Henderson gold leaf., 1911-07-13
News Notes From Middleburg.

Mr. W r. Rowland went to Roxboro
Monday.
Rev. B. C. Alfred and daughter, Miss
Dora kimball Alfred have gone to Selma
for the week.
Mr. r. L. Bennett has returned home
from a two weeks tri ip to the Eastern
part of the State
Misses Matte and Viola Sears, OF APP
pOInattOx. Va, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. W. H. Booth this week.
Miss Kathron Church and little sister
are visiting their grandmother Mrs. ii.
D. Church, in Henderson this week.
Miss Mamie Parham, of Oxford. is in
the village for a five weeks visit to her
sisters, Mesdames J K Plummer and ].
/ NJ Rowland.
/ The Gold Leaf is like long and much
! welcomed letter from Home, Sweet
/ H ONE" each week. 1t is brim full of good
news about everybody and everything.
Mrs Walter Moore and daughters,
/ Misses Rebecca and Leila. and son, Mas
/ ter Judson Moore, have gone to Raleigh
! fo- few days stay with Mrs. c. d.
| Beckham.
Any young wife should love a young
/ husband who scalds, scrubs and rinses
the kitchin floor and then gets down on
his knees and puts fresh coat of paint
on it this hot weather
Mr. George Il. Parhnm Of Oxford,
spent Sunday in Middleburg, returning
home in the afternoon and taking with
! him his daughter, Miss Emma Parham,
who had been visiting her aunt, Mrs. j.
Nj. Rowland.
Mr.. H. NJ. Church has purchased the
| Yancy building across the street from
his present place of business and is hav-
/ ing the store house repaired and re-
painted, and will move his stock OF
merchandise, together with the Middle
burg pOstOffice, into it.
The annual meeting at the Baptist
church will begin next Sunday morning.
The pastor, Rev f. r. Nelson, comes to
the work unassisted and invites both
the presence and prayers OF Gods people
to help him in furthering the work OF the
Lord. There will be a service on Sun
day morning and two services each day
through the week, one in the forenoon
and one in the afternoon
Rev. B. c. Alfred postponed the regular
appointment for the annual meeting at
Tabernacle Methodist church this week
on account of the Baptist Association at
Rock Springs, which is in session this
week The different denominations OF
this community always work together
in perfect harmony for the salvation and
redemption of the world, and try to ar
range their meetings so as not to inter
fere with each other.
The first service in the interest OF the
Laymen's Movement was held Sunday
morning at the NJ. f. Church. Devotion
al exercises We're conducted by Mr. Geo.
Fleming of Middleburg Mr. W. E. Moss,
of Henderson, made brief but impress
sive talk The movement is under the
leadership of Messrs. W. ID. Mitchell, X.
T. Spain and J H. Paschall, than whom
there are no better men spiritually to be
found.
If the new editor of the Gold Leal
should decide to make tour OF Vance
county, he will know when he reaches
Middleburg from the fact that he will
then be Just midway between Raleigh
and Weldon. Some of us might have
long since gone before the Legislature
and asked for the name of the town to
be changed if it had not been for the fact
that we are proud of our midway posi-
ton on the map.
The many friends OF Mrs. W. T. Row.
land will be glad to know that she has
entirely recovered from a recent attack
of typhoid fever. This is the first case
of typhoid fever that has been in Middle
burg in eleven years, and we think she
must have had the germs in her system
when she moved here quite recently. W.
feel safe in making the assertion thai
, there are houses in Middleburg of ovel
forty years standing in which a case o
typhoid fever has never been known
Neither do we have pellagra or the hook
worm in Middleburg