Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-08-20
AccoMAc COURTHOUSE, Va.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 90, 1898.
John W.Edmonds. Editor and Owner
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opens DeAl
The "Metompkin Beach Hotel is
still open and will run till the season
ends.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences Tuesday, August %,
and continues four days.
Miss Annie E. Fisher will resume
her school duties at Accomac c. H.,
the 18TH of September.
The balloon goes up at the Eastern
Shore Agricultural Fair on first day
and every day thereafter.
The next meeting of the Board of
Supervisors will be held at the Aims
House on Friday, September 2d.
Rev. Il F. Hopkins will preach at
Ebenezer NJ. E. Church, 5 p. ~, and
mt Hallwood p. IN, Sunday, August
21st
Low excursion rates to the Eastern
Shore Agricultural Fair, near Keller,
as can be seen by reference to anoth-
err column.
Miss Carrie Biting, who of late has
been visiting her uncle, NJ. Oldham,
Jr., left for her home in Washington
yesterday.
Tuesday, the first day of the fair to
be held near Keller, will be one ofthe
most attractive. The speed program
on that day will be an especially fine
one.
\ meeting of the Board of Fisher
les was held in Hampton last We'd
nesday. 1t was called for the purpose
mainly of instructing the inspectors
as to their duties under the new law.
Mr.. r. F. Powell will sell at private
or public sale, at Accomac G. H.,
Monday, August goth, court day, a
large lot of buggies. Persons want
ing carriage should not miss this
opportunity to get bargain.
Mr.. VIM. Bowen, of Parksley, has
been awarded the contract for build
ing the sci Toulouse in that town,
the plans and specifications of which
have been advertised in this paper
Work is to commence on same at
once.
Ministers of the Gospel are re-
quired by act of Congress to put a 10
cent U. S. internal revenue stamp on
their certificates to a marriage license
and cancel the same with their
initials and date. The law imposes a
severe penalty for failure to do this.
Mr.. L. Floyd Mock will on Saturday,
August 9th, 1898, at $50 o'clock p.
H., at Cashville, sell to the highest
bidder at public auction, the valua-
BILE tract or parcel of land located on
Machitank Greek in Sluthkill Neck,
now occupied by Mr.. Il. r. Chandler.
Terms very liberal.
Excellent exhibits, good music, at
tractive grounds, fine speed program
invite you to be on hand at the peo-
pies fair to commence near Keller,
next Tuesday. You will be there
of course, to enjoy it and to meet your
friends as many of you have done in
the last twenty years.
The Accomac Academy, jenkins
Bridge, which was so successfully
conducted by Prof. Thos. j. Coles
last session will be again under his
management another year, as will be
seen by an advertisement in another
column. The second session begins
Wednesday, September 18th.
Henry Smith, colored, was arrested
by constable Wescott on last We'd
nesday at Mappsburg, on complaint
of a detectiye from Maryland and
taken by said detective, with his
consent, to Somerset county. Md, to
answer the charge of an Infamous
ofrense committed some weeks ago in
that State.
Thousands of barrels of sweet
potatoes have been sent to market
this week, from Accomac. Many of
them have been of the best quality
but the desire to share in the good
prices, has caused, we are informed,
some to ship inferior stock and con
siderable decline In the price has
been the result.
The Cape Charles fair, which
opened on Tuesday, has BEEHIVE are
advised, financial success. The at
tendance on first day was small but
large enough on Wednesday and
Thursday to swell the receipts to a
paying point and with the prospect,
if Friday was a good day, of con-
siderable sum to the credit of the
fair above expenditures.
The part of the Fentress farm in
Upshur's Neck owned by the heirs of
Upshur B. Quinby, deceased, is offer
ed for sale at a reasonable price by
II. B. Quinby, attorney, Onancock,
Va. 1t is fire water situation, 90
acres of good high land, much i'm
proved, and 25 acres of woodland
and has an exceptionally fine water
front and eelgrass shore.
The road bed of the n. Y. P. & N.
r. R.. from Cheriton to Birds Nest
Station, distance of eleven miles
was oiled last week by the Dustless
Road Bed Company, Of Philadelphia,
About 1000 gallons of crude oil was
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