Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-06
LOCAL NEW S.
Election, Thursday, May 25th.

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rent out their privileges on their
grounds at Tasley, May 23d, p. III.
DIR. Herbert Lilliston, of Accomac
c. H, is taking course of lectures at
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
and will be absent from the county
about two months.
Mr.. John r. Rev offers his services
10 our people as an attorney-at-law
in this issue of the paper. He is q
Young man OF talent and ought soon
to win his way to the favors of the
public.
L. Floyd Mock, trustee. will sell at
public auction. on Saturday. May
215h, about / ! p. ~. at George Y.
Bloxom's store, Guilford, real estate
of Mrs. Hester 4. Luker, situated near
that place.
Mr.. y. II. G Mcars, achapreague.
as will be seen by advertisement on
another page is strictly ''in it, in the
bicycle business; can give you bar
gain in them and is willing to do it.
Read VIII I he has to say
Mr.. jones E. Byslop, Of Grange
Vile, medical student of the Univer
sity of Mary lard after short visit
TO lis home. returned on Monday TO
accept an appointment in the hos
pital OF that institution.
Revs. NJ. F. Sanford and Walter
Rhodes have been appointed dele
gates by the State Mission Board to
represent Virginia at the Southern
Baptist Convention, which meets in
Louisville, Ky, on the 18th inst.
Mr. John ]. Hopkins, of Locust
vile, and Miss Ida w. Beloate,
daughter Of Mr.. Geo. w. Reloate Tas-
ley, were married at Onancock, on
Wednesday, Sd inst, Rev. j. D. Hank,
of the NJ. E. Church, South. officiat-
ing.
If you want to buy cheap farm.
you should write at once to Mr.. F. H.
Dryden. Pocomoke City, Md, for his
latest real estate journal. In it you
will find many farms for sale, ut as
tonishingly low prices, also map of
peninsula &c, &c.
L. Floyd Mock, special commits
sioner, will sell at public auction at
Parksley, in front of Lewis Hotel, on
Saturday, May eth, 3 p m, valuable
house and lot OF Mrs. Catharine J.
Bennett, situated at Parksley. For
full particulars see posters.
Mr.. Lloyd c. Mears, trustee, will
sell at public auction, on Saturday,
June 81, 1899, about 3 p. m, on the
premises. near Gargatha, valuable
real estate, conveyed by Meshack
Mears and wife to him for benefit of
Geo. T. Moore For full particulars
see posters.
Attention is invited to following
new advertisements in this issue:
John r. Rev, attorney at law; A. Ii.
6. Mears, spring millinery; Major
Jones, restaurant; Chesconnessex
Cornet Band ]. P Wilson, commits
sion merchant; Lloyd c. Mears, farm
at public auction.
The Board of Supervisors, at their
next meeting TO be held at Acccmac
C. H., on Wednesday, May 10th, will
recommend to the Judge of the coun-
ty court the persons to be appointed
Superintendent of the Poor and
County Surveyor of Accomac county
for term beginning July 1st, 1899.
A movement is now on foot for the
opening of a bank at Accomac G. H.
and the prospect is that it will be es-
tablished at an early date. If open
ed, as now contemplated, it will be
under competent management and
in all other respect worthy of the
confidence and patronage of the pubs
lie.
Gen. j. c. Hill, Railroad Commits
si3ner for Virginia, is making a tour
OF inspection Of the n. Y. p & N. r.
r. Gen. Hill either personally or
through his chief clerk, Mr.. Akers,
makes an annual inspection of all the
railroads in tn. state, and many i'm
premelts and increased facilities
hive been given the public through
the commissioners recommendation
Light.
John J. Blackstone, trustee, in deed
from Henry T. Whites heirs and at
their request, will sell at public auc-
ton, Gf not sold at private sale be-
fore) at Newstowr. on Saturday, May
2O5h, 1899, p. ~, tract of land and
water grist mill, containing so acres,
more or less, OF which Henry L.
White died seized and possessed. For
full particulars see advertisement in
this issue.
The Board of Supervisors OF Norths
anpton, says the Light, at their last
meeting passed bills for nearly one
thousand dollars for smallpox ex.
penses aud will have about one
thousand more to pay. Very many
cases Of smallpox are reported in the
lower part of Northampton and the
above seems to indicate that the in
formation received by us in that res
pect is correct.
Mr. Charles S. Tull, representing
Woolley s. Hughes, commission mer-
chants, n. Y, was in Accomac this
week in the interest of his firm and