Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-07-14
John W. Edmonds. fditor and Owner
LOCAL NEWS.

About one hundred people heard
Rev. Sam Small lecture in the Town
Hall. Onancock, on Saturday.
The Eastern Shore District Confer
ence will be held this year at Frank
town, July nth, 18th and 10th.
Rev. l.. A. Coulter has closed his
meeting at Daughcrty Chapel. There
were in all about IS conversions
Rev. J. NJ. Dunaway has recovered
from his sickness and will fill his
regular appointments tomorrow.
All persons indebted to George B.
Hoffman, Harborton, are requested
TO settle without delay. See notice
in this issue.
Mr.. J. 0. Taylor, Accomac c. H.,
has received the contract for timing
and galvanizing on the new bank
building at Onancock.
Rev. Mr.. Zimmerman, of Wythe-
Vile. has, we are advised, accepted a
call as assistant rector of the Episco-
pal churches in this parish.
Rev. w. F. Hayes will not fill his
appointment at Accomae c. H. again
until his church, now undergoing re-
pairs, is ready for services.
Mr.. o. H. Taylor and sons, Oak
Hall, spent several days this week ON
Metompkin Beach, as the guest Of
his son, Capt. Lynn F. Taylor.
Annie Green, colored, near Maps
vile, was committed to jail last Sat
urday, charged with drowning her
two months old baby in well.
Mrs. Judge Heath and daughters,
of Norfolk, have been visiting
Judge B. r. Gunter's family and 9TH
err friends in Accomac, during the
week.
If Won want barrels, read the adj
vertisement OF Christoph Koch,
Philadelphia, in this issue and write
to him for prices. He proposes to
save you money.
DIR. John R. Bowdoin, one OF the
oldest and best known physicians on
the Eastern Shore, died on Friday
of last week, at his home at Maps
vile, after long and painful illness.
DR.. It. H. Lewis, of the Western
Maryland College, was the guest of
Mr.. S. j. Lewis, Parksley, this week.
He delivered sermon in Parksley
NJ. P. Church on Sunday last Of ex-
traordinary power.
Advertisements of w. S. Dickinson
& Son, Pocomoke City, L. II. Ames
g. Son, Pungoteague, and c. S. Slo-
comb s. Bros, Onancock, of especial
interest to our readers, appear in
This issue of the ENTERPRIsE.
The reputation of the Maltby
House, Baltimore, for first class ac-
Communications and low rates is fully
sustained under the present manage
ment. This fact with its central To-
cation should recommend it to all
travellers.
Mr.. Z. g. Gordy, Onancock, solicits
your favors through our columns in
this issue. He is aefirst class pho
tographer and his charges are rea-
sonable. Call on him at his gallery
at Onancock and see him at the
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair.
The white Caps" musical en-
tertainment, will be given at Court
House, by the ladies of st. James
Church, Tuesday evening, July 18th.
Admission % cents-children Is cents
reserved seats 30 cents. Doors
open at performance at p. III.
The shipment OF sweet potatoes to
market from this county has already
begun. Samuel Burton consigned
four barrels to Baltimore on Thurs
day of last week and George Kellam
shipped the same number of barrels
to that place on Monday. Both
shipments were made from Oman
cock
The buildings and most OF the
stock of the Cape Charles Ice and
Lumber Company. Cape Charles,
were destroyed by fire last Sunday.
Loss about $15,0O0-insurance $4,000.
The wind was blowing in the direc-
ton of the town at the time and a
building in the centre of it, about
400 yards distant, caught fire from
the burning debris, which would
have resulted in the destruction of
the whole town but for the timely
discovery of the same.
Hicks, the weather prophet, gives
us the following points on the
weather which is to follow. About
18th and 14th will grow very warm
resulting in many local bursts of
wind, hail and rain. Much lightn-
ing and thunder will result from
Venus equinox during all July per-
iods. From nth to 22nd will prove a
heated term" which state will con-
tinue up to and through the reac-
tionary 25th and Goth unless abated
by storms about the 18th and 10Th Oh
25th and Goth. The month will end
IN the midst of great heat, with a
threatening barometer, and possibly
active storms moving from the west