The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
ABOUT HILLSBORO.

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There will be a "tacky party
this evening at the resi- dence Of |
Mr.. JAS IL iIedgpeth.
Colonel Jim Webb is a pusher,
and will finally compel even
Hillsboro to geta move on itself
Hillsboro streets are hard on
the soc and Orange county
roads retard the wheels OF pro-.
gress..
IL you smoke, smoke NAL.
lory's Durham cheroots- be.
cause they are the best and
cheapest.
! Peace Institute, Raleigh, and
the State University talk
through the columns of The Re-
corder this week.
Ten thousand second-h hand
public school books are wanted
at the Hillsboro book store.
Read the advertisement of N.
w. Brown.
Hillsboro's popularity as a
summer resort is every year in.
creasing, and visitors from east.
ern counties never weary of our
rugged hills and picturesque
landscapes.
Colonel Forrest, Of the Far.
mers' Alliance store, says that
the man who is wise will take
TO the woods when his wife
wants a new dress or tie COOK
reports an empty larder,
DIR. ID. G. Paris has up a
notice 10 the effect, that people
must quit leaving foolish mes
sages on his slate, or they will
be caled upon 10 answer for it
at tie mayors or magistrates
court. This il business.
Hillsboro should make 4 fight
for better streets The flagsiones
which Cornwallace aud lis
soldiers left might have been all
right for Hillsboro a hundred
~ years ago. but they are not all
right for Hillsboro Of to-day.
Colonel Henry Brown says
that he never realized the
weight tln press until Tie IN
dcrtook iuMru tie machine pn
which tile lsecorif il prait,+i.
He IL now convicted that il ~
quirrs force 20 prodaee a nc )
paper.
Mr. Cooley SAYS that over 30
people visited liz furniture
store last Friday and Saturday
10 talk through his telephone.
which is, ut present. the only
one in Hillsboro. He is now
moro than ever convinced that
il pays 20 advertise.
Major Hamilton claims that
the insurance business is dull
around Hillsboro. And yet il
has not been long since a good
part of the town burned up aud
the owners Of the property lost
everything. Major Hamilton
should take the tide at its flood
and profit by past experiences,
Hon. Josiah Turner, who
knows more North Carolina
history than any man now liv.
ing, will shortly give the world
two volumes--one Of personal
"reminiscences which will be d
valuable addition 10 the litera
ture Of the state, and are being
looked forward to with interest
A sample Of Hillsboro fruit
from the garden of Mrs. Cora
u. Strain, which was sampled
to-day In the Recorder Office
convinced the samplers that M
county in North Carolina could
produce finer plums. more lus
cious pears ar sweeter grapes
than old Orange. As q horti
culturist, Mrs. Strain Ii Ger
tainly q success.
A whiskey still operated b,
Theodore Turner, about iiy,
miles from Hillsboro, wal
seized Wednesday by Deput,
j. il. Pickard. About 500 gal
Ions, the supply then on hand
was taken 20 llaleigh 10 day
Turner was before the officials
in Durham only a few week
ago for q similar offence, from
which IL would appear he like,
the business.
Colonel James Parks who
though past the meridian Of life
still looks at the world through
the eyes Of youth, declares hi
readiness 70 walk 20 New Yorl
" by doing 50 he could help il
any way % save the poor Italian
girl sentenced 10 death for STAY
ing the human fiend who ha,
first betrayed, then Knocked an,
spurned her. And yet som,
people would have us believ,