Henderson gold leaf., 1911-09-21

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died Wednesday morning about /.
O'Clock at his home near Cokesbury
His death was caused by paralysis
and was very unexpected. Mr.. Ranes
was in Henderson a day or two be
fore he died and appeared to be as
we'll as usual. Funeral services viii
be conducted from North Henderson
Baptist church this afternoon by
Rev. j. H. Spaulding and the remains
will be buried in Elmwood cemetery
! Deceased is survived by two sons and
three daughters, one of whom is
Mrs. Robert Faulkner, of this place.
Mrs Sallie E. Belvin died Saturday
at her home in the country about
one mile from North Henderson. She
was a well known and prominent
woman and will be greatly missed
by her neighbors and friends in that
community. Mrs. Belvin was sixty,
five years old. The remains were
buried Sunday at the family burying
ground. The pail bearers were
Messrs. l.. M. Harris, W. c. Hight,
Eugene Wiggings, S. g. Brummitt,
T. NJ. Pittman and c. II. Turner.
Rev. W. r. Royal conducted the
/ funeral services.
A series of meetings is in progress
at the Methodist Protestant church
this week and will continue through
the week including Sunday. Services
are held every afternoon at $3.50
O'Clock and in the evening at s
o'clock. The meeting is conducted
by the pastor, Rev. r. NJ. Andrews,
and the singing is in charge of evan
gelistic singer, Mr.. Charles U. Butler,
and wife. Mr.. Butler is master in
the vocal music art and fine choir
director His services in this capac-
ity are delighting the congregations
and are adding much to the interest
of the meeting. Rev. Mr.. Andrews is
preaching good sermons day and
night, and the attendance is also
good.
Mr.. J. c. kittrell, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, is now in
correspondence with Northern gen
tleman who for the past fourteen
years has been general manager OF
two of the biggest oil cloth mills in
the United States, with reference to
locating large plant of this sort in
Henderson. This gentleman tells
Mr.. kittrell that he wants to put an
oil cloth manufacturing plant here
that will cost at least $15O,O00, and
will furnish half the capital himself.
The mill would employ at least forty
high-class men, in addition to much
other help, and would do half mil
lion dollars business year. Cloth
manufactured by the cotton mills
right here in Henderson would be
used as a base for their products.
Some Southern city will be almost
sure to get this splendid new enter
prise, and Henderson can hardly af-
ford to let a great opportunity like
this slip by while it is knocking at
our very doors and wanting to come
in. Here is fine opportunity for
the Chamber of Commerce to show
its hand. By all means the matter
should be thoroughly investigated,
and if the enterprise is what it ap-
pears to be it ought to be given every
possible encouragement and induce
ment to come here.
The "Mighty" Haag Shows exhi-
bited here last Saturday afternoon
and night. There was great crowd
in town for the afternoon perform
ance and in fact for the big street
parade at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
1t looked as if Vance county had
emptied itself into Henderson early
in the day. Some of the white peO-
pie may have remained at home, but
most certainly all of the 'niggers"
were here. About the time the after
noon performance was half over q
wind and rain storm came up and
for q few minutes it looked like the
big tent would be blown down upon
the great crowd of people on the in
side. Just at this time three big
elephants that were doing their
stunts in the ring became excited at
the Hopping of the tent and were
about to stampede. Aregular panic
among the people followed and men,
women and children rushed out into
the rain and wind in every direction,
most of them crawling down between
the elevated seats and out under the
sides Of the tent. In some places men
cut the ropes with their pocket
knives in order to let the people out.
There was from two to three thou
sand in the tent when thepanic start
ed. Fortunately no one was hurt.
Persons on the outside said the peO-
pie pouring out from under the tent
reminded them of bees swarming.
This broke up the afternoon perfor-
nance. The evening performance
was without incident and was wit
messed by nearly thousand people.