Henderson gold leaf., 1911-11-30

held at the Baptist church Thurs
day morning at II o'clock.
Rev. c.. J. Thompson will
preach Sunday morning at II
o'clock at the First Baptist
church.
Mr.. H. Thomason has a pear
tree that is now bearing its sec
ond crop. The pears are as we'll
developed as the first crop and
are beginning to ripen.
Mr.. D. Y. Cooper has been ap-
pointed a delegate to the Nation
al Rivers and Harbors Congress
which will hold its eighth an
nual convention in Washington
December 6-8.
The Henry L. Wyatt Camp will
hold its last meeting of the year
next Saturday morning at II
o'clock in the Kings Daughters
Hall. The meeting will be Of
much Importance to the members
and all are requested to be pres
ent.
The following changes took
place in the Seaboard Air Line
schedule last Sunday: No. 80 ar
riVes at Ill p. M, No. 66 ar
rives at 1877 p. M, No. 80 at
6:29 p. M, Oxford train at $50.
The schedules Of other trains re-
main unchanged.
The Farmers Union is about
the only force that can really ac-
cOmpIish anything in the way Of
getting more money for cotton
and the sooner the farmers real
ize this and go to work earnestly
along that line the sooner will
the problem be solved.
In the presence of only a few
relatives and friends, Mr.. Peter
Gill and Miss Willie Buchan, two
well known and prominent young
people of this county, were mar
ried Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
at the home of the bride. Rev.
Robert Troxler, visiting minis
ter to the Methodist Protestant
Conference, officiated. The mar
riage was quite a surprise to the
friends of the couple.
Thanksgiving services will be
held at Holy Innocents church at
II o'clock. There will be special
decorations, music and sermon
for that occasion. The week
following will be the first week
in Advent, during which time
there will be special services
for men held at this church. The
services will be twenty minutes
in length beginning at II o'clock
each day. A cordial invitation
is extended to all men to attend.
The little label on your paper
each week shows the date to
which your subscription is paid.
Have you noticed it lately? If
it shows that your time has al
ready expired or that you are in
arrears, send in your renewal to-
gether with what you are due on
back account, and along with it
your vote for your favorite con-
testant. We hope all our sub
scribers who have not already
done so will make it a special point
to attend to this matter during
the next few days, and your
kindness will be very greatly ap-
preciated by the publisher.
Mr.. J. G.. Pate, who works at
the garage, was badly burned in
an accident Sunday afternoon
about $50 o'clock. He was max
ing a fire in the stove at the
garage to keep the cars from
freezing. Some one had poured
a quantity of kerosene or gaSo-
Iene in the stove, which had run
down to the bottom, and Mr..
rate did not know that there
was already oil in the stove. He
poured more on top of the coal
and wood and set it afire. and
when it reached the bottom of
the stove the oil that had col
lected below exploded. Mr.. Pate
was standing very near and was
badly burned in the face. eyes
and mouth. He is suffering a
great deal. but his burns are not
considered serious.
South Henderson Baptist
church will be as neat and as
Well arranged church as there is
in town when the new Sunday
school rooms, which are now be-
ing built, are completed. This
addition will accommodate one
hundred more pupils. The Sun
beams rendered a very attractive