Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-05-26
LOCAL NEWS.


A handsome church building, Il
E. Church, was dedicated at Green
backville last Sunday.
Talmage's sermon, omitted thi
week, will appear again in our mex
issue and be continued as heretofore
Miss May Duncan, Accomac c. 81
is home from Farmville Norma
School, to spend the summer vaca
ton.
The ladies of st. James Episcopa
Church will sell ice cream in tn
rectory yard to day, Saturday Goth
from p. In. to 6 p. m
Mrs. L D. Lewis, Parksley, is IN
the city this week buying summer
millinery. She offers her custom ers,
at the lowest prices the latest and
most approved styles ia h ITS and
bonnets.
Oyster flats will be offered for lease
to the highest bidder. on the
premises in Upshurs Neck, by b T.
Gunter, agent, Saturday, June 9th.
See advertisement in this issue.
Rev. j. H. Benderlite, pastor OF
Mackenzie Presb yterian Church, is at
Atlanta, Georgia, as delegate from
Virginia to Southern General Assem-
bly,, in session in that city this week.
Privileges of the PENN sula Agricul.
tural Fair will be rented to the high
est bidder, on their grounds at Tas
l'7. Thursday, May 31st, 2:3O p. m A
lot of clover hay on the grounds will
also be sold on same day.
The lands of Henry Salisbury, sit
uated on Chesconnessex, will be sold
at public auction, at Marsh's store,
south side OF Chesconnessex creek, by
trustee, on Saturday, June I'd, pm.
For terms. &c. see posters.
New advertisements in this issue to
which attention is especially invited:
W. b. Tilghman g. Co. Salisbury,
cypress shingles; L. Cohen, Oman
cock, new goods; s. B. Downes & Co,
commission merchants, New York.
The new courthouse building will
be completed now in few days and
received by the Board of Supervisors
at their next meeting, June 9th
The day of dedication has not yet |
been fixed by the committee appoint
ed for that purpose.
Since first of last January there
have been seventeen deaths on Tam |
gier Island. the most of them due to |
attacks of la grippe. The physician,
DIR. j. F. Newman, who has been at,
tending the sick, is now in hospital
in Baltimore for treatment.
Ii in arrears for subscription to
Enterprise and at court next Mon
day, you will be expected to pay us
If not at court send it by some one
AT this season of the year We expect
everyone to pay us and all must who
want the paper continued to them.
Mr.. VIM A. Burton, business
manager of E s. Produce Exchange,
will be at Mappsville, Saturday, May
Goth, and all agents from Parksley to
New Church are requested to meet
him there to receive their books and {
instruction in the work expected of t
them.
The Board of Directors of the '
Eastern Shore Agricultural Associa-
ton will rent to the highest bidder
on their grounds, near Keller, on :;
Tuesday, May 29th,3 p. m, privileges O.,
as follows: Boarding tent CONNECTION
airy stads, barber shop, horse
pounds &c. /
A new mail route has been asked
for from Franklin City via Green.
back and Melbourne Md. to New +
Church and Massey. If establi shed t.
we will have direct and daily com
munication with Franklin City and T
Greenback instead of as present, via h
aud the delays incident
to same.
Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Wise, of New i,
Y ork, have issued invitations to tn
marriage of their daughter, Evelyn =.
Byrd Douglas Wise, and Mr.. James LII
Perrine Barney. of Virginia. The d.
will take place at the home u
Of the brides parents, No. 154 West
Seventy-sixth Street, New York city, M
June 9th, at 43O O'Clock. bj
The lands OF William Mason. of NJ, "
deceased, consisting of five tracts or
parcels, situated near Parksley, will Ell
be sold by public auction at Parksley, P
Saturday, May Goth. p M, by Ed OF
ward j. Russell and Thorogood N
Mason, of VIM. trustees selected by tie
the heirs for the purpose of making IN
'ale of said lands. For terms, &C., see at
posters.
News rea he'd this City on Monday
asst that til, body of Mr.. Frank War al
en-, who SO drowned near Smith Is LII
and duFug the early spring has been 'n
Washed ss1ore at Mays Head, N. G. &c
fr TIL ,mss j. Warren. a brother,
tarted on Tuesday morning for the
emains which will be brought to
his City for interment.-Ca Cape In
charles Light. ey
Ben IT. Gupter snecial comm;s