Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-08-22
lohn w. Edmonds. Editor and Owner,
LOCAL NEWS.

Fair commences next Tuesday, Au-
gust 25th, and continues four days.
The Baltimore Sun says, that ]. r..
Seward s. Co.. cleared $4,000 on a
single sale of lemons in Baltimore last
Saturday.
The Salisbury and Norfolk teams
will play match game of base ball.
at Cape Charles Fair grounds We'd
nesday, September 9.
II parent or guardian read the ad
vertisement OF Margaret Academy in
this issue and write to F. P. Brent,
principal, for catalogue.
The horse department at the
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair will
be fuller than at any fair in the his
tory of the organization.
w. S. Dickinson s. Son, Pocomoke
City, invite the special attention of
schoolboys and schoolgirls to an ad-
vertisemeut in our columns this
week.
A letter from DR.. Chas. Smith, of
interest to the farmers of the Eastern
Shore. crowded out this week for
want of space, will appear in next
issue.
The agricultural department at
the Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair
last year was excellent. Make it bet
ter this year, and if you have not an
exhibit ready. get one at once.
McLain g. Co., of Opancock, will
be at the Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair next week with double tent
prepared to serve the public in what
ever is needed in Photographic lines.
The Board of Directors of the
Truckers Association of the Eastern
Shore of Virginia" will meet at 1.-THE
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair" at
- O'Clock, next Tuesday, August
25th.
Mr.. r. T. Ames, OF the firm of
Ames, Shield & Co., Onancock, is in
Bethlehem, New Hampshire. He is
soiourning there for relief from hay
fever, which annually attacks him
about this time of the year.
The farmers of Metompkin district
met at Parksley last Saturday, after
the adjournment of The Truckers
Association of the Eastern Shore Of
Virginia" and elected Mr.. Charles L.
Byrd director for said district.
The ordination of Mr. r. Werner
Bagwell has been called for, and will
take place at the Drummondtown
Baptist Church next Wednesday, at
$50 p. IN. The exercises will be public,
and all are cordially invited to be
present.
The announcement is made by re-
quest of DR.. John W. Bowdoin,
county chairman, that Hon. n. B.
Wescott, democratic elector for the
First District will address the voters
at Accomac e. H., Monday, August
9lst, court day.
The first day OF the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Fair, this year, will be
one of the most interesting. In the
trials of speed on that day. Ham
Disston, Basil, Gray Eagle and Bur-
sar, will come together as competitors
for one of the purses.
Captain William Somers, of near
Guilford, lost hog last week, which
it is estimated, would have weighed
nearly a thousand pounds. 1t was
longer and three inches larger in the
girth, than hog killed by Mr.. Dix,
near Modestown last season, which
weighed over 900 pounds.
The n. T., P & n. R. R. will run a
special train from Pocomoke City and
intermediate stations to Keller on
the 25th, goth, 9th, and 2Sth of
August. and also run a special train
from Keller to Cape Charles as here
tofore, to accommodate their patrons
of the Eastern Shore, who will at
tend the Accomack Fair.
Upshur B. Quinby, special COM
missioner. in the suit Of w. S. Carr
& Co., judgment creditors, and
Finney s. Co., judgment creditors,
VS.. VIM. A. Warrington and wife, will
sell at public auction, on Thursday,
September 10th, about 4 p. H., at
Keller Station, the valuable house
and lot of said Warrington and wife
situated near Keller. For full parti-
culars see posters.
DR.. Thos. S. Dunaway, of Freder-
icksburg, has preached every night
this week at Drummondtown Baptist
Church, and sustained fully his repu
tatiou as one of the ablest divines in
Virginia. The Baptists believe that
he is the ablest of their denomination
in the State. His sermons are logical,
eloquent and convincing and ought
to be attended with great good to
our people. He will continue to
preach every night until Thursday.
The committee appointed by our
last Legislature to investigate the
holdings of William Ellipger in the
water area around Fox Island met at
Accomac C. H., last Monday and ad-
iourned on Thursday. All of the