Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-08
SATURDAY. JUNE s, 1925.
LOCAL NEWS.

arrived home from New York last
Tuesday.
William Cline had hand cut off
at mill of Gordy & Figgs at Wood
berry few days ago.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences this year August
9th, and will continue four days.
All officers elected on 23d of May
will qualify at June term OF county
court. Their terms of office com
mence July 1st.
Elias j. Jester and Miss Oshie E
Summers were married at Mapps-
vile, on Sunday, I'd inst, Rev. j. L..
King officiating.
Rev. H. L. Derby is in attendance
at the Episcopal Convention of the
diocese of Southern Virginia, which
met at Petersburg, last Thursday.
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.
Mr.. L. Jas. Gunter, Accomac G. H..
is confined to his room by sickness,
brought on by too careful attention
to business and over-e xertion during
the present heated term.
1t is always a matter Of interest
to our readers to keep themselves
posted about the goods of wide-awake
merchants. S. w. Ames & Co. claims
your attention in this issue.
If you want the best bicycle on the
market for the money get the K. n.
&K. Special for s5O-made by Ores
cent Works. For sale by Kelly, Not
tingham & Co., Onancock, Va.
Blackstone & Bell have gotten
in a supply of the Caldwell screen
door checks which will prevent all
the annoyance caused by the slam
ming of these doors. Try them.
Rev. Mr.. White, the blind preacher
who conducted the exercises at Bap-
fist Church, Drummondtown, last
Sunday night. will preach at South
ern Methodist Church, in our town,
next Sunday night.
The entertainment given at Acco-
mac c. H., last Tuesday, by the Lo-
custville Dramatic Club, was pleas
ant affair and highly complimented
by the large audience in attendance.
Many of the parts of the performance
were exceedingly we'll rendered.
Rev. D. G. G. Butts will deliver
lecture at Temperanceville church, on
Tuesday, June 18th. s p. m, on the
subject: what country parson saw
through spectacles Oh the periphery
of circle.n Ice cream will be served
before and after lecture. Proceeds
for benefit of parsonage.
The man reported in a late issue of
this paper as washed ashore and
buried on Myrtle Island, a gentleman
from Brooklyn writes US, was Samuel
Brown, engineer of the i'll fated stern
wheeler, City of Haverhill, lost off
Barnegat, last March, together with
eleven others, all on board of her.
Several of the young ladies and
gentleman at College off the Shore,
arrived home this week. Among
those reported to us are: Miss Mat
tie Coard, Miss Isabella Wilkins,
Herbert Lilliston, Accomac G. H;
Miss Flora Browne, Jenkins Bridge;
Misses May and BERTHE White, Parks.
ley.
Rev. J. w. Hildrup, pastor for sew
eral years of Methodist Churches on
the Eastern Shore, "has been at the
point of death for week past and is
now almost despaired Of" according
to a report made to the Richmond
Times of Tuesday. During the war
he had ball to lodge in one of his
lungs, which he has carried ever
since. Recently it infiamed his lung
and produced consumption.
Mrs. Susan Martin, relict of VIM
Martin, deceased and sister of Mr.
Jno. E. Harmon, died suddenly at her
home near Fair Oaks on last Mon
day, during the temporary absence
of other members of the family.
When found she was laying on her
back, with life extinct.a few feet from
the house door, and her death was
due doubtless to heart disease. She
was very estimable lady and about
70 years old.
The Southern Methodists Of Drum
mondtown will have an entertain
ment the 4th of July, at the Folly, in
the interest of their church work
Dinner and supper will be served
and the occasion made musical and
lively by the Brass Band of Maps
vile. Arrangements are also being
made for addresses appropriate and
interesting. Make your plans to be
present and thus add to the pleasure
success and enthusiasm of the occa
sion, and aid in a worthy cause.
The real estate of S. J. Lewis, sole
at public auction last Saturday, by