Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-06-18

Fair commences Tuesday. August %,
and continues four days.
Miss SUSIE Hundley, daughter of
Rev. John W. HundleY, is at Willow
Bank, the guest of Miss Bessie Gun
ter.
The Eastern Shore agricultural
Fair catalogues, now being printed
at this Office. will be ready 70, dis
tribution next week.
A special term of the circuit court
is being held at Accomac c. H., this
week, Judge John E. Mason, OF
Fredericksburg, presiding.
The Grand Fair of Improvement
will hold its seventh annual fair at
Deep Creek, commencing September
Goth, and continuing four days.
Miss Lily Parks, daughter of Mr..
a. j. Parks, Parksley, left for Shenan-
doah College last Thursday,to attend
the Summer Normal and to pay a
visit to friends there.
The President has pardoned JOIN
D. Hart, formerly of this county, VIII"
has been serving Il sentence of tw.'
years for engaging in II titbustering
expedition to Cuba.
Rev j. e. Griffith will not fill tin
pulpit at Methodist Church, Drum
mondtown, Sunday afternoon, a>
usual, but will preach at Amis>
Chapel at that time.
At meeting of the Confederate
Executive Committee at Hallwood'
last Saturday, it was decided to have
the Confederate Memorial entertain
ment at Accomac G. H., Tuesday.
July 26tb.
In the readjustmeat of postmas
ter's salaries an increase of one hun
dred dollars is made in postoflice al
Cape Charles. The postmaster OF
that town after July 1st will get
$1,000 per annum.
Rev. 7. S Dunaway will preach at
Drummopdtown BAPTIST Church,
Sunday morning, Goth inst, and the
pulpit of that church will be filled
regularly after that date by him or
some other minister every Sunday.
The Chesapeake Agricultural Fair
will commence August 10th, and con
tinue four days. Il program OF the
races appears in this issue Of special
interest to the horsemen, and pre-
MUM list will appear in later issues.
DR.. Armstrong Hopkins will deliver
her popular lecture, Love, Courtship
and Marriage from a Woman's point
of view" at Drmmondtown Metho-
dist Church next Tuesday night.
Refreshments will be served by the
ladies of the church.
There will be an all day festival
and fair at Evergreen Church, Har.
bortou, July 4th. Dinner and supper
will be served, ice cream and COIL
dictionaries for sale. Amusements
through the day, fire works at night
Brass band will furnish music.
The tract Of land devised by Will
liam Mears, of a.. to Arthur T. Mears.
containing about 80 acres, situated
near Only Station, will be sold at
public auction, ou the premises b5
Jno. W. Edmonds. trustee, Saturday
July 2nd, p. III. For full particu-
lars see posters.
a handsome sarcophagus of mas
sive proportions was placed over the
grave of the late Thomas a. Northam
in Nit. Holly Cemetery, by Messrs.
Davis & Bro Laurel, Del, last Sat
urday. 1t was made of Barre granite.
IS highly polished and weighed over
5000 pounds.
Benz. T. Gutter, special commits
sianer, will sell at public auction on
the premises, on Saturday, July I'd.
8 p. m, a tracE of land, containing
one hundred acres, more or ltss, o,
which Gilbert J. Mears died, seiz-
ed and possessed, known as the "kel
ley place" and situated near Onley
Station. For full particulars see
posters.
All the privileges of the Chesa-
peake Agricultural Fair will be sold
at public auction, at the Fair
Grounds, July the LIST inst, after the
arrival of the down evening train.
AS the Fair bids fair to be great
success this year, especial attention
is called to the advantages these
privileges offer from financial point
of view.
A new route is to be opened from
New Church to Chincoteague via
Sinpickson at an early date by Capt.
William Marshall and Il. R. Slant
Arrangements have already been
made for conveying passengers by
land and negotiations are in progress
for the purchase of steam launch
to ply between Sinnickson and Chin
colleague.
Mr.. Ben T. Nelson sold his livery
stahlas at Aeconac G.. h. this week
to Mr. Robert Fletcher, who took
charge Of same on Thursday. The
service which ar. Nelson has rendered
to the public as owner of same for
several years past has been very sat
isfacsory. and Mr.. Fletcher will
doubtless be the right man for the
place also.
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