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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1894
Page
2
Orange County Observer notes Mills Borough in North Carolina as a post office matter. Publication by Joseph A Harris lists Mills Borough as second class mail, with the date June 2 1894 and location Hillsborough NC.
A Halifax area weekly wrap notes unusually dull conditions for twenty years, reports from the South on dullness, and a surge in Atlantic Hotel bookings under Mr. Perry. UNC will hold its 99th commencement with Baccalaureate on June ord, and events include addresses by Rev. Reid and Hon. Hoke Smith. A Hillsboro meeting aims to form a County Vance Memorial Association and districts. Madkins, who assaulted Miss Mary Phillips, is sent to Raleigh for safekeeping.
The Sentinel recalls a scene in Winston court where a witness, intoxicated, was made to walk the door and display a flask of old bug juice. The writer hints that many more amusing sights could occur if lawyers and judges faced similar trials.
A summer school for teachers and others will run July 2 to July 28 at Chapel Hill. Tuition is 5 dollars for all instruction with 16 professors from UNC Texas Louisiana and other schools. Subjects include languages sciences civics pedagogy and math with teaching methods shown in model classes. Board and lodging about 15 dollars monthly. railroads offer reduced rates. Send circulars to President Winston Chapel Hill.
The Wilmington Messenger notes 4716 communicants 4211 Sunday pupils 507 teachers 432 parish students 20 teachers 112 church buildings 29 rectories and 358,476 in church property for the year. Bishop Cheshire active with 100 visits 158 public services 119 sermons 438 addressees 332 confirmations 6 adult baptisms 0 infant baptisms 1 marriage and 3 funerals officiated. Also 1925 families served and 3 churches consecrated with 3 deacons ordained and one advanced to priesthood. Includes ad for English Spavin Liniment by W A Hayes curing horse blemishes.
Corrected by N. W. Brown & Co. Market prices list wheat sixty pounds per bushel at 60 to 70 cents, corn 60 to 65 cents, oats 35 to 40 cents, meal 65 cents, bacon hog round 10 to 12.5 cents, flour five dollars per barrel, tallow 4 to 5 cents, beeswax twenty cents, butter 15 to 20 cents, eggs six to ten cents per dozen, dry hides three cents, green salted hides 11 to 12 cents, feathers live geese forty cents, washed wool twenty cents, canwashed wool ten cents, burr y wool five cents, coffee twenty to twenty-five cents, sugar five to six cents, sassafras market root two and a half cents, burdock root two and a half cents, May Apple root one and a half to two cents, yellow duck root two and a half cents, Seneca root twenty-five cents, snake root twelve and a half cents. N. W. Brown & Co.
Newbero Journal notes late pea shipments nearly funded by only five dollars short to cover freight and commissions. Yanceyville reports Bettie Pattison of Milton missing after visiting Friday. her body found by the river after a night search. Fayetteville notes frost damaged fruit with apples and scuppernong grapes surviving. blackberries strong. Wilmington Star updates a Methodist Church boundary report, transferring much of North Carolina area from Virginia to North Carolina Conference, including Gates to Currituck counties with nine charges and four thousand members. Judge Clark praised for aiding the transfer effort.
Readers can obtain a prepaid Souvenir Portfolio by sending fifteen cents and their address. The portfolio costs nominally fifty cents and features full page views of the fair’s great buildings with descriptions. If unsatisfied, the buyer gets a refund of the stamps and keeps the book. Address H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago.
A fragmented meditation on Fridays noting famous events tied to Fridays from Lee’s surrender to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It lists diverse moments including battles, births, beheadings, and discoveries with no cohesive argument.
Public sale to the highest bidder at the courthouse door Hillsboro Orange County to dispose of twenty two acres more or less belonging to Martha C Williams adjoining Wm H Anderson Virginia Cheek and heirs of Thomas Mc Cracken and others. Terms cash. Notice dated April 28 1894 signed Paul C Graham Commissioner.
Having this day qualified as the Administrator of the estate of the late Martha Williams I notify all persons indebted to said estate to pay the same and those holding claims to present them properly authenticated on or before May 16 1895 or this notice will be pleaded in their recovery This 15th day of May 1894 Richard Williams Administrator
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