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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
3
The Orange County Observer lists subscription rates of one dollar per year with a fifty cent monthly option and advertising at one dollar per square inch for the first, fifty cents for each additional. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with mail deadlines and money order hours noted. J Clyde Cheek is postmaster.
Democratic legislative and county ticket listed with candidates for Orange County and Hillsboro offices. Notices include estate matters, executors, local appointments, a convention call, grocery ads, school principal election, and reminders for attendance at the new term starting September 1.
An old ad pitches self improvement and wealth through honesty saving and temperance, followed by a medical pitch for August Flower for dyspepsia liver complaints and other ailments. It mentions sample bottles at W Hayes' drug store and Green's Special Almanac.
Local notices describe sales prompts at Fancy Grocery Co including fruit offerings and a range of biscuits and wafers. Community notes report visits, illnesses, a fatal train accident near University Station, a death in Cedar Grove, and a liquor raid leading to bail bonds for three men and a boy.
The Orange County Teacher Institute met in the courthouse on Tuesday August 19 with devotional exercises by Rev C E Maddry. Prof C C Crittenden of Wake Forest College spoke on teaching methods to teachers. Prof Venable Noble and Cobb of the State University also lectured. Prof J Y Joyner urged district consolidation and local taxation for better schools. The institute adjourned after Joyner’s remarks to a large audience, praised as a great success by attendees. The writer prays for continued support and progress in Orange County public schools.
Daniel Morrow well known colored barber died at his home Friday at 2 00 am age 45 Bright's disease leaving widow and four daughters funeral held at A M E Church with Rev Doris Smith and pallbearers listed interment in colored cemetery. Also notes local notices of Fancy Grocery Co patronage and a visit by Lisbon Berry missionary and update on W Graves returning from Dayton Ohio after twenty four years.
The Orange County Republican Convention held Saturday drew broad representation with a large party presence. Delegates named to Congress and judiciary and state senate were elected, a resolution rejecting constitutional amendments passed, and the body adjourned to nominate legislators and a county ticket. The Executive Committee then accepted Chairman Crawford’s resignation and elected Luke Lloyd as chairman with W. E. Lindsay as secretary.
Wheat at 90 cents a bushel and 60 cents a bushel for date. highest price paid for all kinds of produce. Call N. W. Brown & Co. Also note Littleton Female College, well located on the Seaboard Air Line between Raleigh and Weldon, N C, near mineral springs and a new handsome building visible from the railroad.
In Verbena Alabama F A Gulledge paid doctors a large sum to cure a severe pile condition causing 24 tumors. After all treatments failed Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him. The product claims to subdue inflammation and aches, kill pains and is marketed as the best remedy at W A Hayes’ drug store.
Orange County readers are urged to trade in all current school books for any new books or supplies from The Hillsboro Bookstore. Notices promote Foley's Kidney Cure and Shriner's Vermifuge, a church sermon, a thanks note for peaches, and a Democratic convention call for September 9 1902 covering Alamance Caswell Durham and Orange counties.
On Monday September 15 1902 at the Hillsboro court house door North Carolina the undersigned by order of the Orange County Superior Court will sell to the highest bidder at public auction a tract of land in Cedar Grove township adjoining John Blalock H C McKee Sam Horner and James Parker containing 22 acres more or less. Terms are one half cash and the balance in six months with interest from date of sale. August 14 1902. E M Gattis Commissioner.
Executor E J Hall notifies all indebted to the estate to pay promptly and all claimants to present valid claims by August 23, 1903 or be barred from recovery. This 23rd day of August 1902.
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