Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-03-25
LOCAL NEWS.
County court next Monday.

Agricultural Fair Association will be
held August 90. %. "a and IS.
Mrs. Samuel T. Ross and son, Acco
mac G. H, left Monday for Baltimore,
and will be absent from their home
about two weeks.
Two handsome dwellings will soon
be in course of erection on Lilliston
avenue in our town to be occupied
by MIR. G. Welly Coard and Mrs.
Laura Duncan. Work on same was
begun by Mr.. Coard this week.
B. T. Gunter announces himself as
8 candidate for the Office of Attorney
for the Commonwealth and Tank G.
Kellam for the Office Of Constable, in
this issue. AS neither of them has an
opponent each of them is likely ito
get there"
The dates fixed for the fairs at
Keller and Tasley this year are the
same, each commencing August 22d,
and to continue four days, due to
misunderstanding and not to, dis
position to antagonize each other,
say the directors OF each.
Accomac will be represented at the
Maryland Annual Conference which
meets in Crisfield the first Wednes-
day in April by the following dele
gates; b. T. Mason. Parksley; Joshua
T. Sharpley. Greenbaekville; s. W.
Parks, Leemont; Jno. T. Lewis, Hall
wood.
John c. Orwell, ESQ. of Horntown,
Va, came to town this week and took
to his home the trotting mare
"Stella," belonging to Mr.. Augustus
Parker. He will put her in training,
with view to campaigning her the
coming season.-Wo Demo
crat, 18th.
a banquet was given last week at
Hotel Warwick, in Newport News,by
the Bar Association of that city in
honor of Judge J. W. G. Blackstone
Only members of the local and neigh
boring bar were invited, and the
affair was strictly legal in every sense
of the word.
Another sale of horses and mules at
public auction, and the last this
Spring, will be made by Raughley &
Twilley at Pocomoke city, Saturday,
April 1st. 1:S0 p. m. The stock will
arrive on Thursday, March 30th, and
can be seen at Twilley's stables. See
advertisement in this issue.
MIR. Upshur Q. Sturgis, as appears
in his card in this paper, in addition
to his usual law practice, is also giv-
ing his attention to bankruptcy cases
and can be seen at Accomac G. H.
every courtday and as often at other
times as his practice requires. He can
be relied on to give his attention to
business entrusted to him.
A blouse of Entertainment" is now
open to the public at Tasley Station,
with Mr.. J. Thomas Mears as pro-
prietor. AS will be noted by card in
this issue he is prepared to entertain
the public by day, week, or month,
and proposes by first-class accommo-
dations to deserve liberal share OF
Its patronage. We commend him to
the favors of the public.
Mr.. John D. Grant, our efficient
Circuit Court Clerk, was at his desk
as usual on Tuesday morning but
with his nose badly disfgured by a
fall on his way home the evening
previous. His mishap was due to too
much water and not to too much OF
something else, which his present
plight naturally suggests. He fell
into a '.washout'' made by the recent
rains.
The tract of land opposite the Pc
ninsula Fair Grounds, Tasley, has
been sold by Mr.. Harry Hopkins, to
the colored people representing the
"Grand Fair of Improvement, and
the same will be opened by them as a
fair ground at as an early date as
possible, this year, if terms can be
made with the present occupant OF
the premises. The price paid was
$1,000.
Next Monday, the March term Of
our county court, and the big court
day of the year. 1t will have, we
presume, it's usual attractions of
politics, horses, &c, and course, as
many can will be present to share in
the fun. 1t will be a good day too to
square up your accounts with the
ENTERPRISE and all in arrears are
cordially invited Ito drop i'm our
Office during the day for that pur-
pose.
The Davenport (Iowa) Times an
nouuces the death of Mrs. Julia Ann
Weaver, SO years of age. Her maiden
name was Julia Ann Warrington and
she was born in Drummondtowp,
August 18th, 1906. Her father, Col.
William Warrington, served in the
Continental army on General Wash
ipgton's staff and was present at the
battle of the Brandywine. Mrs.
Weaver is survived by her second
husband, four children, nineteen
grand children and sixty great grand
children.
James H. Fletcher, Jr., special
commissioner, Insult of Hezekiah P.
Wescoat's admr., VS.. Roseana G..
Wescoat,will sell at public auction on
Saturday, April 18th, 1899, 5 p. NJ, at