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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
3
Locally scattered notices and advertisements list railway timetables, prices, and public notices. Items include ads for groceries and medicines, names of residents visiting, and upcoming concerts. Officials and merchants such as W. H. Ray, Reynolds & Walker, and J. S. Spergeen appear alongside church and parish notices and community events.
Governor of North Carolina will address the people of Orange County at the Hillsboro Court House on Tuesday September 1906. Democratic candidate S Gattis will speak at Raffin Reidsville Iron Works Graham Haw River and Hillsboro September 25 26 27 28 29 with sessions starting at 1 PM. Fresh bread promotions and millinery travels noted along with a patent medicine endorsement.
The ad touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy as aiding nature to ease colds and coughs, with claims of testaments and pneumonia prevention. Prices 25 cents and 50 cents for large size, sold by W A Hayes druggist. Also mentions ManZan for piles, Shriner's Verminicide, and a local West Bend Grocery Company store lineup.
A farm community notice urges Wood Sub scribers to bring in wood owed now while harvest duties ease. The plea stresses ongoing supply needs and asks prompt settlement of outstanding wood due.
Legal notice dated August 6 1906 warns that anyone charging anything to Morris Telephone Company or the author without a written order will be responsible for their own loss. The text references CASTor IA Rectan The Kind You in Always Bought Signature and Co Wilding E RENT with an address line.
A Hillsboro crowd of 600 to 700 gathered to hear William Jennings Bryan as his train stopped. Governor Gleon announced that Dr. Charles D. McIver, president of the State Normal College, had died in a car since departing Durham, leaving Bryan unable to speak and the crowd hushed. The State loses a valued educator with McIver's passing.
All appointed registrars must await or send to Joseph A. Harrie, Secretary of the County Board of Elections, for Registration Book and blanks. Law requires Registration Books to open on Thursday October 4, 1906.
The Sing ing Class from the Oxford Orphan Asylum will perform at the Hillsboro court house on Thursday night September 20 1906. Admission adults 25 cents children 15 cents. Event promotes orphanage support and draws local attendance. Dorham Parieh Co sells New Quaker Oats and Fresh Grits at Fancy Grocery Co. Also notices a farm sale by J Crawtorn Biggs Trustee and an ad for Dade’s Lil Ure Liver Pills from Reynolds Walker.
For Sale 60 Bushels of Winter Oats by John W. Graham dated August 9 1906. Also a vendor list with Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents and an item about Bartlett Pears at Fancy Grocery Company. A social note reports Mrs H B Hayes and baby Charlotte Clinard returning to Baltimore September 11 with Mrs W A Hayes of Hillsboro visiting Horace B Hayes.
Notices report Secretary-Treasurer T B Parker renting the General Cox place in West Raleigh and planning move from the Barracks near Hillsboro within a month or two.
Public sale at Hillsboro courthouse on October 20 1906 at noon for cash of a 65 acre tract in Chapel Hill Township Orange County described by deeds from Martha Carden and A W Carden. Property bounds include J J Whitfield J A Roberts and New Hope Creek. Sold to satisfy a deed of trust from 1904 by B W Carden et wife for defaulted note.
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