Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-16
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
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Mrs S. Upshur Byrd is visiting rel
,atives and friends in Baltimore.
Miss Ailsey Ward, of Onancock, is
visiting Mrs. Samuel J. bayfield,.
Mr.. Frank Hill has friends and rel
atives from Philadelphia visiting
him.
Misses Maggie and Sarah White are
on protracted visit to friends in
Baltimore
Miss Lou Mitchell, one of Mem
phis' lovely girls, is visiting at the
parsonage.
Mr.. VIM. Copes, now of North Car
DINA, was welcome visitor to our
village last week. He is looking well
and doing well.
A Mr.. Dietrich. young gentleman
from the Western Shore, will be
principal, and Miss Nellie Byrd his
assistant, in the public school here.
Mr.. o. J. Lucas has sold out his
store to Mr.. John Shreaves s. Bro,
who will now go in the mercantile
business at Mr.. Lucas old stand in
Modestown.
Our farmers are doing well here,
Notwithstanding the great business
depression elsewhere in our country.
Haven't we the best country in the
world, Mr.. Editor?
Mr.. Samuel Wertheim, of New
York, jolly young business man of
that city, has been welcome visitor
to our village recently He made
Mr.. Walsh's house his home while
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel j. Rayfeld
will start on northern tour soon,
taking in the Worlds Fair. Niagara,
and other objects of interest. VIM.
H. BloXom, Esq, will also soon make
the same trip.
Mrs. Florence Howe returned last
week to Jersey City, her home, ac-
companied by Mrs. N W. Mock,
whom she had been visiting here.
Mrs. Mock tarried only few days,
and is again at home.
Mr.. VIM. Mock, of Alatha, Kansas,
son of former county1nan, is visit
ing the family of Mr.. Jas. .Northam
and other friends and relatives. He
speaks in glowing terms of the Worlds
Fair, which he "took inn on his way
East, and is well pleased with orr
country and people.
Mr.. Albert Mock is very jubilant
over the advent into his home of two
lovely little girls. Tempting offers,
he says, have been made him by one
of his unfortunate but worthy neigh
bors, whose pleasant home has thus
far not been blessed with the merry
prattle of childhood, for one of his
jewels and declined.
Now that the gentlemen are named
who will represent US at Richmond
during the coming session of the
Legislature, we think it the proper
time to tell them that we want more
efficient protection for our oyster in
terest on the bayside, and want, and
must have protection for our seaside
oyster interest also; we also must
have for our county moderate tax
on dogs, the proceeds from which
must first go to pay for sheep and
other property destroyed by dogs,
and the remainder, if any, to go to
the free schools of this county only.
Mrs. DIR. E. L. Parramore, and Et-
ia, her daughter, OF California, are
visiting Mrs. Dr. West and other rel
atives and friends of this section, her
former home. Frequent visits to.
"Kegotank, the old homestead, have
been made by her. where from amid
the ruin wrought by time and by
fire upon the stately old mansion,
she has secured many articles made
sacred to her by youthful association.
She will remain East for year or SO,
looking after investments made in
Virginia's most thriving city, New
port News, and the education of her
lovely daughter.