Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-29
SATURDAY. JUNE %, 1926.
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. Lee Hickman, OF Baltimore, Is
home on visit to his mother, at Ac-
comac G. H.
The Kellam hotel, Belle Haven,
changes hands another year. Mr..
Leroy j. Bull will succeed Mr.. 0. D.
Doughty as proprietor.
Rev. B. c. Clarke has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the churches
of Drummondtown and Onancock, to
take effect in September.
Rev. Timothy White will preach
next Sunday at Clarke's Chapel, $50
p. m, and at Mackenzie Church,
Drunmondtown, $50 p. III.
The Parsonage and Missionary
Societies of Oak Grove Church, will
meet in the church building Mt 3 p.
~, on Wednesday, July Sd.
DR.. Fred y. Powell, formerly of
Accomac, has recently been promoted
for his skill to a professorship in
Sioux City Medical College.
The third annual Grand Fair of
Improvement on Deep Creek, near
Morris Chapel, will commence August
205h and continue four days.
The Point farm in Northampton
has been sold to club of New York
gentlemen, as a resort for hunting
and pleasure. The price paid was
$4,000.
The Aid Society of the NJ. E.
Church, South, will give an enter
tainment and lawn party July 4th.
in the town hall and grounds of
Onancock.
The Catalogue of the Eastern
Shore Agricultural Fair, of this year,
is in the hands of the Secretary Mr..
a. NJ. Nottingham, louisville, for
distribution.
Mrs. VIM. ]. Coleburn and child
rem, OF Norfolk, Va, arrived in our
town OH Tuesday, to spend the sum.
mer with the family of Mr.. John E.
Lewis and other relatives.
If you want the best bicycle on the
market for the money get the K. n.
& X. Special for $50-made by Cres-
cent Works For sale by Kelly, Not
tingham s. Co., Onancock, Va.
There will be lawn party at the
residence of Mrs. Lottie Garrison, in
Drummondtown, Friday evening, 9Th
of July, from p. IN. to II p. N. All
are cordially invited to attend.
Mr., Joshua Underhill, of North
ampton, and Miss Daisey Kilmon,
daughter of Patrick W. Kilmon, were
married at the brides residence, near
Keller, on Wednesday, Rev. ]. NJ.
Dunaway officiating
The Broadway Baptist Church will
hold all day missionary meeting on
the first Sunday in July. DR.. A. E.
Owen, of Portsmouth, and other
ministers from distance are expect
ed to address the meeting.
The New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk R. r. Co., we are advised,
will furnish all shippers with No. l
round-hoop flour barrels or new truck
barrels, if preferred, at any station
along the road for 10 cents each.
Children's day services will be held
at Hollies on the 5th Sunday in after
noon, beginning at $3.50 o'clock, and
at Harborton Baptist Church the
same day at night at o'clock. A
cordial invitation extended to all.
The farmers of the county report
small yield of round potatoes and a
'bad stand" of sweet potato sprouts.
The acreage in latter is SO large how
ever, that it is likely that enough
will be produced to meet all demands
for them.
Mr.. NJ. L. Selby, detained at home
of late by sick child, is now making
his trip through the Peninsula, and
authorizes us to say to the mer-
chants whom he may not call on this
week, that they may expect him
early next week.
Mr.. John r. Downing died at his
home at Keller, on last Thursday.
He had been in bad health for sever
al months, and the announcement
will be read without much surprise.
He was one of the worthiest citizens
of the county and had the esteem and
respect of large circle of friends.
Thomas Holden, colored, tried at
the present term of the county court
for malicious shooting, was found
guilty and punishment fixed at two
years in the penitentiary, and George
Wise, colored, tried for attempt to
commit rape on a colored girl, was
also convicted and his punishment
fixed at three years in penitentiary.
The assessment of lands in the up
per Parish of Accomac this year
shows an increase over last year of
6,962.59, over the assessment in 1890
of $1S9,952. The increase in the low
err Parish over that of five years ago
was $237, 724. The increase in the
assessment of lands since 1890 for
both parishes, or the county, has