Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-07-09
LOCAL MEs@S s.

South. meets in Onancock, July 10th.
The Chesapeake Agricultural Fair
will commence August 10th, and con-
tinue four days.
Miss Ruth Oldham, of Accomac G.
H, is visiting relatives and friends in
Washington, d. G.
That fine sweet potato growing
farm, Mt Gusts, is for rent for 1899.
See business column.
The Eastern Shore Agricultural
Fair commences Tuesday, August %,
and continues four days.
Mr.. Ben. 7. Gunter left on last
Monday, for Red Sulphur Springs.
He will be absent from the county
about two weeks.
Mr.. W. H. G. Smith, Jenkins
Bridge, writes US that he lost last
week, his valuable Gray Eagle mare,
one of the finest ever raised in the
county.
An election will be held in North
ampton on Tuesday, the I'd day of
August, to decide whether the court
house shall be moved from Eastville
TO Cape Charles.
Mrs. E. S. Revell, Mr. Clemens,
Messrs. w. J. and f. F. AyreS and
families and Mr.. Charles Nelson, OF
Baltimore, are at Accomac G. H., the
guests OF relatives.
The customs office for the port of
Cherrystore was turned oyer TO Mr..
c. g. Smithers on July 1st. Mr..
Ailworth goes out OF office with
clear record.-Light.
Jack Taylor and colored man,
Moses Finney, were sent to jail on
Friday by Justice Watts, to wait the
action Of the grand jury Oh the
charge of stealing chickens.
Peninsula Fair association will be
gin their first annual fair at Tasley,
August 2d, and continue four days.
The management expect to give the
greatest and grandest exhibition ever
seen on this Peninsula.
Red Hills, near Horntown, will be
opened as "a fashionable watering
place. every Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday from July 18th, to
September 1st, 1888. See advertise
ment in another column.
The catalogue of the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Fair Association is now
ready for distribution. a copy can
be secured either at this office, or from
the secretary, Mir. Il. Walter Mapp,
Grangeville. or assistant secretary,
Mr.. E. F. Warren, Onancock.
L, Floyd Mock, trustee, will sell to
the highest bidder, on the premises
near ModestowD, on Wednesday,
July goth, 1898, at o'clock p. NJ,
all the real estate of which VIM. H.
Grant died seized situated near
Modestown. For terms sc, see pos
tiers.
Edwin, son of MIR. George t. Mapp,
of Keller, fell out of a peach tree and
broke his arm last week. This week,
his little daughter, ten months old,
set fire to her clothing with match
which she picked up on the hearth,
and was seriously burned about the |
body.
The A. J. Ward farm between
Belle Haven and Wardtown, one and
half miles from EXInore station, is
offered for sale by T. +. Quinby, at
torney, Onancocb. either as whole
or in parcels to SUIT purchasers.
Write to him for prices and further
particulars.
The part of the Fentress farm in
Upshur's Neck owned by the heirs of
Upshur 3. Quinby, deceased, is offer
ed for sale at reasonable price by
T. B. Quinby, attorney. Onancock,
Va. 1t is fire water situation, 80
acres of good high land, much i'm
proved, and % acres of woodsland
and has an exceptionally fine water
front and eel-grass shore.
Gen. George J. Hundley, of Amelia
County, Va, will be at Accomac G.
H., on Tuesday, July Goth, the day of
the Confederate reunion, and deliver
an address. Dr.. Frank Fletcher,
Commander of Harmanson West
Camp, in a letter to US advising us OF
the fact, says that one of the best
addresses ever read by him, delivered
on such occasions, was made by Gen
eral Rundley.
Metompkin Beach Hotel, retitted,
is now open for the season. Guests
will be made comfortable and will
have good things to catfish, crabs,
clans, oysters and birds and other
things. Fine bathing will be found
and bathing suits for ladies and gen
tleman provided. Guest will be taken
TO the beach from the Folly" and
from Parker Creek every day, Terms
$3.50 per day or $500 per week. For
other information or rates, apply
TO Thos. W. Russell, Accomack G. II.
or to Mr.. Garry Johnson, Pastoral,
,opooor and host
An all day water party will be held
in W. T. BloXon's yard, on Holden's
creek, Thursday, August 4th, or Oh
first fair day thereafter, if weather
prevents on that day, for the purpose