Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-03-26
LOCAL NEWS,

County court next Monday.
Circuit court commences Tuesday,
April 5th.
A mass meeting OF farmers will be
held at Mappsville, Saturday, April
9th.
Camp-meeting at Turlington's
Grounds near Keller, this year, be-
gins August 5th.
Pastor J. NJ. Dunaway has been alb
sent from his charge the past week, on
visit to Southwest Virginia.
The farmers meeting advertised 10
be held at Modestown, to-day, has
been postponed to next Saturday,
April I'd.
Services will be held in schoolhouse
at New Church, Sunday morning II
o'clock, conducted by Rev. H. L.
Silnmerman.
Judge Ross has ordered local
option election to be held Saturday,
April 23rd, 1898, in each of the magis
terial districts OF Pungoteague, Lee
and Metompkip, in this county.
Samuel T. Ross qualified March
a1st, as Judge of Accomac county
court, by taking and subscribing the
oaths required by law before NJ
Oldham, Jr., clerk of said court.
Next Monday is Ma, CHI term of our
court and large crowd is generally
IN attendance on that day, and If
present don't forget to bring with
you that dollar due us on subscription
The members OF the Nj. E. Church,
South, Drummondtown, purchased Il
handsome Estey pipe organ this
week, at a cost of $250,and now have
for;church purposes the best,perhaps,
on the Shore.
Mr.. George Crockett, who for weeks
has been sick beyond hope of re-
coyery, at his home near Accomac G.
H., is reported as slightly improved
aud his physician is more hopeful OF
u change for the better.
DR. John G. Hoffman, of Earbor-
ton, is graduate in dentistry at the
University of Maryland Dental COL
lege, this season.. An invitation to
the commencement exercises on 31st
inst, from him, is received with
thanks.
Capt. John Stiles, arrested in Hog
Island Broadwater last week for
violating the game laws, was sent to
Jail in default of payment Of fine OF
500 imposed upon him by the justice
of the peace before whom he had a
hearing.
An attack made by Tully Parker, a
drunken negro, on white boy at
Only last Saturday night, resulted in
a general fight Parker was badly
bruised and beaten during the ARRAY
and has since required the attention
of physician.
New advertisements of A. H. q.
Mears, Wachapreague; Click & Co.,
Onancock; and of W. S. Dickinson y
Son, Pocomoke City; appear in this
issue of interest to our readers. They
have bargains o,offer to all who will
call on them. Read what they have
to say.
The launching of the battleships at
Newport News was we'll attended by
citizens of the Eastern Shore. The
Courthouse and Parksley were
represented by Messrs. VIM. 2. Bell,
Jno. D. Grant, Jr., E. 7. Edmonds,
Jno. A. Bundick, G. C. Dix, and Miss
Tibbie Grant.
Of the twenty-four applicants for
examination in law before the State
Board held in Richmond March II,
only seven were passed and admitted
to the bar, among them one Eastern
Shoreman, Lloyd W. Brockenorough,
who is taking law at the University
of Virginia.-The Light.
E. H. Benson will be at Accomac
G. H., Monday next, court day, with
an entire new line of samples OF
spring and summer suitings, trouser-
ings etc., comprising all of the latest
designs for the coming season. Give
him call and examine his styles and
prices before buying elsewhere.
Mrs. Mary Lewis, wife Of Capt. S.
A. Lewis. is critically i'll at her home,
near Accomac c. n. She was operated
on a few days ago for some kidney
trouble and an Improvement in her
condition was then reported, but
from latest reports she was not so
we'll and serious results are feared.
John Chopper, colored, shot George
Bailey, colored, in the arm at the
Methodist Church of the colored peo-
pie near Drummondtown, on last
Wednesday night. A warrant for the
arrest of Chopper is in the hands Of
the constable, but so far he has suc-
ceeded in evading the officer of the
law.
A handsome gavel. made of wood
from the house of Joshua Thomas,
who spent many years Of his life on
Tangier Island and preached to the
British invaders in revolutionary