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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
2
The article notes a public square monument plan for the late Senator Zebulon Vance, a 75 foot brick core shaft with granite surface to be erected before the court house in Asheville. It also covers yellow fever fears in New Orleans and local school fund warrants of 56,849.13.
A sprawling notice extols Electric Bitters as the best vegetable medicine to restore tired nerves and aid liver and kidneys, improving appetite and digestion. It sells for 50 cents to 1.00 per bottle at W A Hayes Drug Store.
Mr. R. B. Greeve of Chilhowie Virginia says he was dying of consumption before using Dr King s New Discovery. He was cured after two bottles and returns to business. Trials available free at W A Hayes Drug Store.
Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural Department announced plans to introduce the camphor tree in Florida. The tree has passed trial stages and is expected to succeed there. the department will support supply of seed and young trees and provide encouragement for its establishment.
An advertisement from Kellam and Carren in Seaview Virginia touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as lifesaving for croup with praise from customers near and far. W A Hayes Druggist offers 25 and 50 cent sizes. A fragmentary school joke closes the clipping from the Philadelphia Journal.
Wheat at 60 lbs per bushel and 90 to 1 gold, corn 56 lbs per bushel at 60 cents, oats 52 lbs per bushel 30 cents, meal 46 lbs per bushel 60 cents. Pork 5 cents per pound, bacon hog round 7 to 11 cents, flour per barrel 85 to 600, tallow 4 cents, beeswax 20 cents, butter 15 cents, eggs 12 to 12 cents per dozen, peas 74 to 100 cents per bushel, beans 75 cents to 150 cents, hides dry 4 to 8 cents, chickens each up to 20 cents, live geese 40 cents per pound, washed wool 18 to 20 cents, unwashed wool 10 cents, berries sets 12 to 20 cents per pound. Country produce in good demand.
Greensboro gamblers trial ends with perjury sentence for Jorge Adams. Rev Dr G W Sanderlin, former State Auditor, now Treasury official, admitted in Baltimore hospital. Geo Sigmon of Catawba county refused 1000 bushel wheat offer. holds 3000 on hand. Cigarette opposition grows in several states. calls for poison labels. George Vanderbilt travels. autumn plans at Biltmore. Convicts sent to State farms for harvest. prison population sharply reduced to about 100 inmates.
In Antioch, Turner B. Morgan, 45, was found dead after a hunting mishap near a cornfield. Neighbors searched after nightfall and locating him about midnight a quarter mile from home. The coroner and jury ruled death caused by an accidental gun discharge while Morgan was returning home.
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