Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-01-25
LOCAL NEWS.
County court next Monday.

nesday, weighed S7S pounds.
An advertisement of Mr.. Il. II. Mel
son, Accomac o. H., in another col
umn, is of interest to you,i you wan
mule. Read it.
Another sale of horses and mules
at public auction will be made by
Raughley & Twilley at Pocomoke
city, on Saturday, February Sth, p
III. See advertisement in next issue
of this paper.
Prof. A. b. Cannady, of Florence,
s. c., has accepted a position as
principal of the Onancock Public
High School, vice Mosby G.. Perrow
resigned. He enters upon his duties
February 1st.
Senator LeCato, of Accomac, is ad
vocating the establishment of an
epileptic colony in Virginia He is
chairman of. the Senate committee
on public institutions, and familiar
with the needs Of the insane of the
State.
Several hundred dollars worth of
mercantile goods, recently purchased
and in good condition, will be sold
at public auction by Mr.. VIM. Sam'l
Ayres, at Accomac c. H., next Mon
day, court day. See advertisement in
another column.
Attention is invited to advertise
ment of sale and exchange stables,
Onancock, &. Douglas Wilkins, pro-
prietor, in another column. AS will
be noted he proposes to meet your
wants in his line of business and
solicits your patronage.
The personal property of Thomas
G. Pitts, deceased, will be sold at
public auction on the late premises
of the decedent, on Onancock Creek,
by Spencer F. Rogers, administrator,
on Thursday, January 3Oth. See adj
vertisement in another column and
posters.
The N. Y P. & N. r. R. have re-
ceived fifteen miles of new S5-pound
steel rail which will be used for re-
newals on main line, while the rail
which it will replace is to be used in
lengthening sidings to one hundred
car capacity to accommodate the
long trains and increased traffic.
Light.
The real estate of the heirs of DR.. !
w. h. Coard, deceased, near Accomac /
@. H, was sold at public auction |
Saturday, by L. Floyd Mock, special
commissioner, for the sum, of $3.50,
the main place being purchased by
Mr.iThos. w Shreves for $4,Ol0 and
the tract adjoining by Mr.. Arthur
w. Coard at 81, $50.
The Leatherbury Shoe Company,
af Clarksburg, w. Va, will be rep
resented on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and Virginia by s. F.
Parks, who will shortly call on the
trade with one of the best lines ever
shown. He solicits your patronage
and advises you not to purchase
shoes until you see his line.
While engaged in uncoupling cars
on train No. 50, on Thursday night
of last week, at Princess Anne, on the
line of the N. Y. P. g. N. r. R., Mr..
L. W. Bounds, baggage master, by
the premature starting of the train
had both legs crushed by being run
over by several cars of the train
necessitating amputation of both
legs below the knee.
Mr.. w. T. Bundick will deliver his
address on "The Foe of Our Civiliza-
ton" at a union service in the NJ. E
Church, South, Onancock, on Sun
day night January Goth. He will also
speak at Saxes on Sunday, February
90, and is open for other engage
ments on the Eastern Shore during
February. He will return to Ken
lucky about first of March.
Valuable personal prop'r;y will be !
sold ut public ~ ton on the Bun
ting farm" in Urshur's Neck, on
Saturday, February 1st, 1902, by l.. {
Floyd Mock, attorney. The iIs is p l
long one, az viii b." noted by edver c
tiseineDtiu another columr, consists
ing ia part Of agricultural imple- Y
ments, horses, COWS, hogs, corn, fod- a
der, Irish and sweet potato seed &C., l.
&c. ~,
All of the election officials of Chin I
colleague were declared guilty by the y
decision handed down by the Justices t
OF the Peace, on Friday of last week,
save one, Mr. j. T. Rowley, and sen
fenced to pay fine of $500 and i'm
prisonment for five minutes in the y
county Jail. Evidence at the trial
also disclosed the fact, that three per
soDs had voted who had not register
ed, and each of them also was SEN L
tenced to pay fine Of $50 and 90 s.
days imprisonment In county Jail. All e
of the cases will be heard on appeal il
by County Court.
K. A. Ames, agent for the heirs of {.
Jno. + Coleburn, deceased, will sell Fl
at public auction, in front of hotel n
at Onancock, on Saturday, February q
LIST. p. M, four valuable lots, situa-
ted In that town, and as said agent
will also sell at public auction on
February 9Th. Q n. m on