Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-21
lohn w. Edmonds. Editor and Owner.


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The Board of Supervisors meets at
Accomac G. H., November 18th.
Rev. Byron c. Clark, of Accomac
c. H., is attending meeting Of the
synod at Lexington, Va.
DR.. John W. Bowdoin, Bloxom
Station, left for the Worlds Fairla
Wednesday, to be absent from the
county about ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wilkins, OF
Tangier, have been the guests OF Mr..
W. B. Wilkins, Accomac G. H., dur
ing the past two weeks.
The Democratic County Commit
tee is requested by DR.. John w.
Bowdoin, county chairman, to meet
Mt Accomac G. H., October SOth,
next court day.
A protracted meeting will begin at
the NJ. E. Church, South, Drummond-
town, Sunday night, October 22nd.
The pastor will be assisted by Rev.
w. R. Crowder, of the Virginia Con-
ference.
About two thousand people witness
ed the performance given by Hun
ting's circus, at Parksley, on Satur-
day last. The exhibition did not
come up to the expectations of the
audience.
Read carefully the advertisement
of W. J. Hall s. Son. in this issue,
and call at once if you want bar
gains. They have just received new
goods, in large quantity, of great va
rioty, and at lowest prices.
Valuable real estate, of which
James N. Ward. died seized and pos
sessed, is advertised in this issue. for
sale at public auction, on Wednes-
day, November 18th, by John T. F.
Hope, special commissioner.
The roof of the stables of Mr.. Jas.
Henry Kellam, near Mappsburg Sta
ton, fell in during the storm of Fri
day night, last week, killing a colt
and crippling several other horses.
His loss is estimated at 5000 or
more.
Especial attention is invited to the
advertisement of F. T. s. F. NJ. Boggs
in this issue. They have just re-
ceived O. stock of new goods bought
on the best terms, and which can and
will be sold at the lowest margin Of
profit.
The secretary of Ocean Lodge, No.
116, A. F.& A. NJ, through us re.
quests full attendance of the mem
bers at the next regular meeting, on
next Wednesday. Business of impor-
lance demands their presence on that
occasion.
Mrs. A. s. Woodhouse, of Staun-
ton, Va, Grand Superintendent of
Juvenile Templars for Virginia, at
tended the meeting OF Drummond-
town Lodge OF Good Templars on
last Tuesday night and organized
a Juvenile Temple.
A letter was received last week by
NJ. Oldham, Jr., from Henry T Allen,
the Military Attache of the American
Legation, st. Petersburg, requesting
copy of the will of Samuel Sanford,
or any other Sanford, which were Of
record in our clerks Office priof to
1900.
Mrs. Hester A. Twilley, mother of
Rev.W.J. Twilley died at her home, in
Allen, Md, last Monday, 18th instant.
at $50 O'Clock in the afternoon. She
had been i'll for some time and she
passed away peacefully, surrounded
by her family. The sympathy of his
many friends here is extended Mr..
Twilley In his bereavement.
The interior of the drug store and
post. office at Accomac G. H has been
handsomely and artistically decorat-
ed, making the building extremely
neat and attractive in appearance.
The change disappearance that now
makes it "a thing of beauty" was
made by Mr.. Samuel G. Nelson, as
sisted by Mr.. John J. Lilliston.
The bottom dropped out of the
store of Mr.. P. H. Connorton, Tan
gier Island, during the storm on Fri
day night, Of last week, and goods
of the value of $500 or $500 was
swept away along with it. His pun
gy, worth some $4OO or $500, also
dragged ashore during the same
night and was SO badly broken up as
to be almost total loss.
During the storm on Friday night,
of last week. thief entered the
house Of Mr.. Fred o. Boone, Maps
burg Station, while the family was
at supper and stole q tin box, con.
tanning $175 in bank notes and sill.
yer, belonging to his wife. He es-
capped with his plumber by jumping
from the second story of the dwell,
ling. No clue, so far as we are advis.
ed, has been obtained to the daring
perpetrator of the theft.
Mr.. Paul Savage died at his home
in California, Friday afternoon last
after an illness of several weeks