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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
1
A Virginia law imposing fines up to $500 for using cuss words or language likely to provoke a breach of the peace has started. The item lists other varied notices including a Kansas City pastor’s death and a lynching in Mississippi.
Army officers report Corregidor Island batteries at the entrance to Manila Bay scored 11 hits from 12 shots with six inch guns, claiming a world record for accuracy.
The North State column reports the American Tobacco Company will receive $700,000 of the $1,000,000 North Carolina refunding bonds due to a state bid preference clause. It notes guilty verdicts for N Glenn Williams and Thomas Craft in federal fraud cases, with other convictions for blockading and counterfeiting. It covers 79 doctors licensed, election of state health board officers, a monument fund for Capt. M L Jones, burglaries of Salisbury dentists, and Senator Overman adding $320,000 to the House public buildings list for North Carolina projects.
Four mules and a thousand dollars worth of flour, implements and supplies were burned Sunday night in the barn of B Hobgood at Garner. Indication suggests the barn was burned to cover the theft of a fine horse and buggy, with no trace found in the ruins. Hobgood is a well to do farmer.
The East Carolina Training School reports total enrollment 475 with 142 in regular and 333 in special spring and summer sessions. Counties represented include three from NC and five states. A Chicago refrigerating plant was installed at the creamery training site and praised by inspectors. Concerns note suspected curtailment in July and August among Southern yarn mills, with widespread industry reduction expected. The North Carolina Medical Society holds its 57th annual convention at Wrightsville Beach with large attendance and calls for reorganization. Military orders send several NC units to encampments in July. A Skyland depot contract is awarded for 1600 dollars. State leaders designate Overman as temporary presiding officer for the Charlotte Democratic convention.
Earl Beauchamp, former Worcester mayor in 1895 and later Governor of New South Wales, is appointed Lord President of the Council succeeding Viscount Wolverhampton. The report also notes a separate expulsion of 105 Jews from Kiev, and mentions a new book titled How to Keep Hens for Profit.
The Finance Committee reports a year ending May 6 1910 with cash on hand 762.20 and a tax sale planned for July 4 at noon at the Hillsboro courthouse to satisfy taxes and costs. Disbursements include bank debt, advertising, engineering, and sidewalk work totaling 7,197.85 with a remaining balance of 762.20. Also listed are numerous property owners and acres across Eno, Bingham, Little River, Chapel Hill and other townships paying back taxes and assessments. The page also notes the velocipede inventor and ends with a brief aside about railroad florists nicknamed grasshoppers.
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