Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-11-03
AccoMAc COURTHOUSE, VA.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1894.
John w. Edmonds. Editor and Owner,
LOCAL NEWS.

Election, Tuesday, November 9th
The Board OF Supervisors meets
Wednesday, November 18th.
The law firm of Fletcher & Guntel
has been dissolved by mutual con-
sent. Their separate cards will ap
pear in our next issue.
DR.. Geo. W. LeCato will address
the voters OF Northampton at Mr.
w. H Downes' store, below Capeville
this afternoon, O'Clock
Slocomb Bros, Onancocl, are
going out of the clothing business
and say they will sell them cheaper
than they can be bought anywhere
on the Peninsula.
Rev. E. c. Atkins will preach in
the Methodist Episcopal Church, at
Onancock, Sunday morning Novem
Der 4th, on the kind of men to rule,
or who should be our rulers
The dramatic entertainment, which
the young ladies of Wardtown, pro
posed to have in town hall at Belle
Haven, on Tuesday night, has been
postponed TO Tuesday, November
18th.
An oyster supper will be served at
Clark's Chapel Daugherty, Tues
day night November, 9th, on first
fair day thereafter, if weather is
inclement at that time. Proceeds
for the benefit of the church.
The reputation of the Maltby
House, Baltimore, for tirst-class ac
commodations and low rates is fully
sustained under the present manage
ment. This fact with its central To-
cation should recommend it to all
travellers.
The sheriff of Accomac is in receipt
of letter from Superintendent of
Eastern State Hospital, Williams
burg, Va, informing him of the
death of Albert Wagner, formerly of
this county, at that institution on
9th OF October.
Thomas w. Russell, special COM
missioner, will sell at public auction,
at Mearsville, on Saturday, Noyem-
Der 3rd, 1894, at o'clock, valuable
piece of land, containing about thirty
acres, of which Micah Davis died
seized and possessed.
The valuable farm of Geo. T.
Bunting and his mother will be sold
at public auction, to the highest
bidder, on Saturday, November24th
1894 at ESQ o'clock p. m, in front OF
the Hotel KelIam at Wachapreague
by John t. Mock, trustee. For terms
sc, see posters.
Thomas w. Russell, special com
missioner, will sell at public auction,
on the premises, Saturday, the 10th
day of November, 1894, at 1870 o'clock,
the farm of which PAMELA A. Mason
died seized and possessed, known as
the Topping Place." situated near
Drummondtown, and containing by
estimation fifty acres.
Hamilton johnson tried at this
term of the court for breaking into
a store-house on Tansier Island was
convicted and gets two years in the
penitentiary. Annie Green charged
with killing her child by throwing it
down the well, was acquitted. The
trial OF the "sanctified crowd was in
progress at the time of going to
press.
JAS. Fl. Flether, Jr., administrator
of Thomas Mcconnell, deceased, will
sell at public auction, at his late resi-
.dence at Pungoteague, Wednesday,
18th day of November, the personal
property of the decedent, consisting
in part of three horses, double wagon,
carts, farming implements, corn, fod
der, sc. Terms made known on day
of sale.
The minutes of the Accomac Bap-
tist Association are in the hands of
the binder and will be distributed
early next week. The delay is not
due to Mr.. Joynes, The clerk OF the
Association, but has been occasioned
bv the sickness of our foreman. Two
extra compositors have been recently
added to the Office to complete other
Jobs now wanted and to attend
promptly to all new work.
DR. s. B. Ward, Belle Haven, leaves
this week to open an Office at Girls
field, Md, for the practice of his pro
fessiop, and in noting the fact, we
but voice the sentiment of our peo-
pie in saying that Accomac parts with
him with sincere regret. He is an
accomplished dentist, an enterpris-
ing citizen and everybody endorses
him for the excellence of his charac-
ter. We congratulate Crisfield in Sc
curing him as one of them.
The judges of election of Acco-
mack County are hereby notified,
that in accordance with the opinion
of the Attorney General Of Virginia,
the clerk of the county court of
Accomack County has forwarded to
each voting precinct in the county
two sets of poll books for next Tues