Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-12-03


were returned "true bills
The next meeting of the Board Of
Supervisors will be held on Wednes.
day, December 18th, at which time
the Board will examine the insolvent
and delinquent lists for the year 1897
New advertisements in this issue o.
interest to our readers l. H. Merrill
Pocomoke City; Monumental Chemi-
cal Co.; John S. Davis, undertaken and
wheelwright, Rorntown; notice to
creditors of B. T. Parker, deceased.
Lloyd, Blaine s. Co. will give you
some prices in Xmas goods in our
next issue. They have superb line
and at prices in the reach of every
one. Other Xmas advertisers will
please let us hear from them early in
the week.
Joseph R. Riggs, administrator of
George bayfield,, deceased, will sell
at public auction, Tuesday, December
9Th, on his late premises near BloXom
Station, the valuable personal pros
perty of the decedent. Sale will COM
mence at 10 Il. IL.
The committee appointed TO ascer
tain and report the most suitable
point on the Eastern Shore of Vir-
GINA, at which to locate the Con
federate Monument, will meet at
Parksley, on Monday, 18th day of
December next, at 1880 p. Ii.
Charlottesville NJ. Z. Church. South,
recently enlarged and relnodelled is
now one Of the handsomest and best
church edifce, on the Eastern Shore
At the dedication on the Goth ult.,
about $3.50 was raised, leaving debt
on the church of only about $500.
The real estate of which Sabra
Conquest Tor Custis), died seized and |
possessed, situated near Accomack
c. H.. will be sold at public auction,
at the front-door of the court house,
by L. Floyd Mock, special commits
sioner, on Saturday, December 3rd,
1898, at 10 O'Clock a. III. For terms
see posters.
The Ladies' Aid Society,of Berea NJ
P. Church, will have an oyster sup
per in the village of New Church, on
Thursday afternoon and night OF De
cember Sth. Procce Dis for the bene-
fit Of the church. Ice cream and
cake will also be served. If that day
should be unfavorable, it will be held
the next fair day.
The pungy, Louis G. H. Finney,
owned by Capt. John L. Shores,
dragged out of Tangier harbor during
the storm of last Saturday night, and
went to pieces on Pungoteague bar
Five colored men from Norfolk or
North Carolina were on board and
have not been heard from since. All
of them, without doubt, were drown
ed.
The part of the Fentress farm in
Upsburs Neck owned by Miss George
r. Quinby, is offered for sale by T. B.
Quinby, Onancock. Va, at low price
and on easy terms 1t has 55 acres of
improved high land, and % acres Of
woods land; has an exceptionally fine
water frontage on the broadwater,
and an excellent eel-grass shore.
Write to him for price and terms.
Sixteen acres of cleared land on
Kerr street, in Onancock, and twenty
one acres of woods land about half a
mile from Onanccck, is offered for
slle as a whole by 7. B. Quiuby. The
cleared land h as long frontage on
Kerr and Jackson streets, and is im-
proved with two good tenant houses.
The woodsland is high and we'll
timbered. Terms will be made to suit
the purchaser.
Rev S. P. Default, gifted elocu-
zionist, will entertain the people OF
Accomac G. r., and vicinity with
choice recitations, both humorous
and serious, in each Of. which he is
equally excellent, at Lillistons Hall,
Drummondtown, on Wednesday
light in Christmas, Up III. Proceeds
for benefit of Drummondtown Bap-
fist Church. Supper and refresh
ments will be served.
The Schooner William NJ. Wilson,
in command of Captain Bragg, from
Tuckertop, n. J, sprung leak off
Wachapreague Beach Monday morn
ing and sank. The schooner was
loaded with coal from Philadelphia
to Norfolk. The captain and crew OF
seven men were saved by Capt. Lynn
F. Taylor and crew Of Metompkin
Life Saving Station. The vessel is 81
wears old, and together with her car
go, is total loss.
DR.. John w. Bowdon, trustee, will
sell at public auction, to the highest
bidder, at Bioxom, on Thursday, De-
cember ed, 1885, at $50 O'Clock p. m,
valuable real estate of which james
Parks, of g., died seized, situated
near Nelsonia, consisting of three
tracts, pieces or parcels, namely, the
main place, containing Is acres, more
or less, tract of woodland contain
ing 40 acres, more or less, aud lot at
Nelsonia containing one.half acre,
n AZ, more or less. For terms, Sc,
Il