Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-06-24
AccoMAc CoURT-HoUsE, VA.
SATURDAY JUNE a, 1899.
John WE jmonds. Editor and Owner
County court next Monday.

issue by Goldfoos Bros, Bloxom
Station.
The next fair of the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Fair Association will be
held August 90. %. 24 and 20.
Mr.. John Hammond is seriously i'll
with typhoid fever at the home of
Capt. Polk Lang, Accomac G. H.
E. H. Benson will be at Accomac
C. H., Monday next, courtday, with a
full line of samples for summer suits.
Rev. Geo. w. Jones, wife and
daughter, of Cape Charles, are visits
ing the family of Mr. John d. Grant
this week.
A campmeeting, under the auspices
of Hallwood NJ. E. Church, will be
held in Broughton's woods, near Con
quest Chapel, beginning July Goth
aud to continue 10 days.
In the celebrated Lewis case in
Northumberland the property known
as .Lewisettan has been sold and
brought $500. The property at
Bundlcks brought $2,005.
Rev. John McNabb, former rector
OF Episcopal churches in Accomac
and who has since been rector of
churches in King George, has accept
ed call to Fairfax county.
The valuable house and lot of
Stephen Wise, situated near Acco-
mack C. II will be sold to the high
est bidder in front of Doughty Hotel,
on Saturday, July Sth, 1899, at 3
O'Clock p. III.
Race cards of the Chesapeake Agri
cultural Fair are being sent out and
parties not receiving them can OBJ
tain them by writing to the secre
tary. The catalogues for said fair are
also being distributed.
Master John Addison, of Accomac
9. H., pupil of Waynesboro Mill
tary School the past SESSION, made
over 80 per cent in his studies and
won the scholarship medal, the high
est honor of the school.
All the privileges of the Chesa-
peake Agricultural Fair Association
will be sold at public auction, at the
Fair Grounds, at Cape Charles, Va,
Saturd ", July LIST, on the arrival of
the 3 o'clock p. IN, South bound
train.
a meeting of the County School
Board will be held Monday, Goth
inst. court day, at Accomack g. H.,
to appoint special commissioner OF
the Sanford Charity fund in the
place of DR.. JOS E. Broadwater,
deceased.
DR.. George t. Scarburgh has been
appointed census supervisor of the
first district. The number of super
visors in the State is ten, divided
equally between the democratic and
republican parties. The Office in the
first district is worth from $500 to
$4,000
Mr.. Vim. S. Richardson, the ice
cream man, of Marion, Md. is making
a tour of Accomac this week and it
goes without saying is receiving
numerous orders. The superior
quality of his cream commends it to
everyone and the demand for it is in
creasing every season.
a valuable tract Of land, situated
between Hallwood and Bloomtown,
is offered for sale at private contract
through our columns this week by
Mr.. A. F. Kelley, Hallwood. The
same will be sold by him at public
auction at Hallwood, Saturday, July
29th. 1899, 2 p. M, if not sold before
that day.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Bending, of
Richmond, who went to Accomac
county a week ago to make an arrest
and of whom nothing was heard for
several days, arrived Saturday in
Norfolk with his prisoner, Charles G.
Connerton, white, who is charged
with assaulting a Government officer.
Connerton was admitted to BAIL
Baltimore Sun.
On the fourth of July Harborton
Baptist Church will hold an all day
entertainment, in the grove in front
of the church. Dinner, supper and
refreshments of all kinds will be
served. There will be speaking and
music, and other attractive features
interesting to all ages. A pleasant
time is guaranteed to all who attend.
The object of the entertainment is to
raise money to decrease the church
debt.
A water party" will come off at
Half Moon Island on Wednesday
June 2Sth. Boat races will be attrac.
tive features of the day, of which
their will be two classes, viz: 16 to q
feet and rs to 81 feet; to the winner Of
each Of which handsome flag will
be given. Ice cream, confectionaries
SC, will be for sale. Boats will con.
vey all who wish to attend, free o.
oborOe from Gtli]ford and Huntinn
Creek wharves throughout the day.
Ohio F. Mears, special commits
sioner, will sell at public auction OF
Thursday, June Goth, between the
hours of and o'clock, at Frank
town, three valuable tracts OF lane
situated in Occahonnock Neck