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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1905
Page
3
Community notices recount court attendance in Greensboro, personal visits, weather for early April, and local shop ads. Brown & Co Advertising stocks, calendar remarks, and health remedies appear alongside a new cash register feature at Webb & Co. The piece highlights spring weather, Shoppers take note of sale items, groceries, and hardware offers with emphasis on local businesses and residents.
A local ad announces new stock at Brown & Co featuring a dime store assortment. Items listed include safety pins, paper hooks and eyes, a thimble, bonnet pins, handkerchiefs, shoe strings, collar buttons, and a variety of pins. The ad promises low prices and recent arrivals.
Wanted A good hand for ordinary farm work John W Graham Cara To My Friends and Customers In the future when you come to town you will find me with Messrs H W J C Webb I will be glad to wait on you and do the best I can for you Your friend The Orange County Medical Society met at Hillsboro Monday and re elected officers for the next 12 months President Dr Isaac H Manning Chapel Hill Vice President Dr Claud H Hughes Cedar Grove Secretary Treasurer Dr C D Jones Frightful suffering relieved Dr Grayson Saa Miss taking Dr Kings New Life Pills cured All stomach and bowel disorders by their tonic laxative 25c at W A Hayes Drugstore State Farmers Convention officers Raleigh April 30 big meeting planned for August at Raleigh Fallen Auditorium Agricultural and Mechanical College Col Eugene A Hughes Moccasin Rancho Hillsboro noted as a compliment and well deserved
For sale an eight room cottage on about 2 3 4 acres with a spring and good well in the wealthiest part of Hillsboro North Carolina. Shaded by oaks. For particulars write W. B. Meares Linwood NC. Mr. S Scrudwick will show property and provide details.
Notice of town election for Hillsboro May 2 1905 at the courthouse. Registration opens April 14 1905 weekdays 9 am to 5 pm and Saturdays until 9 pm at Mayor's Office. Voters May 2 elect Mayor and five Commissioners on a single white ballot.
Local notice highlights a new Hillsboro shop stocking spring and summer dress goods, notions, furniture, fertilizers, and millinery. Partners Mr. Parks, Mr. Hedgoeth, and Mr. Hassell are mentioned with plans to operate from the old stand.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session. They ordered a new road from Hillsboro and Durham via University Station to Fish Dam road be received when cleared and passable at no county cost, and accepted a road from Tapp's Creek to Lewis Boggs' as public when opened. Juries for the May 1 Civil Term were listed, and tax assessors for 1905 were appointed for townships. The County Home inspection found 21 inmates with mixed races and genders.
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