Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-22

Northampton Co.
Capt A. B LeCato and family,
formerly of this county, but OF late
resident, of Norfolk, are spending the
winter at Stapleton, n. y.
The large porker Of Mr. & Lloyd
Doughty, which he believes is the
largest ever raised in the county, will
be slaughtered on Wednesday,
February End.
The Woman's Missionary Society
will meet a Drummondtown Metho-
dist Church, Sunday afternoon, 5
o'clock. Mrs. Bette Rue will preside
on the occasion. Everybody invited
to attend.
Board of Supervisors meets first
Monday in February to receive re
ports Of road machine managers for
quarter ending December, 31st' 1897
and to make their respective reports
as to the condition OF the public roads
aud bridges. - =
Valuable vessel property and oys
ter beds OF John E. Mears, deceased,
are offered for sale in this issue by E.
7. Powell, agent The oyster beds
will be sold at public auction Thurs
day, February Sd. See advertisement
for full particulars.
Especial attention is invited to
advertisement CT Capt. Jno. W.
Bunting, in this issue. Heagain offers
to our farmers and at & lower price,
the fertilizers which have BEEN so
often tested and found to beaso
satisfactory to them.
Mr.. A. H 6 Mears, Wachapreague'
extends to everyone an invitation to
call on him who wants mating,
furniture ard wall papers. He says,
he has the best assortment he has
ever had in these line of goods and
"to see them is to buy them. y
Lir. VIM. T. Bundick, OF Onancock,
left Tuesday on a lecturing tour
South, in the interest of temperance.
He has engag ementS in Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, about fifty in all. He
will not return home again until the
last of February.
An advertisement Of Kelly & Not
til CHAM in this issue merits atten
tion. They are live insurance men,
want your business and propose to
deserve their share of it. They need
no other recommendation, than that
that the companies, they represent,
have in the past and will III the
future pay all losses promptly.
Another telephone company haA
been organized which proposes 10
connect by wire all of the principal
points in Accomac and Northampton
counties. 1t is to be Incorporated
under the name OF the Consolidated
Central Telephone Company and a
bill 10 that effect has been introduced
into the Senate y DR.. LeCato.
John H. Wise, sheriff, will sell at
public auction on Tuesday, January
25th inst, / p. NJ, in front OF hnr-
ley's store, New Church Station.
about 5l5 cords OF pine wood, pur-
Of +hn
court Of Accom- &C, made December,
31st, 1897, in the attachment proceed
ings of Isaac n. Hearn VS.. Sewall e.
Richardson. For full particulars see
posters.
Judge Gunter continuesto improve
and his. physicians now say, that
there is no longer any doubt as to the
recovery of his usu al good health.
He has been advised by them, that he
is well enough now to return home
and may be expected soon. The in
formation is given to the public in
answer to numerous inquiries and
will, we are sure, be very gratifying
to the people OF the Eastern Shore.
Mr. l.. James Hyslop, OF Keller,
one of the delegates appointed by
Judge Blackstone, to The convention
to be held in FIR fredericksburg this:
week, to consider sugar beet cultures
is in attendance on that body. Mr..
Hyslup is one of the thriftiest farmers
on the Eastern Shore and will not
only be able to impart information
to that body which will be valuable.
but will also profit by the information
he receives from it.
The drama, Last Loaf, rendered
at Accomac c. H., Wednesday was
fully up TO public expectation. The
performance was success in every
particular and the ladie. and gentle:
men participating in it deserve I'M:
stinted praise for the cleverness with
which they acted their parts and the
genuine pleasure they gave to all
: present. The weather being in
clement the door receipts amounted
to only about twenty dollars. The
:. proceeds from supper and refresh
ments served by the ladies of the
Drummondtown Baptist Church WAS
about twenty-five dollars.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate from the Committee on Fish
and Game authorizing and directing
the Attorney. General of this State to
institute legal proceedings against
William Elllnger in the circuit court