Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-12-10

county, wee y. 1. Olru resiSueo.
Miss Annie L. Forrest, returned
missionary, will lecture at Leemoni
NJ. P. Church next Sunday morning
at 1890 and at bunting Creek NJ. P
Church at $50 p. N.
The third quarterly Conference fol
Accomac circuit, NJ. P. Church, will
be held at .'Grant Memorial" Church
on the second Saturday afternoon OF
December, the 10th.
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
The committee appointed to ascer
sSain and report the most suitable
point on the Eastern Shore of Vir-
cinia, at which TO locate the Con
federate Monument, will meet al
Parksley, on Monday, 18th day Of
December next, at 1890 p. IN.
Xmas advertisements of interest tc
our readers appear in this issue as
follows: A. II. G. Mears, Wacha-
preague; Jno. w Duncan, Onancock;
o. NJ. Jones, Chincoteague; Lloyd
Blaine & Co., and w. S. Dickinson &
Son, Pocomke City.
Especial attention is invited to Ell
vertiSement OF Martin & Mason Build
Ing and Supply Co. A careful reading
OF same will convince you that q
do not have to go off tire Shore 1or
building material ana the reputation
of tbs firm for fair dealing is too wall
known 10 need any COMMUNICATION -
our hands.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Associatia1,s lrecent meeting, elect
ed DR.. Jno. W. Kellam, William 7.
Mason, 6. Walter Mapp, Lsca7rd c
Mears and William B. Pitts, llrec-
tors f5r the ensuing year and passed
a resolution FIR the Improvement of
the Fair grounds. Work on same is
to commence early in the spring.
John W. G.. Blackstone, special
commissioner, by virtue of a decree,
in suit of William L. Wright and wife
VS.. Charles L. Byrd and wife and
others, will sell by public auction, at
Newstown. on Saturday, December
18th, 1898, 2:30 p. No., several valuable
parcels or trac of land situated near
Newstown For full particulars see
posters.
The part of the Fentress farm in
Upshur's Neck owned by Miss George
r. Quinby, is offered for sale by I. B.
Quinby, Onancock. Va, at low price
and on easy terms. 1t has So acres Of
improved high land, and rs 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 Onancock, is offered for
sale as a,whole by 7. B. Quinby. The
cleared land h as long frontage on
Kerr and Jackson streets, and is i'm
proved with two good tenant houses.
The woodland is high and well
timbered. Terms will be made to suit
the purchaser.
Rev. S. P. Default, a gifted elocu-
zionist, will entertain the people OF
Accomac G. Il, and vicinity with
choice recitations, both humorous
and serious, in each OF which he is
equally excellent, at Lilliston's Hall,
Drummondtown OF Wednesday
night in Christmas. Up. m. Proceeds
for benefit OF Drunmondtown Bap-
fist Church. Supper and refresh
ments will be served.
Mr.. J. Edward Colona died at hjs
home, near Woodberry, on 81 inst
of consumption, aged 2S years, and
was buried from the Zion Baptist
church, of which he bad been an &C
tive member for maus ears, Oh Mon
day, Rev. III. F. Sanford conductins
the exercises. He was young mar
of fine character and had the cori-
dence and essen OF ali who knew
him. His wife survives him.
Col. Charles ". Cullen. of George-
town, Delaware, and Mrs. Florence
Gusts Gunter were quietly married
at tie home of the brides mothsr II
Onancock, Saturday morning, 5e
inst, Rev. Cary Gamble Of the P. E
Church officiating. They left by moor
train for tour north. Col. Cullen ii
one of the leading attorneys of hi
State and his bride, one of the mos
lovable and attractive of her sex
DR.. John W. Bowdoin, trustee, vii
sell at public uction. to the highest
bidder, at Bloxom, on Thursday, De-
cember 2sd, 1898, at 1870 o'clock p. NJ,
valuable real estate of which James
Parks, of B., died seized, situated
near Nelsonia, consisting of three
tracts, pieces or parcels, namely, the
main place, containing rs acres, more
or less, a tract of woodland contain
ing 40 acres, more or less, and lot al
Nelsonia containing one-half acre