Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-01
SATURDAY july l, 1899.
Jim W, Edmonds.Ed and Owner
LOCAL NEWS.

Board OF supervisors meets next
Wednesday.
Picnic at the Folly next Friday af>
ternoon at > o'clock.
Camp meeting at burlington
Grounds commences, August 18th.
The next fair of the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Fair Association will be
held August %, %, "a and %.
Capt. ]. Myers White, of Norfolk,
was home Oh visit to his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. White, this
week.
Mr.. A. II. e. Mears still continues
to offer you bargains in many lines.
See his new advertisement in this
issue.
Mr. J. a. Riley in this issue offers
his services to the public in many
lines. See his advertisement this
week.
An advertisement of The Central
Agricultural Fair appears in this is
sue. 1t will commence, as will be
noted, August 18th and continue four
days.
Mr.. y. B. WeScott is absent from
the county looking after property
interests liz his old home in Pueblo,
Colorado He will return home in Il
few days
Duglas Tunnel, colored, fell dead
while at work in the field near At
lantic last week Thomas GUSTS, also
colored, died suddenly near Accomac
c. H., on Tuesday, aged 50 years.
a small farm, beautifully located, on
Pungoteague Creek, opposite Har
horton, is offered for sale in this issue
by Capt. JOS G. Boggs, Nandua, Va.
For full particulars see advertise
ment.
The valuable louse and lot Of
Stephen Wise, situated near Acco-
mack c. H will be sold to the high
est bidder,in front of Doughty Hotel,
on Saturday, July Sth, 1899, at
o'clock p. III.
F. W. Shivers, the we'll known ice
cream manufacturer, has moved his
plant from Peninsula junction to
Princess Anne, Md, and is better
equipped to serve his trade than ever
before. write for prices.
Professor Richard Heath Dabney,
OF the University of Virginia, was in
Accomac this week in the interest Of
that famous institution of learning
and was cordially welcomed by form
err pupils of the old school.
Especial attention is invited to adj
vertisement of Mr.. A. ". Lilliston,
Onancock, in another column. He
buys carriages and other vehicles by
the wholesale and is prepared to sup
ply all customers at lowest prices.
All the privileges of, the Chesa-
peake Agricultural Fair Association
will be sold at public AUCTION, at the
Fair Grounds, at Cape Charles, Va,
Saturday, July 1st, on the arrival of
the 5 o'clock p. N, South bound
train.
Mr.. w. Easily Smith, lineman of
the 9Th Life Saving District for
number of years, with his home at
Accomac G. H., was in town this
week. He will leave with his family
next week for his new home in Nor
folk city.
The following young ladies from
Accomac are in attendance at the
Normal School, now in session in the
city OF fredericksburg: Misses Mary
E Parsons, Bette Lee Parsons, Adele
F. lewis, Ethel T, Lewis, and Lena
y. Birmingham.
The old and reliable commission
house of Snow s. Co., Boston, invites
your patronage through our columns
IN this issra. 1t has been in business
since 1866 and is one of the most
widely known in the United States.
That it is tirst-class no one questions.
The pastor requests the publication
of the following: Everybody is invi-
ted to take supper with the Southern
Methodists at Drummondtown in the
afternoon of the 4th of July. Ice
cream, confectioneries, Sc, will also
be for sale. Proceeds for benefit of
the church.
Laurel, Del, was swept by a disas-
trous fire last Saturday morning and
the property loss is estimated as
$500, 900 with insurance of only about
$4,000. Some express the belief that
blaze was started to conceal murder.
The loss of Davis & Bro, we'll known
to the people of the Eastern Shore is
put down at, marble $3.50, furnished
goods, $4,000.
President Melvin of the Maryland
Conference N. P. Church in making
his report to the Methodist Protest
ant of the charges served by Rev. E.
S. Fooks at New Church, Va, has
this to say: Conquest charge has
done itself credit and Brother Fooks
Justice by increasing the salary
$4,000. He will earn all they give
him and more. He is live man.
Live men must have living salaries"
Mr.. Edward Anderson of Occohan-
nock Neck. and Miss BESSIE Radoer