Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-04-28
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cock.
E. P. Byrd & Bro, have lot of
their guano for delivery at Parsley
station.
County court next Monday and we
will thank you to pay us what YOU
owe us on that day.
I.otel site at Parksley will be sold
2p. m, to-day. on the premises, by
Parksley Land and Improvement Co.
Mrs. Samuel C. Nelson and Mrs.
Sophie Nelson, Accomac c. H., have
been visiting relatives in Baltimore,
during the week.
Ames, Shield & Co., have employed
another lady clerk. She is from Bal
timore and will arrive next week TO
accept the situation.
Mr.. Lee Shrieves and Miss Alice
Bundick, Pastoral, were married
near the line of Maryland, last Mon
day, Rev. Mr.. PoulSon officiating.
a meeting of the County School
Board is requested at Accomac c. H.,
next Monday, court day, 10 a. ~, by
DIR. J. E. Mapp, county superintend-
ent.
it is among the probabilities that
a steam launch will shortly be secur
ed TO ply between the wharves on
Folly Creek and the beach, during
the summer months.
DR.. George T. Scarburgh, one of
the best known and most slillful
physicians in this section, has secur
ed office quarters opposite the EN-
rERPRIsE establishment.
Mr.. b. S. Ashbv, of the firm of
Ashby & Belote, Accomac C. H., re
turns from the city to-day with
large stock of new goods, and the
same will be open for inspection ear
ly next week.
Mr.. F. H. Dryden, real estate brok-
er, offers through our columns in
this issue several bargains in real es
tate. Read what he has TO say if
You are seeking investment for Your
money or want Il home.
Mr.. NJ. W. Gladding, a we'll known
commission merchant of Baltimore,
with host of friends on the Eastern
Shore, is in the county at this time to
renew old acquaintances and to have
talk with his shippers.
E. H. Benson will visit Drummond
town Monday next, court day, with
full line of samples of spring and
summer suitings, comprising all of
the newest designs for the coming
season. Give him call.
Mrs. Maggie Kellam and Miss Ger
tie Bloxom, louisville, have formed
a copartnership in the dressmaking
business and respectfully solicit the
patronage of their friends. Their
work will be according to latest styles
and on liberal terms.
A revival meeting has been in
progress at the Southern Methodist
Church during the week. The pas
tor has been preaching strong and
moving gospel sermons. On Tues
day night presiding elder Wright
filed the pulpit.
Rev. Mr. Thomas, who quarter
of century ago was pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in this town.
has been in Accomac during the
week, visiting and renewing acQuain
lance with friends of long ago"
He is now stationed in Maryland.
a telegram was received at the
time of going to press, yesterday, Of
the death of Mr.. James A. Fisher at
his home near Eastville, that morn
ing. He was well known in this coun
ty and the sad intelligence will be
received with sincere regrets by his
many friends on the Eastern Shore.
Accomac C. H is coming to the
front. Several new enterprises have
recently been started here and the
number is to be still further aug
mented. In few weeks Mr.. Moses
Smith will open Il iirst-cIass bakery in
the town-the only one, we believe,
that will be found in operation on
the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The friends of Mr. Alex Marshall,
Mearsville, claim that he is the
strongest light weight on the East
ern Shore and offer as proof that he
carried barrel of flour from Mr.. S.
A. Godwin's store to his house a mile
distant, last Saturday. without put
ting it down or taking a rest. He
had as an escort about so persons
who made him present Of same. He
is % years old and weighs 115 pounds.
Henry Finney, a well known col
ored man living near Accomac C. H.
has met with a mournful series of
domestic bereavements recently and
there seems something more than
mere coincidence in the fact that all
four of the members of his family,
who have died so recently, should
breathe their last on Sunday. Last
Sunday four weeks ago his grandson
died; two weeks later another grand
son died; on the Sunday following he
lost his wife and last Sunday night