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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
3
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Office opens at 8 a m and closes 6 30 p m Mail east closes 45 a m and 2 15 p m Mail west closes 10 a m and 2 15 p m Money order books close 4 00 p m J Cryp UBEEK P M Fewer Gallons Wears Longer Mr and Mrs B B Forrest at home on Wake street Mr D C Parks spent Christmas at Oxford with his sister Mrs Maria Reaton Major Geo P Collins and family of Hillsboro to winter at Savannah Ga Rev Charles Curtie left after visiting the Misses Cameron Mr Arthur Ray of the Fancy Grocery Co spent days in Winston Salem Mr John Laws Register of Deeds visited his daughter Mrs L P Tapp Winston during the holidays Rev S Paxson Watters reports from Hot Springs Ark Mr W C Crabtree of the Hillsboro Milling Co visited relatives in Durham County during the holidays Ex County Commissioners W R Lloyd and James Y Merritt met in Chapel Hill township Mr W C Noble of the Hillsboro Milling Co visited relatives in Caswell county The Republican Chairman Loice Lloyd sick at home in Bingham township Mrs James A Cheek visiting daughter Mrs Hugh P Hackney and grandson Kate Hugh Ex-Treasurer E A Dickson attends to county business while M A McCauley is treated in Johns Hopkins Hospital Thomas W Holden manager of Hillsboro Milling Co sick list Foley’s Kidney Cure praised Lost cane with ivory handle Keen weather prompts notices and grocery ads mention Benny and holiday visits The Presbyterian and Baptist Sunday School entertainments well attended New Year column notes and local political talk.
The ad extols Green's August Flower as the best remedy for indigestion biliousness and general malaise. It claims historical use by mothers and grandmothers, notes scarce doctors, and promotes the product and Green's Special Almanac available at W. A. Hayes' drug store.
Local ads promote Parish’s hats with claims of fewer gallons and longer wear. News notes cover Mr deRonihae Hamilton’s New York trip with sister Mina Elizabeth R. Hamilton, a marriage in Tarboro of Lizze Nash to Henry Johnson, a planned Caldwell Institute tax talk and rural school election, a Christmas eve fodder fire blamed on fireworks, and Rev Rufus Bradley’s arrival in Hillsboro with schedule for meetings and sermons.
Local items note Mrs Nathan W Brown visiting Greensboro relatives and no broad business shifts for the new year. Major D H Hamilton, court clerk, out sick briefly but back at work. Mr Herman Laws and Irma Tapp visit from Kinston. Mr A P Tilley dies of pneumonia at 42, buried Walnut Grove. Marriage of Robert L Pendergrast and Sarah Thompson in Hillsboro. Judge Strugwick rents home in Greensboro and moves from Hillsboro. Worms as child enemies advertised with Shriner’s Vermifuge 25 cents. Dr James Billingslea recovering from grippe in Hillsboro. County Board of Commissioners holds January meeting. Child Linda Roach injured by windlass in a well. stitches required. Christmas visitors listed from Norfolk, Durham, Greensboro, Richmond, Wilson, Ala, Washington DC, Baltimore, NYC, Petersburg, Raleigh, Savannah, and Chicago. Printer error on date acknowledged. Mr Samuel M Gattis honored as Speaker in Raleigh.
To Teachers and Committeemen I shall be in Chapel Hill attending the University from January until June 1 1903. Anyone wishing to see me or write on school business can find me at Chapel Hill from Monday until Friday evening. I shall be in my Hillsboro office every Saturday to sign vouchers and handle school business. Do not send school orders or vouchers with requests to collect and send money I will refuse. You must do your own collecting. Yours truly Chase Madry Co Supt Schools.
On Sunday morning December 28 at the home of A J Gordon two miles west of Hillsboro, Samuel T Riley and Belle Thompson united in marriage. After the ceremony they departed on the 9 12 a m Southern Railway train toward Richmond Virginia to begin their life together. The Observer offers best wishes for their future.
Comprising notes of court actions and personal incidents. Minca Meat figures cited with Phil Tapp and Henry Peace, two accused moonshiners, bound over to Federal Court in $200 bonds each. An elderly colored man, Wilson Clay, died after a Christmas night house fire. Cedar Grove death of June A Finley, 26, possibly heart trouble. Frank Nash returns from Sumpter, SC, after assisting his sick brother. Rev James E Gay of Asheville to wed. he preached at the Presbyterian church here Sunday.
Gaither Collins announces a new barbershop in Messrs. Parks and Hedgpeth’s furniture building on Churton Street one door north of Dr Spurgeon’s Dental Parlors. He offers shaves, shampoos, haircuts in latest style and clothing cleaning and pressing with satisfaction guaranteed.
The store enlarged its stock with dry goods notions hats caps and gentlemen’s furnishing goods. It highlights hats shoes cigars tobacco and coffee plus flour Ballard’s Obelisk flour New York salt hardware and groceries. They offer school books vertical copy books and promise high prices for country produce.
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