Henderson gold leaf., 1911-08-31

< NJ. College at Raleigh, having met
| Tuesday morning for a three day s
! session. Governor Kitchin made the
| welcome address. Some of the best
known agricultural experts in the
country have addressed the conven-
ton on various subjects, and it has
been a great meeting. The State
women's farm life convention has
been in session at the same place and
time, and both have been we'll at
tended.
The Gold Leaf has good news for
the boys this week. The older peo-
pie and the girls may pretend that
they do not feel interested in it after
they learn what it is, but the boys
are going to lump up and pop their
heels together just as soon as they
hear it. The circus is coming-com-
ing right here to Henderson, and
that before long, too. 1t will be
here September 16th-"The Mighty
Haag Shows" We do not know
just how "mighty" they are, but
we'll all go and see for ourselves.
Miss Jennie Y. Fleming, of Middle
burg, who has been elected instruc-
tor in physical culture in the Raleigh
public schools, will leave about Sep
tember 11th to take charge of her
work at that place. Miss Flemingis
graduate of Meredith College,
where she taught a year after com
pleting her course, and took a post
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qualified in every way for the respOn-
sible duties of her position and will
doubtless do much to develop strong
men and women out of the Raleigh
school children.
According to the Oxford papers,
the farmers of Granville county have
thus far agreed to pool one million
pounds of tobacco, with more to fol-
low, in order to realize higher prices
for it. The Farmers Union of that
county is behind this movement. In
some other counties Of the State al
most the entire crop will be pooled
for the purpose indicated. 1t seems
that the farmers have decided to
meet the tobacco trusts with trust
methods, and the trusts can hardly
condemn them for adopting methods
similar to their own.
Mrs Elizabeth Ann COghill, a we'll
known and prominent woman died
Sunday at her home at Gillburg
She was 10 years Of age. The funer-
al services were conducted at $3.50
o'clock Wednesday afternoon from
Gillburg Methodist Protestant
church by Rev. X. c. Stubbins and
the burial took place in the cemetery
at that place. She is survived by
several children. Her husband, who
was a Baptist minister, died several
years ago. The pall-bearers were,.
S. &. Satterwhite, r. s. Watkins, j.
A. Gill, J. T. Moss, J. l.. Parks and
J. f. Gill
Mr.. J. c. Kittrell, who enjoys the
distinction here at home as we'll as
elsewhere Of being one of Vance
cOunty's foremost orators, will 90
to LOuisburg next Thursday to de-
liver an address to the Confederate
Veterans of Franklin county at their
reunion on that day This means of
course that there is something good
in store not only for the Veterans of
Franklin county but for nll who at
tend their relation at Louisburg on
the date mentioned. Mr.. kittrell
ranks among the very best and most
entertaining speakers of this section
of North Carolina.
The deterioration of the cotton
crop throughout this entire section
during the past three or four weeks
is giving the farmers no little con-
Germ. A few weeks ago the crop pre-
sented u most promising appearance,
but in many localities it has so deteri
Grated of late that present prospects
point to little better than twO-thirds
of a normal crop. Many of the best
farmers are at a loss to understand
the cause of this great falling off.
Reports Indicate that similar COndi-
tiOns now prevail over a great pOr-
tion of the South.
Jesse Williams, the old cOlored
man who sits in the shade OF the
trees on the streets of Henderson
and knits fishing nets all day long,
has made a wonderful record at his
trade. He is "A years old and has
been knitting fishing nets for the past
twenty years or more. He knlts
two nets four and five yards long in
a day and realizes Il profit OF 80
cents to 81 90 off of each one, max
ing yearly income of about $234.-
10. He has made many thousand
nets during the past twenty years,
and he says that the demand for
them is greater than he can supply.
Capt. Il. B. Parker, director of the
farmers institute work carried on by
the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture, closed up last week
series of one hundred and fifty insti-
tutes held the past two months in
practically every section and almost
every county in the State. He and
his institute workers haye had spe-
cial opportunity to observe the crop
conditions. Captain Parker esti-
mates that there will be at least an
average crop OF cotton, but that the
prospect is for less than normal
yield of corn, this being due to
drought conditions in some sections.
Mr.. jim Fulton, a Surry county
farmer, has recently introduced a
new mode of punishment for Offend
ers. He found four Italians in his
Watermelon patch stealing melons
lost rAnl- onI q no
had captured them he marched the
captives back to the melon patch
where he required each to eat q fifty
pound melon and one Dago remark
ed: "Me gotta nough," the colonel
placidly remarked that it was eat or
go to jail. Colonel Jim enjoyed the
joke, the Dagoes got enough water
melon to do them for some time to
come.