Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-27
John W. Edmonds. Editor and Owner.
LOCAL NEWS.

has received call to church in
Kentucky.
A new postofflce has been estab-
lished at Bloomtown, Accomac coun-
ty, Va, with Mr.. Harry 7. White, as
postmaster.
Mr.. J. H. Robbins, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Broadwater,
Northampton county, in place OF u.
T. Wescott, deceased.
Mr.. Jas. G.. Mock, Accomac G. H.,
left last Monday, to visit his sister,
Mrs. Birdie Ensor, now critically i'll,
at her home in Baltimore.
Mr.. J. B. Hopkins, Pocomoke city,
offers for sale cheap, through our
columns, this week, two valuable
farms. desirably located. terms easy.
Rev. VIM. Chinn, is absent from
the county, and preaching need not
be ex pected therefore in Drummond-
town Presbyterian Church, to-mor-
row.
Mr.. F. Fl. Dryden, Pocomoke city,
offers several more very desirable
tracts of land at low prices and on
easy and accommodating terms, in
this issue.
DIR. Oscar F. Byrd, dentist, will be
at the Atlantic Hotel, Chincoteaguc
Island. February goth. March 1st,
End and 3rd., for the practice OF his
profession.
The creditors of Peter H. Davis,
deceased, are requested to present
their claims to Samuel 7. Ross, com
missioner, on or before the end day
of March, next.
A clubhouse is being built by Mr..
G.. Welly Coard, Accomac G. H., on
Revel's Island, under contract from
a company of Northern capitalists,
at the sum of $500.
Progress was reported at meeting
in Philadelphia, this week, with the
projected railroad from Norfolk to
Charleston, to connect with the n.
Y, P. & n. r. R.
County court-day, next Monday.
a special invitation is extended you,
if in arrears for subscription, to be
in attendance and to call early at
our office with the dollar you owe US.
Ten acres of land with house there
on, situated near Pastoral, will be
sold at public auction at Accomac
c. H., February Goth, court day, by
John T. Budd, for the heirs. See
advertisement.
Very many new and interesting
features will be added to the Eastern
Shore Agricultural Fair this year.
Secretary Wcscott will aim by espec-
ial efforts to attract exhibits from
every part of the Eastern Shore.
Slr. John E. Churn, a well-known
citizen of the county, who several
weeks ago suffered a compound frac-
ture of both bones of the right leg,
died Of exhaustion at his home in
Leemont, last Saturday, aged nearly
sixty years.
You cal get large oyster stew or
nice fried beef steak, or a cup OF
hot coffee at Bundick's restaurant on
next Monday, court day, and be but
little money out of pocket. He keeps
the very best fresh beef, oysters, lamb,
sausage and pork constantly on hand.
lover fifty applications have been
made to copy the county court
records under the provision OF the
bill now before the Senate" says the
Headlight. They do not know how
difficult it is to decipher the hero
glyphics of some of the old records OF
Northampton, and that it will be
very trying work to the most expert
copyist.
Upshur B. Quinby, trustee, will
sell at public aucti Il, in front OF
Parker's Hotel, Onancock, on Satur-
day, Goth day of March, about 8 p. M,
a valuable house and lot, known as
the "Oliver Lott, containing 81 acres,
more or less, and situated near Oman
cock, on the road leading to Acco-
mac G. H. For further particulars,
see posters.
Work on the new hotel building at
Accomac G. H., will begin, as soon as
Mr.. G.. Lloyd Doughty, the purchaser
of the old hotel property, now quite
sick at his home in Belle Haven, re-
covers sufficiently to give the matter
his attention. He proposes to en-
ploy a large number of workmen, to
complete the same as soon as posi-
BILE and to occupy It at the earliest
practicable moment.
w. w. Rev, a well-known citizen,
died at his home, in Brambleton
Ward, last Tuesday. He was born
on the Eastern Shore, but married
and settled in Portsmouth. During
the war he was lieutenant in the
Sixty-First Virginia and at the close
became a minister in the Methodist
Church, and labored in West Virginia
for several years. During the Cleve-
land administration he was master
workman in the navy-yard.-Norfolk