Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-07-16
ohm M. Edmonds. EDITOR and Owner.
LOCAL NEWS.

Especial attention is invited te
privileges to CAPE Charles Fair, ad
vertised in this issur.
The Eastern Shoe Agricultural
Fair, commences Tuesday, August
3oth, continuing four days.
A campmeeting of the colored REQ
ple will be held on the old camp
grourd, near Wlttsviile, August Goth
to Goth.
Children's Day exercises takes place
at NJ. f. Church, South, Drummond
town. to morrow Sunday night
about 5 o'clock.
A Democratic mass meeting will be
held at Drummondtown, next court
day, to select delegates to the Tappa
hammock Convention.
The clerk of county court examined
this week the books for the year lo9:
of Win. d. Tunnel. commissioner OF
revenue Tor QlStrlct NO
DIR. o. F. Byrd. dentist, will be al
Atlantic hotel. Chincoteague Island
July 25th, Goth and 9th, for the
practice Of his profession.
NJ. John E. Bradford, Grangeville.
run over ct Fair Grounds on h OF
July. was not so seriously urt, at
was then feared, and is out again.
The barrel of sweet potatoes. ship
ped by j. w. Burton, last Saturday
and consigned to J. H. Seward 3 Co.
was sold for SO, netting The shipper
$13.4S.
Mr.F H. Dryden, real estate agent
has sold for Mr.. E. E. Mock, of Hall
wood, his farm near Wagram, Va, to
James NJ. Shepherd, of Maryland
for $500.
Hon. John w. G.. Blackstone and
Mr.. John A. Bundick have entered
into a co-partnership forthe practice
of law. as will be noted by their card
in this issue.
L. Floyd Mock, trustee, by request
OF all the parties in interest, Will sell
at public auction on the premises,
Saturday, August 9th, about 81 p. m,
the house and lot of J. S. Matthias,
sitrate at Parlsley.
TIE per diem and mileage of thr
Jurors attending last court. not in
Guiding grand jurors, amounted to
s391. 60. of which sum 1884 was
PAYABLE ont of State treasury and
S13.1G out of county treasury.
L. Floyd Mock, by virtue Of q
power of attorney from Miss Melissa
T. Hutchinson. will sell at rrblic
auction. at He ad of Bradfords Neck
on Saturday, July 18th. at 3 p. NJ. q
certain lot or parcel of land located
near that place.
e. Walter Mapo, sen OF DR.. J. E.
7apo, has been elected recently as
assistant professor of English and
History at William and Mary Col
loec. For a young man hardly out
of his teens" the appointment sure
" speaks well for his attainments.
Mr.. Frank Wilkins and his bride
rec Miss Lidie Jones, of Northum
herland county, Va, are at Accomac
C. H. this week, on visit to rela-
tives and friends of the groom. A
cordial welcome is being extended
them. We join in the congratula-
lions.
a centennial missionary meeting
will be held at Bethel church, on the
10th and 18th of this month. Besides
the Baptist ministers on the Shore
eloquent speakers from dstant c
are expected. All day Meeting On
both days. All are cordially invited
to attend, especially those WHO want
to learn something about missions.
The first issue of the Accomae
Weekly Review, successor of the Ac
comac Democrat, Onancock, with
Mr.. Chas. I. Steng'e as publisher, APP
pears this week. We extend to oul
brother in his new venture the right
hand of fellowship, and hope he will
find in the "art preventative" con
genial and profitable employment.
Mrs. VIM. J. Coleburn accompanied
by herjsister, returned home from
Norfc * this week on visit to Their
father, Mr.. John Z. Lewis, now con.
fined to his home by sickness. Mr.
Clemens of Baltimore, is visiting hi:
daughter, Mrs. Edward T. Coleburn
and Misses Hack of Baltimore, their
aunt, mother of DR.. John H. Ayres
Purse races, one open to all canoes
bateaux and skifrs % feet in length
and under, another open to all craft:
from 25 to 80 feet in length, will come
off at Guilford steamboat wharf
Thursday, August 18th. A picnic
held in connection with same vii
furnish ice cream, confectionaries
sc. See posters for full particulars
A picnic under the auspices o
Ayres NJ. e. Sunday School and TO!
the benefit of same will be held or
Half Moon Island. Wednesday. July
goth. Ice cream, confectioneries ant