Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-12-10
:
John W. Edmonds, Editor and Owner
LOCAL NEWS.

@The Board Of snnervisors meets at
Accomac C.sH., Wednesday, Dece m
Der 14th.
@@For Christmaswpresents. cnDfec-
tioneries SC, call at Blackstone +
Bells, Accomac c. H.
wRev. Joe~ R. Gill swill preach ut
Temnaranceville. 10:90 q. m, to NOR
rowland at Woodbury., Sp. IN.
1'>S ss;;f'nf. o. 4. Browne, quite sick Of
late,~.was in ;'onr Stown on Friday,
very much improved in health.
Dr.sA. D. F. Ewell,e :Parksley, will
open ont ats his drug store to day q
very large and select stock of Xmas
goods.
DR.. Oscar F. Byrd, dentist, will be
at Atlantic hotel, Chincoteague Is
land, December 18TH, 18th, 14th and
18th, for the practice Of his profes
sion.
Rev. Andrew Manship. of N. E.
Church. who had charge in Acco-
mac just before the war, died in
Philadelphia, on the I'd inst, aged
about 20 years.
Especial attention is invited to
advertisements in this issue Of furni-
ture &C., by w. E. Lewis, and of
general merchandise by Miles s.
Shields, and by J. H. Turner.
A tair will be held at Sanford NJ
E. Church, South, Wednesday, De-
cember 2Sth. commencing at p. m,
and continuing after night. Oysters
will be served in every style. Pro-
ceeds for benefit of the church.
Big cut in prices for ten days only
at The Belle Haven Furniture Co.
Solid walnut marble top sideboards,
regular price s25 for s1s.75, solid oak
sideboards, regular price s25 for
$1s.75-$23 for $i875e$17 for S1275.
The reputation Of the Maltby
House, Baltimore, for first class &C
oommodations and low rates is fully
sustained under the present manage
ment. This fact with its central To-
cation should recommend it to all
travellers.
Rev. David J. Traynham, the new
pastor of the NJ E. Churches, South.
Drummondtown circuit. arrived with
his FAM. lin our town on Thursday.
He will preach at Amiss Chapel, II
a. m, to morrow, Drummondtown,
3 p. IN.
An excursion train, known as San
TIA Claus train,n will run at reduced
rates from Cape Charles to Poeomoke
City, Thursday next, December 18th,
leaving Cape Charles at Z a. m, and
on its return leaving Pocomoke City
at D. IN.
F. II. Dryden, real estate agent,
has sold to Oliver J. Lucas, OF Modes
town, very valuable house and lot
in Pocomoke City, for S9,7OO. Mt.
Dryden has also sold a truck farm
on the line of Virginia to Edward
- L(o11 g. A-nO
President-elect Cleveland ended
his visit at Hog Island Sunday last,
and left Exmore station on the pri-
waite car of Superintendent Kenney.
of Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad. which was at
tached to the New York Express.
Rev. Thomas A. Tidball, D. D.,
rector of st. Paul's Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Camden, N. j., an6
formerly rector OF St. James P. E.
Church, Accomac G. H., Va, will, it
is stated, accept the rectorshfp OF
Epiphany, one of the richest church
es in Philadelphia. The General
Convention in Baltimore elected him
missionary bishop to japan, but he
declined the appointment.
Samuel A. Pitt, general manager
of the Peninsula Mutual Relief As
ISOLATION, of Easton, Md, will re-
main in town for few weeks look
ing toward the interest and advance
ment of his association. Mr.. Pitt
will hold q public meeting in the
Town Hall over the printing office
Monday night, December 18th, not
ouly are the members of the associa-
:. tion invited but the public generally.
The Confederate Memorial quilt,
the handiwork OF the Ladies Work
ing Society of the Baptist Church,
Drummondtown, exhibited at the
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair, to
be Voted to the most popular e1-
Confederate on the EasterE%Shore.
has been awarded to DR.. Cnarles
Smith. OF Franktown, Northam Ston
county. More votes were cast for
him than for all other persons COM
bined. The vote will be given in
detail in our next issue. Those who
received ballots and have not yet re-
ported, are requested to do SO at
once
Capt. WIN. R. Bunting entertained
a party OF friends, one hundred and
fifty or more, at his home, Mt Oregon,