Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-15
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1898.
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\ new postoflice has been establish
ee AT Townsend. Northampton coun-
ty, Va, with Lulie G. Townsend as
postmaster.
Hon. W. \. jones will address the
voters of Accomac at Drummondtown
NEXT court day and at other points
in the county during that week.
a full stock Of all lines can be seen
by calling at AmeS, Shield & Co s,
Onancock. y cordial invitation is
extended by them to every one.
Ladies', misses and cbildren's jack
cts and caps from $1OO to $500 If
you want the styles coupled with
quality and low prices don't fail to
see them, at Pate & Mason's, Parks
ley, Va.
B. w. Mears & Son, Keller, will
keep on hand a full supply of 8. F.
Johnson & Cos books and will fill
ali orders promptly, at wholesale
prices, OF the merchants of the
Eastern Shore.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, III its annual convention
held in the city of Richmond last
week, elected Mrs. Bette Rue of this
county. and Mrs. j. w. Castles, OF
Northampton, as honorary vice-presi
dents.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage Of Miss Nellie Scott, daugh
ter OF Hon. Thos NJ. Scott. OF East
Vile, TO air Edward 0. F. Gusts, OF
Onancock, at Holmes Presbyterian
Church, Bay View, Va, on Wednes-
day. October 2Gth, t p. IN.
The large ard handsome bnil ding,
which has been in coarse of erection
for some weeks for public school pur-
poses at Parksley, will be completed
by Monday. October 4th, and the
school opened in it on that day. 1t
is proposed TO make it one of the best
schools on the Shore.
\ fair will be held at Leemont by
the members and friends of the N. P.
Church October goth and 21st. Sup
per will be served each evening. The
table will be supplied with the best
oysters our market can afford, also
choice meats. Ice cream and con-
fectioneries also will be served.
A shell was thrown through the
window of the smoking car of the n
Y. P. s. \. r. r. Co. about two miles
south of Parksley last Sunday night.
The perpetrator OF the dastardly act
OF course is not known. 1t is safe TO
say, justice would not be tempered
with much mercy, if he was caught.
New advertisements in this issue,
which should not escape the attens
ton of our readers: S. w. Ames &
Co, Pungoteague; l. Il. Merrill, Pc
comoke; Click & Co, Onancock. They
have bargains TO offer you, aud it is
to your Interest, of course. TO make
your dollars buy as much as possible
The cleared land on Back street in
Onapcock. about sixteen acres, with
two good tenant houses and twenty
one, of Snead Woodland near Oman
cork, both lately belonging to Upshur
B. Quinbv, now deceased, is offered
for sale by t. B. Quinby, attorney.
1t is very desirable property and
should sell well.
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 reasonable price by I.
Is. Quinby, attorney, Onancock, Va.
1t is a fine water situation, 50 acres
of good high land, much improved,
aud % acres OF woodsland and has an
exceptionally iue water front and
eel-grass shore
A visitor to Accomac this week
from Baltimore says. he is paying
from 80 to 40 cents peck for every
sweet potato used by him. Selling
as they are at home for % cents a
barrel, this looks as if some one is
getting nice profit out of them, and
does no. look like the supply is
greater than the demand. The low
price at which the farmer is selling
his crop is due surely to bad man
asement somewhere.
When you next visit Pocomoke City
dou't fail to call at Dryden & Lamb
den's big shoe store, two doors west
Of Dickinson's dry goods store. You
will there find one OF the largest and
most complete stocks of boots and
shoes south of Philadelphia They
make a speciality of ladies and gen
tleneu's tiue foot wear, and pay spe-
cial attention TO orders by mail.
They buy for cash and sell for cash
This accounts for their low prices. +.
II Dryden's real estate office is in
tae rear OF shoe store.
The case of Harry 7. White against
the New YORK, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railroad Co., heard at the Octo-
Der term of the circuit court OF Acco-
mac. resulted in verdict by the jury
last Saturday in favor of the plaintiff