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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1903
Page
3
A jumble of community items, notices, ads, and brief reports from Hillsboro and surrounding towns. Mentions postmaster appointments, land sales, local business ads for buggies and groceries, medical cures, and upcoming Confederate Veterans reunion travel details. Includes weathered snippets on taxes, farms, and river fishing.
Two notices outline estate and land sales in 1903 Orange County. Executors A P Cates and J F MacDuffie call debts and claims on H M Cates estate. S M Gattis announces sale of 63 acre tract in Chapel Hill township on June 6 1903 with terms one third cash and two deferred payments.
Message from WM. H. Newman invites friends to visit the West End Grocery Company near the depot Hooker store offering a full line of groceries tobacco and cigars. Also a small ad notes a straw hat at Parish's and a historical work by Francia Nash offered by N. W. Brown & Co priced at 25 cents.
By authority in a mortgage deed Charley C Gray conveyed property to W R Broach and Y N Broach. in Orange County deed book L page 408 the land of 217 acres in Little River township is offered for cash at the courthouse door Hillsboro on Saturday May 30 1903 at 12 o clock noon. Proceeds to satisfy the mortgage and costs. This 30th day of April 1903. W R Broach Y N Broach mortgagees.
The May term of Grange Superior Court opens Monday May 18 with Judge William R Allen presiding for Civil Cases only. The jury includes Arch Cates Woods O Clay ton Simeon O Clayton and many others. Court calendar lists cases against Henry Andrews Jordan Terrell Sykes Traction Co Pettigrew Ruffin Hodge Forrest R R Co and others with daily arrangement rules.
A farmer treated with Chamberlains Pain Balm recovered quickly from severe rheumatism after a free trial and bought another bottle. W A Hayes Druggist advertises the remedy alongside Foley Honey and Tar for bronchitis and hoarseness.
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