Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-08-27


p. III.
Miss Annie E. Fisher will resume
her school duties at Accomac c. H.,
the 18th of September.
The next meeting of the Board of
Supervisors will be held at the Aims
House on Friday, September I'd.
Rev. Mr.. Griffith will fill his regular
appointment at Drummondtown NJ.
E. Church, next Sunday, at $50 p III.
Dr.. Garland P. Moore, of Cape
Charles, has been offered chair in
the Maryland College of Medicine,
Baltimore, Md.
County court next Monday, and if
You did not see us 1T the Fair you
will be expected to pay your sub
scription on that day.
DR.. f. L. Potter will visit Bloxom
the Sth and Parksley the 18th of each
month for the practice of his profes
sion, as will be seen by advertisement
in this issue.
Mr. Perry Derby, formerly of our
town, now a soldier in the U. S. army.
is visiting his sister, Mrs. DR.. j. H.
Ayres He expects to leave with bis
company for Havana in q few weeks.
The business department of Marga
ret Academy, sessions 1898 80, will
have as principal, Mr.. NJ. L. Fletcher.
y notice of same appears in another
column. to which especial attention
is invited.
Messrs. a. h. Tull and Co., of Tull's
Corner, this county. have purchased
the north end of Sykes Island, Va.
They are very largely engaged in
planting oysters at that point.-Cris-
field Times.
Miss Madeline Mapp, daughter of
DR.. j. E. Mapp, critically i'll Of late
with typhoid fever at her home near
Keller, is now convalescent, and with
out some mishap will soon be in her
usual health again.
The corner stone Of the new Meth
odist Protestant Church, to be erect
ed at Leemont, will be laid on next
Tuesday, August 305h, p. ~. A
fair will be held in connection with
same, beginning at , p. III.
Mr.. R. F. Powell will sell at private
or public sale, at Accomac G. H.,
Monday, August goth, court day, a
large lot of bugsies. Persons want
ing carriage should not miss this
opportunity to get a bargain.
The real estate of which the late
George S. West died. seized and pos
sessed, will be sold at Craddockville
on Saturday, September Sd, 1898, at
800 o'clock p. m., by John T. Mock,
trustee. For terms, &C., see posters.
f. H. Benson will be at Accomac
c. H., Monday next, court day with
full and complete line of samples of
fail suitings and trowserings which
he will offer to the trade at prices
that defy competition for quality &c.
Punsoteague Academy opens Sep
TENDER Sth, with a full corps OF
teachers, as will be noted elsewhere
and with the prospect Of q larger en-
rollment of pupils than ever before.
The building will be enlarged to
accommodate them.
Mr.. L. Floyd Mock will on Saturday,
August 18th. 1898, at 30 o'clock p.
m, at Cashville, sell to the highest
bidder at public auction, the valua
BILE tract or parcel of land located on
Machitank Creek in Sluthkill Neck,
now occupied by Mr.. T. R. Chandler.
Terms very liberal.
Ernest Snead, colored, convicted of
murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to seven years in the peni.
Tertiary at the June term of the
county court, was refused a new trial,
al L hearing b ore Judge Blackstone
on last Mon -, He will be taken to
the State prison in Il few days.
Stewart * Powell, trustee, will
sell at public auction on Saturday,
Septe1D Der 24th, p. ~, at Pun
colleague the very valuable farm
known as the mcdonnell Farm, !"
together with other valuable parcels
of land and storehouse, and 'Joynes
lott For full particulars see posters.
The Committee to examine public
school text books for this county will
meet with a like committee from
Northampton county lat Belle Haven,
on Saturday, September, 3rd 10 a. IN.
On,the following Tuesday September
9Th, the County School Board of Ac
comac will meet at the courthouse
for the final adoption of text books
for the next four years.
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 a reasonable price by
n. B. Quinby, attorney, Onancock,
Va. 1t is fire water situation, So
acres of good high land, much i'm
proved, and 20 acres of woodsland
aud has an exceptionally fine water
front and eel-grass shore.
MIR. Richard F. Ames, of near
Mappsburg, left for the Soldiers
Home, Richmond, Va, last week. He
was gallant Confederate soldier and
so we'll thought of that the homes OF
many in lower Accomac were open
~ b;,o bnt he orafarre6 TO cast