads it will be we'll.
GOOD roads are wealth makers and
builders up OF communities. Let US
have good road. throughout the coun-
try.
The President has appointed Dr..
Geo. +. Winston, Of the A. 4 NJ. Col
lege at Raleigh. member ~ the Board
of Visitors TO the Naval Academy n
Annapolis.
PROF. Thos. K. Foust has been
elected Superintendent Of the Colds
bOro Graded Schools, to succeed his
brother, Prof. J. [. Foust, recently
chosen TO fill the vacancy cause! by
the resignation of Prof. p. 2. CLAYTON
OF the Greensboro Normal College.
\ Long felt want is vacancy in
the office of the Secretary of the Navy
and it is predicted that the Schlev
controversy will at an early date
create this Newport News
Times Herald.
Not, however, until the present in
cumbent is bodily kicked out.
ATTORNEY General Gilmer has re-
tracted sickness and resumed his
regular work. During his absence
the duties of the office were looked
after by Mr.. S. Brown Shepherd, son
of ex-Chief Justice James f. Shepherd,
Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, Of Ala
bama, now resident of Washington,
ID. c., will deliver the bacca laureate
address at the University commence
ment at Chapel Hill next June. Mr..
Herbert was Secretary of the Navy
during Cleveland's second admins
tration
TIE people Of the whole country
will sympathize with President and
Mrs. Roosevelt in the sickness of their
son, Theodore, Jr. He has pneu-
monia, contracted while at school in
Groton, Mass. The anxious parents
are at his bedside. Both lungs are
affected.
SAM Alexander, the young nan who
so bravsly defended the postoflice at
Emma when it was attacked by bur-
glars, will be rewarded by position
in Washington when he is able to 60
to work. Alexander was desperately
wounded by the burglars, who were
convicted and sentenced to be hung.
THE Newport News Times Herald
says the suggestion that Harvard and
other big colleges shall confer honor
airy degrees on Prince Henry is the
most disgusting suggestion that
American tlunkeyism has ever made.
But you would hardly expect real
live prince to visit these shores with
out some one making a fool of him.
self would you?
PATERSON. n. j., has suffered ten
million dollar fire. Six banks, five
churches, two newspaper offices, one
theatre, seven office buildings, city
hall, public library. five club houses
and twenty-five stores were among
the buildings burned. Paterson is
one of the most progressive manufac-
turing cities in the country and an
anarchist stronghold.
The next Legislature ought to pro-
hibit the sale of narrow tire wagons.
Rockingham Anglo Saron.
The adoption of wide tires would 60
long way toward solving the good
roads problem. Besides all heavy
draught vehicles are easier to pull
than the narrow tired ones. as they
do not cut into the ground so badly,
thus saving the ''wear and tear" on