Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-07-20
LOCAL NEWS.

Miss Neya Marshall, of West Point,
Va, is visiting friends in hccomac.
The campmeeting at Parksley,
opens August 18th, and will continue
ten days
Regatta, at Accomac Club House,
near Wachapreague, next Wednes-
day, July oath.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences Tuesday, August
eth. and continues four days.
The Accomac Baptist Association,
meets this year, August 18th, at
Chincoteague Church, near New
Church.
The Grand Fair of Improvement"
of the colored people, on Deep Creek,
will commence August Goth, and con-
tinue days.
Miss Josephine Kelley, OF Tucker
ton, \. j., and Miss Ella Watkinson,
of Indiana, are at Accomac c. H., on
q visit to relatives and friends.
Advertisements of A. H. G. Mears,
Wachapreague, and w. S. Dickinson
s. Son, Pocomoke City, of interest to
our readers, appear in this issue.
Alonzo Howard, of Crisfeld, sent
to jail for catching crabs and oysters
in Virginia, last week, has been bail
ed until next grand jury term of our
court.
Fred, son of DIR. G.. Fred Floyd
Bridgetown, Northampton, aged p
years, whose mother was buried last
week, died on Monday and was
buried Tuesday at louisville
The Eastern Shore District meet
ing of the Woman's Foreign Mission
airy Society of the NJ. E. Church,
South, will be held at Franktown,
Northampton Co., July 23d and Gath.
The members and friends of Nj. P.
Church, New Church, will hold an
all-day festival on grounds of said
church on Wednesday, July oath.
Dinner, supper, ice cream, etc.. will
be served.
The real estate of which Arden
Daisey, of Chincoteague, died seized
and possessed, adjoining the lands OF
Jno. W. Bunting and others, will be
sold at public auction by L. Floyd
Mock, special commissioner, on Fri
day, July Goth inst, 4 p. m.
Rev. W. F. Hayes, pastor of NJ. E.
Church, South, Accomac G. H., has
been absent from the town for sever
al days, enjoying the vacation given
him by his church, and was at Dis
trict Conference, Cambridge, Nd,
this week.
Mr.. John j. Hopkins and Miss
Amanda A. Gladding; and Mr.. A. S.
Bull and Mrs. Catharine S. Turner;
were married at the Baptist Parson
age, Drummondtown last Wednes-
day evening, Rev. J. NJ. Dunaway
officiating.
The report and survey of Capt.
James B. Baylor, of the natural oys-
ter rocks, &C., on the ocean side of
Accomac and Northampton counties
were received at Accomac county
court clerks Office and filed therein
on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Mcfarland, of North Carolina,
horse trainer of Floyd Bros, Bridge
town, Northampton, was killed
by lightning during the thunder
storm Of last Tuesday, while in the
act of opening the door, for the pur-
pose of throwing water from a glass.
WIN. J. Vessels has been appointed
road surveyor for Mappsville election
district in place of VIM. H. Bull, re
signed, and Alma ]. Reed has been
appointed for Pungoteague election
district in place of Jas. F. Hope, re
signed-and will qualify at next term
of court.
Two other persons, Lawrence and
Morris Drummond. arrested by Capt.
John r. Thomas, for taking oysters
from natural oyster rocks in POGO
moke Sound, were with the approval
and consent of the county Judge, on
last Wednesday, discharged from
custody by the payment of ten dol
lars, each, and costs.
There will be picnic at Cedar
View" near Pungoteague, Thurs
day, July 25th. Bicycle race, base ball,
and boat races will be among the at
fractions, and there will be a special
race between the bateaux "Undine"
and Free Silver" Premiums given
to fastest boats. Dinner and re-
freshments will be served.
Mr.. w. B. Wilson, special commits
sioner, will sell at public auction, at
Eastville, on Monday, August 18th,
valuable real estate of which Thomas
E. Brickhouse died seized and pos
sessed, situated near Seaview, North
ampton. The home place is one of
the most desirable on the Eastern
Shore, either as an investment or for
home.
j. w. Burton, colored, who has
sent the first barrel of sweets to mar
kets for several years, got left" this