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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
5
Orange County daily notice lists rail timetable No. 81 for Southern Railway with mixed and local trains to and from Hillsboro, details on arrival times, mail deadlines, and post office hours. Includes local items on politics, education, residents, and a found lodge pin offering reward.
A Democratic notice announces re election for County Treasurer by J C Hines of Tamra Florida who visits his son Wharler P Hines. The piece also shares local family news and a brief medical advertisement for Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio with a money back promise. It ends with a report of John R Kenion losing a $150 horse due to a bridled foot accident.
An At Home hosted by Mrs. George P. Collins at Highlands in Hillsboro honored Cadwallader J. Collins and wife from Norfolk Virginia. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Cadwallader J. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wall, Mrs. George P. Collins, Mr. Paul O. Gyling, and Edmund Stradwick. The event featured yellow and white decor and punch service by Stradwick and Pettigrew. Mr. Collins, recently married to Mrs. Mary Bowie Wilson of Baltimore, is a prominent Norfolk lawyer with Hillsboro roots.
Tam now makes daily deliveries of ICE Coupon books at special sites. The numbers 100 200 or 609 pounds indicate varying quantities.
A mixed Hillsboro column records post office advertising letters, local greetings, and brief notices. It notes deaths including James K. Cooley of Robeson county, civil war veteran and former Hillsboro resident, and mentions multiple local residents visiting kin and participating in events.
The Tenth Annual State Farmers Convention will be held at the A and M College Raleigh NC August 27 28 and 29 1912 with a full program and national speakers. Dr G G Hopkins will discuss rock phosphate as a fertilizer with other experts and topics include Humus quality and tobacco yield. Livestock topics and a 60 head Berkshire sale are planned along with cooperative society and banking system talks. A women’s program is being prepared and local notes mention Lillie Cain Rosemand visiting Raleigh. Local notices urge Chamberlain's Liniment for backache and cite a Republican County Convention ticket from Hillsboro.
Valu able lands ad joined tracts in Orange County near William Tarrentine and Saignel Kirkland Farms offered by B. Turentine Shelby North Carolina. Also notices for North Carolina State College offers free tuition to recruits and catalogs from Julius I Foust Greensboro and the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Raleigh detailing four year and two year programs in agriculture engineering and textile arts with July 11 admission exams.
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