Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-07-30
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meuces next Friday.
Mr.. C. a. Mckinney has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Cape Charles
Admission to Peninsula Fair
grounds Tasley, Va, August ?, ), 4, .,
25 cents.
The Chesapeake Agricultural FAN
will commence August 10th, and con-
tinue four days.
Accomac Baptist Association meets
with Zion Baptist Church, Wednes-
day, August 18th.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences Tuesday, August %,
and continues four days.
MIS-. John NJ. Fox, OF Tuckertor
NJ, is visiting her sister, Mrs. r. P.
Coleburn, at Accomac c. H.
Peninsula Fair will give special for
class 2:S2. Entries close at / p. ~,
first day Of fair Purse $3.50 90.
Another blacksmith shop has been
built on the main street of our town.
MIR. Thos. w. Twyford owns and will
occupy the same.
Miss Louise johnson has been APP
pointed postmiStress at Parksley in
place of DR.. \. D. F. Ewell, whose
term of Office had expired.
Mr.. John Birmingham, one OF the
worthieSt and most prominent citi-
zens of the county, is seriously i'll at
his home near New Church.
Mr.. William H. Coxton, seriously
i'll for last two weeks at his home
near Accomac G. H., is now improv-
ing and will soon be out again.
Especial attention invited to ad
vertisements in this issue of M. c..
Click & Co, Onancock, and of State
Female Norma! School, F'armville, Va
Mrs. John Nicely and Mrs A. Brown
IeCato, Of Norfolk. are st Accoinac
C. H., on visit TO their sisters, re-
spectively, Mrs NJ. Oldham, Jr. and
Mrs. Lynn Taylor.
Rev j. L. King, who has been alb
sent from his charge for several
weeks, on account of his health, will
return this week, and fill all of his
appointments on Sunday, 3lst inst.
Peninsula Fair Association will be
gin their first annual fair at Tas!ey,
August I'd. and continue four days.
The management expect to give the
greatest and grandeSt exhibition ever
seen on this Peninsula.
The Mcconnell Farm, 40 acres and
the residence occupied by DR.. Ames,
both located at Pungotea5ue, this
county, will be sold at public auction,
Saturday, August 18th, 1898, at $50
p. NJ. by Joseph II. Hebard, Jr.,
trustee.
Rev. j. F. Burks has been assigned
to St. Georges Parish by Bishop
Randolph and will hold mis- first SER
vice re1t Sunday morning at II
o'clock at ST. James Church, Drum
mondtown, and at $3.50 p. IL. at Pun
colleague.
Taylor, of Atlantic, and Sartorius,
of Pocomoke, two fast bicycle riders
will meet in match race at the fair
to be held III August at Tasley sta
ton. AS both of these are fast riders
and as Sartorius has once defeated
Taylor the race should prove very
exciting.
The A. J. Ward farm between
Belle Haven and Wardtown, one and
half miles from Exmore station, is
offered for sale by T. r. Quinby, at
torney, Onancocb. either as whole
or in parcels to SUIT purchasers.
Write to him for prices and further
particulars.
L. Floyd Mock, trustee, will sell to
the highest bidder, on Saturday,
August 18th, 1898, at $50 o'clock p.
m, at louisville, the farm known
as the David P. Mears Land,n con-
tains 80 acres, more or less, adjoining
lands of w. Fisher Mears and wife,
Richard w. Ames and others.
Capt. 4. B. LeCato was at Accomac
c. H., on Wednesday, en- route from
New York to Santiago. He is captain
of one of the steamers of the Merritt
Wrecking Co, and will take an &C
tive part in the effort to save the
Spanish warship, Christobal Colon.
disabled and sunk in the late battle
off Santiago.
A recent telegram from Newport
News says: There is reason to believe
that if cases of yellow fever have not
already broken out among sick sold
iers brought up to Fortress Monroe
from Santiago there are cases OF such
a grave and suspicious nature as TO
cause apprehension among the sur
geops who have charge Of the post
hospital at Old Point.
The part of the Fentress farm in
Upshur's Neck owned by the heirs OF
Upshur 8. Quinby, deceased, is offer
ed for sale at a reasonable price by
Il. B. Quinby, attorney, Onancock,
Va. It is fire water situation, %
acres of good high land, much i'm
proved, and % acres of woodsland
and has an exceptionally fine water
front and eel grass shore.
A partial list of the premiums to be
given by the Chesapeake Agricul-
tural Fair Association at THEN