Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-22
Joan w. Edmonds. Editor and Owner
LCC Al saEWS s.


The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences this year August
eth, and will continue four days.
County court next Monday-and
don't forget to bring that dollar you
owe us for subscription to ENTER
PRISE.
The third annual Grand Fair of
Improvement on Deep Creek, near
Morris Chapel, will commence August
Goth and continue four days.
E. H. Benson will be at Accomac G.
H., Monday, court day, with full
line of spring and summer samples OF
trowsering and suitings. Don't buy
until you see his line.
The officers of Chesapeake Lodge of
Masons, of Onancock, will be installed
on 9th and not on 27th,, as hereto
fore reported, the former being the
festival of st. John the Baptist.
II you want the best bicycle on the
market for the money get the X. N.
& X. Special for $5O-made by Ores
cent Works. For sale by Kelly, Not
tingham & Co., Onancock, Va.
Children's Day exercises at NJ. E.
Church, South, Drummondtown, to-
morrow, Sunday The program is
an elaborate one, and all who attend
will doubtless be delightfully."- enter
tanned.
w. S. Dickinson & Son, Poconoke
City, and c. S. Slocomb & Bros,
Onancock, speak to you through our
columns to day. If you have "a prop
er regard for your interests read their
advertisements.
The Metompkin Beach Hotel is now
open. The best of cooking is there.
No finer surf bathing. Good shoot
ing and bathing. Boats will leave
Folly Creek to carry passengers ev.
cry day at any hour.
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 a 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. /
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
neon, beginning at $50 o'clock, and
at Harborton E;-.nt'st Church the
same day at night at 5 o'clock. a
cordial invitation extended to all.
The suspending bond of $3.50, re-
quired in the case of Rev. A. j..
Reamy and wife against the Pilot
Publishing Company, Rev. Sam. w.
Small and Rev. W. c. Lindsay, which
was appealed to the Supreme Court
by the defendants, was given last
Saturday.
Mr.. Thomas Parramore, formerly
OF louisville, this county, now Of
Brooklyn, arrived at Drummondtown,
on Wednesday, accompanied by his
wife, after an absence of "a years,
on visit to his sister, Miss Hennie
Parramore. He is being warmly
welcomed by old friends.
There will be lawn party at The
Cove" the residence of Mrs. L. c..
Onancock., on the evening
of June 2Sth. Supper and refresh
ments will be served on the grounds
from $50 to 10 o'clock p. III. For the
benefit of the building fund of Oman
cock Presbyterian Church. The pub
lie is cordially invited and a pleasant
evening promised.
Our young ladies and gentlemen
continue to arrive home from school
Among the latest which have come
to our notice are: Miss George Quin
by, from Women's College, Lynch
burg, Va; James Hyslop and Charles
Kelly, Randolph Macon Academy,
Upshur @. Sturgis, Kenyon Military
Academy, Gambler, Ohio; Oscar L.
Powell, Harvard College.
]. Cleveland Stewart, who for a
long time has been a great sufferer
with heart trouble, died on Wednes-
day of that disease at the home of his
father, Mr.. Preston S. Stewart,
Drummondtown aged 10 years. He
was buried in the Onancock ceme-
terry, after funeral services at his
home conducted by Rev. H. L. Der.
by, assisted by Rev. w. +. hayes.
The clothing of Sarah Rayield,
colored, Accomac c. H., aged IA
wears, caught fire while she was max
ing fire in a gasolene stove on last
Saturday and she was 50 badly
burned that she died of the injuries
received on Thursday. The accident
was due to thoughtlessly saturating
her apron with gasolene which she
had spilled on the stove. Her body
in many places was burned to a crisp
before the clothing could be removed
from her.
A. C. Calhoun, the eye specialist,
of Pocomol<e City Md will make