Henderson gold leaf., 1911-09-14

udu, DIS superior court luOge OF tue
ninth judicial district to succeedJudge
j. Crawford Biggs, who resigned to be-
come member OF the law faculty OF
Trinity College and to resume his
law practice at Durham. The COM
mission bestows the judgeship on
Foushee until the next general cleo
ton, although the term OF Judge
Biggs would have continued two
years longer. The new Judge is one
OF the best known lawyers in the
State, having served repeatedly and
with marked ability in the Legisla-
ture.
Gill &Wortham's store and a small
dwelling house belonging to DIR. F.
K. Harris, on Chustnut street, were
burned early last Friday morning,
the blaze being first discovered about
l O'Clock. The store building, which
was a small wooden structure, was
almost ready to fall in when the
alarm was given, and for some rea-
son the fire department was unusual
ly slow to respond. Consequently
the store and the stock Of goods
were total loss. About SIS i'll ci,.
and check for $13 50 were burned
The origin OF the blaze is not known.
Mr.. Gill estimates the loss on store
and stock at about 81, 700 There
was some insurance on both, prob
ably enough to cover about half the
loss. The small dwelling belonging
to DIR. Harris and occupied by a col
ored family was put out before il
burned completely down, but was
practically ruined. A small house
on the other side Of the store caught
several times but was put out each
time.
Almost every day the Gold Leaf
receives news items and communica-
tions through the mails that are not
signed by anyone, neither is there
anything to indicate the identity of
the writer. 1t has long been a fixed
rule among newspapers everywhere
not to print unsigned communica-
tiOns or any part of them. Publish
ers must of necessity know who is
responsible for every item that they
print, otherwise they might be gross
ly imposed upon at times Hereafter
unsigned communications will re-
ceive no attention whatever in this
office, even though they contain only
a little personal mention. We most
certainly will not print the name of
the writer, unless the item is of such
a nature that our readers are en-
titledato know who wrote it. In this
connection we want to assure our
friends that we very greatly appre-
clate their kindness in sending in
these little items. That is exactly
what we want them to do. But the
publisher>must know who is respon-
sible for them.
Prof. Fl. V. Bounds, who was prin-
cipal of the Central Graded School
and also teacher of the tenth and
eleventh grades last year, spent g
few days of the past week with friends
in the city, just on the eve of going
to Thomasville, Ga, to take up his
work in the graded schools of that
place. Probably no young man ever
came to Henderson, who made more
friends here within one year than did
Prof. Bounds. He is not only most
excellent young gentleman of high
education and polish, but number
one teacher as well. He will make
friends everywhere he goes and could
not fail to impress any progressive
community with his superior person
al worth both as a Christian gentle
man and a teacher. The best
wishes OF a very large number OF
friends in Henderson go with him to
his new field of labor, and the people
Of Thomasville, Ga, are to be most
heartily congratulated upon secur-
ing his services as teacher in their
graded schools. The good people of
Henderson were very loath to give
him up.
The theatrical season in Hender-
son opened at the Grand Theatre
last Monday night. The NEST Egg"
was the attraction of that date, and
was greeted with fairly good house.
The "Nest Egg is a good show, and
with the exception of two or three
unnecessary passes at profanity may
be said to he "clean." The objec-
tionable feature mentioned might
be removed to the decided advan-
tage of the show in most Southern
cities. Anyway that one feature
would have the effect of losing it a
number of good patrons in Hender-
son for another engagement. The
management of the Grand Theatre
might do we'll in the beginning OF the
present season to put thea 5rical
troupes on their guard with refer
ence to this and all other objectiona-
BILE features, if it wishes to make the
season a success from the standpoint
of patronage. The moral sentiment
of most Southern communities has
advanced beyond that stage where it
will stand for many features that
are tolerated up North, and if they
are not "cut out" down this way the
result will be that the great majority
of the best people in the South are
going to "cut out" the shows The
next attraction at the Grand Thea
tre will be "Graustark," which will
be given Friday night, September
22nd.
The time OF year has once more ar.
rived when the merchant who order,
2 ed out his advertisement six months
: ago because the dull season had SET
in and it wouldn't pay to advertise
any more until fall," comes buster
: ing into the newspaper office, like 6
) veritable business cyclone was right
: in after him, and fourishing great
: handful of copy in the publisher:
. face demands that the regular ad
vertisers who have kept their adver
:. tisements going right along al
: through the dull spring and summer
, months be crowded away back into
. the back corner OF the back yard il
order to make room for him in the
!, very best position of the paper for 6
: short while during the "busy season.
! He further proceeds to argue that as
hn is NOT nyactlv sura il will nav him