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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1903
Page
3
County Observer clipping with ads and notices from Hillsboro North Carolina. Includes train schedules of Southern Railway, post office hours, local business ads, medicinal and household product promotions, and community notices. Mentions convicts at Hillsboro quarry, county commissioners, and plans for a Durham District parsonage with contractor Wilkerson Bros. and Rev. Dr. Gibbs.
In Orange county property mortgaged by Anderson Morrow and Harriet Morrow to S P Kirkpatrick will be sold at public auction to the highest cash bidder at the courthouse door Hillsboro on March 21 1903. The tract of 20 acres lies in Hillsboro township adjoining Abram Harvey Samuel Smith and others, beginning at Geo McCullochs corner and described by chain and link measurements. Mortgagee S P Kirkpatrick and Assignee B F Mebane announce sale to satisfy mortgage and costs.
Mrs. and Mr. Joseph A Harris attended the funeral of their niece Miss Bessie Harris at St Pauls church in Winston Salem on a Saturday night. The service was led by Rev Harris Mallinckrodt with a large crowd present and interment followed at Salem cemetery.
Dr J T Gibbs preached three sermons in Methodist church over the weekend. George and Mrs Freeland and Mrs E L Cooley returned from Hillsboro to Spencer. Miss Josephine Forrestetf visited Baltimore millinery firms with Armstrong Cator Co to study fashions. Worms threaten child health. Shriner’s Todian Vermitage sold by W A Hayes. W A Gordon, son of A J Gordon, back from Richmond Locomotive Works after an accident causing minor injuries. John Laws, oldest Orange County Register of Deeds, visited the House. elected 1847, served with two days’ lapse. Raleigh News and Observer note. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim cure for one-day cough. 25 cents.
Parish's Shirts advertises cheap garments from 20 cents to a dollar with a 50 cent shirt at 30 cents and ties up to 50 cents under Quick Sales and Sail Profits. In Raleigh last Saturday afternoon Ludlow Skinner, son of Rev Thomas E Skinner, was killed on Fayetteville Street by prominent lawyer Ernest Haywood. Haywood fired twice with a pistol, with the final shot causing Skinner's death. Haywood surrendered and was jailed. The tragedy is tied to rumors of a secret marriage within the families involved.
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