The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1911-03-23

to make the Gold Leaf we'll worth
the price, and if you want to see a
good newspaper maintained in Hen
derson and Vance county, you now
have the opportunity to show your
faith by your works.
Yours very truly,
GOLD PUBLISHING co:
UIrITVTvITvO E1EvD xxxD xx.-....~
The laying down of an enterprise
which one has founded and after
ward fOstered through the long pc
riOd OF nearly thirty years is no small
matter. To the man who has set
for himself the high ideal of doing
one thing, and who has done it CON
tinuously and successfully for nearly
a generation, it is not strange that
giving it up should cause a pang as
keen as signing the death warrant of
his own child.
1t Is also true that situations are
often made sadder by peculiar cir
cumstances. The giving over of an
enterprise of your own beginning is
more difficult than of one in which
you have only passing interest.
There is a peculiar Joy in building
upon your own foundation; in feeling
that this is mine, the child of my
brain, conceived in love and faith
and hope, nursed through infancy,
watched through childhood, guided
through youth, blessed in manhood,
and looked forward to as the stay
and companion of old age.
1t is also harder to be called upon
to give up ones chosen life work be-
fore life is over. When the three
score years and ten are upon US, the
laying down of burdens is often
relief, but at-welI, with years at
monday, the spirit at sunrise, and
desire at dawn, the giving up of nc
tive work, even for a time, is hard.
This has been necessary in the case
OF Thad R. Manning, the founder OF
the Gold Leaf and for twenty-nine
years and three months its earnest,
able and efficient editor.
This issue appears under the new
which desires first Of !
all to express it's regret for his i'm |
paired health, it's hope for his speedy |
recovery, its esteem for him person. |
ally, and it's recognition Of his ability |
and service.
We shall notspeak of him as a man
and citizen. We are thankful that
le is still able to speak for himself in
,hese particulars, and we earnestly |
rope that he may have another
years and three months
md even more in Henderson, which
owes him and which he loves in re-
urn, and to which he ha given al
most a generation of noble, unselfish
ervice. We shall therefore speak of
lin, in this connection, only as edi-
OF.
In view of the great daily papers,
printed often before some of the
vents chrOnicled in them have taken
'lace and which frequently never
axe place-except in the paper
long with the increased facilities for
distribution afforded by the rural
nail delivery, some have thought
hat the weekly paper has about
erved it's day and generation. But
his is by no means true. The big
Iailies are in no sense competitors of
he country weekly. In addition to
he excellent value of the country
weekly as the purveyor of the local
ews, in which the people Of every
ommunity are most interested, a
ield which it occupies exclusively as
is own and which can never be filed
" any outside paper, it has even a
,reater and broader field of useful
ess, in that it takes its place along
ide the church and the school, ever
faithfully and zealously for
he material, intellectual, moral and
General uplift of the community in
which it is published.
Few editors have recognized this
act more clearly than has Mr.. Man
ing in his management of the Gold
4eaf for the past twenty-nine years
md more, and he has labored
and zealously to this end.
70 question looking to the material
'etterment of his town, county or
state ever escaped his attention.
my information that would help the
housewife, the farmer or the mer-
liant found a ready place in his col
INNS. Ever watchful for suggestion,
le was prompt to give his readers
he thought would help them
n the battle of life or contribute to
heir comfort and success.
No less did he labor for the intel
ectual Improvement of his people.
lis paper was ever a friend and ad-
'ocate of better schools. His col
INNS were always open to items of
interest and his facile pen ever ready
o add word of encouragement or
ound a note of warning.
No less characteristic of the paper
Tas its high moral tone. Rarely
as one seen a paper so free from
,ossip, so little food for felons. His
olumns, ever open to anything that
made for the betterment of the COM
nunlty, were always closed to that
Ihlch was low or sordid or soiling.
ever n vulture circled above the
iold Leaf office smelling for carrion.
smelt in vain. No scandal monger
yer found that over which to gloat.
Such has been the noble and faith
III service rendered the community
Y Mr.. Manning, and now that he
etlres from the management OF the
iold Leaf, to the establishment and
uccess OF which he has given so many
ears of labor and love the GOOD |
eople of Henderson and Vance
ounty will never be unmindful of the
anne. God bless him, and fill the re-
laining years OF his useful and un-
elfsh life with happiness and peace
mind and soul.
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