Henderson gold leaf., 1911-07-13

| Dukes that might have resulted
seriously but for the quick work of
Mrs. Duke and her sister, who reach
ed the spot almost instantly with
rugs and quilts and succeeded in put
ting out the flames
Joseph j. Davis Chapter of Confed-
crate Veterans at Louisburg are
making arrangements to get a sup
| ply Of uniforms for their veterans.
Henry l.. Wyatt Camp was the Sec
Ond III the State to secure the uni
forms and the Louisburg Camp will
perhaps be the next one.
On July 18th. 27th, 28th, and
August the 1st, 4th, 9Th, 9th, 18th,
10Th, and 10Th, the Seaboard Air
Line will sell round trip tickets from
Henderson to Black Mountain, n.
T., on account Of Montreal Chautau-
qua and religious assem- bIes, at the
rate OF $3.50 for the round trip.
The Conductors Excursion, the
cold Reliable" will run from Raleigh
to Norfolk July 18th. Leave Hen
derson 1890 p. M, Tuesday, July
18th. Returning, leave Portsmouth
900 n. m, Thursday, July GOTH
Round trip from Henderson, $3.50
Train will not leave Henderson until
1870.
Ben iamin f. Robinson, the Oldest
locomotive engineer on the Southern
Railway and is said to be the oldest
in point OF service of any lOcOmo olive
engineer in the United States, died
at Charleston last week. Robinson
was II years Of age. He became an
engineer about 1860. During his
long experience with a locomotive he
injured but one person.
The Seaboard Air Line is now sell
ing Sunday excursion tickets from
Henderson to Norfolk at the rate of
$500 for the round trip. These
tickets are on sale for train No. 80
every Sunday morning till August
21, This train leaves Henderson at
1853 a. m. Returning leave Ports
mouth on regular train No. 93 at
$50 p. IN. same date of sale
Mr.. ". E. Massenburg has accept
ed a position as night ticket agent
with the s. A. l.. at Henderson, and
will be found on duty at freight or
passenger office from p. IN. to Z a.
IN. This enables the public to get
tickets, baggage checked, rates or
any information 24 hours to the
day, n service which cannot be ex-
celled by any city or railroad.
The Vance Guards left on special
train late Sunday< afternoon for
Morehead City for their annual en-
campment at Camp Glenn. A large
number Of people gathered at the
station to see them off and to wish
them a good time. The Guards will
return on the 18th. Rev. |. W.
Hughes, who was recently made
chaplain of the company, went to
Morehead City Tuesday.
Mrs. Berry Tucker, we'll known
and prominent lady of Dabney, died
at her home at that place Tuesday
night. The remains we're buried
Wednesday by the side of her hus-
band in the cemetery at Herman
Methodist Episcopal church. The
funeral services were conducted by
her pastor. Mrs. Tucker is survived
by her adopted daughter, Mrs Viii
son, who is pOstmistress at Dabney.
Mr.. AC. Burdick, superintendent of
construction, has recommended to
the Postoffice Department that the
Henderson postotfice be moved into
the elegant new pOstOffice building
next Saturday, July 10Th. The new
building has not yet received all the
finishing touches on the inside, and
it will be something like month yet
before it does. But this fact would
not interfere with the pOstoffice
work.
People who live on Andrews ave
nue. near the standpipe enjoy seeing
rainbow most any time. These
rainbOWs are not in the clouds like
the one that the Creator placed
there in His covenant with Noah,
but they are real rainbOws When
the standpipe Overfows and the
wind is blowing the water pOurs
down in a big broad sheet. If the
sun is shining a beautiful rainbow
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bow can be seen up and down the
standpipe.
The Gold Leafs subscription list
continues to grow very SATISFACTORY
Iv. About twenty-five new ones
have been added during the past
week. A number of these were prom
inent farmers of the county who
IN TO rilU nn6
of them had some very encouraging
word to say for the paper. We
would be beextremely glad to have every
good farmer in the county on our
subscription list, and every one OF
them ought to read their county pa
per regularly.
A farmer living near Lumberton
tried an experiment with nitrate OF
soda last week that he will likely
never want to try again. He says
that he has always had good results
with it as top dresser on his crop
> and determined to try it on some
thing else. So at last one day when
| he had been putting some to his
) crops he decided to try his hogs with
r some. He mixed little with some
, cotton seed meal and gave it to
them, when 10 and behold, l fine big
hogs fell over dead.
The SeabOard Air Line is now Op
, Grating on its fine through trains be
tween Washington and the Soutt
some Of the most up-tO-date da!
. coaches yet put on by any OF the bis
systems. All the through trains art
now carrying extremely handsome
t steel, electric-lighted, sanitary co ach
d es, with concrete floors, and man!
e other improvements. These coaches
J. built by the Pullman Company, sea-
II 81 persons and have all the accom-
n modations and conveniences OF reg
ular Pullman coaches.
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