Christmas Town Notices and Local Ads from Hillsboro
Local item list from Hillsboro area including prices at Parish's store, announcements of Christmas visits, church services, school openings with new staff, and advertisements for groceries and mail service. Also notes on upcoming rail sleeping car line between Birmingham and San Francisco and travel reservations.
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California
Risco
Birmingham
Ala
San Francisco
Cal
Frisco
Kansas City
Rock Island
Deblo
Denver
Rio Grande
Grande Western
Ogden
Southern Pacific
W.T. Saanders
Bent
Pryor
Decatur Streets
Atlanta
New Goods and Bargains At Parks and HedgPeth
Large stock of dress goods, winter clothing, overcoats, wraps, shoes, trunks, carpets, buggy robes and buggies. See hammerless guns and breach loading firearms. Merchants warned of taxes on pistols, knives, fireworks under 1903 Act. Sheriff John K. Hughes notes license requirements.
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Orange County
Parks & Hedgpeth
Fine Confectioneries at Parish's Catalog and Claims
Local notice promotes a line of Candies Nuts Raisins Oranges Apples and Currants sold at low prices. The ad asserts Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates and is safe for children, contrasted with other cough medicines. W A Hayes.
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Foley
W. A. Hayes
A CostLx Mistake Prompts Local Notices and Openings
A newspaper column notes dr John King’s New Life Pills and other ads then mentions Hillsboro town tax for 1903 due and receipts offered. It also records hotel management changes with Mrs Hassell resuming Occoneechee Hotel and Mr Richards reopening Richards House on King Street.
Tax Delinquent List Notice Orange County 1903
Persons who failed to list their property or poll for 1903 must list with John Laws, Clerk, by January 1, 1904. Delinquents will pay a double tax as required by law. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Orange County. December 8, 1903. F. Andrews, Chairman.
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John Laws
Board of Commissioners of
Orange County
Webb's Big Store Promises Low Prices on Clothing
An advertising page notes Webb's Big Store offers ladies and children's wraps and clothing at the lowest possible prices. It promotes large stock, baggies, and various grocers and brands, with holiday notes and local notices about shopping, travel tickets, and community events.
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Reliable
Royster’s
Webb’s
Sale of Orange County land under mortgage in 1903
Under authority of a mortgage deed recorded in Orange County the guardian of A S and W B Badgett will sell at public auction at the Hillsboro courthouse on January 4 1904 for cash the home tract on Mill Creek containing about 91 acres and the Coxland tract adjoining John Carden Ed Terrell and others containing about 222 acres. Proceeds to satisfy the mortgage and costs.
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J. HL. Bennett
Clio
Fancy Grocery Co
Bessie P. Mebane
West End Grocery Co
Yf. H. Newmans
Foley's
W.A. Hayes
Parish
Misa Mary Cameron
Ashevill
Cameron
Rebecca Cashman
St. Mary’s
Quheron
Charles
Thomas
Newbern
Hillsboro
Mary C. Raffin
Chas E. Maddry
Pasr
Baptist
Sly
Haney Grocery Company
Elgar Snow
Trinity Park High School
Frank Webb
A. d& M. College
Misa Maria Webb
St. Mary's
Thomas Hill
State University
8. G. Lindsay
Misa Salina Morrow
Ishmael J. Carden
Nancy E. Carden
Maria F. Badgett
A. S
Hillsboro Township
Orange County
Mill Creek
Carden
John Carden
John McCracken
Charles Coxland
Terrell
Reform School Shift Embraces Foley’s Honey and Tar
J G Clack superintendent of the West Virginia Reform School reports choosing Foley's Honey and Tar after trying other cough medicines, calling it most effective and harmless. The County Board of Education, with all members, met to close public school business for the year and praised the board’s handling of the system.
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J. G. Clack
Pra Pytown
W. Va
Foley
West Virginia Reform School
W. A. Hayes
County Board of Education
John P. Lockhart
Chainman
Forrest
Burch
Charles E. Maddry
Public Auction Of Fau cett And Lindley Tracts
Under a mortgage deed to Bessie P. Mebank James W. Riley residents of Orange County Hillsboro Township land on Eno river to be sold at Hillsboro court house January 25 1904 at 12 noon to highest bidder two tracts totaling 113 and 83 acres more or less adjoining Capt Riley John B. Paul Rachel Bain. Cash terms. December 12 1903.
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Rachel Bain
Faucett and
Lindley
Bessie P. Mebank
Parish Brothers Firm Expands Stock On King Street
Alvin R Parish Waving halves shares with H L Parish and continues at the old King Street stand under the firm H L Parish. The store proclaims a wide assortment including DRY GOODS NOTIONS HATS FURNISHINGS and a specialty in flour and groceries. They advertise Ballard Obelisk flour cigars tobacco coins hardware and school books among many items and claim top market prices for country produce.
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Alvin R. Parish Waving
H. L. Parish
King Street
Ballard
Kentucky
New York State
Franklin
Virginia
Auction Notice of Mortgage Sale in Hillsboro Township
By power in a mortgage deed from Chas J Stub bins and Nettie J Stub bins to James Webb Jr and Bro the sale of land in Bingham Township Orange County will occur at the courthouse door Hillsboro on January 4 1904. The property borders Alfred Carr Geo Stubbins and others and measures eighty acres approximately with described bounds of rock and road. The sale pursues mortgage satisfaction plus costs. Mortgagees Jas Webb Jr and Bro announce the sale.
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Chas. J. Stubbins
Nettie J. Stubbins
James Webb
Alfred Carr
Geo
Stubbins
Leighty
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Qance County Observer
Gine Sborough
N. Kel
Ove Ingree
Fice
Mal
ganLes G
Rosemond
Swat
Kewaray
Vorane Petre
John K. Hughes
Dr. King
W. A
Hayes’ Drug Store
Parish’s
F. Andrews
Saint Louis
Memphis
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Texas
W. T. Saunders
Santa Claus
Arbuckle’s
A. Newman
H. Newman
Malaga
Ed. M. Harris
Messrs. Harris, Bartel & Co
Twenty-third
Filbert Streets
Philadelphia
Joseph A. Harris
Tovn
North Carolina
Hughes
Mangnnir Hall
Dennis Cates
N. C Volunteers
Lown
Julian S Carr
Cates
Robert Y. Walker
Henderson
N.C
Bob
Atlantic Institute
Morehead City
Baptist Church
Wake Forest College
Cscastorta
Ember
Maria Feeder
Badgett
Hm. LL. Parish
Dis Foley
Jas, Webb, JR
BRO
Morigagees
Indian Territories
Far West
Gent Aart
F.e.clark
Taav
G's
Wen Tl
Callon
Orange
Mass
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Hillsboro Milling and Manufacturing Company
W. GC. Noble
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