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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1896
Page
2
A dense page lists Democratic ticket names for state and national offices, local editors note Cleveland neutrality decree on Cuba, plus multiple medical ads for Cham berlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and Electric Bitters. Also brief jokes and personal items.
The Southern Railway launches a Summer Home and Resort Book offering routes distances hotels and proprietors names with rates by day week or month valid for return until October 3. The guide covers mountain and seaside retreats including Swannanoa Asheville Lookout Mountain and more, available via coupon agents or 2 cent stamp to L S Brown.
Wheat at 75 cents per bushel, corn 50 cents, oats 40 cents, meal 50 cents. Bacon hog round 7 to 12 cents, flour 4 to 9.5 dollars per barrel, tallow 4 to 5 cents, beeswax 20 cents, butter 15 to 20 cents, eggs 8 cents per dozen. Hides dry 3 to 6 cents, hens 25 cents, live geese feathers 40 cents per pound, wool washed 90 cents, unwashed wool 0 cents. Coffee 20 to 22 cents per pound.
The August Term of Orange Superior Court convenes Monday the 10th. Judge J. D. McIver of Carthage will preside. About 55 civil, 20 appearance, and 40 criminal cases await trial. The State vs John Clark for Nancy Ivey's murder is the key case with a juror list featuring Henry Hogan, W. P. Lloyd, Sidney Ray, Winfield Moire, John A. Parker and many others.
Mr A A Ellie of Wilson visits home. Miss Pearl Hughes sick with fever. Miss Corrie Wilkerson of Ridgeville visited grandmother S M Wilkerson. Sale of bachelors in area with fast delivery. Telia Warres of Durham visits Prospect Hill and Miss Betelle Patton. A gun row involving whisky injured several. one seriously. Miss Annie Hagers of Reidsville visiting family then Mebane and Hawfields. Cedar Grove and nearby youths picnic with croquet and singing. pleasant day. Free silver.
News arrives of the death of Dr. L N Bruce of Bruceville Texas on the 1b day of last month. A native of the state he was about 65 and a prominent McLensen county physician who once represented his adopted county in the lower house. He leaves a few relatives including an only brother Mr S C Bruce of Pittsboro. The obituary notes Dr Bruce’s local connections and mournful loss for Durham friends.
Tam now better prepared than ever to obincdate boarders by the week or month, outlining readiness steps and timelines.
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