Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-03-12

The first Shad OF the season oHereu
for sale in our town this week found
ready buyers at sixty cents each.
Services conducted by Rev. H. L
Simmerman, will be held in Horn
town, Sunday morning, II o'clock.
Eastern Shore Agricultural Far
commences this year, Tuesday
August esd, and continues four days.
The Town Council has increased
the license tax for liquor saloons in
Cape Charles from twenty five to fifty
dollars per year.
Mr.. Chas B. Mears, of Keller, pupil
for several months past at Eastman
Business College, Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, has returned home.
Pastor J. Manning Dunaway, OF
Drummondtown Baptist Church.
has received call from Marion and
Wytheville Baptist churches.
More fertilizers, it is said, have been
sold in Northampton this year. than
for m>ny years past and the acreage
of round potatoes increased accord
ingly.
The stockholders of the Peninsula
Fair Association will meet at Acco-
mac C. H next Tuesday, 18th inst.
D. III. A full attendance is request
ed.
Our town will soon be in communi-
cation with upper Accomac by tele-
phone. The poles have been placed
on the line from Pastoral to the
Courthouse.
A handsome cane was presented to
DR.. Charles Smith, floater delegate
from Northampton,la last week, by the
members of the House committee on
Chesapeake and its tributaries.
Mr.. William B. Wilkins, of our
town, suffered a slight stroke of par
alysis in the tongue On Thursday,
but he has since improved and his
physician says will recover the use
of it in few days.
John T. Mock, trustee, will sell at
public auction at Harborton, on
Saturday, March 18th, 1898, at 3
O'Clock p. w., the valuable house and
lot of F. w. Sparrow, situate at Har-
horton. For terms see posters.
An entertainment will be given by
the Methodist Sunday School al
Bloxom. Wednesday, March esd. The
District school at Burberry Corners
will be rendered on the occasion.
Admission, adults 10 cents. children
10 cents.
An advertisement of Mr.. A. H. &.
Mears, Wachapreague, one OF the
most eDterprisiug merchants and one
of the best business men of the coun-
ty, appears in this issue of interest to
many of our readers. Read what he
has to say.
Messrs. Thos. NJ. Slemons and VIM.
F. Bounds, contractors of this city,
have just been awarded contract to
build Catholic school building at
Cape Charles, Va. They will begin
the work very soon.-Salisbury Adj
vertiser.
The Baltimore Sun reports the
death of Mrs. Bette W. Copes, aged
Is years, widow of Thomas L. Copes
at the home of her daughter in that
city on the 9th inst. and that the
remains would be inferred at Parks
ley, this county.
The meeting held for the past ten
days at the Mackenzie Presbyterian
church, conducted by Rev. F. j.
Brooke, D. D., closed Wednesday
night. He will commence series OF
revivalservices in Centenary Nj. E.
Church, South, Cape Charles, next
Sunday afternoon.
L. Floyd Mock, special commits
sioner will sell at public auction at
Mappsville on Saturday, March, 2G,
about 3 p. IN, the lands belonging to
the heirs of John H. Fisher, deceased
situated near Mappsville, known IS
the Kelly land" For further
particulars see posters.
The storehouse, with stock therein,
at Greenbackville, occupied by Ed
ward Davis was destroyed by fire
Tuesday night. The storehouse be
longed to the heirs of William Fl.
Harmon, deceased, and not insured.
The stock of merchandise valued at
at about So, 900 was insured according
to advices received, for $500.
B. T. 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
p m, at Tasley Station, a tract OF
land containing by estimation 25
acres, situated at said station and
bounded by the lands Of Ira Hopkins
and others. For full particulars see
posters
Rev. G. E. B. Smith has made ar
rangements with the National Gram
ophone Co., of New York, to give
series of entertainments at the follow
ing places during Easter week:
Wachapreague, April 18th, Smiths