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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1904
Page
3
Orange county news item highlights a petrified man returning to town alongside community notices. Includes railroad timetables, eagerly pitched ads, local politics, and court week appeals. Mentions Melrose Flour, Foley products, and Subscriptions drive at the Observer office.
Having this day qualified as Executor upon the estate of John Kirk deceased I notify all persons indebted to said estate to make immediate payment and all persons having claims against said estate must present the same before January 27 1905. G W P Cates Executor. The text discusses a local business relocating and offering accommodations at one dollar per day and promotes The Witness and Sabbath Reading as religious papers with sample copies available.
The Spring Term of Orange Superior Court opens Monday March 14 with Judge Charles M. Cook presiding. The criminal docket is light at about 25 cases and should finish in two or three days. the civil docket has 20 cases and may conclude in three days. Five prisoners, all negroes, await trial. Jurors listed include W. J. Dodson, C. C Smith, John Crawford and others. Public notices urge poll tax payment by May 1 to maintain voting rights.
Advertises March 1 to 30 daily one way Colon ie tickets from Atlanta to California for 89.25 and to Portland Seattle Tacoma 48.25 with lower rates to intermediate points. Provides contact S L Parrott District Passenger Agent Corner Pryor Streets Atlanta for full information. Also notes real estate sale, gifts, and a request for cigar brands and tobacco tags from Fancy Grocery Co.
By authority of a mortgage deed from Jose Pratt and wife Nancy Pratt to W. Webb trustee for James Webb Jr and Bro, the land in Hillsboro Orange County will be sold at public auction at the courthouse door on Monday April 4 1904. The tract lies on Seven Branches near Fish Dam Road bounded by Archy Duke Camisbell and Crabtree and contains about seventy two acres where Joseph Pratt lived. Proceeds go to satisfy the mortgage and cover costs. This 25th day of February 1904 H. W. Webb Trustee
St Petersburg reports that after weeks since the Japanese attack, Russia views the Port Arthur siege as only the prelude to a larger campaign. Viceroy Alexeeff’s forces move from Mukden with thousands of troops toward the main armies, while defense plans rely on fortifications and a Cossack contingent on the peninsula. Russia bets on overwhelming numbers and artillery to drive the Japanese back through Korea, with months of supply and readiness noted.
Alvin R Parish has purchased a one half interest in his brother H O Parish stock and will continue the business at the old King Street location under the name H L Parish.
The shop proclaims enlarged stock of dry goods notions hats and shoes led by Battle Axe Shoes and Jefferson Old Confinion hats. It mentions flour including Ballard's Obelisk, New York Salt, hardware, cigars and tobaccos, coffee and molasses, groceries, country produce, school books and copy books with an invitation to visit.
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