Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-02
John w. Edmonds Editor and Owner
LOCAL NSsssffss

April 5th.
A mass meeting of farmers will be
held at Mappsville, Saturday, April
9th.
Rev. Hugh Kelso will preach in
Onancock NJ. E. Church next Sunday
evening.
Rev. Henry S. Dulaney will preach
in Onancock and Ayres NJ. E. Church
es next Sunday.
Camp--meetiDg at Turlington's
Grounds near Keller, this year, be-
gins August 5th.
William Sartorius, jeweler, will be
at Parksley April 9Th, 9Th and 18th,
for the purpose of repairing watches,
clocks and jewelry.
Rev. John E. Allender and wife,
of Maryland. are visiting friends at
Accomac c. H.. and vicinity. He will
preach at Arniss Chapel Sunday
night7 o'clock.
Judge Ross has ordered a local
option election to be held Saturday,
April 23rd, 1895, in each of the magis
terial districts OF Pungoteague, Lee
and Metompkin, in this county.
Judge Samuel r. Ross held his first
court this week, presiding with ease'
dignity and in manner to assure his
friends that no mistake has been
made in giving him q place on the
bench.
Special prices in strawberry plants
are offered by s. K Martin, Harbor-
ton, and W. S. Richardson, Marion
Nd, in another column to which the
attention of growers, by request, is
especially invited.
Masonyille as voting place, as will
be noted by advertisement in this is
sue, is to be discontinued. The vo-
tiers of that precinct in the future
Will deposit their ballots in the pro-
gressive town of Parksley.
An interesting meeting of Ocean
Lodge No. lie will be held at Wach-
apreague, Wednesday, april 9th, to
which the brethren are especially
invited. There will be work in all
three degrees aDd refreshments
served.
The Franktown Dramatic Club
will give an entertainment at Acad-
envy hall, Pungoteague. Tuesday
night, April 9Th, for the benefit OF
Pungoteague and Franktown Meth
odist Churches. Refreshments will
be served.
An advertisement of Miss L. A.
Neville appears in this issue, to which
the attention of the ladies of the
county is especially invited, who are
in need of millinery goods and notions.
Stock now open for their inspection
and through US cordial invitation
is extended to them to call at once.
Rev. j.. Manning Dunaway has
rendered his resignation as pastor OF
Drummondtown and Harborton Bap
list Churches, to take effect April
cath, and the same has been accepted
with regret by the members OF both
churches. He has accepted call to
churches at Marion and Wytheville.
At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Peninsula Fair Association
held at Accomac G. H..last Tuesday,
Tasley was selected as the site for
the fair grounds of the Association
and.steps will be taken at once to
put the grounds in order for the fair
to be held during the first week in
August.
The valuable real estate of George
s. West, situated at Charlottesville, is
offered for sale at private contract
by l.. Floyd Mock, and If not sold
privately before April Both, 1898, will
be sold at public auction on said day
at o'clock p. m, at Charlottesville.
For terms &C., see posters or L. Floyd
Mock, attorney.
Mr.. Wilbur 7. James, formerly of
this county, now of New York, was
at the Courthouse on Monday, and
received cordial welcome at the
hands of old friends. He was here to
see old acquaintances and in the in
terest of the excellent commission
house of S. B. Downes & Co., which
he has been associated with for years.
BIT. Gunter, Jr., special commits
sioner, in the suit Of William H..
Budd and wife and others vs.. George
w. Budd and others will sell at pub
lie auction, on Saturday April I'd, 3
o. m, at Tasley Station, tract OF
land containing by estimation %
acres, situated at said station and
bounded by the lands of Ira Hopkins
and. Others. For full particulars see
posters.
Mrs. NJ. L. Lewis, of Parsley, has
lust returned from the north with a
full line of millinery and fancy goods
and cordially invites the ladies to
examine her grand display of trim
med hats, silks, dress trimmings etc,
Wednesday and Thursday, April 9Th
and 7th. She has also secured the
services of a first class dressmaker
of Baltimore and solicits part OF the
patronage OF the public.