Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-09-22
LOCAL NEWS.

day of October next.
Mr.. Lloyd w. Mears, merchant,
Savageville, was according to our la
test advices. i'll with pneumonia with
out hope of recovery.
Application for bail for Arthur and
William Wright was withdrawn by
his attorney last Monday without be-
ing heard by the court.
County Court next Monday-and
all subscribers in arrears for sub
scripton-are expected to bring it or
send it to us on that day.
The boundaries of the procession-
ing precincts of Accomac county are
the same as when the lands were last
processioned five years ago.
The books of E. T. Powell, treas
urer, and John H. Hopkins, deputy,
will be open for the collection of taX-
cs at Accomac C. H., next Monday.
The date of holding fair at Parks
ley hy members of NJ. P. Church, has
been changed to October Sd and 4th,
to avoid conflict with fair at Guilford
church.
Miss Eta Wise will take a limited
number of pupils for instruction in
vocal music at her home at Accomac
c. H. She teaches the Marchesi
methods.
The dedicatory sermon of NJ. E.
Church, South. Harborton, on Esd
inst, next Sunday, will be preached
by Rev. James Cannon, Jr., presi-
dent of Blackstone Female College.
Miss Matte B. Coard, daughter of
Mr.. q. Welly Coard, Accomac c. H.,
will take course of studies at Rich
mond Female Institute this session,
and left for that place on Thursday.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Elizabeth Susan Kelly, this
county, and Mr.. Arthur Saunders,
Northampton, on Wednesday, Octo-
Der Sd, at the Church of the Holy
Trinity" Onancock.
Mr.. John H. Johnson, editor of
Farmer and Fisherman, Belle Haven
and Miss Margaret V. Warrington,
of Norfolk Va, were married at the
brides home last Wednesday. We
extend congratulations and best
wishes.
Mr.. VIM. T. Mason, Hoffman's
Wharf. is in attendance this week at
Grange Camp Exposition and Agri-
cultural Fair, near Washington, as
one of the judges in the produce de-
partment, with all expenses paid and
reasonable compensation for his
services.
Especial attention is invited to the
advertisement of A. d. Doremus,
Belle Haven, Va. He is a dealer in
stoves, &C., up to the times in prices,
with select stock always on hand
or easily furnished on short notice.
We commend him to the patronage
of our readers.
The Onancock Public High School
will open first Monday in October.
This school is well known to the peo-
pie of the Eastern Shore as one of
the best of public schools. Prof. G.
g. Joynes, the principal, is spending
the month of September in Western
New York and Canada.
Under the new law in Virginia,
which went into effect September LIST,
the tax on writs, suits, deeds, admin
istrations, seals, etc., has to be paid
before the clerks of the courts are al
lowed to receive the instruments.
The clerks are also required under
penalty to give receipt for the
amount paid.
Messrs. Pate & Mason, Parksley,
have just received a car load of Win
ter Patent and Best-in-the-World
flour, popular brands, as the sale in
dicates, of VIM. NJ. Powell & Co..
Baltimore, Nd. The sale was made
by Mr.. T. j. Powell, representative
of the firm. who says that such a de-
mand for the flour is often made.
Mr.. O. W. Byrd made tour of the
Peninsula this week interesting to
him for the liberal patronage re-
ceived, and doubtless so to the well
known firm of d. w. Laws & Co.,
Baltimore, which he so cleverlY rep
resents. The excellence of the
goods of the one and the business
like methods of the other merit the
favors of our merchants every trip.
The report of the survey made by
Lieutenant Baylor of the natural
oyster rocks, beds and shoals, of Tan
gier and Pocomoke Sounds. was filed
in our county court clerks office as
the law directs on the 21st day of
June, 1894. Corrections of omissions,
if any, in said survey, can be made
within four months from the date
aforesaid, by petition of not less than
% residents of the county, in the
manner provided by Act of Legisla
ture entitled can Act to protect the
oyster industry of the Common
wealth" approved February 30, 1892,
us amended by Act approved March
.. 1894
The festival, to be held at Grad
JooI,xi1la Cb1~ob Wednesday, 10Th