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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1914
Page
4
The Hillsboro publication carries social notes and notices including a marriage blessing for Knowlton Sory and Miss William Halton Sory at the Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, subscription calls, and local legal notices for a December 12 1914 land sale in Orange County. Also features a concert by the Oxford Orphanage singing class and reports of local injuries from a boiler blast.
Public auction of the southern half of the old Steven Gates place in Little River Township to satisfy the balance due on three Orange County mortgages held by S. F. Gates R. G. Gates and J. D. Tilley. Sale at 12 o'clock noon Saturday December 45 1914 at the court house door Hillsboro.
By vote of Mein Street Baptist Church trustees a sale is set for Tuesday December 8 1914 at the Hillsboro court house door for a one acre lot on the West side of Churton Street near the town bridge. Bid terms require one third cash and balance in six and twelve months with interest and bids may be rejected. Also an ad for a 90 by 280 foot town building lot near the public school with potential to build a six room house and barn for 1650 dollars by The Progressive Building and Real Estate Company and contact with N W Brown, merchant. Subscribe to the Orange County Observer for one dollar per year.
Orange County Superior Court to sell 95 acres near Blackwood Station in Hillsboro on December 12 1914. Tra c t adjoins W R Tapp and others. second tract from W M Morgan and wife to E E Thompson recorded in book 57 page 38. Terms: one third cash, balance in two equal six and twelve month payments with 6 percent interest and deed held until full payment. Commissioner W J Griszwold signs.
This day qualified as administrator of the estate of William Smith late of Orange County. Creditors must pay and claimants present to S. J. Hall administrator on or before October 12 1915 or recovery will be barred. This October 12 1914.
The administrator Wy A Hawkins calls all creditors to pay debts to the estate of S T Pittard and directs all claimants to present authenticated claims by October 29 1915 or be barred by recovery. Notice dated October 29 1914.
Post office opens 8:00 a m closes 6:30 p m. Night mails from Greensboro and Raleigh start 8:00 a m except Sunday. Rural routes depart Hillsboro 4:80 a m return 6:20 p m. Time table No 81 1914 lists trains to Hillsboro including No 21 No 139 No 181 east and No 112 No 108 No 144 No 22 with arrival times. Schedule provided for convenience not guaranteed.
Hillsboro Public Library remains open each Tuesday and Saturday from 3 00 to 5 00. Dr W H Wakefield of Charlotte will be at the Hillsboro hotel on Friday November 27 to examine eyes ears nose and throat and to fit glasses. 11 11 81.
Having qualified as administrator Mary Knox Cobb for Richard Gatlin late of Arkansas Sebastia County, all persons with claims against the estate must present them by September 4, otherwise suit to recover. Also administrator R D White for Nancy Thompson of Orange County North Carolina requests claims by October 1, 1915 and payment of debts due.
C. T. A. is appointed administrator of the W. McKié estate in Orange County. Creditors must settle debts and all claims must be filed by October 1 1915. if not, they will be barred. Notice dated October 14 1914 by C. E. Wilson administrator.
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