Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-01-09
John W. Edmonds. Editor and Owner.
LOCAL NEWs.

A writ of error has been awarded
by Judge Gunter, in case OF Com
monwealtn VS.. George Drier.
Mr. Geo. G. Ailworth left Accolnac
for Chicago, last Thursday, to accept
= situation offered him in that city
For home like comforts, good fare
and moderate charges, the Maltby
House, Baltimore, cannot be sur
passed
Capt. a. 4. Lecato, formerly of
this county, late Of Staten Island
located permanently in Norfolk at
the beginning Of the year.
a valuable farm is offered for sale
bv Mr. J. IS. Hopkins, real estate
agent. Pocomoke City, in this issue,
ut a low price and on easy terms.
Mr. John E. Churn, Leemont, fell
over the small root of & tree in his
ward. on last Saturday night, break
ing his leg badly between ANGLE and
knee.
Mr.. Geo. T. wescott, citizen well
known and generally esteemed in
the lower part of the county, died
near Keller, December 3Oth, aged Sc
years.
DR.. W. W. Landrum, OF Richmond,
Va. will lecture in the hall of Y. NJ.
C. A.. Eastville. next Wednesday, for
the benefit OF the Eastville Baptist
Church.
Few. J. E. Allender, of Fallston,
Nd. a recent visitor to Accomac G.
H. has been confined to his home,
since his return, with pneumonia and
la grippe.
Mr.. Pleasonton Conquest and wife,
OF Richmond, Va. arrived at Acco-
mac c. H, last Tuesday, on visit of
a few days to Mrs. VIM. H. B. Gusts
and daughters.
If you are thinking OF 1nsuTlnS
write to Kelly at OnancocA, or A.
Frank Byrd at Temperancevi!le, for
particulars of The Mutual Fire In
surance Company. of Eastern Virgin,
ia.
Mr.. J. L. Fitchett, moved this
week, from the shop in our town,
which he has occupied for the last
thirty years, to shop OF Mr.. VIM.
P. Bell, near Nelson's carriage fac
tory.
Mr.. Jas. II. Feddeman has recover
ed sufficiently from the grip to make
his usual monthly visit next week
TO our merchants and will have an
especially fine line of tobaccos and
cigars to offer them.
Pocomoke Super-Phosphate, a
standard fertilizer. whose merits
have been tested to the satisfaction
OF the farmers of the Eastern Shore,
is again offered to them through
our columns in this issue.
Rev. Y. W. Bargamin and wife now
occupy the parsonage of the n. E.
Church, South, Drummondtown.
They were pounded" soon after
their arrival. Mr. Bargamin promis-
es TO be very acceptable pastor to
the people of his charge.
Rev. S. U. Grimsley, was handsome
ly pounded bymembers and friends
of the Baptist Church, Drummond-
town, of which he is pastor, on New
Years day. At his request we make
the bow for him and acknowledge,
with hearty thanks, fayors received.
Mr.. Philcman Taylor Woodward,
for over forty years clerk Of the
courts of Middlesex county, and one
of the most efficient in the State, died
last Monday He was the father of
Mrs. John S. NAPLES, Onancock, and
Mr. Wallace w. Woodward, well
KNOWN III the county
Mr.. w. E. Doughty has accepted
situation with Chas. II. Torsch &
Bro, Baltimore, this year. The firm
is an excellent one and surely acted
wisely in engaging the services of
Mr.. Doughty. With a good firm back
ing him he will have no trouble in
taking orders from all our merchants.
The hotel property at Accomac c.
H, vacated by Mr.. Duf1ield Savage
and family, on New Years day. has
since been closed, but it is not likely
that it will be long without q pro-
prietor, as it can. without doubt, be
made the best paying property OF
the kind on the Eastern Shore. in
the hands of the right man.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society,
will be held this year at Dover, Del,
January, 10Th, Goth and 21st. Mr..
A. J. McMath, of Onley, one of the
vice-presidents of the Association, in
an article, sent to US too late for pub
LEGATION this week, but which will
appear in our next issue, urges every
sub-Alliance and Grange to send a
delegate to said meeting.
Edward Long, OF Baltimore, hand
employed on the dredge-boat of Capt.
James Byrd, was found dead in the
thicket of what is known as Island
Fields near Muddy Creek, last Sat
urday. The verdict of the jury, at
an inquest held over him, was "that