The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-04-13
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DR.. 1 :. Pendleton left Tuesday to
fak,. special course at the Univer-
sirv %. Pennsylvania, expecting to be
away month.
f r. Butler advertises two anG
thr,c-guarter acres of farm land Oh
the South side OF town. within the
corporate limits, for rent.
The Migrants in this town should
brruu out or made to go to work.
There j. It law by which they can be
rri"hed-;tnd yet nothing is done.
" ". Parker has bought the prop
,rrv opposite his home known as the
Lpughin lots, back of the old Bur
well place, and will build there in the
near future.
Mrs. ". W. Briscoe wishes IL few
boHrdcrs. Can accommodate one
coupI" and three young men with
board and rooms, and Il few table
bp1r'i"rs also.
Mr. W. j. Farris is one man against
whom the charge of race suicide can
not be brought. He has | t children
and grandchildren And he is not
an old man, either, being only 80.
Honest working people are tired of
supporting Migrants. And they live
off uf somebody. There is Il way to
get ut this class. Enforce the law
and make them go to work or get
ont.
Mrs Mamie Garden desires through
th" columns Of the GOLD LEAF to
thank her friends for kindness shown
OH lie occasion of the burial of her
Mrs Johns. and FOR eX-
pr"ssiOns of sympathy in her bereave-
meut.
CIpan out the lOafers and remove the
'ye-sOres from the streets. They de-
lie and repulse-a curse rather than |
1 blessing to the community. The va
,rant law was made to apply to this
lass and its enforcement is all that |
: lacking
Next comes the town election for
Mayor and Commissioners Instead
ii voting for one commissioner in |
each OF the four wards leaving four |
men in as many had supposed it will |
b" a clean sweep and eight will have
To- br elected
W d. Burwell has purchased the
large tenement house, known as the |
mill boarding house, which |
e will take down and erect two nice |
DWELLINGS, of, one on the present site
and the other on the lot next to Mrs.
heck : residence.
Dick Workman has gone to Durham
t" work for the American Tobacco |
company. He has been employed i'll
tn" office of the Henderson branch for
several years and the transfer is in |
the nature of promotion. Dick is Il
good boy and his friends regret his !
Interest i'll the town election in !
rrr1Ses as the time draws nearer. SO !
lar there is no indication OF Il fight |
Tor commissioner in any of the wards |
one or two may not care |
To- succeed themselves, but the con- |
test Tor mayor promises to be more
Mr. Henry Buchan is home this |
week on Ii short visit to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs William Buchan. He is
with big contracting firm in New
J urk and has just finished iobp put
ting i'll some railroad culverts and
viaducts at Atlanta where he has
been Tor some time.
Somebody sowed strychnine about
III the Henderson Cotton Mills settle
m"ut Monday night and about 20
dead dogs was the harvest reaped.
lief Crockett had eleven carried Off
Tuesday morning and he says about
a> many more had been removed be-
lore he was notified.
We do not more than get through
with one election before another is
ON. This week it was for bonds to
build graded school houses. May
Ind the municipal election will be
held and a week later we vote on the
to issue S2O,OOOin bonds
tor public road Improvement.
Mr. John D. Cooper has returned
from Philadelphia where he has been
Iii Il hospital undergoing treatment
lor throat trouble for some weeks.
He looks much improved and says he
Is glad to get back to Henderson
a@aln. Mrs. Cooper went to Phila-
delphia and with Mr.. Cooper they
spent several days visiting neighbour
iing places of interest before returning
home.
Henderson regrets the loss OF Mr..
NJ. ii. Allen and his excellent family
as citizens. They have moved to Ok
lord, the change in Mr. Aliens run
putting him there at night, thus sep
arating him almost entirely from his
family here. But our loss is OxfOrd's
gam. Our friends over there will find
both Mr.. and Mrs. Allen excellent peo-
PIE whom the town is fortunate to
claim among its citizenship.