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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1894
Page
3
Local notes include obits and community chatter from Hillsboro and surrounding areas. Merchants promote Christmas goods, produce, and medicines while residents report farm yield, hogs, and home improvements. Town updates cover shifts in businesses, a new mill, and portrait of daily life with names like Webb, Rosemond, and Holden.
The document lists days and mileage for the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the year ending December 1. D H Wamilton shows 1sut days at $2 per day totaling 108 00 with ZS miles at 0 cls per mile. W A Madday shows 29 days at $2 per day totaling 1475, miles and 295 miles at cts per mile. N V Ray shows 268 days at $2 per day totaling 1099, dollars, 218 miles at 6 cts per mile. The text appears garbled with multiple OCR errors and unclear names.
The Southern Railway offers greatly reduced excursion tickets on December 22 23 24 25 29 30 31 and January 1 good until January 3 1895. Students can buy advance tickets December 25 to 29 for travel to any Southern Railway point within 300 miles with certificates from principals or superintendents. Also mentions local holiday shopping notices and a medical remedy endorsement, plus fruit and produce ads.
Under a Superior Court order in the Manly Stroud proceedings, sale of 265 acres in Orange County outside widow’s dower, a 20 acre Robert Cotton tract in Baldwin Township Chatham County, and an Ivey tract of similar size in Baldwin Township, Chatham County, is set for February 2 at Wesly Atwater residence. Terms: one-third cash, balance due in two months with interest from day of sale. Webb Commissioner.
Hillsboro residents discuss returns to town for holidays and new jobs, with Mrs Cameron and Miss Hamilton among those traveling from Raleigh and New York. L J Weavers to Chapel Hill. many friends bid them well. Post office dead letter list updated. calls for letters marked advertised. Also notices on local gifts, jewelry, spectacles, and a brief health ad for a kidney cure promising quick relief.
A fragmented notice warns that unauthorised people trespassed in the township near T. Tapp. The readable fragments reference Castoria and a child, but the text is damaged and details are unclear.
A spoof political appeal from Hillsboro North Carolina dated November 15, 1884 mocks campaign rhetoric. It lampoons a candidate named Nate W. Brown and references "polls" opening December 10 at THE HILLSBORO BOOKSTORE with Santa Claus as ballot counter, insinuating ballot stuffing and urging voting early and often.
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