Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21
IN W. Edmonds. Editor and Owner.
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Wednesday, March a5th.
Ames, Shield & Co, are now busy
opening out their new spring goods.
All are invited to call and see the
new styles.
y private school will be opened at
Masonville. on March 3Oth, with Miss
Lula White as teacher. 1t will con
tinue two months
B. I. Gunter, Jr., trustee, will sell
ut public auction, next Friday, at
Harborton, the property of the
American Fish Guano Co.
The name of w. c. Ames. Pungo-
league, appears in the list of grad
yates of the Baltimore College OF
Dental Surgery which has just been
announced.
The publication of the new laws
passed by our last Legislature, es
pecially those of local interest to us,
begun this week, will be continued
through several issues Of this paper.
The Chesapeake Fair Association,
Cape Charles, was not represented at
the meeting of delegates OF the Vir-
GINA. Maryland and Delaware trot-
ting circuit held in Baltimore this
week.
Mr.. j T. Mears is in the city this
week, for the purpose of buying
stock OF new goods. See advertise
ment in next issue, and call at New
Market, near Belinda, his place of
business, if you want bargains.
Cash guano is offered for sale in
another column. This is the true
principle of doing all business, and
those who have the money to buy
with will no doubt make q good
round saving. See advertisement.
In the stock of goods of A. H. G..
Mears, bought while in the cities last
aud this week, it will be noted by
reference TO his advertisement, that
he has hunted up bargains for all OF
his customers-ladies, gentlemen and
children. You are invited to call and
get them.
The directors of the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Fair Association will
rent out the Fair privileges to the
highest bidder, Tuesday in the Eas
ter holidays, at o'clock p. N. The
privileges are for-boading tent, con
dictionaries, merrygo round, barber
shop, photograph gallery, etc., etc.
Oysters in every style together with
all other delicacies of the season will
be served at an entertainment to be
given at Woodbury. NJ. E. Church,
South, Monday afternoon and even
ing, April 5th, for the benefit of said
church. \ lecture will be delivered
al night by prominent speaker.
Everyone cordially invited.
A freight train going north on the
n. y, p and \. K. R. Sunday night
was wrecked near New { hurch, Va,
by the breaking OF a wheel. Nine
cars loaded with lumber were demol-
ished. The track was blocked for ten
hours. A track had to be constructed
around the wreck to permit passenger
trains going north and south to pass.
The premises lately occupied by
Robert Gusts, colored, situated near
Tasley Station, will be rented out
for the present year, to the highest
bidder, at the front door of the court
house, on Monday, 30th inst, court
day, 1:30 p. M, at which time the
terms will be made known, and all
the personal estate of said Robert
Gusts will be sold on Tuesday 31st
inst, 10 a. m OH said premises.
In the case of the New York. Phila-
delphia and Norfolk Railroad Com
pany against the Board of Super
visors of Northampton, handed down
by the court of appeals of Virginia
on Thursday of last week, the court
held that county supervisors have no
power to levy tax on railroad, tele
graph or telephone companies for
district school purposes.
Messrs. Joseph S. Bull and J. T.
Burton, arrived home by steamer on
last Wednesday, with the twelve
mules purchased in Kentucky by
them by the authority of the Board
Of Supervisors of Accomac. The
price paid for them in Kentucky, we
are advised, was $105 each, and the
expense on each of them was some
$50 or $25 more. Everyone who has
seen them say that they are up to
the standard required by the Board
in every particular.
An act approved by our last Gen
eral Assem- bly, does away with the
distinction between retail liquor and
bar licenses, and provides for retail
liquor license, which shall include
both the privilege of selling to be
delivered to the purchasers in bot
ties, jugs, demijohns, or other vessels.
and the privilege of being drunk at
the place where sold. The sum to be
paid for such privilege in districts
in Accomac where license is not
prohibited after first of May next,
will be 800.