The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-12-16
Manufacturing
PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE AND PROSPEROUS PLANTERS

of merchandise. Everyone of these
wholesale concerns report constantly
increasing sales and trade territory,
and in this respect the progress made
has been in the nature of revelation,
for scores of car loads are sold and
shipped direct from the manufacturers
and producers to patrons, never, in
transit, reaching Henderson,
In the retail lines the large stocks
carried by HendersOn's merchants, and
their enterprising and reliable meth
DDS, have made Henderson an ever
popular and important trade center.
Standard goods abound in all lines;
there is plenty of variety of style,
quality and prices to satisfy all ordi-
| nary needs and any article out of the
ordinary is secured as rapidly as the
mail and express can deliver it, for
HendersCn'S merchants can get any
thing that is manufactured and sell
it at guaranteed price-a price that
protects patrons. There is no excuse
on earth to send away for any need,
but there is reason, and a good one,
why every dollar should be kept at
home, for the dollar kept at home
develops home enterprises and institu-
tons, but sent to the Catalogue houses
where the prOprietors of mail order
concerns reside or are interested in.
So it is the Square Deal to patronize
the home merchant and it is the part
of wisdom to not be allured by pic
lures and misleading descriptions that,
ninety-nine times in one hundred, dis
appoint. ..8 rtaF "a u.
Henderson's municipal advantages
nfrin OH Mo
which supplies power and illumination
for all the industries, Eliminates the
town all the business houses and
many residences This plant is SO
constructed that it can without inter-
ruption to its operations keep pace
with the growing demand, by the erec-
tions of such additions as may be re-
quired from time to time. 3 '
A water works supplies service by
means of nine miles Of mains built to
all pairs of the town, the aggregate
mileage of service pipes making the
Henderson Water Works system the
largest in the State outside of Ashe-
vile. The plant is of the latest filter
ing type and possesses all improve
ments for the best service in the event
of fire or for general uses. A sewer
age system, well paved streets and
cement sidewalks contribute to main
tain healthy conditions and along these
lines it is the established policy of
the people of Henderson to continue
the work of Improvement.
Henderson's new city hall, an illus
tration of which appears in this issue,
substantiates the efforts of the citizens
of Henderson to possess every metro
politan advantage. This building will
be equipped when completed with a
clock and bell to ring out the hour
and give the alarm of fire, and the en-
tire first floor will be devoted to stable
for horses, hose reel and other fire.
fighting apparatus The upper floors
assembly rooms.
Henderson will soon have a new
post-office building, an illustration of
which is here presented in these pages
for the first time. An appropriation
of $4,000 has already been made for
it's construction, the site secured and
operations await the word of architect
and builder. Fourteen people are
employed in the Henderson post-office.
This figure includes five rural and
three city carriers, so one can see that
the business done in Henderson is al
ready of Importance and grows con-
stantly, for the town is progressing
right along in every direction. 4
Henderson has six churches, repre-
senting the leading denominations.
These are all presided over by men
of zeal and learning, who inculcate
the Christian spirit which is the foun-
dation of the very best citizenship.
All the leading fraternal and benev-
client organizations have their lodge or
assembly rooms in the community and
these are we'll attended by Hender-
sons citizens, keeping alive the char
acteristics of good fellowship and hos
pitality-the dominant features of the
community.
In school advantages, ~ can safA1u
be said, no town can excel those to
be secured at Hendersons public
schools, whose curriculum provides the
scholar with a liberal education in the