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Newspaper

Orange County Observer

Location

Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jul 06, 1911

Page

5

Railway Schedule and Subscription Rates In Hillsboro News

The Range County Observer lists subscription rates for one year six months and three months. It publishes the Southern Railway timetable No 31 effective June 12 1911 with westbound trains No 111 mixed Raleigh Greensboro due 291 pm and No 21 local 10 25 am plus eastbound trains No 112 mixed Greensboro Goldsboro due 2 20 am No 108 local 8 55 am and No 144 local 11 07 am, as well as No 22 local 5 38 pm. Office hours and mail closing times are noted and rural carrier schedules show a 8 am departure from Hillsboro post office returning 3 pm. Charles G Rosamond P M.

Southern Railway Raleigh Greensboro Hillaboro Hilleboro Hillsboro

Public Library Hours and Local Notices

Public Library hours are from 500 to 700 o clock p m every Tuesday and Sturday. The Glorious Fourth passed. Advertisement for mortgage safe by R D Baio mortgagee. Bargains at Wea End Department Store for 15 days starting July 1. Dispatch from Dr Pratt to Mr Frank Nash about Central Highway route Hillsboro and Mebane favored. Farmer meetings drew many in town for the Farmer's Union Orange Telephone Company and Fire Association with Dr Pratt on good roads. Remember Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy when traveling. The Observer reports the death of Mr S P Kirkpatrick near Etland Monday after illness. he leaves several children. Interment at Mebane cemetery Tuesday afternoon.

R. D.baio Mart Pratt Frank Nash Central Highway Hillsboro Mebane Farmer's Union Orange Telephone Company Farmer's Mutust Fire Association

Southern Road Improvement Train To Tour North Carolina

The Southern Railway launches a special road improvement train July 10 in North Carolina, spending about a month touring Marshall Graham Hillsboro Chapel Hill and Durham with free lectures by U S Department of Agriculture experts Winslow and Fairbanka plus a railway representative. Demonstrations and exhibits will accompany the program, offered at no charge to the government to aid county road officials and farmers.

Southern Mary North Caro Ina Southern Railway North Carolina United States Office of Public ‘Roads Marshall Graham Morday Hilleboro Chapel Hill

Hillsboro News Capsule and Local Notices

Local items include a weekly sale at West End Department Store offering 25 cent values for 15 days and summer dress goods. Mentioned are residents visiting Morehead City from Hillsboro and nearby towns, plus progress on Southern Power Company wires into Durham and University Station area. Notices announce a county teachers institute starting July 17, 1911, with required attendance and book list. Also reported are a stray female hound in Hillsboro, a bazaar at Efland for church windows, and the resignation of Prof R. M. Wilnov from Hillsboro High School for a position in Rocky Mount.

C.D. Jones Mira Ellen Chas H. Robertson Owen Emma Hillsboro Morehead City West End Daly Southern * Power Company Durham University Station

County Board to study macadam road from ge boro to Duke farm

The County Commissioners met on Monday with a tall board present. They authorized Messrs Frank Naeb Shep perd Stradwick and P C Collins to have a curvey made for a macadam road from ge boro to Duke's farm and report to the Commissioners at a meeting July 10. Mr W F Parks and nieces Misses Josephine Maria and Virginia Parks left Hillsboro Friday by Mr C M Parks' auto for Tarboro arriving about 5 80 p m. The Parks family will stay with uncle Mr M Parke at Tarboro. Also a patent medicine advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with dubious medical claim and circular offer.

Frank Naeb Shepperd Stradwick P.C. Collins Ge Boro Duke's Farm W. F. Parks Missea Josephine Maria Virginia Parks Hillsboro Tarboro C. M. Parks Hall F. J. Cheney & CO Toledo

Bargain sale and school board notices in July edition

A sale at West Lind Department Store runs July 1 for 15 days offering 10 and 250 bargains on men's and children's Oxfords in Tan Gun Metal and Patent Leather at cost. The Misses Porter offer board lodging or lodging, while 10 teachers attend a Teacher's Institute at Hillboro starting July 17. The County Board re elected County Superintendent T Wingate Andrews for two years and appointed new school committeemen. Charles A. McDade sworn in for a six year term. Board plans site review for a new school at University Station and Blackwood on July 11 and 2 p m respectively.

West Lind Department Store Parish Charles A. McDade Joseph W. Pickett University Station Blackwood

Orange County Board aims to revise tax lists July 10 1911

The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange will meet on Monday July 10 1911 at the courthouse in Hillsboro to revise the tax lists and hear complaints. All property owners with valuation concerns are urged to appear before the Board. By order of the Board J. D. Webb Chairman Board of County Commissioners.

Board of Commissioners County of Orange Court House Hillsboro J. D. Webb Chm'n Board Co. Commr’s

NO OLP GOODS ON HAND SALE NOTICE

A brief sales item states the seller has no OLP goods on hand but promises strictly new goods and notes a recent purchase. The fragment implies upcoming inventory or stock replenishment. No dates or entities are provided in the readable text.

Hillsboro Local Notices and Advertisements

Notices report Hillsboro visitors and travel ads to Asheville via Southern Railway on July 11. Major Graham and daughter Annie left for Buffalo Lithia Springs Virginia for a week or two. West End Department Store offers a 15 day sale starting July 4 with 25 cent bargains and special prices on white goods. County Pension Board met with nine new applicants and six pensioners died this year totaling 107 state pensioners. A&M College Raleigh catalogue praised for technical education and agricultural training. Obituary notes Thomas Reese died at his sister’s home, with surviving siblings listed. A Cedar Grove horse died after eating dangerous clover, warning stock owners about this plant.

M. E. A. Hughes West End Oxfords County Pension Board An C.parks W. M. Jones J. Parkhart Strayhorn Captain Lockfort A. & M. College Raleigh Tis “‘Echnical ‘Institution Ite Thomas Reese Vitruvius Royster Porner Hargett Bloant Sireete Reese Fort Smith Arkansas Streigit Mer. H. V. Waitt V Royster E. F. Pescod Sallie Janie Mattie Reese Raleigh News and Observer Mr. Reese Epllsboro Hawes Mee Reese Jane Andrew Daniel Cedarrove Township George W. Smith Smith

Excursion to Asheville via Southern Railway

A guided day trip to Asheville North Carolina billed as the Land of the Sky departs Tuesday July 11 1911 offering scenic views and a pleasant travel itinerary for participants.

Asheville N. C Land OF the Sky Southern Railway

SPECIAL TRAIN Schedule and Round Trip Fares 1911

Leave Goldsboro 7 00 a.m. $500 Selma 7 55 $5 00 Raleigh 9 00 a.m. $475 Durham 10 10 a.m. $475 Rates from other stations Proportion. Three days in Western North Carolina Cool Mountains. Tickets good returning to Asheville on any regular train up to and including Friday July 14 1911. Separate Cars for Colored People. J O JONES Traveling Passenger Agent 215 Fayetteville Street Raleigh NC.

Goldsboro Selma Raleigh Durham North Carolina Asheville

Sage Sale Of Land In Orange County Auction Notice

Mortgagee Robert D Bain will sell at public cash auction at Hillsboro court house on August 10 1911 at noon of the Rachel Bain home site in Cheek Township Orange County to satisfy a mortgage. Described land ties to N D Bain and Rachel Bain estate with ties to Susan Kirkpatrick and Tom Bain. Sale to cover loan and costs. The first day of July 1911.

Martha J. E. W. Kiley Robert D. Bain Office of Register of Deeds Orange County Court House Hillsboro County of Orange Cheek ‘Township Rachel Bain N .D. Bain N. D. Bain Susan Kirkpatrick Tom Bain Rachel Baln Robert D. Bal Mortgigee

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