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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
3
Local items from Hillsboro North Carolina include postal open hours, rail schedules for the Southern Railway with connections to Richmond, and hotel openings. Notices mention produce solicits, local bargains, and miscellaneous social updates.
Mrs Lucia Wilke of Caroline Wisconsin suffered a 23 year tunning sore on her leg. A 250 box of Back len's Arnica Salve at W A Hayes Drugstore completely cured the sore, described as the greatest antiseptic healer of piles wounds and sores.
Two white men named Jobo Laws and Andrew Pool were killed Friday afternoon May 4 near their home in Little River Township. Pool shot Laws with a double barreled gun after a quarrel over a barrel of blockade whiskey. Laws died Saturday morning. Pool also died. Three witnesses were present. Laws was about 35 with a wife and eight children. Pool, about 42, left a wife and five children. The newspaper notes uncertainty about the full truth of the incident.
Memorial Day observance in Orange includes a gathering at the Episcopal Church May 10 at 5 pm. they will move to the Presbyterian churchyard and then town cemetery. battle flags provided and flowers requested. Rebecca Cameron presides.
In obedience to judgment in B H Bell et al Heirs of Cicero Berry Ex Parte a sale is set for May 7 1906 at the courthouse door for tracts totaling 91 acres 2 lots 50 24 100 acres and remaining portions 42 acres 15 acres with terms one third cash and balance in six and twelve months This sale is postponed to May 21 1906 at 12 noon Judge John W Graham Commissioner.
County Commissioners meet to set road orders approve outside relief and appoint road supervisors for townships including Cedar Grove Cheeks and Litvie River. Local notices warn about indebteds to Parks & Hedgpeta and list varied ads from sales to patent remedies and church notices for May 1906 events.
Sheriff Andrews will sell for cash on Saturday May 9 1906 at 10 00 a.m. at the residence of Sheriff Andrews in Eno Township farm items to the highest bidder including a McCormick mowing machine hay rake one horse wagon two horse wagon a buggy No 44 Chattanooga plows and various farming utensils a stack of hay 200 pounds fodder 10 to 12 barrels of corn some wheat and household furniture all items listed by M rs M E Berry in the April 19 1906 notice.
A 1906 letter from Rev. Damien successor Father Corrardy urges funding for Molokai leper colony care. Aims to raise 10,000 dollars via small daily contributions from readers, forwarded to St. John's Home in Brooklyn for dispatch to Hawaii. Local reader requests donations be sent and acknowledged in the Orange County Observer.
Fancy Grocery Company reports exciting new arrivals including dry goods and shoes at West End Grocery. Comic Post Cards and Bare Ball Supplies draw shoppers as stores tout stock. The Oxford Orphan Asylum Singing Class begins a North Carolina tour from May 7 with a Western leg planned for late summer, with Hillboro as a recurring stop.
John R. Knox administrator will sell at Hillsboro court house door on June 4 1908 a 147 1 2 acre tract in Hillsboro township adjoining S T P Kirkpatrick Harry Holden W G Fore and SP Kirkpatrick to pay debts. One third cash six months and balance in twelve months at 6 percent interest.
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