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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1913
Page
5
The Irange County Observer lists subscription rates for 1913 with one year at $1.00 in advance, six months 50 cents, and other terms. Advertising is priced at 1.0 per square for the first inch and increased charges for subsequent insertions.
Time table No 31 shows west and east bound trains with Hillsboro arrivals. Mixed Raleigh and Greensboro service No 111 and local passenger Nos 21 139 181 arrive at Hillsboro at 4.29 10:25 a m 5:38 p m and 8:30 p m respectively. Eastbound trains include Greensboro to Goldsboro No 1 and 108 144 22 with Hillsboro arrivals at 2:20 8:55 a m 11:07 a m and 5:38 p m. C S Lorris, Agent.
Public library hours posted and post office schedules detail morning deliveries and night mails. Local notices celebrate visits, enrollments, lectures, and students returning to college with several family and church affiliations noted.
Jackson ville and Tampa Florida railroad rate listings show 87.50 to Jacksonville and return 89.50 to Tampa and return. Tickets go on sale September 23 1913 for regular trains to Charlotte NC. Special train from Charlotte at 1045 PM. Return validity to reach origin by midnight September 29 1913. Special train from Charlotte includes Pallman Sleeping Cars and day coaches. Contact agents in Raleigh NC for reservations and wire orders.
At a meeting of Oconeechee Lodge No 299 IOOF held Monday night a resolution was adopted thanking the patlia for patronage of the Class of Orphan, the Rio Cornet Band for music, Mr Ormond Crabtree for a moving picture exhibition for the children, and others who aided the class while visiting Hillsboro.
Unclaimed letters listed for Hillsboro post office dated September 15 1918 names include C Collins JT Craig P Dmel Ole Epting A G Forbie Willie Harris Robert Bill Mussionne Lapred Ceorge Lee Leather Jones Miss Mary Leary Miss Mary Todd Wu White Isthne and others. Also adds notice to advertised letters. $100 reward for any cure failure for Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to cure all stages and to send testimonials. Sold by druggists. Listing includes Hall's Catarrh Cure marketing copy and pill recommendation.
An advertisement offers brand new 1913 motor cycles with easy monthly payments and bargains in used machines. Readers are urged to write to LGCK BOX 11 Treeton Michigan with a stamped reply, and to act before missing out. A marriage notice states Mr Zero Lee wed Miss Annie Pronter in Hillsboro on September 13 1913 by Justice Joseph A Harris.
County records list many payments made September 1 1913 including outside support to residents Ann Whiteats Wallen Prior Warren Hackney Madison Nunn Mary Hopson Henry Cate Eva Grayton Margaret Effin George Paul Rachel Paul Kate Woeous Florence Eadley and others. Road work payments cover Hilleboro Cedar Grove Cheek Chapel Hill and Hillsboro townships with various foremen and laborers, plus county home supplies, jail costs, and sheriff services.
Colonel Bennehan Cameron of Raleigh visits High lands in Hallsboro with sister Mrs George P Collins. Mrs Collins and Mr Frank Wood return to Hillsboro from Buffalo Lithia Springs Virginia. Colin Hughes and William S Routhae of F S Royster Guano Co Norfolk enjoy vacation in Hillsboro. Hughes visits Routhae at North Charton Street home.
A local public notice states that girls over seventeen may be employed to pack cigarettes under the new Liberal wages schedule. The policy outlines age eligibility and pay scales for young workers in tobacco production.
AT PARISH S. STAPLE DRESS FABRICS GALATEA CLOTH MADRAS BATA GINGHAMS SUITINGS WHITE BROWN LINENS These goods are new and offered at ton prices THE GEORGE D WITI AND I STAR BRAND SHOES are good and priced to please available in high and low cuts for all ages We buy fresh heavy and fancy groceries deliver on short notice Tip Top Bread Tuesdays and Fridays Phone No 16 Send orders and they will be filled promptly and satisfactorily.
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