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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-15

THE Concord Times has attained
the age of thirty-five years-and it
is a record of honor and usefulness
that it has achieved. For twenty.
five years the present owner and
editor, Mr.. John B. Sheriff., has been
at the helm.
The paper vas never better or
more prosperous than it is today
and deservedly So Mr. Sheriff. is
one Of the most capable and con-
scientious editors in the state, and
one OF the most successful and
popular.
He has been secretary treasurer
of the North Carolina Press Associa-
ton twenty-one years - almost as
long as he has been editor OF the
Times. His reelection each year is
merely a perfunctory sort OF affair,
a ratification and endorsement OF his
past conduct as it were, and at Hep
dersonvilleit was moved to sentence
him for life" And it does look like
he will either have to die or quit the
newspaper business to get out OF it.
If Sheriff. was not a good editor he
would not be such good secretary,
and the brethren would not be SO
partial to him. May the coming
years bring to the ConcordTimes and
it's clever editor ever increasing pros
peritv which they deserve.
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every citizen OF Henderson county, and
few of them. if any, have not enjoyed the
fruits of his labors. | was told that for
long years he was known as the road
maker in that mountainous country
where road building is far greater task
than in our level lands. There roads had
to be laid out over mountains that horses
could not climb with carriages. There il
not, | suppose, a square mile OF land in
the county that could be called level. To
survey q road that can be made comfort
ably passable taxes the skill of the best
civil engineers. Yet throughout the
country are highways that were laid out
by this great apostle of good roads who
was unlettered in the technique of the
surveyors art. And Henderson county
can boast the best roads beyond the Blue
Ridge, perhaps, excepting Buncombe.
The roads are well graded around the
mountains and valleys and are much
better for travel than many of those in
the low country.
While the simple slab lie a splendid
tribute to the memory of the man, a
greater monument is the splendid roads
of Henderson county, and the greatest
of all is that builded in the hearts of the
people who are enjoying the benefits of
better homes, better farms, better schools,
better churches and a more prosperous
and progressive county-aI the fruits of
the labors of this apostle of good roads"
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SEABOARD PLANS.
Extensive Improvements to be Made
by the New Management.

Raleigh Times
1t is said that the new administra-
ton of the Seaboad Air Line Rail-
way will make extensive improve
ments and that it's general policy will
be to go forward along progressive
lines. WOrkmen are now engaged in
ballasting25O miles of track between
Richmond and Norlina, and Bostic
and Hamlet and this work will be
continued until the entire main line
is completed.
General Manager C. Fl. Xix is
quoted as follows in The Norfolk
Ledger-Dispatch: "While we do not
contemplate any change in the pres
ent plan OF operation, considerable
expenditure is going on to improve
the roadbed and equipment, and we
shall continue along this line to meet
the increased demand from freight
and passenger standpoint. We are
in need of greater facilities and will
have them as quickly as they can be
completed. Another improvement
we contemplate in the very near fu-
ture is the addition of two stories on
the general office building in Ports
mouth. The general offices of the
company will remain in Portsm outh
and the entire clerical force of the
road will be brought under one proof.
We believe that two additional
stories to this building will accom-
modate them. The building will be
attractivelv finished
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SeaOard Air Line,

Mr. C. 81. Gattis, D. P. A., and Mr.. Jas
Ker, Jr., c. P. A., Seaboard Air Line, are ar
ranging what will certainly be the most
popular and delightful tour of the season.
Especially is this SO as the party leaves the
Carolinas ON September LIST, 1909, the most
delightful time OF the whole year to go on
your summer trip, and they will visit all of
the principal points Of interest in the North
Washington, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Thous-
and Islands, Montreal. Quebec Saratoga,
four days in New York City and Philadelphia,
and all the New York theatres will be open in
be the trip up the historic Potomac, passing
the grand old palatial home of ''The Father
of His Country
The trip is to be made at the lowest pos
sible figure consistent with the first-class
hotels and other things connected with the
tour, which will include railroad fare, Pull
man, hotel accommodations, meals sight
seeing trips, transfers, and intact everything,
with the exception of meals in New York,
and few other minor expenses, nearly all
the sightseeing trips are included. This last
feature is very good one as it will enable
the party to spend the time seeing the sights
without the bother of the details, which will
be looked after by Mr.. Gattis and Mr.. Ker,
both of whom have had wide experience in
this branch OF the passenger service. Time
will be spent in Toronto during the Canadian
Exposition, and stops will be made at all
pOiuCS VI lcuStu W cudDlc Uuc party
to see all the points of interest without hur
rying. Mrs. Gattis and Mrs. Ker will chape-
route the tour, and ladies should not hesitate
to go alone. The tour will prove most in
teresting one. A very attractive illustrated
booklet containing detailed information can
be had upon application by letter or in person
to the undersigned, and those interested
should write at once, as the party will posi-
lively be limited, and those applying first
will get the lower berths, SO it will be to
your advantage to book early. Every detail
has been arranged with the view to making
this a most delightful and comfortable tour
for ALL
For further information and booklet Civ
ing cost and itinerary of tour, write
C. III. GATTIS, D. P. A.,
Raleigh, N. G.
JAS. KER, JR.. c. P A,
Charlotte, N. c.
Raad and aduar&isa In Eald Aaf
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CREDITABLE EDITION.

The souvenir edition OF the High
Point Enterprise was creditable to
Editor Farriss and the progressive
and prosperous manufacturing town
where it has it's home Beginning
business only when she had reached
the prime OF life, High Point on her
fiftieth birthday makes a showing
seldom equaled by any town in
America, says the Enterprise. With
a population of about $1,000 and
with 63 factories as a foundation
for a splendid industrial structure,
she stands out today the pride other
home people and the admiration of
all outsiders. That speaks we'll for
the North Carolina town that has
been styled ''The Grand Rapids of
the South and the GOLD LEAF re-
ioices in her prosperity. We are jeal-
Gus of High Point in one thing. We
do not envy her 63 factories and the
prestige she bears of being the lead
ing furniture manufacturing town in
the South, her splendid, progressive
citizenship and her excellent news
paper which has done SO honorable
a part in the community's growth
and development. When we see High
Points magnificent hotel, The Ell
wood, either Sin the fesh"-brick
and stone and iron and terrra-cOtta
or on paper we want it-or one like
it for Henderson. We would not make
High Point poorer by depriving it
of it's handsome hotel, but would
make Henderson richer by having a
modern hotel similar to it if we
could
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$500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
it's stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the syste m,
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing it's work The proprieto rs
have SO much faith in it's curative powe rs
that they offer One Hundred Dollars for an v
case that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
Address F. J CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
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Saturday, August | 4th, 1909,

at II o'clock at the Court House door 3D.
Henderson, Vance county, \. e.. offer for sal
to the highest bidder certain tract of land in
kittrell township, Vance County & ad
joining the lands of Willis Rogers estate {
j. Robbitt, William Breedlove, and nor
definitely described as follows
1st tract: Begin at "A stone Willis Rurrr.
corner in {. J. Bobbitt's line and run thrrcr
along his line $. II w. Ia chs to a largs
poplar marked F. IA; thence :. L. " - 30
chs. to a stone corner of lot No 3 in
Rogers line; thence along the line Of lot NJ
West 20 chs. to N stone; thence along
the line of lot No 3. W Breedlove and ] n
Davis \. PA T.. 81 81 chs. to a stone and
dogwood pointers: thence along DAVIS and
Bobbitt's line s. S7h +. DC - To the l-g5B.
ming, containing 80 acres, same being kira
Duke land.
End tract: Begin at n hickory in Ruin
Creek, j. ii. Bryant's line and run West with
his line Isl poles to a Red Oak; thence South
"a poles to n pine Peace's corner in Bryaut's
line; thence West with Peaee's line - pole.
to pointers II. E. Bobbitt's old corner. thence
North with Bobbitt's line 2 | poles To pine
stump Willis Rogers corner in Bohhitt line
thence East 2OS poles TO a sweetgum: theno-
chs. s. T.. to d hickory in creek. thence
down creek as il runs to the beginning. coB.
tanning 202 acres, same being the home tract
and recorded in Book II, papc 3GG Register
of Deeds Office, Vance County.
Terms of sale / - cash. balance > y.ars
This the 18th day of July. 1909
W. W GRISSuN.
fOmui4.ioIsr
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Administrators Notice.

HAVING QUALIFIED As ADMlNlSTRA.
IA tor of Elijah Howard. deceased. all
persuns indebted to said deceased are notified
to present their claims TO me before July s'b
1910. or this notice will be pleaded in bars
their recovery.
WILLIAM j. HOWARD
Administrator of Elijah Howard decens..0.
ANDREW J. HARRIS, Attorney,
Henderson, n. E July 9Th 1909.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-15

.>AsS>.
LAST week the GOLD LEAF had
something to say about Gen. Julian
S. Carr as a hosiery manufacturer, in
connection with the purchase OF a
mill in Goldsboro by the Durham
Hosiery Company this corporation
being composed of General Carr and
his five sons) the largest manufac-
turers OF hosiery in the State, and
perhaps in the entire South, and this
week it is as a farmer that he dis
tinguishes himself The Durham cor
respondent of the News and Observer
reports his item:
Gen. J. S. Carr is spending the week
at Occoneechee farm, seeing after the
threshing of his wheat. Last week
from twenty-three acres, he saw
$50 bushels, or nearly 43 ID bushels
to the acre. He has also 1O7 acres
yet to go through the machine and
with such a ratio, may expect some
thing like 5000 bushels. This is an
unusual yield for North Carolina
farms and in barrels OF Peerless
-four, means about $4,000.
Mr.. J. {. Hardy who recently sold
his paper, the Warrenton Record. did
not long remain out of the editroial
harness. He has bought the Scot
land Neck Commonwealth from Mr.
f. Z. billiard, and assumed control
as editor and owner. Mr.. billiards.
health has been such that he has not
been able to do active editorial work
for several months His eyes es-
pecially give him trouble, SO much
SO that he cannot see we'll enough 10
read or write. Mr.. Ashby W. Dunn
u bright young man of Scotland
Neck. has been editing the paper for
Mr.. billiard during the past six oil
eight months.
Mr.. Hardy's lines have fallen il
pleasant places. There are no better
people than the people of Scotland
Neck and Halifax county, land he doe:
well to cast his lot among them. We
regret the retirement of Editor Hill
lard and sympathize with him very
sincerely in the affiiction that make.
it necessary for him to lay aside hi.
trenchant and useful pen, while W,
welcome Editor Hardy as his success
or and congratulate him upon ac
quiring the paper and the home h,
has.
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A Delightful Northern Tour.
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED

Washington, Niagara Falls, Toronto,
Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec,
Four Days in New York City. at Very
Attractive Rates.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-15
Administrators Notice.

"AVING Qualified As ADMlNlSTkA-
h tor of the estate CT Mrs. 4. y. I'd
wards. deceased. before the Clerk of the Sup
rior Court of Vance county, all persons hay
ing claims against the estate oi said decreased
are hereby notified to present them To me- dniF
verified on or before the first day Of Juis
1910, or this notice will be pleaded III bar 81
their recovery All persons indebted 10 SAID
estate will please make immediate payment
This June %, 1909.
]. C. KITTRELL
Administrator of Mrs. A. \. Edward. D."
ceased
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Notice of Sale of Land

TNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN 0R
~ der Of Superior Court of Vance Connf,
made in the special proceeding entitled u
W. Grssom, J. NJ. Grissom. Gertrude TN.
som, Lena Floyd, Lallie Cawthorn, John
Floyd and II G. Cawthorn vs.. W II Gr.
som, and W. III. Grissom, guardian oi Rnf,
Grission, Jesse Grissom and Grover Gr,>sam
the same being number l,020upon the ~.
cial Proceeding Docket of said Court the an;
dersigned Commissi oner will on
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-15

That is a truthful epitaph the citi-
zens who knew the man and his la
bors will tell you. Indeed his work
speaks for itself in the splendid roads
you have just come over-in the
genius displayed in the engineering
done by which the feat of mountain
climbing is accomplished by such easy
and natural stages. Many times has
that epitaph been printed, and much
has been written about Solomon
Jones, the Road Maker" and tribute
after tribute paid to his memory.
And all of them were deserved. His
was life of Service. He lived for
Others beside himself, did this Solo,
mon Jones. He labored fifty years
to leave the world better than he
found it.
Quoting the name "Solomon
Jones" which it declares is no longer
homely name when coupled with
the words Road Maker" the Mon
roe Journal says:
1.-The name is nothing, tits the bearers
life work that, coupled with it at least,
dignifies, glorifies and beauties it. Ed
ward Everett Hale, the famous preacher
and writer who has just died, said:
Look up and not down,
Look forward and not back,
Look out not in;
Lend hand!'
Solomon Jones lent hand, not only
to an individual but to many genera
tons"
From the Fayetteville Index, one
OF whose editors was in the party
above referred to, we take this:
"As | hurriedly copied the inscription
on the back OF an envelop, asked myself
what greater tribute could be paid to
the memory of any man. AS for myself,
| desire nothing better said of me than
that He labored to leave the world bet
ter than he found it. Noble tribute that!
Solomon Jones is name familiar to
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-07-15
EDITOR CALDWELL SUFFERS
RELAPSE.

We are deeply panied, as will be his
friends throughout the State, and
wherever he and his paper are known,
to learn that Mr.. J. p. Caldwell,
editor of the Charlotte Observer, has
suffered a relapse and had to go to
sanitarium last week, on advice OF
his physicians. Mr. Caldwell was
getting along very nicely and to all
outward appearances he was making
satisfactory progress in recovering
from the slight stroke of paralysis
which he had some time ago. But he
overtaxed himself and lost some of
the ground that he had gained on
the road to recovery, and it was
deemed best for him to take perfect
rest and quiet for a while. The
speedy and complete restoration to
his wonted health and mental vigor
will be gratifying news to Mr.. Cald-
wells friends and admirers every
where
The Observer OF Sunday says the
relapse came soon after his recent
return from Hendersonville. where he
attended the meeting of the North
Carolina Press Association. Con-
tinuing it says further:
Mr.. Caldwell had been improving
so splendidly during the months of
April and May that he overestimated
his strength and early in June made
| the hard and fatiguing trip to Birm-
ingham, Ala, to attend the annual
| convention of the Southern News
paper Publishers Association, of
which he was president. On his re-
| turn to Charlotte be left almost i'm
| mediately for Hendersonville, being
on the go with but little intermission
for fully two weeks His system
was not strong enough to withstand
the strain and hence the setback
which followed. 1t will probably be
some time before he is able to leave
the hospital"
| Prompt treatment of n slight attack of
Diarrh0ea viii often prevent "A serious sick
| ness. The best known Remedy is DR.. SETH
ARNcLp's BAIsAM- Iour.apothecariea Mel
| vile Dorsey. Thomas Bros. and W. W. Par
| ker warrant it TO give satisfaction.
1t is impossible to lay too much
stress upon the subject OF good
roads Never was there such an
awakening to the importance ofgood
public highways as has been felt in
this State during the past year.
Counties are voting bonds for road
building and i'll every community in.
terest is growing in the subject
Charlotte News
| The Norfolk Landmark says: "The
philosopher Epicurus, according to
Seneca, made a-great boast of hav-
ing dined at cost of one penny
We'd like to see him duplicate that
feat in this country now" However.
with the price of victuals still going
I up we may yet have to dine off a
scent.-Wilmington Star.
1t every kicker was booster there
would be that many more boosters
Which class are you in? The man
who will not stand up for his town il
not much help to it.-Greenville Re
fectOr
The date on your address label in
dieates the time to which your sub
scription is paid.
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As THE Atlanta Constitution says,
good roads make good people. You
don't have to swear the Sabbath day
away trying to get the OK out OF the
ditch. Let's have more good roads.
They are a cheap investment-in
more ways than one.
A North Carolina man eloped with
three women. The name OF the asy-
lun from which he escaped IS not
Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
OF course he was insane at TIVE mo-
ment OF committing the deed, and
therefore not responsible for his act.
That is according to North Carolina
law and justice(?)
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therefore not responsible for his act.
That is according to North Carolina
law and iustice(?)
A PRESS dispatch from Roanoke
Rapids says Samuel +. Patterson,
largely interested il two cotton mills
at that place, will organize the Pat
terson Mills Co., to build another
plant to be equipped with $4,000
spindles, 80 looms, etc, and OPP
Grated by electricity, the product to
be ginghams. This plant will cost
about $G5O,O00.
COPYING in full our editorial on the
Biggers verdict in Mecklenburg court,
under the heading, "Whither Are the
Drifting?" the Burlington State Dis
patch makes this comment:
This is a scathing arraignment,
but no stronger than it should be. 1t
is enough to cause people OF moral
courage and good judgment to hang
their heads in shame at the mlscar-
riage of justice in some OF the courts
OF our country.
Ex-JUDGE Robinson thinks Presi-
dent Taft is all afflictiOn upon the
Republican party. = Greenville Re
HectOr.
Ex-Judge Robinson was an aspi-
rant for United States District Judge
the plum that went to Judge Con-
nor. If President Taft had named
him wonder if he would have had the
same opinion about him or thought
his appointment was an affection
upon the Republican party or the
people of North Carolina?
The following which was taken
from the Greensboro Record of Mon
day, will be read with. profound i'll
terest and pleasure throughout the
State:
The pesence OF Hon. E. b. Watson,
OF Winston, in the city Saturday
afternoon, shaking hands with his
old friends was enough to make any
one feel good for year. To hear
him talk shows one that he is almost
himself again. He can say some
thing that is not often permitted a
mamie lived to read his obituary
many times over. Time and again
he was given up to die but he fooled
them ALL
JUDGE LYON holding Robson court
last week lad the experience OF pro-
nouncing sentence of death upon
person for the first time since he has
been on the bench-about three years.
The RObesOnian says last Novem-
Der Judge J. Crawford Biggs, who
was then holding Robson Superior
Court, had to sentence his first man
to death. Judge Biggs had then
been on the bench about two years.
The sentence of the man whom he
sentenced to hang has since been
committed to life Imprisonment. The
man Judge Lyon has just sentenced
to the electric chair is a negro who
was convicted OF criminal assault
upon Croatan Indian woman.
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Prompt treatment of slight attack of
Diarrhoea will often prevent "a serious sick
ness The best known Remedy is Dr. SETH
ARNcLDs BALsAM. Your:apothecariea Mel
vile Dorsey. Thomas Bros. and W. W. Par
ker warrant it TO give satisfaction
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The Norfolk Landmark says: "The
philosopher Epicurus, according to
Seneca, made a-great boast of hav-
ing dned at IA cost of one penny.
We'd like to see him duplicate that
feat in this country now" However,
with the price of victuals still going
up we may yet have to dine off a
scent. Wilmington Star.
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Ii every kicker was a booster there
would be that many more boosters.
Which class are you in? The man
who will not stand up for his town is
not much help to it.-Greenville Re
fectOr.
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The date on your address label in.
dicates the time to which your sub.
scription is paid.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1909-01-19

Art. 5124.d. II in passing upon the
value of any property by commls-
sioners cour9 sitting as board OF
equalization sin this State, the court
shall fix a Value upon any property
for the purpose of taxation and a mi
nority of said court do not concur III
the judgement of the court, the clerk
shall record in the minutes OF the
court thes names of the members, in
GLIDING the county Judge, who dc
not CONCUR in fixing such values III
the county Judge shall cast the de-
Gliding vote in such matter), and II
any Tax Assessor or members OF any
commissioners court in this State shall
knowingly fail or refuse to Tx the
value of property rendered for taxes
in compliance with this act, and al
other laws of this State, such failure
NEGLECT or refusal shall constitute
malfeasance in office on the part O.
such Assessor or member or member
of said court, and such failure, neg
Iect or refusal shall be causetor hi
or their removal from office.