Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-12-02

day last.
Mrs. DR.. Tiffany, of Baltimore, has
been visiting relatives at Accomac
G. H., during the week.
Appropriate religious services
were held in the Drummondtown
Baptist and, Presbyterian churches
on Thanksgiving-Day.
Mr.. Joseph N. Latham, of Oman
cock, was admitted to elders orders
at the conferences. of the NJ. E..
Church, South, last week.
Messrs. S. r. Nelson 4 Son, Oman
cock, offer for sale at cost their en-
tire stock of goods. consisting of dry
goods, notions. shoes, gents furnish
ing goods sc. S
The sloop Andrew Johnson" will
be sold at public auction on Satur-
day, December 9th, 1898, at 10 o.
clock a. NJ, in front of Matthews
Hotel Chincoteague Island.
The revival services at the Baptist
Church, Accomao c. H.. continued
during. the past week and the; inter
est seems to increase nightly So far
there have been about 20 CONVEX
sions.
Cards are out for the marriage Of
DR.. Geo. L. Ames, Of Pungoteague,
and Miss Gabrielle S. Mapp, daugh-
ter of Geo. s. Mapp. Esq, of Bob
town. The ceremony will occur on
the 18th inst.
The farm Rural Felicity" be-
longing to the heirs Of the late Geo.
W. Kelly, and situated near Accomac
G. H., was sold last Saturday, at
public auction, to Isaac B. Clark, of
Parksley. The price paid was $3.50.
N. W. Mock, attorney-in-fact, will
sell at public auction on December
End, at $50 p. M, at Bloxom, the
mill Of Lambert H. Chesser, near
Mappsville, adjoining the lands of
Henry B. Northam, Jr., and others.
The valuable house and lot of j.
W. Ward and wife, in Belle Haven,
will be sold at public auction on Mon
day, December 4th, 1898, at 10 O'Clock
a. m, in front of Kellam Hotel, in
Belle Haven. For terms see posters.
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Ihos. W. Russell, special commits
sioner, will sell at public auction on
the premises, on next Saturday, 10 a.
m.,, two tracts of land situated on
the road from Onancock to Pungo-
league, known as the "Polly Ayres
Land" For full particulars see pos
ters
Mr. John D. Johnson, Parksley.
has just returned from the city with
a drove OF ten horses all good stock
and we'll suited to farm and road and
two Of them especially fine and very
speedy as trotters. He wishes to sell
them and offers them for sale on the
most reasonable terms.
c. C. Isaac s. Sons, Baltimore, Md,
advertise in this issue their celebrated
brands of cigars. The firm is an ex-
cellent one and numbers among its
patrons many Of our business men
and every trial of their cigars means
an increase of orders. We commend
to the trade Mr.. Fred B. Lewis, their
genial and courteous representative
in this section.
Many of the public school teachers
OF Accomac, in spirit Of reverence
for the occasion and actuated by
patriotic impulses, dismissed their
schools Oh Thanksgiving day, after
reading the proclamation of the Pres
ident of the United States and Gov
ernor of Virginia, and a chapter in
the Bible-the County School Board
of Accomac to the contrary notwit h.
standing.
The Masonic banquet at Hotel
Doughty Thursday night was a su-
perb affair and worthy in all re-
spects the reputation of its proprie-
tor. The best caterer of the best
city hotel could not have given one,
more elegant or more to the satisfac
ton of it's guests. Eighty-two Ma
SONS and twenty six ladies partook
of the feast. 1t deserves and will
receive further notice in these col
umns.
Alexander & Cohen, who were in
business for short time at Drum
mondtown, about three years ago,
are now at Chincoteague, and have
opened up there large and select
line of secondhand clothing, which
they are offering at extremely low
prices to both wholesale and retail
buyers. Their stock was bought in
Philadelphia, and consists of over
coats, suits of all kinds &c-and must
go at prices which will surprise all
who call to examine them.
Special premiums were awarded at