Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-29
3ohn w. Edmonds. Editor and Owner
LOCAL NEWS.
Election day, Tuesday, November

4lOAiO lV-Aet9.
F. Thomas Olsen, of Norway, fell
overheard from City of Columbia of
Chincoteague, Friday OF last week,
and was drowned.
Our merchants and farmers visiting
Baltimore, this spring and summer
will find the Maltby house, q desir-
able stopping place.
If you need transfer or have not
registered, attend to the duty TO day
or you cannot vote for Cleveland,
Stevenson and Jones, on the Sth of
November.
Rev. j. w. A. Elliott has been
named by the few supporters of the
Prohibition ticket in Accomac, es
their candidate for Congress, in the
first district.
The time OF the sale of the store
house of j. Lee Winder. at Onancoek,
has been changed, as will be noted
by reference to advertisement, to
Saturday, November 18th.
Especial attention is invited to tie
advertisement of F. M. Sturgis 6
Son in this issue. The firm will be
dissolved and they are offering bar
gains in goods. See advertisement
for full particulars.
E. H. Benson will visit Drummond-
town, Monday next, court day, with
full line of samples of Fall and
Winter suitings, over-coatings and
trowserings. which will be sold at
prices TO suit the times.
Next Monday. court day. Come
out, pay up all arrearages to the EN-
rERrR1sE, get good dinner. hear
the speeches of eloquent speakers to
be present on the occasion-and you
ought to be, and wiil be, happier
man.
Very valuable personal property
will be disposed of at public auction
by Mr.. James w. Duncan on his
premises near Mappsville, on Thurs
day, November 10th, as will be seen,
by reference to advertisement in this
issue.
The returns have been received by
Mr.. L. James Gunter, Accomac G. H.,
for potatoes shipped by him to Liver.
pool, England, recently, and the
same were so satisfactory, that an
other shipment has been made by
him to that place.
The body of an unknown white
man was washed ashore at the Glebe,
near Bridgetown, on the 26th inst.
There was nothing on his person to
identify him. He was dressed in a
suit OF oil cloth. ard had in his peck
ct purse containing s1.12.
Messrs. G. w. Winder & Co., Balti-
more, better prepared than ever tc
serve shippers Of oysters and poultry
this season, through our columns
solicit consignments. With their in
creased facilities for handling them
they hope to merit the favors Of new
as we'll of old shippers.
The Johnstown Jews have again
put in an appearance in Accomac. SIS
will be noted by their advertisement
in this issue, and are continually re
ceiving car loads of clothing. which
they are selling so cheap, that in
dealing with them, you are tempted
to inquire if they stole them.
The Board of Trustees of Margaret
Academy will meet at Keller, or
Saturday, October Goth, at 10 o'clocE
IN, at which time the committee ap
pointed to make sale of the Academy
will make its report. Should the
sale effected by said committee be
ratified by the Board, the question o.
the location of the Academy vii
then be considered.
An elegant dinner will be served by
the ladies of the Onancock Baptist
Church in the new hotel at Drum
mondtown, on next Monday, court
day. Everyone who patronizes them
will not only get the worth of his
money, but help good cause as well
1t matters not how near you live tc
the Court House, come out and take
dinner with them.
The Confederate Memorial Quilt
made by the laGies of the Working
Society of the Drummondtown. Bap
fist Church, to be voted to the most
popular ex-Confederate soldier, will
be awarded as soon as the boxes into
which the votes were deposited are
returned to the drug store at Acco
mac C Fl. The day designated fo1
the returns to be made was nex'
Monday.
A movement is on foot to put new
steamer on the Pocomoke river te
ply between Muddy and Messongc
creeks, Virginia, and this town. The
capital stock of the company will bt
$4,000, and it is hoped that at least
one-third of the stock can be secured
at the Virginia end of the route
Those who have the movement il
hand have met with considerable