Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-17
John W. Edmonds. Editor and Owner.
LOCAL faE % s.


Chesapeake Agricultural Fair com
mences Tuesday, August 18th.
Campmeeting at burlington
grounds from August 9th to 10th.
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair
commences Tuesday, August 5lst.
County School Board will meet at
Accomac C. H., Monday, august I'd.
Miss Rosa DufIield, of Baltimore, is
at Accolnac c. a., the guest of the
Misses GUSTS.
Races at New Church Saturday,
July 18th. See announcement in
another column.
Mr.. Henry c. White has been APP
pointed poStmaSterat Acco'uac G. H.,
and Mr.. H. E. Drummond, at Cash
Vile.
Miss Mary E. Kellam, of Belle
Haven, is visiting her sister, Mrs. G.
lloyd Doughty, Acconac c. H., this
week
Mrs. Elizabeth koenig and Mrs.
Cora Holman, of Baltimore, are Wis
iting the family of Mr.. E. Y. Koenlg,
Accomac G. H.
The new Board of Supervisors met
ut Accomac c. f., last Monday and
organized by the election of Mr.. E.
S. Wise as chairman.
The races at the Fair Grounds,
near Keller, next Wednesday, July
2lst., promise to be interesting. See
entries &C., in this issue.
Zorro Parker, colored, was lodged
in Jail lasi Wednesday by Constable
Wescott for term of ninety days for
stealing set of harness from Belle
Haven hotel
The time for the bateau race at
Chincoteague had not been agreed
upon, according to our latest advices.
The statement is made in answer to
numerous inquiries.
William f. Wescott, only son OF
the late George NJ. and Rose Wes-
colt, of Northampton county, died at
Duncansby, Miss, Thursday, July
Sth, aged II years.
Pastor j. NJ. Dunaway has been
given a vacation, and will not fill his
appointments at Drummondtown
and Harborton Baptist churches to-
moro and following Sunday.
a. D. Mapp, of Exmore, Va, has
just gotten in line of high grade
new and secondhand bicycles, which
he is selling at below manufacturers
prices. Terms cash, or easy pay
ments.
Childrens day will be celebrated
at St. Thomas church on Sunday,
the 18th inst, and at Woodbury.
church on, Sunday, the 25th inst. The
exercises at both churches will be-
GIN at lU.3U Il. Ill.
Warren, son of John T. Savage.
was Knocked overheard at Gargatha
Inlet Thursday and narrowly escaped
being drowned Messrs. Lorenzo d
West ami John H. Adams by prompt
assistance saved him.
The laughable farce, entitled The
Old Maids Convention. will be play
ed by the ladies of Craddockville
Church, at Harborton, Tuesday eve
ming, July Goth. Admission % cents.
reserved seats 30 cents.
The Hon Michael J. Tanning, with
quartet % singers and first class
stereoptican, will SIC entertainments
seven evenings in Onancock, begin
ming Monday evening next. Object
temperance and sobriety."
A primary election will be held in
Northampton, Saturday, July 24th,
tonominate candidate for the House
of Delegates for Accomac and North
ampton. The contest will be between
Mr.. w. B. Fitzhugh, editor of the
Pioneer, and Dr. Charles Smith.
Mr.. W. a. P. Strang was capsized
in a squall while ferrying lumber
across Pungoteague Greek last Wed
nesday and narrowly escaped with
his life. No one witnessed the acct
dent, but he managed to crawl upon
his boat and had time to dry his
clothes, even, before he was discov-
cred and brought to the shore.
The n. Y. P. & n. r. R. Co., will
sell on Saturdays and Sundays, dur.
ing July and August, special excur-
sion tickets to Old Point Comfort,
Ocean View and Buckroe Beach,
such tickets being to return on not
later than Sunday night. The fare
from TasleY to Old Point and
return is the regular one of $500 aud
less from intermediate points
A decision was rendered Monday in
the United States court in the cases
of Thomas S. Flood, of New York,
against VIM. R. Lewis and c. R
Lewis s. Co. J1dge Hughes gave
judgment in favor of the plaintiff for
$4,000 in the first named case, and
for $4,000 in the other. They were
suits brought to recover on notes
given the plaintiff for purchase of a
steamboat equipment.
The annual picnic held at Bur
toms Shore under the auspices of the
Locustyille NJ E. Church, South