Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-24
LOCAL NEWS.

County court next MOuuay
Circuit Court, Tuesday, April Sd.
Board of Supervisors will hole
their next meeting April 18th.
The State Board o. Fisheries viii
hold it's annual session in Norfolk on
the 4th day of April.
A local option election is to be held
10 Franktown district, Northampton.
Saturday, April 21st.
Mr.. Abel W. Bradford. of Eastville,
has been appointed commissioner OF
valuation for the county of North
ampton.
E. II. Benson will be at Accomac G.
II. Monday next, court day, with a
full line of samples of spring goods
for made to-order suits.
A shipment of clams, made recently
by Capt Thomas Milliner, of Locust
Vile, to Philadelphia, sold in that
city at $500 per thousand.
Miss Emma Venable. of Hampden
Sidney, Va, proposes returning the
middle of March /: music teacher
to Chincoteague Island and will be
glad to secure pupils.
Don't let the spring go by and fail
to plant Excelsior strawberry plants.
The pure stock eau be had OF A. j
McMath, Onley, Va, at $500 per 1000
or in 1000 lots for $3.50.
The members and friends of Horn
town Baptist Church will give IAN
oyster supper, ice cream and cake
social" Easter Monday, April 10th.
The public is cordially invited.
New advertisements in this issue
Belle Haven Furniture Co., sewing
machines; }. ii. Riley, pianos and
organs; w. 5. dickinson Il Son ladies
tailor made suits &c /; Burton, Parker
g. Co., general merchandise &c.
MIR. +. F. Warren has accepted the
secretaryship OF the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Association for the pres
emit year. MIR. u. Walter Mapp, the
former secretary, declined TO act
longer in that capacity, because in
conflict with his professional duties.
A report from Easton says the first
steps toward the much talked-oi
st eam boat line TO ply between Balu
LII ore and points on the Eastern
Shore have been taken, and it is now
only a matter of a short time before
the line is expected to be in opera
tion.-Crisfield Times.
The new steamer, Pennsylvania,
which is TO run between Norfolk and
Cape Charles, on her two days trial
"Trip this week showed speed OF ~
miles per hour, but the builders claim
she will develop d speed of % miles
DER hour after her machinery is ad>
iusted. The steamer cost 100000.
MIR. " lillian T. Bond, of near Acco
LAC G. d., complete IL course OF
treatment at the Pasteur depart
ment OF the city Hospital, Baltimore,
Tuesday and arrived home on We'd
uesday. he was bitten on the face
February 10th, by a dog, suffering
with the rabies, that belonged to
him.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the New York, Philadel.
phia and Norfolk Railroad, held at
Cape Charles. on Wednesday, all the
directors of the present board were re
elected. The board reported that
the earnings for the fiscal year show
ed large increase over any previous
year.
Arrangements have been made by
the Worcester Telephone Company.of
Snow bill, to extend it's line to
Girdletree and Stockton and thence
to Pocomoke City, via the Grange.
This will give communications with
the Virginia lines to Franklin City,
Chincoteague, New Church, Bloom
town and all principal towns in Ac>
comac county and in Northampton
county as far as Cape Charles.
The coroner's jury after hearing
the evidence, in case of Henry Stran,
colored, at Accomac q. H last Mon
day, rendered the verdict that "he
came to his death by gunshot
wounds under the right ear at the
hands of some person to them un-
known" Nothing was developed by
the examination made before Justice
Parker, which consumed most of the
day, to connect anyone with the
crime, if Stran was murdered, and
no arrests have been made.
Mr.. F. 81. Dryden, real estate agent.
is expected to be in Drummondtown
next Monday, court day, In addition
to the many farl, which he is offer
ing for sa'e, is the well kco own "Phar-
salia Farm" situated IL the upper
part of iAis county, which formerly
beloI Il 70 the late Edward Dennis.
This farm h Is over 100 acres in 1t and
any one interested in this piece Of
valuable property would do well to
meet Mr.. Dryden here on court day
as it will not remain unsold long.
If at Accomac G. II. next Monday.
court day, and of course large nuns