Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06
SATURDAY, MARCH G, 1897.
John w. Edmonds. Editor and Owner
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The Norfolk Presbytery meets with
the church at Onancock about April
Goth, next.
The public schools in Lee district
will close March 18TH and have been
open up to that date 81 months.
Rev. H. S. zimmerman will hold
services on Thursday night at p. III.
during Lent at st. James Church,
Drummondtown.
J.W. Rogers & Bros, Only. have
just received two carloads of egg and
stove coal to which the attention OF
their customers is especially invited.
The fourth Quarterly Conference of
the NJ. P. Church for Accomac cir
cult. will convene at Leemont, We'd
nesday afternoon, ? o'clock, March
10th.
An advertisement of MIR. Harry T.
White, Bloomtown, in this issue,
merits the attention Of our readers.
You want fertilizers, seed, building
materials, &c Read it.
The house and lot of James Har-
mon, situated on Chincoteague Island
will be sold at public auction, on
Saturday, March 18th, 10 a. III. Terms
made known on day of sale.
Rev. H. S. Dulany leaves for Con-
ference, Monday 18th instant. He
breaches his last sermon at Ayers
NJ. {. Church for this Conference
year next Sunday afternoon.
Lessons in oil and china painting
are given by Miss Mary Tyler, We'd
pesday and Saturday afternoons, at
her home in Onancock. Miss Tyler
has her own kiln for burning china
The interesting drama entitled
The Vagabonds" will be rendered
by the Wachapreague Dramatic Club
in the Masonic Hall at Wachaprea-
que on or about the 18th inst. Look
FIR program in next weeks issue Of
the ENTERPRISE.
Both the ENTERPRISE and Herald
were in error last week in reporting
Capt. q. G. Savage as having recoy-
cred and out again He has been
confined to the house for more than
four months, during which time he
has never been out, but hopes that
he soon will be.-Headlieht.
Rev. j. r. Griffith, pastor of the
N. E. Church, South, Pungoteague,
filled the pulpit of the Drummond-
town Methodist Church last Sunday
morning. His audience was a large
one and all agree that the sermon
was an able and instructive and elo
quently and forcibly presented.
Rev. J. H. Henderlite, of Marion,
Smythe county, will preach at the
Presbyterian Churches in Onancock
and Drummondtown on the second
Sunday in March and continue to
serve those churches after that date
until the Presbytery meets in April,
with the view to call at that time.
Our countyman, Mr.. VIM. 7. Bun
dick, has been cc~plimented by the
newspapers of the State generally
since his election as chairman of the
executive committee of the prohibi-
ton party. The Richmond Dispatch,
in late issue, contained a cut OF
him and said: He is possessed of a
magnificent physique, and a most
sunny aDd genial disposition. He
makes friends wherever he goes, and
his earnestness and eloquence have
been of sterling service to the cause.
Mr. E. E. Thompson, the genial
and wide awake proprietor of the
Chesapeake Hotel, at this place, for
the past three or four years, has
rented and this week moved into the
large hotel at Belle Haven. We re
greet to see Mr. Thompson leave Cape
Charles, as he is good citizen and a
first class hotel man. We congratu-
late Belle Haven upon her new ac-
QUESTION, and wish for Mr.. Thomp
SON the greatest success.-H Headlight.
Brig Emma L. Shaw, of Windsor,
Nova Scotia, bound from Turks
Island for Philadelphia with a cargo
of salt, stranded two miles north of
Green Run Inlet Station just above
Chincoteague, at 3 o'clock, Thursday
morning The crew OF II men were
taken off in the surf boat by Captain
Soper, of Green Run Inlet Station,
and cared for at the station. The
brig now lies on the outer bar with
- feet of water in her hold.
Mr.. Charles c. Marshall. who for
several years was telegraph operator
in the superintendent office of the
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
railroad, at Cape Charles, has been
appointed chief clerk to the superin-
tendent of the Staten Island Rapid
Transit Company, of New York Mr..
Marshall left there about three years
ago, and was for about one year con.
nected with the elevated railroad OF
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