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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1899
Page
3
Hillsboro updates include tax notices, post office hours, and a call for marshals by L. A. Carr for the State Fair. Reports mention a deadly snake, a Chapel Hill train collision injuring Conductor Walton, local surgeries, and health ads. Also listed are town finances, real estate moves, church notices, and remedies from W. A. Hayes and Shriner’s Worm Vermifuge.
A Broadwater resident touts Ramon’s Pills as the best and cheapest relief, claiming they ease ailments quickly and beneficially for the user and family. W. A. Hayes, druggist in Va W, lists them for sale.
By order of the Orange County Superior Court I will sell at the Hillsboro courthouse on Wednesday November 1 cash to the highest bidder a forty acre tract in Chapel Hill township adjoining M C Rays heirs of J T Cates and others. The description runs from C Smith corner along 12.70 chains to a White oak then 31.50 chains to a rock and pointers then 12.70 chains back to John T Cates line and 31.50 chains to the start. Commissioner Cc kK Parish signs the notice dated September 30 1599.
Overhauled store houses occupied by Mr. E. Jones now house Parks and Hedgpeth full of new winter stock. Furniture, stoves, dry goods, ready made clothing, and the largest shoe stock in the area are offered at competitive prices. Posted lands notice and local school updates appear among broader town notices.
A playful exchange has a customer seeking an engagement ring for a young lady and asking about size. The clerk replies with a humorous line that she can twist him around her finger, hinting at intimacy and affection.
A dated notice warns all persons to hunt with guns or axes only with permission and forbids trespassing on lands in Little River town. Violators will be dealt with as the law requires. Signed by local landowners and guardians of Louisa Turner's property, dated October 1899.
Wake Forest notes total registration 248 with gains over last year, seven states and seventy two NC counties represented. Students' Christian Association active, professors visiting associations, Taylors speech at Southern Baptist Seminary installation, law class sent 17 to Supreme Court with 15 licensed, Thanksgiving debate with Trinity College on popular vote. Also reports on Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and local college openings, Hillsboro attendance at the Normal.
The Chicago Dispatch urges subscription drives and club formation to promote Democratic ideals. It touts endorsement by William Jennings Bryan and calls readers to spread the weekly nationwide as a bulwark against Republican money power.
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