Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-05-30
Virginia News.

A tobacco factory to be owned and
operated by negroes will probably be
established in Richmond.
The National Association Of Whole
sale LIQUOR Dealers and Distlllers
will meet at the Chamberlin Hotel
June 4. Three hundred delegates are
expected.
Judge Campbell will not take his
case to the Court Of Appeals from
the action of the General Assembly
He will stand for the House OF Deie-
gates in Amherst.
The annual conference OF the en-
Moved officers, general secretaries.
assistants and physical directors OF
the Young Mems Christian Associa
ton of Virginia is In session al
Petersburg.
Mrs. Mary w. Curry, widow OF Or.
LII. M. Curry, died at ATLANTIC City
Friday of last week. Her death was
not unexpected, for since the death
of her distinguished husband she
had been very i'll.
Virginia bonds are active. On July
1. the State will pay out about $40
l0o0 in interest. Second Auditor Dew
saws this will 60 to 1900 persons ana
81 large amount of 1t will stay wltnlh
the borders of the State.
Harry st. George Thicker will &C,
cent the Deanship of the Schools OF
| Law and Diplomacy Departments OF
Columbia College, Washington, but
will retain his home at Lexington
and participate in State politics.
Carroll Harding, doing a mercantile
r business at IrYington, has been con-
victed of selling beer or ambrosla III
that local option district and hneo
s400 The Antl-Saloon League OF
that Mace prosecuted the case.
RI The Episcopal Council OF the
Southern Diocese of Virginia assem-
bIed Tuesday morning at 81: Jonn
Church, Roanoke, with 2OO oeIega'e'
T in attendance. Right Kew. Dlsno!
= A. M. Randolph, of Norfolk, presided
Frederick county's large apple crop
whose value this year was estimated
, at 100000, is being totally destroyed
by the canker worm, which suddenl.
4 appeared there, and whose ravage
9 are stripping every tree OF fruit AM
5 foliage.
Saturday Governor Montague dine'
u with Count Graf Won Oriola, com
Il mander of the German Cruiser ia
zelle at Newport News. The goyerpo
-. was en- route to the Eastern Shore
u Int when he reached Old Point re
II ceiyed a formal invitation to DIN
" with the German officers.
81 The local option election in Berk
lev, Tuesday, was carried oy tn
vets who came out with tOUs
II ma iority of 1913. The "drys" say tina
# the election was the first honest on
in Norfolk county in many years
Tbev attribute their defeat to tn
le fact that the large negro populatlo
is in Berkeley and the foreign popula
: tiop in South Norfolk voted tn
- "wetn ticket almost to a man. In
'' "wets" spent large amount
money. The total vote was 6l9 or Al
against, and 34S for local option.
N The Virginia debt commission, al
Of pointed some years ago with vie
n 70 the settlement of Virginia's pro
/, nortionate part of the debt owe
~ Jointly as a result of the civil war .
90 Virginia and West Virginia, met
ut Richmond, but did not transact an
lel business of importance. Beyond r
L. ferring some legal complications
- the attorney general for his opln mic
I'll it did nothing of public interest. II
d. body adjourned to meet at the call
~ the chairman. There is said to
IN 4 .-~---O-~V AOsAE "a.
o. Rumors of local option fight a
1t, rife in Richmond and the liquor me
tv are in much fear that 1t will come o
% believing that with the present mig
tide Of temperance sentiment TIT
III would be driven out of business.
er the same time the liquor men are ga
to be comforting with the wholesa
dealers with view of organizing
party to fight the Mann bill. 1t
however, not probable that local o
ton fight will be iDaugurated uni
Ke the Mann bill law is given a trial.
Oh is also probable that if the propos'
lv organized fight against the Mann b
"a law is carried out that the local o
ton fight will follow as natur
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