Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-15
LOCAL NEWS.
The next court is the grand jury

term
A whale, ~ feet long, is reported
ashore on Smith Island, Northamp-
ton county.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences Tuesday, August
Sth. and continues four days.
No person is authorized to set a
pound net, fyke or weir without first
having obtained license for the
privilege.
Mr.. Bagwell Bull, near Accomac
C. H., has bought the fine farm of
Joseph Redman. near Capeville, at
the sum OF 81, 100.
The cclored people will hold a
campmeeting ut Nock's Branch in
the lower part of the county, COM
mencing August 18th.
A new engine, to be numbered IS, for
the New York, Philadelphia &. Nor
folk Railroad, passed over the road
Sunday for Cape Charles.
The Keller Sunday school will hold
festival at Keller, Friday, July 2sth,
commencing at 2 p. III. The public
is cordially invited TO be in attend
ance.
The clerk of the court has ex-
nmined during the past week the
tax books for 1893 made out by VIM.
D. Tunnel. commissioner Of revenue
for lower parish.
The Fair catalogues will be in the
hands OF the Secretary for distribu-
ton next Tuesday and later can be
found at most Of the public places
throughout the Eastern Shore.
There will be no pacing race at the
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair on
the 4th day. The same appears ON
the race cards by mistake. The pac-
ing race, and the only one during the
Fair. comes off on the 2nd day.
L. Floyd Mock, trustee, will sell at
public auction on Saturday, July
2ond, 4.30 p. m, at dappsburg Sta
ton, valuable real estate of which
Leroy s. Edmonds died seized and
possessed. See posters for full par
ticulars
The ladies of Johnsontown NJ. E..
Church, South, will hold an all day
fair in their beautiful grove. near
Johnsontown, on Tuesday, July 25th.
Dinner and supper will be served.
The entertainment will continue I'M
til late in the evening.
The announcement is authorized,
that the second prize to be COM
peted for at the picnic and regatta at
Buzzards Hill, Thursday, July Goth,
will admit all boats measuring II
feet and under, instead of 1G feet as
heretofore announced"
The Treasury Department has ac-
copied the bid of J. H. Hathaway &
Co., for the construction of kitchen
and other buildings and q wharf at
the quarantine station at Fisher
mans Island, near Cape Charles.
The award amounts to $13.995.
Thomas w. Russell, special COM
missioner, will sell at public auction,
at J. C. Justice g. Co.'S store, on
Hunting Creek, on Saturday, July
22nd, 1898, at O'Clock, that certain
house and lot of which Sydney P.
Russell died seized and possessed.
The childrens' day exercises at the
Baptist and Southern Methodist
Churches, Accomac C. H., last Sun
day morning, attracted large congre-
cations The exercises at both
churches were very interesting, the
music proving an especially attrac-
tive feature.
The N E. Church, South, Acco-
mac C. H., is to be remodeled. A
large steeple and relief steeple are to
be added to the building and stained
glass windows put in. in addition
to this. the seating capacity of the
church will be enlarged The work
of remodeling will begin in few
weeks.
A fair will be held at Andrew
Chapel NJ. E. Church, South, near
Cashville, under the auspices of the
Ladies Aid Society of that church,
Tuesday, July 18th, commencing at
? p. M, or the first fair day there
after if weather is inclement on that
day. Supper and the usual refresh,
ments will be served on the occasion
The beach party given on Metomp
kin beach Tuesday, under the aus
pieces of the Willing Hands Missionary
Society OF the Drummondtown Bap
fist Church, was the largest exeur.
sion Of the kind that has occurred liz
this vicinity this summer. 1t is said
that the number of persons on the
beach considerably exceeded one
hundred.
A branch of the Baltimore Build
ing and Loan Association, has been
organized at Accomac c. Fl by Mr.
Guy Cochran. The officers are as
follows: B. T. Gunter, Jr., president
VIM. P. Bell, vice president; John
w. Edmonds, secretary and treasurer
James H. Fletcher, Jr., attorney
directors, James H. Fletcher, Jr.,