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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
3
Local column notes railroad schedules ads and officials for Orange County. Bishop Caeshire visits Hillsboro while mortgage sale and mill land ad appear. Several residents travel, including Miss Spurgeon and Miss Parrott, with elections notices and millinery opening announced.
Major D H Hamilton Clerk of the Superior Court at Orange suffered a slight stroke Thursday morning. He rallied during the day and Saturday was much improved and able to talk to his family. His children Elizabeth Hamilton Heyward Hamilton and Dr J G de Rouhne Hamilton are at his bedside. He is in his eighty fourth year and has served three terms as Clerk.
A customer testimonial from P J Daly of Chicago describes his mother’s improved health using Electric Bitters. He claims gains in flesh, relief from insomnia, and strengthened vitality, praising the tonic for stomach liver and kidney complaints. Sold with guarantee at W A Hayes' drug store. 500
The snippet lists L and M Paint wear quality and cost about 120 per gallon with Webb as agents. It notes debt collection for James Webb Jr. & Bro., with C M Hayes as agent. Also promotes Kodol for indigestion, a Chamberlain cough remedy, and local social notes including visits and a Maine election result. Funeral and burial notices reference Mrs Eama Walker Bagwell in New York and Hillsboro attendees.
Effective Sept 6 through service between Raleigh and Atlanta via Train 139 and Train 43. Train 43 from Greensboro to Atlanta arrives 6 25 am. Train 44 from Atlanta to Raleigh arrives noon next day. Train 43 connects Salisbury with trains to Asheville Knoxville Chattanooga Cincinnati and Chicago. Reservations via W H McGlamery Raleigh or R H DeBatts Greensboro and Charlotte offices. Also notes on lamp advertisement DeWitt pills and a local marriage announcement in Orange County.
By power of sale in a trust deed dated September 3 1907 J T Rice J W Rice will sell at public auction October 19 1908 at 1 pm at the Hillsboro Court House to the highest bidder a tract of Thirty Five Acres in Orange County including the mill and mill rights known as the John K Hughes Mill race. The sale to satisfy debt and costs Cash terms. Frank Nash Trustee.
Cadets from North Carolina and many states arrive daily at Bingham School in Mebane for a new session. A 50 foot flagstaff bears a large United States flag as the school, with 40 day term progress, welcomes new teachers Major John P. Hewson and Captain Charles R. Campbell. Regular drills begin under Hewson. Campbell, a music graduate, is praised. Supplies include 100 breach loading rifles and 50 enamel beds as renovations continue.
By virtue of a power of sale in a trust deed to W H Allen and wife Sallie Allen recorded in Orange County book 35 page 258 the John C Murphy place will be sold for cash at the courthouse door Hillsboro Monday October 19 1908 at 12 m to satisfy the debt secured by the deed of trust and costs P E B Warren trustee
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