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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
3
Orange County news items list local candidates for sheriff and county offices, shop ads and notices, teacher and resident updates, and social notices from Hillsboro and nearby towns. The page mentions Fo ley Kidney Care, Melrose flour, and a yearly Union Picnic at Efland with veterans and a Raleigh advocate speaking.
An uneven page from Hillsboro includes a note of thanks to local women for a Confederate era dinner, a clothing sale with low prices, and a registration schedule for an 1902 election. It lists registrars by precinct, outlines voting book hours, and reports county Republican nominations and local ads.
The Orange County Board of Elections announces polling place changes effective promptly. West Hillsboro moves to WW. Christmas office on King Street Hillsboro. Patterson's precinct moves to Jos J Whitfield's store Chapel Hill. Pleasant Green and Orange Academy precincts discontinued. new St Marys precinct established at St Marys school house. All voters from those former precincts may vote at St Marys.
Southern Railway offers round trip tickets to Washington DC at low rates for the occasion. From Hillsboro NC the rate is 875. other points also offered with various dates and 50 cent extension options. Contacts include S H Hardwick Washington DC RK L Vernon Charlotte NC. Also notes contests, job ads, vermifuge promotion, seed catalogue, and local merchant ads urging newspaper readers to advertise.
Wheat offered at 90 cents a bushel and 60 cents for date. Highest price paid for all kinds. N. W. Brown & Co advertise they have what you want and invite calls. Special church services at Methodist church closed Friday night. Rev Glenn and wife returned to Greensboro Saturday morning. Fifteen members joined Methodist, three joined Presbyterian, others seeking church membership.
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