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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1895
Page
3
Southern Headway PiepMONT Air Line timetable lists trains bound west and east to Hillsboro. Details include Mail Nos 55 and 14, Passenger No 6, Mixed Nos 11 12, 13, Freight Nos 63 and 64 with times around 1:35 p m 4:37 p m 4:46 am and 11:40 am. Agent G Sherkill signs.
Local notices urge support for the Oxford Orphan Asylum with collections and subscriptions, detailing a plan to raise funds and goods through church services and neighborhood efforts led by Rev. D. N. Caviness and others. Internal ads promote health remedies and services from W. A. Hayes, Druggist, and local merchants.
Postmaster Mr M Gattis opens Wednesday to Durham and advertises mortgage cases by Allen J. Ruffin and Maria I. Badgett. Mr Mangum, ex-Clerk, appointed Justice. Mrs A M Kanonse leaves for New York. Sparks' circus failed to Hillsboro. Mr Rufus D Smitt and Miss Maggie Currie wed near Hillsboro. Dandruff cure ads and local notes on rail work and a Chapel Hill wedding conclude this column.
List announces uncalled letters to be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office in Washington Greens. Names include Lizzie Jones, Carrie McRae, Seymour Riley, Lack Taylor, and Robert Mrs. The note asks recipients to say advertised in the Orange County Observer and provide the date. Also mentions postmaster changes and local health notes.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the New Great South American Kidney Cure. The remedy relieves pain in the urinary passages and back, stops retention of water, and offers rapid relief for both men and women. Sold by W A Hayes druggist Hillsboro North Carolina.
Public auction to satisfy a mortgage deed Maria F Badgett holds on tracts of land in Orange County. Three parcels described with bounds and areas 100 acres 343.10 acres and 113¼ acres approximate. Sale at Hillsboro courthouse on December 21 1895 for cash to the highest bidder. MARIA F BADGETI mortgagee.
On the i1th day of November 1895 Allen J. Ruffin, mortgagee, declares action or notice regarding property tied to a mortgage. The fragment indicates a formal legal filing with foreclosure or related rights asserted by the lender.
Thomas H. Webb of Nashville and Isabella Mavideon Grabs wed at St Matthew's with Rev. B S McKenzie officiating. Attendants include Alvis Webb, Mary Arthur Collina, Annie C Graham, Henrietta Collins, Sadie Clark, Lizzie Collins, Alice R Collins. Afterward the couple will spend time in Atlanta before settling in Nashville.
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