Hillsboro News in Brief June 11 1908
The Orange County Observer reports local notes from Hillsboro including community visitors and events. It notes the Ninth Judicial District Convention results for Solicitor with candidates Hobgood Fuller and Gattis, and funeral and illness notices plus university and congressional convention updates. It mentions Mrs Alice Heartt illness and Miss Lizzie Jones visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of North Carolina
Alice Heartt
East Queen Street
Lizzie Jones
New York City
Hillsboro
Pride Jones
Ninth Judicial District
Durham
A. L. Brooks
F. P. Hobgood
Guilford
Jones Fuller
S. M. Gattis
Orange
Gattis
Fuller
Habgood
Fragmented OCR Note Lacks Clear News Item
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a daughter and a question about age and marriage. No coherent event, person, or organization is identifiable to record a full news item or date.
Local Ads and Notices Highlight Trade and Death Incident
A 1908 Hillsboro page features diverse notices and ads: West End Grocery Co pledges fair prices and customer welcome while offering shoes and dress goods. M C Williams sells tailored clothes and Easter cards. Meadow Farm milk cows for sale. DeWitt's Early Risers advertised. Rev Hawley visits Hillsboro. L Banks Holt, NC cotton figure, found fatally wounded in Graham on June 3rd with unknown cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West End Grocery Co
WM. al. Newman
R DeWitt
W. A. Hayes
F. ,M. Hawley
Charlotte
Hillsboro
H. S. Bradshaw
Frank Nash
L. Banks Holt
North Carolina
South
Graham
Littleton College and Central Academy Advertised
Notice highlights Littleton College with 285 pupils and 258 boarders and praises Central Academy as a promising school needed nationwide. It also endorses Cas CASWEET for babies and children as a safe remedy sold by W A Hayes, druggist, with ingredients on label.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Littleton College
Central Academy
W. A. Hayes
West End Grocery promotes new lines and prices to attract customers
The ad urges ladies to take walks to visit West End Grocery and view new stock including white goods belts dress goods shoes while praising low prices. A trustee notices collection for James Webb Jr. & Bro. and a tax listing notice for Hillsboro Township lists dates and places for listing taxes in 1908 with penalties for noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West End Grocery Co
Organdies Jawns
Dimities
Change of Voting Place in Eno Township 1908
Orange County Board of Elections on May 18 1908 ordered moving the St Marys precinct voting site from the St Marys school house to Roland C Hills store after a petition by 85 voters in Eno Township St Marys precinct received no opposition The change takes effect before the November 1908 election or from June 1 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Elections For
Orange County
St. Mary’s
Eno Township
St. Mary’s School House
Roland C. Hill
Joseph A. Harris
Wanted 50 000 pounds of Old Casting Copper and more
N W Brown & Co advertise a sale of 50 000 pounds of old casting copper and related metals. Mrs Theodore Pearson daughter of ex State Senator Thomas M Cheek of Orange visits her brother Wm B Cheek at Occoneechee Farm. Rev John D Williams pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church at High Point visited his sister Mrs John W Ray on West Tryon Street and paid a polite call at the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Taft
Thomas Lynch
Edwin
Greensboro
Lynch
Julia Lynch
East Tryon Street
Hillsboro
Joseph M. Freeland
Julia
Spencer
N. C
Mr. Freeland
Thomas J Freeland
Tryon
Wake Streets
Josephine Parris
Salem Female Academy
Sue Nash
State Normal and Industrial College
O ' Causey
High Point
Hilsboro
Charles H. Robertgov
Eno Ction Mille
Shepped Strudwick
Joseph A. Harris
E E Harris
Winston Salem
Winston-Salea
Bragg
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Science
Winston
Europe
Raleigh
George T . Inston
Smatter
Ww. H. 'Gan
N.C
On Sharp
W. J
Carr Range
Tion 7
Theodore Pearson
Thomas M. Cheek
Orange
Wm. B. Cheek
Occoneechee Farm
John D. Williams
Methodist Protestant Church
John W. Ray
West Tryon Street
Auction Of 479 Acre Farm In Hillsboro N C
The trustee will sell at the Court House door Hillsboro North Carolina on Saturday June 20 1908 at 12 oclock noon to the highest cash bidder a tract of 479 acres more or less. The land runs from John W Graham line through multiple compass points and landmarks including farm corners dogwood rock piles and church lot. Deed of trust executed by J Hundley and wife recorded in Orange County Book 28 page 5091 fault in payment. For more details contact Winston Bryant attorneys Durham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Hillsboro
N. C
John W. Graham
John Graham
Church Lot
John Berry
N. E. Johnson
Berry
J. Hundley
Orange County
Winston & Bryant
Durham
Sarah F. Terry
James S. King
Office of Register of Deeds
Saia
Sais
J. Hillsboro
Sland
Little Rive Township
Tax List and town tax notices in Hillsboro 1908
The notice details June tax listing across North Carolina with valuation shifts and exemptions. It lists township list-takers, a Hillsboro town tax list taker Frank Nash, and dates for filing abstracts. includes book store ads and a post office ad with a list of advertised letters and June 1908 deadlines. It also reports primaries results with W. W. Kitchin leading Craig and Horne by vote totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
Court House
Jane
Frank Nash
Carmer
Addie
Cates
Mallie
Walter
Day
Harvey
Faulkner
J. L. Partin
Mary
Ray
June
Russell
George
Werare
J. W
W. W. Kitchin
Look Craig
James S. Manning
Kitchin
Craig
Horne
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yRe Qillsborough
Quariday
Guares G. Rosemond, P. M
Mary Hayes
James M Hayes
Burlington
Annie Haley
Cheek’s Township
This County
Henry Haley
R. T Haley
Dr. Hodges
Richmond
Shepperd Stradwick
Stradwick
Edmund Stradwick
Vlevelang
M. C. Williams
Charton Street
A. H. Rimmer
Regulator
J. Zeilin & CO
James Webb Jr. & Bro
Hilleboro Township
Eno Cotton Mills
Charles Strayhorn
Hillsboro Township
Eno
Bingham
S.S Webb
Cedar Grove
J. Hall
Chapel Hill
Wingate
Andrews
Cheek
M. L. Effand
Eno—John
P. Lockhart
Little River
Jos
W. Terry
Hillsborry Bookstore
Smith's
Southern Book Exchange
Salisbury Street
Svenskry of
Norte
Olina
Engineering
Law
Pharmacy
Gymunasiuc
Y.M OC
Francis P. Venable
Cuaret Hitz
N. GC
Owen W. Bingham
R. T. Gray
C. W. Bingham
What Is
Castoria
Bea
Littleton Female College
J. M. Rhodes
Littleton
J. B. Aiken
N. G
Pring
Durham Parish Company
Foutz
the Manufacturers
Baltimore, Md
Bsler
Genuirt 'S
Foutz Co
Z. T. Long
Mortgagee
Agen
C! Scientific America
Mw" & Co
Soreracer
New York
F St
Washington
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