Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-28
LOCAL NEWS.

open September 30tb.
A freight car was burned near
Parksley, on Thursday.
The Board of Supervisors will meet
at Accomac c. H., Monday, October
eth.
Hon. n. J. w. LeCato will deliver
political address at Parksley this
afternoon.
Littleton J. Corbin has been ap-
pointed postmaster, at Assawaman,
this county.
Tickets to the Atlanta Exposition
are for sale ut Tasley Station at $15.75
for the round trip. good for 10 days.
Mrs. DR.. B. c. Kellam, OF Cape
Charles, spent several days at the
Court House this week, on visit to
friends here.
The books of the treasurer and his
deputy will be open at Accomac G.
H., next Monday, for the collection
of 1895 taxes.
Mr.. VIM T. Bundick, of Onancock,
will deliver temperance address at
Drummondtown Baptist Church, to
morrow night, Goth inst.
The appointments of the treasurer
of the county, and his deputy, for
the convenience of tax payers, will
be found in anothnr column.
A cross mark on your paper shows
that you are in arrears and everyone
who has not paid up, or does not pay
up soon, will find it on this or later
ssues.
An advertisement of Short & Blox-
ON in another column Will be inter
esting to those looking for cheap
goods and also to those indebted to
.ss ho9r@.
Read tbs Advertisement sIxezsezasnts of I. H.
Merrill and w. S. Dickinson s. Son,
Pocomoke City. In their stock of
new goods they have many bargains
to offer you.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Mr.. John W. Gusts and Miss Eliza
beth Adelaide Parks, at Mackenzie
Presbyterian Church. Drummond
town, on Wednesday, October I'd.
The Tasley nine was not sin it" in
their contest with the Courthouse
pine at Accomac G. H., last Saturday,
The score was 25 to 10. Our boys are
signing for more mines to conquer.
Masters Perry and Landon Derby,
Accomac G. H., left for school on
Wednesday, the former for Houston
Academy, Halifax county, the latter
for Episcopal High School, Alexan-
dria, Va.
Miss Hattie A. Battaile, of Boggs
Wharf, matriculated last week as
pupil Of Hollin's Institute, and Miss
Florence Browne, of Accomac G. H.,
as pupil at Female Institute, Staun-
on, Va.
The Peninsula Mutual Relief Asso-
citation, through Mr.. Thos. w. Black
stone, paid Mr.. Alfred H. Shockley,
on last Monday, one thousand dol
lars, the amount of policy held by
his wife in that Association.
A telegram was received by Capt.
Henry L. Crockett Thursday morn
ing "that his schooner Anna, Capt.
Stevenson commander, had been
broken into and robbed of $500 or
S400," the amount of sales of cargo
of potatoes.
Capt. BENZ. F. Revelle, of Balti-
more, was murdered last Sunday
night on the schooner Jno. A. H.
Dixon, which he commanded in
Potomac river. He was native of
Somerset Co., Md, and married, it is
stated, Miss Clara Poulson, of this
county.
Mr.. Smith T. Martin, proprietor of
the Pungoteague Hotel, authorizes
us to say, that he has made special
preparations for the entertainment
of those who attend the tent meet
ings now in progress there, and the
accommodations will doubtless be
satisfactory to all who favor him with
their patronage.
Mr.. Wilmer T James, of this coun-
tx, of late with w. H. Holmes, com
mission merchant, New York, informs
us by letter received this week, that
he is now with the firm Of S. b.
Downes s. Co., and wishes his friends
in shipping their produce to New
York to note the fact and govern
themselves accordingly.
Two Mormon elders, Taylor and
Nibley, are making a tour of the
county and were at Drummondtown
on Monday. The object Of their visit
is, of course, to make converts to
Mormonism, but no one in our coun-
ty, we take it for granted, is so ig-
norant as to be influenced by their
pernicious doctrines.
An improvement boom has struck
US. A steeple is being placed on our
Presbyterian Church, Mr.. Ben T.