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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
3
Local notices advertise subscription rates and advertising rates, postal and railway timetable details for the Southern Railway line through Hillsboro, with departures and arrivals to Greensboro and Raleigh. Also included are political notices, endorsements, and civic appointments, plus local medical and retail promotions and a call to vote Democratic in Orange County.
An advertisement touts German Syrup as a universal remedy for coughs and severe lung ailments. It claims relief by stimulating tissues and offering a good night's rest. The piece endorses the product as highly recommended by physicians and lists WA Hayes, Druggist, among supporters.
In Moore North Carolina on July 27 1900 a local inquest investigated the sudden death of Doo Teer after rumors and illness prompted a stomach examination. The Orange County coroner Dr Parris oversaw the autopsy with Dr Gattis present while a Hillsboro jury examined witnesses and awaited the state chemist report. The inquiry resumes in Hillsboro July 28 with further testimony and specimen analysis. One Minute Cough Cure advertisement follows.
On Monday the 3rd day of Sept 1900 the undersigned will sell at the court house door in Hillsboro North Carolina to the highest bidder the Arch Cain place in Little River Township Orange County containing 150 acres more or less bounded by Levi Y Lockhart Jackson Crabtree Monroe Copley Sher wood Garrard Maria Jeffreys O S Cates WE Copley John Holloway. Terms are one third cash one third in 6 months and one third in 12 months with 6 percent interest from date of sale. This 30th day of July 1900 Sterling Browning Commissioner.
The Board of Commissioners of Or ne County will be in session on August 7 1900 to allow all tax-payers to ferry with the list takers and list the same before the Board by order of the Board.
Executions from the Superior Court in favor of D. H. Hamilton and the Cottrell Saddlery Company trigger a sale by John E. Bugres on August 6 1900 at the Hillsboro courthouse. One half of D. Turner's estate plus shares in multiple tracts including Grove Place Faucette and Race Tract totaling hundred plus acres, town lots on Churton and King streets, and other parcels pass to the purchaser under will terms.
The Democratic party rallies behind a far reaching state constitution amendment likened to moral peril if defeated. The speaker warns defeat would imply disenfranchising Black citizens and leaving the state exposed to external judgment, urging unity and urgency.
Twenty nine officers and men write that Bucktell's Arnica Salve treats scratches burns and skin troubles well. Also Chamberlain's tablets praised for stomach and liver relief. Announcements include church preaching plans, a roller mill project, a new school ad, a farmer wheat trial, and a melon party with hay ride. Prices and druggist sales noted.
The Superior Court will convene Monday in Hillsboro with Judge Hoke presiding. The civil docket includes four divorces. the criminal docket centers on Arch Russell charged with attempted rape of Miss Becky Riley. About 70 cases are on the docket and may be disposed of before adjournment. Jurors named: Crabtree, Wokerson, Williams, Kirkpatrick, Workman, Wells, Bacon, Robson, Wilson, Weaver, Woods, Tiley, Freeland, Hogan, Clark, Pritchard, Riley, Miller, Walsso, Tar ter, Sugg, Pickett, Forrest, Sykes, Cheek, Alison, Tery, Pool, Lockban, Workman, Davis, Vinnin, Weaver, Squires, Ray, Craig.
A court sale by order of Orange County Superior Court is set for August 6 at the Millboro courthouse. The bid is to be paid one third upfront, one third in six months, and one third in twelve months with interest. The land described includes 430 acres along Chapel Hill Branch and New Hope Creek in Orange County, bounded by John Kirkland and S. B. Blackwood lines, with the University Railroad tract nearby. Power and title to transfer after full payment.
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