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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
5
Rail timetable No. 11 shows west and east bound trains for Hillsboro with arrival times from Raleigh Greensboro and Greensboro Goldsboro. Local notices include sales ads, rentals, visits, moves, and announcements from Hillsboro area residents and businesses. Religious and civic notes mention pastors and bird dog laws cited from Chapel Hill News.
Public School Law requires county boards to provide biennial teacher institutes and schools for training all teachers. Attendance is mandatory, with penalties for nonattendance. Prof. W D Carmichael to conduct the Orange County session July 19 to July 31 in Hillsboro Courthouse.
Sheriff Andrews seized a 90 gallon dead still in Bingham township and destroyed about 500 gallons of beer and 18 gallons of whiskey. The next morning he recovered a second large still in Little River township near Hillsboro, destroying about 250 gallons of beer. William Roach aided. one suspect, William Riley, was captured, brought to town, and posted a $100 bond for October Term of Orange Superior Court.
West End Grocery Co promotes 10 cent bargains and a push for citizens to shop locally. Brief item notes visiting Tallahassee residents and a call for a Hillsboro clean-up day to improve health and surroundings.
The Saint Johns Day celebration on the Oxford Orphanage grounds in June will feature an address by Grand Master S M Gattis and welcome from Mayor Dennis G Bramait. Children will perform, a grove platform program, and a community picnic with barbecue, ice cream, and drinks. Excursions and special rail rates are planned by Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway to support the event.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met June 7 1909 approving numerous payments including for the County Home supplies burial expenses and jail items plus clerk and sheriff costs. Unclaimed letters listed for Brown Carden Cates Patterson Yow Peteons. readers urged to claim advertisements note.
The State's college for vocational training offers courses in Agriculture and Horticulture Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Cotton Milling and Dyeing Industrial Chemistry. Why not fit yourself for life by taking one of these courses. Aldres D H Hill President Weat Raleigh NC.
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