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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
1
Lins, cashier Chas A Scott vice president of Orange Bank invites every man woman and child in Orange County to open accounts. The bank offers new enterprise financing within conservative limits and claims to be the Financial Bureau of Information for Orange County ready to provide information. Four percent interest paid on time deposits.
A reflective piece prompts embracing happiness over life’s thorns. It argues joy invites inner vision and spiritual home, contrasting lingering in shadows with choosing happiness as a path to blessing.
In a Kenton parish tale, elderly Cyn thy Scudder refuses money and instead sells her cherished horse Roger to fund church debt. She endures doubt and loneliness, quietly watching for Roger's wellbeing before finally securing him with a buyer, affirming her sacrifice to the Lord.
The old Cambridge tollhouse, unused since 1858 and once near the West Boston bridge, sold for $25. It stood at the Cambridge end of the bridge, dating to 1793 with tolls collected by Moses Hadley until 1858 when the bridge became free.
A Boston Herald recounts Han Thompson of Auburn Maine and his brother John attempting to drown a woodchuck by filling the animal’s burrow with water for two hours. The woodchuck then exited to drink at a brook and fled, leaving the pair exasperated.
Brooklyn preacher Dr. Reese F. Alsop compares modern graft to the Jericho tax collector Zacchaeus. He portrays Zacchaeus as a reformed figure who vows to give half his goods to the poor and to restore fourfold any ill gotten wealth, signaling a new life beyond former crimes.
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