Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-01-07


o'clock.
Hon. Lloyd II. Smith, of Northum-
berland Co., was at Accomac G. H.,
on last Wednesday on professional
business.
The grip has been almost an cpl
demic of late at Accomac G. H. and
several persons are still afflicted with
the disease.
Mr.. YIN. j. Coleburn, of Norfolk, is
at Accomac G. H., on visit of sew
eral weeks to relatives and his nu-
merous friends.
Mr.. James E. Hyslop, student of
medicine at University of Maryland,
spent the holidays with his parents
at Grangeville.
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Kelley, o:
Tuckerton, N. j., spent several days
during Xmas at Accomac G. H., with
their daughter, Mrs. Robert P. Cole
burn.
Rev. ]. B. Pruitt, former pastor Of
Onancock Baptist Church and later
of church in Kansas, has accepted
call to the First Baptist Church.
Pocomoke City.
Rev. T. H. Lewis, D. D., President
of Western Maryland College, will
give his popular lecture Our New
Paradise" at Leemont, January 18th
$50 p. III. Admission % cents.
A full attendance of the members
of Mackenzie Presbyterian Church,
Drummondtown is requested by the
pastor, next Sunday morning. He
wants every member, if possible, to
be present.
The attention of our readers is in
vited to advertisement OF L. W. Gum
by, Salisbury, in this issue. He needs
no recommendation at our hands.
His reputation is, that he is reliable
in all his business dealings.
Mr.. a. J. McMath, of this county,
at the late meeting OF the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Virginia, was APP
pointed a member of the Grand
Working Committee, an honor never
before accorded to Eastern Shore
Masonry.
The entertainment at Lilliston Hall
during Xmas, under the auspices of
the ladies of Drummondtown Baptist
Church, was success. The lecture OF
Prof. Default was a fine one and the
music by the Onancock string band
pleased everyone. Net receipts about
$4,000.
Our countyman, Mr. VIM. T. Bun
dick, left this week on temperance
tour of the South. He has engage
ments to speak at st. Augustine,
Jacksonville and Palatka, Florida,
Atlanta, Macon and Savannah, Geor-
gia, and in the principal cities OF
North Carolina and Tennessee.
The owners, John S. Gaskins, ST.
and Henry A. Hall, will sell at public
auction, Thursday, Iarch I'd, 3 p. H.,
On the premises, the slorehouse ana
dwelling combined, situated at San
ford. Il is valuable property, con-
venient TO churches and schools and
we'll located for business purposes.
See adj ertisement in this Issue.
The part of the Fentress farm in
Upshur's Neck owned by Miss George
R. Quinby, is offered for sale by t. B.
Quinby, Onancock. Va, at low price
and on easy terms. It has 80 acres OF
improved high land, and 25 acres of
woods land; has an exceptionally fine
water frontage on the broadwater,
and an excellent eel-grass shore.
Write to him for price and terms.
Sixteen acres of cleared land on
Kerr street, in Onancock, and twenty
one acres of woods land about half :,
mile from Onancock, is offered for
sale as whole by T. B. Quinby. The
cleared land has long frontage on
Kerr and Jackson streets, and is in
proved with two good tenant houses.
The woodland is high and well
timbered. Terms will be made to suit
the purchaser.
a handsome dwelling, situated at
Parksley, is for sale at private cons
tract and on easy terms. If you want
a bargain in home, or as an invest
ment, at one of the most desirable
points on the Eastern Shore, apply
for particulars at this office or to Mr..
James 81. Fletcher, Jr., Accomac G..
H. Several valuable building lots
are also offered at low figures and on
accommodating terms.
Mr.. WILDER T. James, who for many
wears has been connected with the
best commission houses in New York,
Is now, as will be noted in another
column. in business on his own &C
count as a member of the firm Of
Smith, Holden s. James. It goes
without saying, that the firm is good
one and will have the liberal pat
ronage of the shippers of the Eastern
Shore. Mr.. James, with his thorough
acquaintance with the business would
not be member of firm that was
not frst-class one.
John West. colored, was shot by a
gun in the hands of Oscar Howard,