Henderson gold leaf., 1911-08-31

IIudy AFTERNOON from - TO o clOck
at her home in honor of her guests
Miss Lucy Harrison, of Washington
u. T., and Mr.. Beyely Snow, of Dur.
ham. Miss Nellie Jordan and Mrs.
Edwards received at the front door
and the guests of honor were met in
the parlor. Punch was served in the
hall. Hearts was the game played
and the first prize, fan. was won by
Miss Mary Moore and given to Miss
Harrison. Miss Gertrude Swain won
second prize, a scarf pin, which was
given to Mr.. Snow. Ice cream and
cake were served and the sixteen
guests present were highly entertain
ed.
| County superintendent J. C.. Kit
trell estimates that there will be an
increase in the public school funds OF
vance county this year of at least
1900 over last year, owing to the
large increase in valuation of taxa
BILE property in the county and other
causes. The per capita appOrtion-
ment last year was $2.15, while it is
hoped to be able to make it 81. Is
this year. This will help consi.ler"-
bly, in giving the county even bette.
schools if not longer terms. The
county board of education meets
next Monday, when a number of
matters are expected to come before
it.
The Gold Leaf has pretty good as
surance that the proposed new rail
road from this city to Castalia will
be built before great while AS a
matter OF fact it is not known just
yet who will build the road, but it is
a tempting proposition and someone
is going to take it up and put it
through some of these days. Diff
ferent parties are now figuring on it
with view to constructing the road.
Henderson now sees in this PROPOSE
tlOn a good opportunity to get the
Atlantic Coast Line here, and it need
not surprise anyone to learn diinite-
~ that strong efforts are being made
III this direction, although not very
much is being said about it.
Mr.. L. NJ. Pittman, of this place,
has just been notified by Secretary
Thomas W. Davis, of the North Car
olina Bar Association, of his ap-
pointment by the president of that
body az chairman of a special COM
mittee to investigate the Torrens
System OF registration and assur
ance of land titles and make up Il
report on the subject to the next
meeting OF the association, in accord
ance with "a resolution passed at
the late annual meeting at Toxa-
way, when and where Mr. Pittman
delivered q very exhaustive and
able address on that subject. The
other members of the committee are
Mr.. j. A. LOckhart, of WadesbOro;
Mr.. f. r. Preston, of Charlotte; Mr..
J. W. Plpss, of Marion, and Mr. W.
+. Daniel. of Weldon.
DR.. f. A. Macon, of this city, has
just received Il letter from Mr. Leon
ard TUFTS, advising him OF the au-
tOmObiIe tour on the capital hi igh-
way. The American association for
highway Improvement is to hold its
annual meeting at Richmond Nov
ember 20-24. President Taft and
other prominent Americans will de-
liver addresses. The tour will start
from Atlanta November 18th, and
the people of this section who are in
terested in the subject of good roads
are invited to participate in the tour
and JON the party Ell route, which is
expected to reach Henderson Novem-
| Der 18th or 18th, by which time it is
thought there may be a hundred or
more cars in line. MIR. Tufts will be
pleased to furnish fnll particulars to
all who address him at Meredith, N
Ii.
Prizes were recently offered the
boys of Raleigh for the largest num-
ber of old tin cans collected in the city
and delivered at designated place
by q certain day. A dozen or so
boys entered the contest with a vim,
with the result that when the day
came for awarding the prizes there
were $4,000 old tin cans piled up at
the place designated for that pur-
pose Old tin cans furnish an ideal
place for the breeding of mosquitoes
and disease germs, and yet almost
every town in the State is full of
them. Henderson is no exception to
the general rule, and if the Civic
League could see its way to start q
contest similar to the one over at
Raleigh the result would no doubt
be equally as gratifying. From all
reports, there are probably few
towns in the State that are more
badly in need of "A general cleaning
up than Henderson.
The board of health ofVance coun-
ty, which is composed of County
superintendent J. c. Kittrell, Mayor
r. j. Switzerland, chairman of the
board of county commissioners. Mr..
J. X. Plummer, Drs. F. r. Harris
and A. S. PendletOn, at meeting
held last week passed an order that
no child should be admitted to the
public schools of the county who has
not been successfully vaccinated This
order is in line with the State law
and is deemed necessary to protect
the children of the public schools
against smallpox. But there is some
little dissatisfaction on account of
this action on the part of the board
of health, as the public schools will
soon be opening, and an effort will
likely be made next Monday, when
the county board ofeducatiOn meets,
to have the time for the order to 90
into effect postponed until Decem-
Der. This would give more time for
the children to comply with the new
regulation, which if put into effect at
once is likely to greatly decrease the
attendance at the schools for a few
weeks at least.
1t now begins to appear that the
estimates of a bumper cotton crop
in the South have been very much
overdrawn, and that the crop is
liable to fall considerably short of